Time for drastic measures

The Chicago Cubs game was snowed out and O’Hare got almost 3 inches of white stuff that created havoc at one of the busiest airports in the country. (The amount of snow eclipsed a 1957 record.) Parts of upstate New York received nearly a foot as did the White and Green Mountains. A bit further west it was worse.

The storm blanketed parts of Wisconsin with about 10 inches of snow, while states from North Dakota to Illinois got about 8 inches of snow, the weather service said. Areas of Montana were covered under as much as 27 inches of snow.

(Snowstorm Snarls Traffic in U.S. Midwest, Heads East )

Then there’s this: Bismarck sees record snowfall

Bismarck received a total of 6.2 inches, 5.5 of those coming Tuesday and eclipsing the single-day snowfall amount of 4.2 inches set in 1945.

(Okay, it's freakin' North Dakota but still, it's weird, ya know.)

And this:

Forecasters are also watching another ``significant, possibly major'' storm forming in the Rocky Mountains that could bring more snow, rain, and tropical-storm force winds to the Plains by tomorrow and to the Northeast on Sunday, the National Weather Service said.

Somewhere someone is going to blame this on “global warming.”

As someone who, when asked to which religion I belong, occasionally jokes that I’m Druish, I believe it may be time for a human sacrifice. I know who I would nominate for the honor of appeasing Gaia. (But there are many, many runners up.)