The “view” from my room last Thursday, April 18. You can barely make out the snowy figure walking on the sidewalk as the area saw accumulations of up to another foot of snow.
The View From My Room Today
by Karin L. Nauber
karin@inhnews.com I think it is probably safe to say that most of us are quite sick of this winter. Just when it looks like spring might actually be poking its head timidly up through the latest snowfall, another winter storm hits and buries it again! This is the longest winter I remember us having in this area for quite some time. I can’t clearly remember when we had our first snowfall of the season, but I’m thinking it was in October or November. That means we have had snow for at least six months. Six months! That is half a year... Well, I guess I can’t complain too much. It could always be worse. Although when you have endured six months of winter it is hard to see how sometimes. I think I can come up with a couple ways things could have been worse, though, just from last week’s headlines. We may have gotten almost another foot of snow, but we didn’t have to go into a citywide lockdown because an alleged terrorist had set off bombs at a major event. We may have gotten almost another foot of snow, but a fertilizer plant in our town didn’t explode and level our city. I look at it this way, with all the things out there that could go wrong, having another foot of snow that will eventually melt really is small beans compared to the catastrophes that we could face. We really do have a lot to be thankful for. We can be thankful that even in the face of adversity, our people, our country, pulls together. You see this to be especially true in small towns. The small Texas town that had the fertilizer plant explosion has drawn closer than ever realizing the strength of neighbors and friends more than ever before. Being from a small town, we know this feeling. We know the reality of pulling together when the going gets tough. It isn’t always easy, but we use our hearts to keep us together. So while we might have another foot of snow, we do have a lot of things we can still be thankful for and things we can be thankful that we don’t have. |
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