It's About Time

No, wait. It's about Snow. Today was the first real snow here in Iowa, which in case you've never been to the midwest before is really freakin weird. Usually the first snow is a tad closer to say, Halloween, then to Valentine's Day. But I'm sure global warming isn't at all a pressing concern and we can leisurely take oh, say FIVE MORE YEARS to study it without doing anything whatsoever, right President Junior?
But that's also another rant entirely.

The point is, as I'm driving home from work this morning (yeah, I do that), the big signs that have traffic delay warnings and alternate route notices when there's accidents and whatnot said:

WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS
PROCEED WITH CAUTION

And I can't help but think a few things about that. For instance:

A. No Shit.
B. No really, I mean it. NO SHIT!
C. There's snow on the road, snow falling through the air, it's damned cold out, and I had to brush snow and ice off of my car before I got into it. WHAT sort of driving conditions did you say there were?
D. Winter? In January? Nah.
E. I reiterate: No shit!

Sadly though, if there ever was a city that needed to be told this kind of thing, it's Cedar Rapids. More people forget how to drive on a little bit of ice and snow here than anywhere north of Florida. I guarentee that ten times more people wind up in a ditch in Cedar Rapids than in the next town over in any direction.