paying-attention

Every summer, we have about a week of uncomfortably warm weather, warm enough for my house to stay hot all night. I bitch and moan about the heat, which does make it hard to sleep. I'm saving this photo -- taken by Boston Globe reader Brian Watts -- to remind myself that as far as climate is concerned there are way worse places to live than New Mexico.

From the Globe story:

As much as 4 inches of rain fell over the region from late Tuesday night through yesterday morning, as a low-pressure system from the south and a cold front from the north stalled over New England. But the Boston area, which had only torrential rain, did not experience the icing that areas outside Interstate 495 and along the New Hampshire border did, where the rain froze on contact with the ground and everything else it touched.

"Nobody expected that the impact of this storm to be quite so devastating," said Mayor Konstantina Lukes of Worcester. "Trees are falling on cars, they are falling on houses, and they are trapping people in their homes."

Ice is beautiful, but I'm realizing (after trekking through Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado in a car with no heat) that I prefer it at a distance.

Labels: hot weather, ice storm, new england