Monday, December 12, 2005
Headed into a two day freeze with mild temps & rain forecast by week's end. More years than
not our December weather in Jersey is damp & chilly rather than cold or snowy. It's usually
around Christmas that we get the first big refrigerator effect. But watching highlights from
yesterday's Steelers game, I understood why my friend Liz recalls the Pittsburgh winters of
her childhood as being especially onerous. The snow began falling in the 2nd half, field
turning into mud & slush, visibility down to about ten yards, & the fans stayed frozen in their
seats. Maybe it wasn't cold & windy enough for the Chicago Bears, but the Steelers seemed to
hardly notice that conditions were abominable. With weather like that, one might consider
winter at a college in South Bend an improvement, & Jerseyans a bunch of pansyasses.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
not our December weather in Jersey is damp & chilly rather than cold or snowy. It's usually
around Christmas that we get the first big refrigerator effect. But watching highlights from
yesterday's Steelers game, I understood why my friend Liz recalls the Pittsburgh winters of
her childhood as being especially onerous. The snow began falling in the 2nd half, field
turning into mud & slush, visibility down to about ten yards, & the fans stayed frozen in their
seats. Maybe it wasn't cold & windy enough for the Chicago Bears, but the Steelers seemed to
hardly notice that conditions were abominable. With weather like that, one might consider
winter at a college in South Bend an improvement, & Jerseyans a bunch of pansyasses.
