2014/1/8
Ontario, Canada
Dear Future Me,
It's a little (okay, a lot) cold outside today. People are calling it a polar vortex. Air that's normally circulating around the north pole decided to visit North America I guess. It's cold, but I can deal with cold. Al on the other hand... Well he's freaking out. He lives in New York, so he's not a total stranger to the cold. That being the case, I can't really figure out why he's so upset with the cold weather. I guess the southern parts of America aren't used to it though. I hear some of the schools in the south even closed because of the weather. It's a bit hard to imagine, but I suppose I can understand how inconvenient this would all be if I was used to mild weather in January...especially if I didn't own a coat like some people in southern America. It's colder there than it is in some places in west Canada. I think what's really scaring people is the whole global warming aspect of this. There are some people who think that this is the disastrous global climate change predicted that will devastate everyone. I think we'll be fine though, that this will all blow over. I doubt that the polar vortex counts as something historical, but it sure is weird, not to mention interesting to see how different people react to this stuff. Some people will be freaking out and others rolling their eyes in the same place. Well I've to go now. America's calling and freaking out again. Please tell me he stops soon.
-Canada
Oh the polar vortex! He almost forgot about that, although it really wasn't all that long ago. It only lasted a week or so before retreating back to its polar home as usual, leaving the climate untouched. It still made its reappearance every now and then. The Canadians hardly noticed anymore, and the Americans living more towards the equator had learned what to expect. Everyone had discovered that it really wasn't such a big deal ... everyone but Alfred that is. Meteorologists were predicting another one in about a week, as a matter of fact. He was prepared though: he had changed his phone number.
So sorry this took so long to update. I've been very busy lately (not that anyone wants to hear excuses). I'm still working on the England pirate one (for some reason it is much more difficult than I had anticipated) but wasn't going to make everyone wait in the meantime. I was reading an article earlier today about a polar vortex back in January and decided to look it up. I thought I would make about Canada, since that's where the center of it seemed to be, but also about America simply because all the information I found was from news stations in southern America. Thanks to everyone for all the support! Please leave feedback/chapter requests if you can. (PS. I'm trying to get the date format for all of these countries correct. Please let me know if I messed up with that.)