Does Jesus cause weird weather?

Some 20 years ago, there were seven years when California rainfall was much below normal. Meteorologists claimed the drought coincided with higher than average temperatures of Pacific waters around the time of Christmas. when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus; the Spanish influence in California caused the naming of the meteorological phenomenon as "El Nino" for the infant Jesus. This year, the opposite condition, cold Pacific waters, called "El Nina" (Unless we got it backwards)seems to have led to some great skiing on Thanksgiving.

Now, those with good memories may be thinking, is not this writer the incurable punster who is fond of saying "Isn't a meteorologist a person who can look into a girl's eyes and tell whether?" Jokes aside (temporsrily)that drought had severe and unexpected consequences; not only did farmers appropriate the water that could grow grass in Beverly Hills, but electrical consequences were surprising. Normally an 8 foot copper rod is driven into the earth as "ground" at the supply pole, another is driven in at the user's pole. It is expected that grounding currents can flow through the earth because there is a lot of it, but conduction may fail IF THE EARTH IS TOO DRY. The result was that a lineman atop a 40 foot ladder yeached for the ground wire and got a jolt that knocked off the ladder. He was very lucky to survive;
this safety engineer was never told whether he returned to full effectiveness when his fractures mended.

In about a week, the Arts Director of this house leads a group of nearly 30 to an opera named "El Nino", by a MUSIC PROFESSOR at Berkeley. Now we are very acquainted with the rainstorm Beethoven wrote into his Pastoral Symphony; Rossini seems pleased to make people carry embrellas in several of his operas. We may report, post facto, whether there are "shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night". Several years ago, this same opera company presented an angel with one wing in an opera about "Francis of Assisi". What next?