Exploding Trees!

 


This is it, kids, the day America froze. It's still early and the deep freeze is expected later today with wind chill factor -40F. I'm sitting in my toasty warm apartment as you should as well. Not in my apartment. Sit in your own abode. No one should be out there, especially when you aren't used to this extreme cold. The news has been warning you, even going so far to tell you to beware of exploding trees. A bit of hyperbole there. The trees are affected by the cold. They do expand and they do crack and that can be very loud. I imagine if your walking in the woods on this day and start to hear loud cracking like many rifles going off, it would be a bit frightful. That's why you need to stay home. Exploding trees is not fun.

Mother Nature is amazing. She's also pretty mean. I live in Wisconsin, so strange weather is not surprising. I once nearly went snowblind when I was walking through a farmer's field to get to work. I remember the story of the couple who had been driving home from a New Year's Eve party and the husband suffered a heart attack. His wife left the car to seek help. She was found in the Spring, her beautiful red dress, a slash in the pure white surrounding. We've had tornadoes in January, lake waterspouts in September and days when you think spring has sprung only to leave work without a coat and be slapped the face with a forty degree downfall. The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin is an excellent book which describes such a day, when children went off to school and were unprepared for the extreme weather change.

A few other weather wonders Mother throws at us...


Sun dogs

Virga

Fire devils 

Haboobs

Ball lightning 

Square clouds

St. Elmo's Fire- not the movie. 

So, be careful out there. Stay home. Watch the movie. Build a fort. Cuddle with your pets who should not be outside at all. Exploding trees can't get you when you're snuggled up inside. 

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