"Is that like Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average"? If you said, "Garrison Keillor, from A Prairie Home Companion," you are close and get 5 bonus points as a "participation award."
I'm talking about our local weather weasels... "This will be hottest week of the year. So far." No shit, Shakespeare - every week will be "the hottest week of the year - so far" for the next couple months. Average temperature here for this time of year is 107º. For a newbie desert dweller, there is nothing normal about living just outside The Gates of Hell.
To quote the late Sam Kinison and his rant on world hunger: "You live in the f****** desert! Go where the food is! We have deserts in America - we just don't live in them!" Screaming Sammy was funny... not accurate, since about 4 million of us live in this desert in Phoenix... but funny.
That's not normal. Why do people live in the desert? To get away from "winter"? People don't live at the North Pole. 'Cause they aren't stupid. Apparently, living in the desert makes you stupid. The weather weasels tell us: "You won't want to be outside after noon because there's an Extreme Heat Warning. It will still be in the 90s through the overnight hours..." Do we need to be told this? Are there people here that are so stupid that they don't know you will spontaneously combust if you go outside after noon?
Normal. At what point does all this "above normal" become normal?
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