And usually right after Thanksgiving outdoor Ice Rinks opened up and the Chicago Park Distrait started putting up the Warming Shacks and making the skating rinks in the Parks (along with putting up the No Skating signs by the Lagoons).
And the Winters, man they were brutal. Tires Chains were 'almost' a standard accessory on a 57 Chevy. BUT NO MORE. Now ponds rarely freeze over, the rinks of the CPD are ancient history and 'what's a tire chain' is the response for anyone in their late 30's early 40's.
This can only be due to ONE THING - the Japanese! Yep, I'm series. As soon as Japanese import cars started appearing our Winters went away. Think about it, the Jap cars back then couldn't survive a Northern Climate winter, then the bad winters just disappeared.
I find this coincidence very suspicious. So I bet there's a weather machine buried deep inside Mount Fuji and they are controlling the weather - just so they can sell us a Toyota!
we moved to s. Cook County in June '60 from the Texas Gulf Coast - yes the first winters were brutal - and NOT just because of where we'd come from...but not just cold, there was lots of snow, too! Our driveway by Feb, had these fortress-like snow walls...
then it warmed up, and cooled down a few more cycles that I've experienced in such places as Louisiana and Ohio over the years...so what to take from this? Difficult to say, but the impetus behind the Global Warming pushers is statism and control. That's about the only conclusion I can draw.
Good point, cook county, about the location of the temp measurements that are made.
Very astute observation. Once they learned their lesson about the dangers of waking a sleeping giant, it's possible that those stories about Godzilla are just a cover.
Their "weather machine" could be organic in nature, and perhaps the reason they have not yet rebuilt an extensive military is because they already have an "Ace in the hole!"
"Look out, Kim! Global warming is coming to get you!"