Snow Storm

"This is an emergency weather bulletin.  Please stay tuned for an important weather warning.  A severe snow storm watch is now in effect.  Snow accumulation of ten feet is possible.  All listeners should take emergency precautions."  Asher's elephant heard Asher's dad switch the radio off.  Asher's elephant could not believe what he had just heard; ten feet of snow in December?  In Florida?  He immediately knew what had happened.  The night before Asher and Asher's elephant had been filling up cups with ice and running back and forth between the ice dispenser and the toilet, filling the toilet with ice.  Who knows how many cups of ice they had dumped in the toilet.  Then they had flushed it all down.  Asher had heard that if you put an ice cube in the toilet and flushed it down then it would snow.  So they thought that if they put a lot of ice cubes in the toilet then it would snow a lot.  Asher's elephant heard Asher's dad turn the radio back on again, wondering if he had heard the weather forecast correctly. "All listeners are reminded that this is not a drill.  The National Weather Service is calling for twenty feet of snow now."  Asher's dad was clearly worried. He said that twenty feet of snow would bury the house.  Asher and Asher's elephant now worried that there would be too much snow, that they might not even be able to open the front door.  Asher told his sister what they had done and she recommended they flush popcorn down the toilet.  She had heard this would help the sun shine and prevent all cold weather.  Asher went to his mother and asked her for some popcorn.  After she had popped a bag Asher grabbed it and ran to the bathroom.  He started flushing individual pieces of popcorn down one at a time.  "How much should we put in?" he asked Asher's elephant.  "Put the whole bag in," said Asher's elephant.  So they flushed the whole bag down.  Thankfully the toilet did not stop up!  They ran back to the family room and Asher asked his dad what the weather forecast was.  He turned the radio back on.  "Amazingly, the blizzard has blown out to sea and there will not be anymore snow.  In fact we're headed for unseasonably warm weather now; pack your shorts," they heard the weatherman say.  It was a close call.  Asher and Asher's elephant swore that was the last time they would mess with the weather.

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