40 days and 40 nights and 40 degrees

 
Some time ago, I mean a really long time ago (think Genesis), the big guy upstairs thought the world had become a bad place and he needed to clean it up, so he caused it to rain for 40 days and 40 nights. Now after the wet spell was over and life began anew he promised not to do it again. Well with rain anyway, and clouds are suppose to be a sign of his promise.
Now with the world seemingly getting to be a bad place again, has the old boy got something up his sleeve again? Maybe snow this time since he promised not to use rain? The snow in the month of December has indeed been biblical! It even set a new record for snowfall in the month. Do you suppose we should start building an Ark sized snowmobile?

When you get  20 inches of snow at one time and another 4-8 inches every other day after that for a couple of weeks finding places to put the  snow gets to be a problem.

Driving down the street lately is interesting to say the least!

Mostly along the boulevards where the snow plows pushed the snow, the snow is piled higher than you can see over.

If there is a retail parking lot around after they have cleared the lots its really high!

So what’s a person to do? You might as well give up, buy some new snow boots and go out and play in the mountains of white.

This particular pile was from a church parking lot, and those are real 20 or 30 foot tall evergreens.

As you might remember from past adventure blogs we have this thing for climbing to the top high things to look around.

Not a bad view from the top of the icy mountain!

That’s some pile of snow stacked up as high as the tree.

At the base of the piles between trees is a nice spot out of the wind where the local riff raff hangs out.

     
Okay back to the fire and brimstone again. So if you were the big guy and promised not to use rain to destroy the world, wouldn’t it be a pretty slick way around your promise to make it snow for 40 days and 40 nights then after all the snow is there raise the temperature to 40 degrees and melt it all at once! Lots of irony there Huh? Still keep your promise, and flood the world at the same time. 40 days 40 nights 40 degrees! great play on words. In the next version of the bible that would make a great story!
Well on Dec 30th 2010 after 40 days and 40 nights of snow (well it seemed like it!) it hit 43 degrees in Minneapolis. It didn’t quite flood, but it sure knocked down those piles of snow. Now the piles are half as high, but they are solid ice. I think we will still have piles of ice in June! The glaciers are coming!