There's a simple explanation, really.
I live about 90 miles away from Eau Claire. We've had a typical Wisconsin winter this year, although the past three or four years have been so mild that this year's conditions seemed to be particularly harsh by comparison. Regardless, last weekend at this time, we had temperatures near 60° (15° for the benefit of Gob and some of the other non-Americans). Spring had finally arrived in the north country — or so we thought — and for many people it was none too soon.
However, beginning this past Tuesday Mother Nature decided she wasn't quite through with us yet, and clobbered the entire Midwest with another one of these so-called
'bomb cyclones' (and as an aside, how did we ever get by in winters past without the Weather Channel and the rest of the meteorological world to come up with these 'end-of-times' names for winter storms like "Snowpocalypse", "Snowmageddon", and the afore-mentioned "bomb cyclone"?), taking us back to temperatures below freezing and dumping a "wintry mix" of precipitation that in some areas resulted in a foot or more of snow where there had been bare ground and dry pavement less than 48 hours earlier (and btw, much of it is still here).
So it's simple. Already being in a susceptible condition
(they WERE Walmart shoppers, after all), they contracted a classic case of "cabin fever" and just plain snapped.
-"BB"-Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
