[About some snow storm that occurred recently... in June]
I told my friend jokingly onetime, "when it snows in summer, it will be the end of the world." I'm not laughing now...
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We've had snow in the summer where I live... granted, it's an extremely rare occurrence, but it has happened. It happens all around the world, in fact.
You know, when I was little I was read a children's book that dealt with this. If I recall, the story revolved around a weather animal who just got a job at the local news station. She was replacing someone who the townsfolk were fed up with after one too many mistaken reports. I think part of the deal was that she was to be hired on a trial basis and if she got so many weather reports in a row correct, she could stay on. At first everything seemed to be working out for her and then she made a report that it would snow during the summer. Not wanting to lose her, a friend made it fake snow on that day, but was caught. Then, just as it looked hopeless it began to snow for real...in the summer.
After the story, I remember turning to my mother and asking if it really was possible that it could snow in the summer and she turned to me and gave me a whole explaination about how it was rare but indeed possible. This story stuck with me for years (I was fascinated by it for some reason) so sometime when I got a little older I looked into it for myself and the 1816 event ("the year without a summer") was one of the first things I found. Now I guess this isn't common knowledge, but it's such a thing of childhood wonder to me that to think it's a sign of the end of the world is just too funny. For all our modern advancements, including the computer you use, you're not too far off from a primitive tribesman who looks up at the sky and thinks the world is going to end because of a comet he saw for the first time.
You have never heard of Colorado then, have you? Or Wisconsin for that matter. Or Minnesota. Or Siberia. Or Alaska.
My birthday is in July. My 2nd birthday party took place on a day that snowed. I'm almost 41. According to you, the last 39 years should not have happened.
Given that, you'll have to forgive me if I call you a fool.
Granted, it almost never snows down here in the southern part of Texas, but I still have a poem for our weird weather patterns:
Wear shorts and a shirt,
Bundle up the next day.
Welcome to Corpus,
Enjoy your stay!
Strange weather phenomena occur daily all across the world. If snow in the summer were a sign of the end times, the world probably would have ended even before Christ's supposed first coming. Wake up, Chicken Little.
I live in New Zealand and, stupidly, it took me ages to figure out what was wrong with this quote.
DAMN YOU BACKWARDS SEASONS!!!
I think I'm gonna join the flat earth society and petition for a flattening of the earth.
Here in Canada, it's snowed every year since I was born. The joke was, "Tell me about global warming when it stops snowing in summer". Well, in 2007, it didn't. I'm not laughing now, but for the opposite reason...
This is so weird. I dreamed last night that it was snowing, and I thought (in the dream) how weird it was that it was snowing during the summer. The end times are here!
(I'm kidding about that, of course. The dream really happened, but I don't think it means anything. Pudding's Avatar is deluded).
@exiteditor
Eh, in my limited experience, July is rather uncommon. June, every now and then. May is the consistently snowy month, I find.
Oh, FFS, it has snowed in ever month in Calgary, Alberta. Nothing has happened. Freak weather, is freak weather, it happens.
Leaving aside the inconvenient fact that summer snow is not very unusual, in what possible fucking way should unusual weather herald the mythical return of some dude who's been dead for 2000 years?
You dorks can find signs of the end times in anything. I was driving today and I came across four sets of red lights in succession, plus one that was out of order and was (gasp!) just flashing red continuously. The end times are comingggggggggggggggggg!!!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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