Weather

Years ago, Marcos Parra my friend who had been a crush, then would become a blink of an eye faje, and now a great friend, invited me and El Chicloso back to his house to watch Twister. After watching a few tornados El Chicloso said aloud, “Wouldn’t it be awful if those things existed?” Marcos responded “Yeah, that would be horrible”. I laughed, “They do exist! We have tornados in Ohio”. They both questioned me, they couldn’t believe it, what did I do during tornados, had I ever been in one, wasn’t I afraid of dying in a tornado?

I was reminded of this discussion this past weekend when it snowed here in Columbus, Ohio and in Louisville, Kentucky. Caonabo told me that he wanted to see snow that he had never seen it. I gave him a call Friday and told him that we might get some snow while we were in Louisville (he was going to play and I was going to hang out with some friends). “Yeah, I heard it is going to snow. Do you think it really will snow?” he excitedly asked me. “Yeah, I think it might snow a little bit. You will get to see snow, and play in it!”
“Oh, No, we won’t play in snow.”
“Why not? It isn’t like it will snow so much that the field will get wet”
“But the ground will be covered in snow?”
“No, No. This type of snow doesn’t accumulate. It is just a light amount of snow. It will probably melt before it even hits the ground.”
“What do you mean ‘type of snow’?”
“There are different types of snow. This snow won’t stick.”
“Well, it will still be too cold to play, if it is snowing.”
“It won’t be any colder than it is today.”

It was odd and entertaining explaining snow to Caonabo. Just as it was odd explaining tornados to Marquitos.

We take the weather we know for granted. I am still shocked at the rainy season in Taxco, you could almost set your watch to it. It starts around 6pm the sky opens up into a deep black hole and pours its soul for 15 minutes and then boom, it is all over.