It has snowed on Caroline’s birthday every year. Yet yesterday the skies were clear and blue save for a few clouds, and weather predictions put any chance of precipitation at, at most, ten percent. Same prediction for today as well.
And Caroline, who apparently wanted to keep her streak intact, said, “I want it to snow. I want it to snow. Snow. I want snow.” She said it over and over and over again. I’d tell her to stop because it was getting on my nerves, and she would be quiet for a time, and then later she would start the snow chant again.
And during the day, thicker and thicker clouds came rolling in, and the sky went from blue to slate gray.
By 10 PM it was snowing.
As of this morning we’re having flurries.
Be afraid.
PAD
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If paid for the trip would you and your daugther come to the town in upstate NY where I live this weekend so she can say: it is going to be warm and sunny, it is going to be warm and sunny?
Peter:
You’ve written about them for years (to date), but did you ever think you would be the father of a mutant? Hopefully in time as she matures, Caroline will develop and use her powers for the benefit of mankind.
Just be careful of those who would desire to exploit her powers for their own benefit. But then again, you already know what/who to look out for, so forewarned is forearmed.
IIRC, mutants like Jean Grey and (apparently) Caroline who get their powers before puberty are the most powerful/dangerous. Better make sure she stays on the side of the “X” and not the Brotherhood. 🙂
Wouldn’t that make her a killcrop, not a mutant?
If Caroline gets more control over her power, you’ll have a real-live superhero relative! If her power remains being able to make it snow on one day of the year, I don’t see her stopping many bank robberies.
Just have her watch out for Sentinels.
You know that you’ve got the solution to Global Warming right there. And you can make a ton of money renting out her services to ski resorts and the Winter Olympics.
Also, watch out or else she’ll be singing “Snow Miser” nonstop through winter.
Don’t we ALL sing “Snow Miser” nonstop through winter?
Her powers may have been triggered by the recent Young Justice premier. Mr. Freeze, Killer Frost, Icicle, Captain Cold… Caroline David.
I have to agree with that!
Though maybe she’s just that cool!
“With great power, comes great responsibility.” And great *BIG* snowmen!
It’s kind of like where I live it rains every July 4th, even in the middle of a drought, ruining BBQ and picnic plans and canceling or postponing firework displays.
I seem to recall reading a novel a while ago about a kid that could control the weather. I think it was a Star Trek novel, about a believed-dead captain stranded on a primitive planet, who ended up with the kid…
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Nah. I must be misremembering. That’s just too weird. Nobody’d buy a book like that.
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J.
There aren’t any Olafsdotters in you or your wife’s families, are there?
Just checking. :p
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Send her this way for the weekend. Ian wants snowmen and snow angels and the best we’ve gotten only allowed him to make lightly frosted grass angels.
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Looked cute doing it though.
So now I know who to blame for the snow in the Chicago area this past weekend.
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Thanks, PAD!
Why be afraid? Storm is a pretty positive character.
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Then again, let’s hope Caroline doesn’t go through a phase as a thief or pickpocket…
Or, worse, an orphan.
Of course, for a time Storm was worshiped as a goddess. If that happens to Caroline she could develop quite the ego…
Just remember is she starts corresponding with an African King, make sure it’s wakandan not Nigerian
[as told to me by my son Joaquin age 5]
Dear David,
I didn’t like, “The End” Hulk comic. I don’t like that Spiderman and the other super Heroes were gone from the planet. I didn’t like that Hulk was getting eaten by bugs. I’m also a comic book writer, I wrote Macaroni n’Cheese man vs. Double Swordman. Thank you for writing Spiderman stories but I don’t like them if they have blood.
Thank you.
With Peter and family living in New York state, here’s what’s been happening in neighboring Connecticut weather wise.
It’s been chilly, with a constant ‘spitting’ of snow for several hours, but it was never cold enough to stick to anything, let alone accumulate. Just constant enough for anyone to say: “Oh look. It’s trying to snow.”
I guess Caroline has a limited range right now. 😉
PAD, it was you yourself who noted that Caroline was born “during an absolutely horrific snow storm…”. She’s been doing it every year ever since. And it comes as a surprise to you now? 🙂
When is her induction ceremony into the Flash’s Rogue’s Gallery?
Some point after PAD’s exclucicity deal with Marvel ends
exclusivity yeah i don’t know what happened there
If a guy with an orange bowl cut and a green jacket shows up at your door looking for her, turn them away. Trust me on this.
I’d be on the lookout for Dr. Doofenshmirtz if I were you, given the picture of her that Kath posted.
Has she started talking about a “cornfield” yet, PAD?
talk about bragging rights as a parent, tho’ –
“My son is a Doctor.”
“Oh yeah? My daughter fought off an alien armada, saving all of mankind.”
“Twice.”
Reminds me in American Gods where Wednesday asks Shadow to think Snow, Snow and more Snow. Until it snowed
TAC
Take her to the Bahamas for next year’s birthday. That would really freak people out.
Well, Peter, there are many shamanic technics and pagan ways of communicating with the weather spirits to influence the weather. Maybe that’s where Caroline is heading to?
…Just as long as she doesn’t wish you into the cornfield… 🙂