Picture this, you are driving down the Shorter Avenue--a four lane road with gas stations, stores and neighbourhoods. All of the sudden, you see a snowflake, a single snowflake drift towards the earth and melt.
Boom! All 93,000 residents in the county crowd the local Wal-mart and buy up all the milk and bread. They act out of fear because of a blizzard that hit Georgia way back in 1993. Since then it has snowed only rarely in Georgia, and then usually less than an inch per year if any.
Because of that, I usually mocked the panicked masses while I threw my swimming trunks in the wash knowing I would probably get to use them soon. Not so this year. For the first time in my life, it has snowed--really snowed twice in Rome in a single year.
I feel like a penguin.
I have heard several people using our unusual weather to discredit climate change or prove it over the last several days. But the fact of the matter is, El Niño is to blame.
El Niño is a warm-weather pattern in the Northern Pacific Ocean that pulls rain East. Warm Weather, in the Pacific Ocean. The last time El Nino hit North America was in 1999. It brought an unusually rainy year followed by a drought season known as La Nina.
Both phenomenon are game-changers that screw up our weather for several years. The usually warm, mild winters of Georgia are just a nice dream while they are active.
What I want to know is why do people who get by without milk or bread for three weeks at a time need it now?
Pretty good/
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