Dear Mother Nature: We respectfully request that you stop dumping loads of snow upon us. Yes, we realize that we were hoping for a snow day or two at the beginning of the season. And yes, we realize we were praying for colder temperatures during last summer’s heat wave. But this is a little nuts, don’t you think?
Seriously, Mother Nature, look what you have done to us:
• You broke a 130-year-old record this year when you dumped more than six inches of snow on us in four separate storms in one season.
• You have crippled traffic, causing major motor vehicle accidents and delaying planes in and out of airports for days on end.
• You have caused local schools to delay their openings, close early and close for the full day so many times that this school year may end only days before the next one begins.
• You have caused us to run out of salt. Yep, it’s all gone. And we’re having trouble getting more. Who would have thought that a shipping law would stand in our way of making our roads safer?
Mother Nature, oh powerful one, wielder of our wintery fate, please have mercy on us. We beg you to get us through these last few weeks of winter unscathed.
We ask you to forgive our similar pleas for an end to summertime heat. We were misguided in our thoughts then, and we hope to not be as misguided next time around.
We promise that we’ll put everything in perspective when we wish for warmer weather, colder weather, dryer weather or wetter weather.
And we promise, oh how we promise, to enjoy every day of sunshine you give us this spring before you’re sure to reign down your fury with sweltering temperatures this summer. At least we’ll have the sea and our pools to cool us down.
