Remember the ol' Star Trek movie Wrath of Khan. I've got my own twist on that trekkie favorite. Wednesday's snow showers are widely scattered but sticking only in outlying areas. Locations west and north of the city have seen some sticking snow. The lack of a good winter's snow storm has not made me popular with school kids in Portland. Oh the wrath I've endured from many a child hoping this would be day to play in snow and escape the classroom. Thousands of kids hoping mother nature would bring enough snow to keep school buses parked and the classrooms empty. Bottom line,
when you can't complain to mother nature, your local weatherman will do! I think a collective howl was heard across Portland, when only scattered flurries fell this morning. I know Pat Dorris's two sons are not to happy with me. But the complaints from the Dorris boys are nothing compared to the slings and arrows from my own daughter. My 14 year old said if I didn't produce snow in amounts to cancel school she feared for her life! "Dad, kids at school are counting on you to cancel school. If it doesn't snow I going to get beat up! You better bring snow, or you're in trouble." It's those three words, "You're in trouble" that are ringing in my ears right now. Just how much trouble? Will she talk to me when she gets home this afternoon or just roll those blue eyes in an icy stare that freezes me in my tracks? Stay tuned for details, I may be spending another all nighter at camp KGW sleeping in the down stairs weight room on a yoga mat. Afraid very afraid to go home and face the Wrath Of Karen