It turns out that under all that snow, ice and misery, there's solid ground. It has been so long since snowlessness that, until this week, ground was just part of the lakes oral history. Stories passed down from generation to generation spoke of hatless peoples walking the shores without boots and something called a lawn. So much time has passed that it was hard to separate myth from reality. It turns out that solid ground is real.
Rain, another item mentioned in some of the older oral history stories, was also rediscovered this week. For those of you that may have forgotten, rain is a type of snow in liquid form. And you don't have to shovel it.
