Tuesday, January 7, 2014

P365 - 2014 - Day 7 - Welcome to the "Polar Vortex"


P365 - 2014 - Day 7 - Welcome to the "Polar Vortex"

I have said it before and I will say it again, I hate winter.  I am a summer girl.  I do not like to be cold.  I do not like snow and I certainly do not like ice.  I don't ski or ice skate and I hate running outside in freezing cold temperatures.  So, when I heard the news of the impending "polar vortex" that was to be blanketing much of the country... well first I asked "what the heck is a polar vortex?" then I quickly got annoyed.  Come on, it's not enough to have winter, the dumb snow that delayed my appliances the other day, the freezing cold flooding I had to walk through to get to our house, the ice, and just normal cold temperatures?  No.  We had to take it up a notch and have a polar vortex.  Now, I am still not clear on what this polar vortex is...based on the sounds of the wind I heard last night, I felt like we were sitting right smack in the middle of said vortex though... I had visions of sci-fi movies, space ships, giant icy openings in the sky, maybe even a cold meisser for an added touch.  Was this vortex like the tornado in the Wizard of Oz?  I wasn't sure and I am still not sure.. but I can tell you that it was COLD today.  Crazy,stupid, bone chilling, cut right through you, cold. So I thought I would be remiss to not have this picture (which I borrowed from Harvey Cedars Police Dept.'s facebook page) as the picture of the day.  That is the bay.  Welcome to the "polar vortex".  How many more days until summer?

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