Well, We've Done It!

This was the big announcement made by the weatherman on tv this past Sunday night. "Done what?" I innocently thought. What we've done turns out to be setting the record for the most snow in December (27.7 inches) for the past 97 years. Oh, how exciting. He was actually talking about Des Moines but I'm pretty sure this feat has been accomplished by most of central Iowa. And there are still two more days left this month- wonder if we'll be adding some more by then? After consulting various weather forecasts, it looks like we will. In fact, last night they said on the news that we may even get the record for most snow in any month. Of course, this comes from the same people who told us just a month or so ago that this winter would be mild and we would not have a lot of snow, so who knows. The first winter we were here was brutal- very cold and snowy with no breaks from November until early April. Last winter was better overall but we had some record setting cold days last year. I remember one day in January that was -29 and the windchill was -45. Yikes. So now I think maybe this winter we will finally get a break but no way. I know I signed up for cold and snow, but does it have to break records every winter? Here we are during our first weekend in Iowa- I don't know why I'm surprised by anything that's happened since.