...so we welcome the kind of arctic blast that will be blowing through later today.Well, sort of. The city of Austin says stock up and stay home. Floods. Tornados. With this storm we've gotten five inches of rain, which added to the other five or more inches a few weeks ago makes about half the the 23 inch Austin annual precipitation average. A long drought followed by a rainy season.
Even Martin Luther King Day festivities have been cancelled, which is unusual. I still think MLK was a worldchanging kind of guy:
"Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter -- but beautiful -- struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message, of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise we must choose in this crucial moment of human history."He sounds almost like Al Gore.... With the big difference from then to now that this time worldchanging isn't just the right thing, it can make us all wealthier in many ways.--Martin Luther King, Jr., 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
