Dreaded Bad Weather!

Yes indeed, I live in the glorious midwest!  The midwest - where nature will wreak havoc on you during every season!  As we all know it's winter and winter this year, in my opinion, which may not be shared with everyone everywhere, has been yucky!  I am ready for winter to be finished and go back up to the North Pole or Iceland or somewhere it should be to help out our ice cap situation!  Dropping ice and snow here in Missouri won't help the global picture at all, so I for one would like to start a movement or petition to let Mother Nature or whomever know that I've had my share and would kindly like it to move on. 

Tonight I am sitting before my computer trying to get my "fix" in, on the cusp of yet another storm.  This one, as the weather people here have been warning us could be catastrophic.  Catastrophic!  Thank you Anthony Slaughter for that!  I have enough issues with panic and worry when it comes to bad weather, but when weatherman use that word....well, that just doesn't help.  I coulda smacked his smiling face this morning!  If you live in Missouri chances are you took time out of your weekend schedule to "stock up" at the grocers, possibly buy rock salt and if you have enough funds and were lucky enough to find one - a generator.  Honestly I need to look into the price of a generator.  One that would be big enough to run the heat (or a/c - depending on the season my power would go out), my refrigerator, one light and a t.v.  That's it!  If I could be at peace knowing even if the power was out that I wouldn't be uncomfortable in my home (either freezing or roasting), that the food I have purchased wouldn't go bad and I could watch t.v. to pass time and also have enough light to not have to carry a flashlight.  Granted I would still worry about things related to the weather but I wouldn't be frightened of it's impact on me and my daughter if I knew we were minimally comfortable. 

My fear of bad weather started in 2006 or so.  It was the year of the last big ice storm.  Lost power then for 6 or 7 days.  My home was barely 40 degrees and it was horrible.  That year I also lost power 2 other occassions both for 5-8 days a pop.  I think that year set me up for worry.  The very next year (I think or it could've been 2008) we had late summer rains that were out of control.  My basement flooded because the sewer systems couldn't handle all the run off.  I had 6-8" of raw sewage in my basement and nearly everything I had stored there was ruined.  Had to take two or three days off work to clean that mess.  So I guess it's been a cumulative effect of several years of bad luck in weather. 

Maybe it was where I lived during those years?  I am in a new home now, on a different power grid, maybe my luck will be different here?  I can only hope and pray that it is!  So this is my warning...if I talk about nothing else other than weather for the next week, please bear with me!  I have to get it off my chest.  Don't worry my rants about it won't last forever, just until the next storm :)