Grab an anchor before you go outside

From the time I moved down here right up until today I have hated Kansas for one reasons...the weather. A and I shot ourselves in the foot on this one. We agreed we would move to wherever the first job was. Just so happens to be in the middle of the country where there are no trees, no real lakes, and a shit ton of wind. So take Michigan and make it's polar opposite and you have Kansas. There is one similarity, bad drivers from other places. Back home, you had the bad drivers from Canada, and here the bad drivers are from Oklahoma. My parents were down here for about six days and they experienced just about every kind of weather in those six days. Just plain windy, fifties and sunny (with wind), and snow. It was pretty pathetic. The only thing that was missing was everything shutting down when it started to snow which is typical of Kansas. Get a little snow and shit locks up. Just about everything from schools, to churches (which there are tons of...TONS), to restaurants. A great anecdote about the last one:

Last year, A and I went out for a dinner and there was suppose to snow a little. Around two to three inches, which is nothing to us. So it is 6:30ish and we go to a restaurant and on the door is a home made sign stating: Due to the inclement weather, we will be closing at 8:00pm tonight." Fucking weak man. We just laughed at it. We walked in and there were maybe two or three other couples in the building. So it felt very exclusive. It was the 'we have no problem going out when it snows' club.

So it snowed, and then it all melted a couple of days later. Pretty weak. But one thing that isn't weak down here is the wind. Wicked awful. Down here, because there are no trees, the wind just whips right through the state. So on the highway you need to clench to the steering wheel and really pay attention to what you are doing. The wind will definitely push and pull your car one way or the other. And if you weigh less than about 120 down here you definately need to weigh yourself down with some rocks, or a small anchor, or it will pick you up.

I have yet to go outside today, it is around 10:00am, but I can hear the wind. It's sunny outside and should be around fifty, but with the wind it'll be around forty or thirty. It is really sad. Luckily I only have a little drive to work.