Well, more snow fell on Philadelphia two Sundays ago than it did all of last year combined. It’s nice to see you too, winter.
The city’s airport got 8.6 inches of the white fluffy stuff that Sunday, compared to last winter’s embarrassing cumulative 8.3 inches. It caused widespread pileups, accidents, and cancelations across the Northeast. In week 14 football action, Detroit was literally ‘fumbling’ around in the falling snow at Lincoln Financial Field, while the Eagles won with more than 6 inches on the grid iron. And for the winter holiday fanatic, they simply died and went to heaven.
Despite all this sudden activity over the past 2 weeks, one word comes into the minds of school students above them all: SNOW DAYS. Okay, I guess that’s two words…
Yes, my fellow high school attendees, from the Seattle Coast to the tip of Maine, joy to the world because the most wonderful time of the year is upon us! It’s when the weather with Glen ‘Hurricane’ Schwartz all of a sudden becomes our favorite TV show. It’s when the word ‘precipitation’ gives us goose bumps. It is that time of year where your Instagram feed turns white. It’s the exhilaration of shutting that dumb alarm clock off and not seeing it again until it says 1:00 PM.
Most of us still recall those memories that we’ve desperately tried to erase from last year; the dreaded Hurricane Sandy break in October and November. It still sends shivers down the spines of all the phone addicts who bravely fought against the rampant tyrant of power failure.
But have no fear! We are clear of stormy hurricane season and already knee deep in the winter months. And many people think that this winter will be a whiteout.
The good old Farmer’s Almanac (you know, the book everyone reads every night before they go to bed) tells us that the snowfall this coming winter will be a record breaking amount. So in other words, even Ben Franklin is telling us to get the shovels ready and the salt spread.
The Great Pyramids of Giza haven’t been covered in snow in more than 100 years, and you probably can guess what happened this past week. No, King Tut didn’t resurrect like Frosty the Snowman, but flurries did blanket much of Cairo, and the Egyptian people had a blast. There was 5-hour traffic jam in Northern mountain roads in Vietnam. Why? It was because of mass exoduses out of the cities as they gawked at the white covering. ‘Parting the white road’ was the only thing they couldn’t seem to find out how to do. Or how about the unusual snowfall in Jerusalem? Some people were actually evacuated and most didn’t know what to make of it.
Hopefully shivering Egyptian Pharaohs, predictions from a 195 year old book, and snowball fights in the streets of Jerusalem send some sort of message out to the school-bound population. And yes, at this point you’ve most likely guessed it…
Snow days are coming my friends, snow days are coming.