I, like most folks, have lots of problems, but man the one that's getting to me for the past couple weeks is Mother Nature's seeming intoxication.
As you know, much of the country has had a brutal winter, what with the drunk Arctic and all. Southeast Louisiana has been no exception.
Down here on the bayou, we generally have very mild winters; it was one of the draws for me when moving here. We have an average high of 61-65F and average low of 38-41F for the months of January and February and we usually have maybe 2-3 instances of hard freeze per winter, which last only a day - two at the most. This winter - whoa - not so much.
We've had what seems like never ending freezes this year. Pipes have burst all over the place here, we've had power outages cuz the lines are built to withstand heat and humidity and not prolonged freezing conditions with hanging ice, and we, who usually get a wintry mix of snow and ice once every 5 years or so (the kind that doesn't sit on the ground), got a wintry mix once a week for 4 weeks in a row and some of it did sit on the ground for a bit. It's been a brutal winter. But Spring is coming right? In spite of that mother fucking groundhog?
Cue the past couple weeks. We finally came out of the winter and had some 60s and even 70s. Normally, once we come out of the winter and it gets nice - it stays decent, we don't go back to winter; we may have cool, but not cold. Heh.
This year, apparently, Mother Nature is hanging with the Arctic at the Climate Change Bar and Grill and they need to be cut off cuz they've had too much at this point.
We'll have a couple days of 75 - even low 80s last week - and then plummet back to freeze warnings at night and mid 40s (even low 40s) during the day - only to go right back up, and then go right back down. 75/58 then 45/30 in 48 hours and then right back up then right back down.
Feels like this:
Then 2 day later feels like this:
And a couple days later repeats itself. All I really want is this:
My nose is perpetually runny and my joints are constantly in pain. I have to constantly switch between AC and heat. I can't put away my winter clothes yet. My poor feral kitties don't know whether to start shedding or not, lol. Yeah, all first world problems I know, but fer cryin' out loud, can the Deity please just do Last Call so Mother and the Arctic can go home and sober up just a little? Or I'm going to have to buy stock in Kleenex. GAH!
For the record, we're at 75 today, but we're going back down Monday to freeze at night. Yay. Not. The Climate Change deniers can suck it.
So that's my problem tonight. What is your problem? Pull up a chair and tell me about it!