Happy Leap Year! I have a sibling who is either 15 or 60 today, depending on whether you count birthdays or years on the planet. We only get this day once every four years, so I guess I can cut Mother Nature a bit of slack if she’s off by one day with her beginning of March snow storm.
To think that two days ago I went around the loop at Lion’s Park for the first time with my puppy! It was warm and sunny and I didn’t even wear my winter coat. The next morning I did wear it, but left it wide open. I knew the weather was about to change. And it did! From 15*C to -4*C in just a matter of a few hours.
I have a picture on my Facebook Page (which is Public, because many of you who read this are not on Facebook) if you wish to see it, with Kermit the Frog saying,
“Whoever is holding Mother Nature’s beer
while she does all 4 seasons in a 24 hours …
pour it out. She is already drunk.”
I saw another one today, with Kermit, saying
“I’m ready for this week!
I have my umbrella, my flip flops,
my mittens, my suntan lotion,
my winter coat, my sunglasses,
my thermals, my iced tea, and my hot chocolate!”
Such it is to live in southern Canada! We can have all four seasons in just a matter of hours. I heard once that we were one of the first countries in the world to have a television station completely dedicated to telling us the weather. And we watched it too! And still do! Only now we keep it on our phones and get alerts sent to us when the weather is about to change.
And it’s not just winter weather, when we need to know how many layers to put on before going out. We also need to know what is happening in the warm weather when sudden summer storms can be very dangerous. Of course, not all weather events can be predicted, as those of you who were here when we had a tornado in Goderich in 2011 remember. There was not a lot of warning for that one!
Sometimes people in the city don’t seem to realize the power of the storms. It’s not very often that a storm completely shuts a city down. When houses and buildings are so close together, you can almost always see across the street. Out here in Huron County, we remember just last year when all the roads were shut down at Christmas time. We even had to cancel the Christmas Eve Service! People were storm-stayed here and in other parts of Huron County. We know well that weather, year round, can be challenging!
So, here’s hoping that if March comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb so we don’t have a blizzard Easter Sunday!
View outside the church today!