SteyrAUG
08-15-11, 23:25
As a kid who grew up during the 70s I was told over and over that the ICE AGE IS COMING. We weren't just due, we were overdue. Something about hairspray and DDT made it a certainty that by the time I was an adult I would be wandering the frozen tundra looking for Woolly Mammoths.
And then on Jan. 19, 1977 it snowed (actually more like lightly dusted) in South Florida and that was all the proof anybody needed. That was the beginning of the things to come and we better start getting used to it. But except for a really light dusting in Jan. of 2010 we haven't seen jack and it seems this summer crap sometimes lasts until Christmas.
Nothing like trying to have an old fashioned Christmas with the freaking AC running. 95 degrees and muggy really makes you want to eat that Thanksgiving turkey and Christmas ham.
Goddamn media scared all of us little kids with the Ice Age boogeyman and they failed to deliver. FL could USE an Ice Age, do you have any idea how big insects get when they don't die off once a year in a freeze?
And then on Jan. 19, 1977 it snowed (actually more like lightly dusted) in South Florida and that was all the proof anybody needed. That was the beginning of the things to come and we better start getting used to it. But except for a really light dusting in Jan. of 2010 we haven't seen jack and it seems this summer crap sometimes lasts until Christmas.
Nothing like trying to have an old fashioned Christmas with the freaking AC running. 95 degrees and muggy really makes you want to eat that Thanksgiving turkey and Christmas ham.
Goddamn media scared all of us little kids with the Ice Age boogeyman and they failed to deliver. FL could USE an Ice Age, do you have any idea how big insects get when they don't die off once a year in a freeze?