In many parts of the country, it is here again. There has been a snowstorm in the midwest and northeast, and some parts got more than a foot. Of course, other parts got only rain or a measly dusting to an inch.
What this means is that field circus is going to be harder. The biggest problem is finding places to park in the city, and roads that are not plowed out in the country. In the city, people are not going to be able to park, or are going to be having a miserable time trying to find parking spaces, while out in field circus. If it's snowing, it is going to make a sloppy mess on their windshield. Besides, it is nice and slippery (you can't screech around at 160 MPH in ice and snow, no matter what Ted Jaracz wants).
For those in rural areas, getting stuck is a real threat. Roads that are not plowed (or that have a problem with blowing snow) are often waiting for some unwary Witless to travel on to make a placement, and if they don't have the right equipment (which uses more gas), they are probably going to get stuck or hit a tree. The hope is that no one will even bother showing up, and that there will be a snow day.
What I used to like most was when we would get a foot or more of snow on the day of a boasting session. I would like it if the roads were not plowed or the lead hounder got into an accident or stuck in a snowbank trying to make it. I would hope for the whole damn thing to get cancelled for snow. I hated when the snowstorm would miss us, turn to rain, fizzle, or if the damn hounders decided to stupidly go ahead and hold the boasting session anyways. That would pxxx me off when the storm wimped out or the hounders decided it wasn't bad enough to cancel the boasting session.
Too bad there wouldn't be a blizzard in California. People that are going to the Great Boasting Session for family's sake would like it to be cancelled for snow. I only saw one of those things get cancelled--we got one blizzard the Thursday before, and then we got another 2 feet of snow on top of that on Saturday. Needless to say, they had to cancel the whole damn thing. Which was good, because I hate going to those things.
Too bad I wasn't in charge of canceling those things. I would cancel the whole thing for a flurry somewhere in a remote part of Antarctica, even if the weather in the local area was sunny and mild. Hopefully, enough of these things will be getting cancelled for snow this winter.
Now, if only they would cancel boasting sessions and field circus for the pedophile report on NBC...