Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Contingencies and A Lot of Whether...

Can there be a difference in the quantity of weather?

I'm reminded of my consistent complaint that there is no such thing as a "very unique event." A thing is either completely unlike anything else or it is not.

Or is it? Each snowflake is different, I hear, but, really, aren't they pretty much all the same? And they're really not all that unusual. Look outside right now. But what about a tractor trailer jackknifing in another jackknifing tractor trailer, their bulks and cargoes colliding and combining, through a unique confluence of barometric pressure and wind gusts, into a new, unique form of transportation called the foxtrot double-wide.

Wouldn't that be very unique? Certainly more so than a measly ol' snowflake.

Speaking of those guys, don't I experience weather mostly as it relates the effect it has on my level of perturbation? That is, if I walk outside and on my way to jumping into my new FT Double Wide and I don't take note of what's going on with the temperature, breeze, sunniness, etc., isn't it lacking in umph, thus needing more to make itself known?

Isn't it?

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