The weather delivered to southern Wisconsin this week has ranged from warm and wet with thunderstorms on Monday to trees bent over, tired of the weight from the snow which fell after the bark was painted with freezing rain just yesterday. Today, the last day of January, we prepare for even worse. Temperatures will drop to the double digits below zero. The wind chill could near -30 degrees. What is going on?

Mother nature is clearly pissed off at us. Humans. Terrible tenants who probably expect their entire security deposit returned when she kicks us the hell out of here. George Carlin said it best, "we are a bad case of fleas and mother earth is just going to shake us off." So true. And she should. Humans clearly are desensitized. We tend to respond to nothing less than a disaster.

Time to drive less, bike more. Time to waste less and compost more. Time to show some f'in respect!

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