Bye to cold, and welcome sunshine?
10 March 2015 By Abi Giwa
Nature in bloom
Discomfort is nobody's friend. New Yorkers slug against what seems like a deprivation of comfort for as long as the punishing winter weather lasts. Snowfall upon snowfall and maddening cold weather becomes an order. Many people who hitherto have said they love the winter and the cold weather begin to change with visitation of the avalanche of snow fall.
So on Monday for the first time in a long time, people are outside their homes with jacket zippers down, what many considered a welcome change from extremely cold weather to a little warm weather and a reminder of Jimmy Cliff's song, "Hello sunshine, will you be my friend?"
A Nigerian guy of Ibo tribe said it was a long time ago he had witnessed so much snowfall, probably in the seventies. He said at the Times Square bus line on his way to Hackensack, where he lives in New Jersey.
"Are you sure the winter is over," a woman at Woodridge in New Jersey beckoned and asked this reporter after crossing the street. "I am sure the winter has ebbed if not completely over," the reporter responded. "I believe you," she interjects and walk away, saying the snow has been too hard.
All day long on Monday, the same comment welcoming good weather was on almost everyone's lip, with consensus of opinion that this winter has been brutal and that it has made living quite uncomfortable.
Two weeks earlier, a woman in Passaic, New Jersey had said, "You got to do what you got to do," when a man said he cannot envisage living in Passaic and driving all the way to work in New York everyday, especially in a free snowfall season.
Meaning that in the North East of the United States, people are used to the discomfort that comes with nature and snowfall, as long as it does not come with destructive Hurricane and damaging of properties and lives.
Yes, they believe discomfort is nobody's friend, but if it is discomfort to step out to go to work or do business in snow, it is a type of discomfort and risk that is worthy the taking. Some people say if it is about making money and living, and as long as making money and living are inseparable, nothing must stand on the way.
They cannot be far from the truth. You have rent or mortgage or college loan to pay back. You have other utilities bills to pay. And if your creditor comes and you cannot make payment or give a favorable payment arrangement, excuses about snow or inability to make money will be inadmissible.
As the cold weather ebbs, the warmth is coming and its own discomfort of being too hot is already being noticed. Soon, people will begin to walk the streets with almost bare body or remain in door in air conditioned enclosures. The rain is here too and umbrella has begun work. Yet people still get wet. And people don't like getting wet. People say they will always prefer sunshine.
So on Monday for the first time in a long time, people are outside their homes with jacket zippers down, what many considered a welcome change from extremely cold weather to a little warm weather and a reminder of Jimmy Cliff's song, "Hello sunshine, will you be my friend?"
A Nigerian guy of Ibo tribe said it was a long time ago he had witnessed so much snowfall, probably in the seventies. He said at the Times Square bus line on his way to Hackensack, where he lives in New Jersey.
"Are you sure the winter is over," a woman at Woodridge in New Jersey beckoned and asked this reporter after crossing the street. "I am sure the winter has ebbed if not completely over," the reporter responded. "I believe you," she interjects and walk away, saying the snow has been too hard.
All day long on Monday, the same comment welcoming good weather was on almost everyone's lip, with consensus of opinion that this winter has been brutal and that it has made living quite uncomfortable.
Two weeks earlier, a woman in Passaic, New Jersey had said, "You got to do what you got to do," when a man said he cannot envisage living in Passaic and driving all the way to work in New York everyday, especially in a free snowfall season.
Meaning that in the North East of the United States, people are used to the discomfort that comes with nature and snowfall, as long as it does not come with destructive Hurricane and damaging of properties and lives.
Yes, they believe discomfort is nobody's friend, but if it is discomfort to step out to go to work or do business in snow, it is a type of discomfort and risk that is worthy the taking. Some people say if it is about making money and living, and as long as making money and living are inseparable, nothing must stand on the way.
They cannot be far from the truth. You have rent or mortgage or college loan to pay back. You have other utilities bills to pay. And if your creditor comes and you cannot make payment or give a favorable payment arrangement, excuses about snow or inability to make money will be inadmissible.
As the cold weather ebbs, the warmth is coming and its own discomfort of being too hot is already being noticed. Soon, people will begin to walk the streets with almost bare body or remain in door in air conditioned enclosures. The rain is here too and umbrella has begun work. Yet people still get wet. And people don't like getting wet. People say they will always prefer sunshine.
