'S no good thing

It snowed again today. Well, it hailed and that’s just as bad. It snowed last week for real, the heaviest falling in Wales. Lucky me, I was going to Wales for a university open day.

I can honestly say I have never seen the attraction of snow. It’s cold, wet and very annoying. It is like rain, only rain can sometimes be reasonably warm. In fact if you are really hot or it is really sunny out, rain can be a welcome, refreshing choice of weather. Snow is always cold. And more often than not, accompanied by a chill wind. Snow also means that there is a good chance of ice on the roads. When you are making the four-hour drive to Lampeter, Wales, the last thing you need is icy roads. No. I think snow is the worst kind of weather possible.

When it started snowing and I pointed out that it has absolutely no benefit to us (even rain waters plants) and that there is no reason we should welcome it, people pointed out that it rarely snows and it is a nice change.

No. No it’s not. Just because it snows once a year or so down here in the south, that’s not a reason to celebrate it. That place that had a huge mudslide that killed thousands of people the other week doesn’t often have huge mudslides. I can guarantee you that the survivors were not thinking, “Wow that hasn’t happened in decades. I’m glad I saw it in my lifetime”. No. They were thinking, “Ahhh! Ahhh! Ahhh! My fucking house has been swallowed by a billion tonnes of mud and my family is dead.”

Just because something doesn’t happen all that often does not make it a good thing. The holocaust only happened once (unless your David Irving), but if it happened again people would not be saying “Amazing, two in the space of a century, who would have expected it.”

No. Snow is not good. It’s cold, wet and dangerous. It’s not even that much fun to play in because you get wet and cold. In fact playing in the snow is even worse than playing in the sand at the beach. And that’s saying a lot.