Time to Dry Out

           6-10-2011  

                Something everything on the earth puts up with day to day is weather. We do not go without it; it is always there, yet always changing. Usually weathermen do a fair job at keeping things balanced enough to drive everyone crazy, yet not produce a total uproar. As of late however, there have been excessive predictions of rain. I do appreciate what the weathermen do for us, but it has reached a certain part where I firmly believe they have gotten carried away and have gone too far.

                Here we stand at the time of the year where things should be warming up and heating the pavement so that all of the children can run in the sprinklers, throwing aside their worries about school. It is that time of year for barbecues and watermelon. It is time to pack up and go camping and boating. Here we are though, inside. Children are still running in the rain and catching colds. We are so wet, we don’t need watermelon. Every time the grill is started, gray clouds roll in and we end up eating our hamburgers inside. Camping is boating. I don’t know about you, but I see a problem with this.

                Every year we go through a cycle.  Leaves fall in the autumn and everyone has a fun time raking and jumping in them. Sweaters start coming out to prepare us for colder weather. It is the time of the harvest as well. Then, winter comes with Jack Frost. Nose and toes are bitten away with the cold but we make it through with hot chocolate and the thought of warmer weather to come. Now spring we never can rely on, that is part of our annual cycle. We hope for the best, and half the time, receive the worst. There is no complaint. It is when summer is missed that we complain. That is the warm season that keeps us going! When summer is late, or doesn’t come, our minds are lost to the winter blues as soon as November hits, and the whole cycle is thrown off! Harvesting in the frost, having snowball fights when we should be playing Frisbee, and being too wet to eat watermelon.

                More serious than our mental safety, is our physical safety. We only have so much space for water. There are flood worries from the amount of water we have already gotten, if the rain continues in such a manner, Lake Bonneville will be on the rise once again and all of our houses will be submerged. People too. There has yet to be technology developed for underwater cites, so I really don’t see how that would work out. Thus by default, lives are at stake with this amount of precipitation. Vegetation is also at risk. Those of us who have braved the mud enough to plant a garden find it drowning almost daily. I am positive that there will be algae found growing in all of my corn, and most especially in the watermelon. 

                It is my plea to then, that rain may not be predicted further.  Let us all pull out our hairdryers and blow those rain clouds away, if it is necessary Evaporate the excess water, Nevada needs it more than we do. The clouds can go there.  It is time to dry out and have our summer. All you weather men, I appreciate what you do but you just aren’t pulling through for us this time.