This sounds too unreasonable for a common joe who has lead 24 years of his life in a modest and warmest city with temperatures from 20 to 26 deg throughout the year.
Now joe has to suddenly bear a minus 26 deg c.
His nose almost certainly feels like its gonna blow out. He face goes numb everytime
Wicked cold and mighty chilling wind
Is this reasonable iowan weather or shall I call it a Climate change :-(
In the quest for austerity , this sunday I decided to take a quick break and head out to the hindu temple at the small town of madrid just at the outskirts of Des Moines.
So after some careful planning, we headed out to the temple at noon hoping to catch up on the lunch buffet being served at the temple along with the desire to offer prayers and seek blessings. we were late evwntually. We thus missed the unique chance of having indian lunch for as low as 6 $.
Yet, the pleasantness that this plsce offered to mind is beyond words. The joy of finding most of hindu deitys in one hall all grandly decorated filled my eyes.
For someone like me who is used to seeing in preists of temples in minimum clothes, seeing one of the preists in warm winter wear with gloves and cap was something too hard to digest. It took me a while to realize this.
But I guess that's the way of life in here.
Certainly a nice place to find some peace, sanctity and also to network with other indian families living in and around.
Here we are the new year 2013. The year the mankind was more skeptical of living upto, the year that holds a lot of promises in the coming days.
During my stint at ISU, we've seen the sunny days of the fall. The sun wouldn't make up his mind to set until 8PM in the night, then came the winter, the temperatures plunged straight From 35 to minus 20 deg C. Given the place Iowa is, the winter was seemingly harsh. Then were the times of the first snow fall, joyful yet awfully cold, particularly time of the year when christmas is around. The snow wouldn't melt. And thus starts your misery. Slippery roads, keep your heater on 24 hours a day and always do multilayer clothing.
But with jan 2013, looks like the more milder enjoyable days are back to being back. Temperatures now hover around plus 3 to 4 degree. Snow is seeming to start melting now and today especially was a lovely day with fog covered all around. Felt like I was in one of those hill stations in india. Let the photos do the further talking
