Sunday "Fern" Day

The snow continues to fall today (12:04pm) keeping everyone inside across the country.  This will easily be a record one day accumulation for Cincinnati (now at 6 inches) and likely multiple day top ten. 

Early January 2025 (5-6) there was a 9 inch to 11 inches of accumulation.  Topping the chart was Feb. 4-6, 1998, of 18.5 inches and will remain the winner.  

The Weather Channel now likes to name storms and we have reached the letter "F" - hence Fern is the name.  The names are pre assigned each year so we already know that "Gaius" in on deck.   How coincidental since I have been rewatching the entire 2004 remake of Battlestar Galactica with Gaius Baltar the scientist.  Gaius is a common Roman first name (Gaius Julius Caesar, Gaius Octavius are the famous ones).

The definition of a "named" storm requires 2 million people affected or 400,000 sq miles of National Weather Service Warning.  Alas - the Winter Storm of January 5-6, 2025, was not named nor was Feb. 4-6, 1998 since the Weather Channel didn't start naming storms until 2012.  

I wonder if you started naming "Storms in Your Life" what would be the criteria - health, emotions, family crisis, financial pressure/loss, etc.  How would you go about the naming?  

My Storms in Life - Janus (1987); Hades (1999); Exodus (2001); Alecto (2007); Cassandra (2011); Mnemosyne (2015); Prometheus (2019); Atlas (2021).

It is the storms in our life that we weather through - persevere.  No matter how stormy - they pass by and we can say we survived to live another day.   My storms didn't break me; they carved me into someone who understands the need for spiritual foundation and faith that hope always endures - that even those stormy memories will build into eternal joy.