Is The Military Playing God With The Weather?

Here We Snow Again

Well the weather man said nothing to worry about it was all going to be just rain.... Well lets not get upset with the false prophesies of those who try to predict the future they do the best the can and besides they were somewhat correct because it rained all day yesterday.

The new forecast is snow until midnight on Sunday, and for those who are thinking you would rather be in Florida, well mom called this morning from Orlando and said its about 45% there this morning.

Looks like we all have to tough it out, get the snow shovel and wait a few more weeks or perhaps a month or so until Spring arrives. The photo is from my office, taken this morning at 10:30A.M. As you can see the roads are covered in snow, but mostly clear and not very slippery.

The kids are enjoying yet another day off from school, and I am having a slow and yet productive day at work.

Snow Approaches Milford

The talk all around town today is the coming snow storm expected to drop 12-18 inches of snow on our lovely community. The snow has caused many people and stores to be unusually busy today as city dwellers anxiously get all their out of home errands and shopping taken care of.

Kids are looking forward to a possible day off from school, they would prefer a fun sledding and snow party instead of the usual books and science. The threat of snow was already made last week, and much to the chagrin of the towns kids it failed to materialize beyond New Jersey and school went on as usual.

This time the storm appears to coming without fail and the weather men are telling us that this time is for real. With that in mind I plan on working late this evening so in the event I, like others, cannot make it to work in morning all my business will be taken care of today.

Hopefully all those, who did not know about the coming snow will be ready for a fun filled day of shoveling, and digging out cars. Drive carefully, and get well rested tonight; for tomorrow we will all get a lot of exercise undoing the damage caused by mother nature and the snow plows.

Milford's First Snow Storm

Early yesterday morning, the neighbors were out en-masse with their shovels and snow blowers. Mother nature dropped Ten inches of snow on our lovely town, turning it into a picturesque New England Community.

The roads were expediently plowed on all major routes, some of the lesser traveled routes were the last to be bailed out. Winter snow plow companies were especially happy, especially with the timing of the storm. In previous years, the snow plow business was hit hard with warmer weather, but according to my snow removal source, Andrew Falcone, in the last few years the snow has been re-surging.

He said we had more snow in New England in the last few years than at any time during the last decade. He expects that 2010 is going to be a colder snowier banner year. He expects the unusually cold weather throughout the nation to travel up to New England.

"Colder weather equals more profits" says Andrew Falcone a residential snow removal company business owner. Andrew intently follows the weather, and often works through the night. Andrew said: "On a storm like this I can reap $15,000.00 in revenue in a 16Hr shift with one truck in one night."

He expects that others will rush to enter the snow removal business as word spreads of the profitability from even small $50-$100 snow removal jobs. Andrew believes that this is going to be a great seasonal business in the years to come and looks forward to purchasing additional plows and trucks as his business expands.

When asked about global warming Andrew laughed, and said "I am no scientist but I believe it's snowing in CT like it always does every winter... if these people are right why is that happening?"

Andrew said "I can't run my business based on the fear that palm trees will be growing on the green, that's just not realistic, Right now I am more concerned with illegal immigrants driving uninsured trucks running illegal businesses that put legal businesses out of business, why is the government not worried about that?"

Mr. Falcone's remarks are certainly not that off the mark, and after hearing about the abject failure of the Copenhagen climate conference there is good reason to believe that the intuition of every day winter workers is "spot on."

Over the last month, and ahead of this storm we heard lots of talk about "Climategate." For those of you who may not know what Climategate is, that was an e-mail leak, resulting in a monumental blow to the Al Gore global warming gang.

While the debate was supposed to be over, few people in Copenhagen "took the bait" the climate conference fell apart, however the basic infrastructure was set up paving the way for a form of global taxation in the name of what is no longer dubbed "global warming" but rather the more elusive "Climate Change."

For all those out there losing sleep over the fear of rising oceans and "Bahamas style" winters here in Milford, you can rest assured that will not be happening in our lifetime. For today we ought to be more concerned with our nation's President violating the Logan Act rather than the chaos of Coppenhagen or the illusion of warmer winters in Milford.