February 2nd. Every year, February 2nd seems to kick everyone going through a harsh winter while they are down. And yet as a society we continue to let an animal who is afraid of his shadow give us our weather forecast. Don't people go to college for that? That groundhog is a weather-hope stealing beast.
The main groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil from Pennsylvania continues to betray us year after year. This holiday is in a way a combination of Christmas and April fool's day. Each year we see a glimpse of hope that we just might be able to see spring, like a wrapped present under the tree but just as we are ready to open that present and unable to wait any longer, Santa sees his shadow and takes his presents back up the chimney for another six weeks... at least.
You might be wondering what kind of a track record this Punxsutawney Phil (AKA weather-hope stealing beast, Bucktooth Spring hater, Fury Peter Pan, Cowardly wannabe gopher) has... out of his last 112 predictions he has only predicted an early spring 14 times. That is 98 times this coward has gone back into his hole. The only good thing to originate from Groundhog's Day other than your extremely rare early spring, is the movie with always hilarious Bill Murray. So Punxsutawney Phil, until you give me an early spring... you can consider us not on speaking terms.
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