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 By Bonijean Isaacs Jan. 31, 2010 When the Commonwealth of Virginia heard the rumors about Global Warming, they took it serious and sold all their snow plows. Charlottesville, Virginia is used to having 19 inches of snow. The weekend before Christmas of 2009 - Charlottesville was greeted with 27 inches. Ho Ho Ho! The Weather Grinch stole my holiday plans. I was snowed bound for four days and couldn't go to work for two day. This is not a good thing during the Holiday Shopping Week in Retail. I finally decided. Enough is enough! I am going to work even if I have to walk. I checked the roads on the day I decided to walk and discovered that my neighbor was utilizing a Snow Removal Service. Yea Ha! They got a second job. Soon Monticello Blue (that is my car's name) went slip sliding it's way to my job at Sam's Club. I never thought I would be so glad to be walking into that place. What I found amazing was how irate some folks became. Why were there NO Strawberries? What happened to the Texas Grapefruits. Those SWIFT Truck drivers are too chicken to maneuver those 18 Wheelers on black ice to deliver the produce. Why is there no Milk? The cows got too cold and couldn't make any. The Farm was broke. The newspaper was full of letters to the editor expressing indignation because the City Government and the Department of Transportation was not plowing those roads quick enough. The problem is that Charlottesville only had four snowplows and had to import some more from New England. New England had to get through plowing their own roads and find truckers courageous enough to transport them to the Commonwealth of Virginia I suppose they could have found a way to fax those snowplows to the Virginians. Folks don't want Universal Health Care but they sure do want Universal Snow Plows? Charlottesville is Thomas Jefferson's Town which contains his home place of Monticello and the University of Virginia which he founded. Our Winterland Adventures make me speculate "What would Thomas Jefferson do during a Great Snow Storm?" He came from an Era where they didn't have snowplows. They just waited for the snow to melt. I don't think Thomas Jefferson worried too much about Grapefruits from Texas, Blueberries from Peru, Oranges from South Africa or those Silly Cows from California. He came from a time when most folks utilized the resources within their own communities. The tea may have come from China but the wine that he savored came from the grapes grown in his very own vineyard. The locals all know that Thomas Jefferson LOVED Vanilla Ice cream. Happy Cows roamed his Plantation and Vanilla Beans grew on Mulberry Row.
I suspect that during a Snow Storm, Thomas Jefferson wrote his wise thoughts and invented things. He also cuddled in front of a fire with Sally Hemming so that his political opponents could have something to rant about.
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