snowstorms aren't fun, three or more hours of no electricity left to sit under a pile of blankets to stay warm watching as it blows and piles up outside, a day of waiting before they can get the plows out clear the roads for travel and two days later we're finally able to come out of the house and have to dig tunnels to the car!

...there's definitely less water than we've had in past years in this area, the drought conditions, low water table, drying up lakes and out of season bugs blossoming, birds returning to early with flowers coming out even earlier and never quite getting seeded, the bees are still frozen...spring by febuary, no snow by may and more cold dry air than wet, slightly warm and snowy, not to mention a rise in diseases once thought wiped out in the industrialized world...heck, we even have the west nile virus in this area now and next summers fire season is expected to be more red than last summers!

man made or not, there's serious climate changes going on...but as a few have pointed out, it's nothing new...just something we're alive to be witnessing.