Give Us a Break!

Rich Rosenblatt

13 years ago

I wish Mother Nature would make up her mind! First, we got 80 mph winds, downed trees, and power outages for up to five days in my area. Then, we had an insane heat wave - felt like I was walking around with a hot, wet comforter on me all darn day. Next, it was a torrential rainstorm - supposedly almost 8' overnight last week.

That storm screwed up my car of all things. No, I didn't leave my window open; I just went my local Amoco for gas. Next day, I get this horrible knocking in my car to the point where it was stalling out. The car is six months old! I took it in and found out that my gas tank had 40% water and 60% gas in the tank. Naturally, that was not covered by my warranty, so $500 later, it was running again. Turns out the underground tank at the Amoco station likely got water in it during the deluge. First the Gulf and now my new car!

Armen constantly makes fun of the weather in Chicago, mainly the winters. I'll tell you, I did way better in that wild blizzard we had the week before the Super Bowl than I'm doing with this crazy weather. What I wouldn't give for a few weeks of normal weather right now!