The latest threat assessment slipped out from under the door of their Command Center (an attic room that we keep them locked in for their own protection, as well as ours); can however only be considered a fraud perpetrated by the DJBSS as a payback for cutting their Cheetos rations this month (though they still managed to leave enough residue on the Post-It note they used for their dire pronouncement to prove they still have some left).
The fact that local television weather fornicators have now joined them in describing this condition, one which must be considered so ridiculous or so dire that it could only be possible as the harbinger of the 'End of Days', should be considered as proof. Oh we're not talking about earthquakes here. (We have after all read about California, and our panic about such cataclysms only occurs when someone reminds us how close we live to the 'New Madrid Fault'.) It likewise goes without saying that we're not talking about tornadoes. (It's a twister, it's a twister! ... Sorry, I had an "Airplane" moment.) This is Kansas after all, and such minor weather exhibitions are far too commonplace to draw attention.
It's becoming increasingly apparent though, that the media acolytes of the weather gods here are talking now about something so extraordinary that I still have trouble even conceiving of it. For those of you who still cannot understand the dire situation here, we are in fact talking about 'water falling from the sky'! Oh sure, water falls to the ground here all the time (it has something to do with gravity I think), but one could hardly expect less in the constant 100 degree plus temperatures that we've been experiencing and the inevitable perspiration falling from people to pavement (where usually begins to sizzle) or the occasional spilled glass of iced tea. And yes, we do even have in-ground sprinkler systems attempting to keep local yards from attaining the color of the inside of a baby's diaper; but lately we've considered them as little more than auxiliary cooling systems to hydrate dogs long enough to add their contribution to the unending brown nature of the environment.
I have it on good authority in fact, from no less an authority than the 'Flat Earth Society', that water comes from faucets and taps; and in rural areas, wells. It's therefore obvious that water comes from the ground and not from the sky. When there are larger concentrations of it, such that the ground can no longer contain it, it forms rivers to carry away the excess. These in turn can run together into lakes, and sometimes combine into gigantic formations of water known as oceans. All of these, I might point out are not out there floating in the air, but are sitting on top of the ground, probably until they can be re-absorbed into the earth they came from. Why the vary notion that water could come from the sky is ludicrous!
It's certainly possible that during the formation of the planet, back in some dim and prehistoric past, something of this nature happened where Kansas is concerned. The notion of it's happening in modern times was so far-fetched however, that it took me a few minutes just to figure out how to get a result from an attempted Google search of 'Kansas and water from the sky'. This exhaustive research led to a term I vaguely remembered from my early school science and history classes called RAIN. Disbelieving my original results, I thought at first that this might be some sadistic and twisted acronym, perhaps for Really Annoying Imaginary Notion. Additional research however, convinced me that this was in fact a real word (it's even in the Webster Dictionary) describing an event that has actually occurred in places around the world. Intrigued, I watched a couple of You Tube videos, but afterward couldn't help but wonder if they weren't faked.
The possibilities set me to wondering though. What would happen if such an event actually occurred? Would you need protective clothing or devices to keep from getting wet? Would bits of water that fell from hundreds or thousands of feet in the air cause physical pain if they struck you? Would the ground be capable of absorbing such water, containing as much as it does already, or would it simply run off into rivers and lakes? Would people actually be able to drive while such an event were occurring or would they be incapable of seeing or keep from sliding across road surfaces? Nope sorry, such a thing is just physically impossible; and I refuse to panic local citizenry by spreading such outlandish fables. (Yeah, like that's stopped me before.) So in response to a warning which cannot be taken seriously (even with my tin foil hat on), and in honor of the color often used to describe the substance involved, the threat for the rest of the month will be raised to blue.
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