They say, ‘If you don’t like the weather in Kentucky, just wait 5 minutes,’ and then whoever ‘they’ are laugh hysterically thinking this is clever. And while the weather may fluctuate wildly around much of the bluegrass, WKYT’s doppler radar has shown a small, unchanged portion on its map for the past several months. It appears a sick, wicked, fat cloud of puffy cotton has settled over Lexington’s Big Blue Magic Vapor Shop.

We looked into the anomaly further and found that while the cloud does seem to shift from puffy to hazy to occasionally giant-ring shaped, it never seems to leave the area directly above Big Blue Magic Vapor Shop.

Inside, sit two public enemies, brought together by weather. Chris Bailey puffs on an e-cig as thick white vapor pours out of him like he is a smokestack on the Titanic (pre-sinking). Next to Bailey sits his assumed foe Bill Meck, who blows some gnarly nimbus out his juice box.

“On the streets we are competitors, he calls for flurries, I call for light snow. He says partly cloudy, I say mostly sunny,” Bailey says. “But in here, in here in the world of vapes, it’s cloudy all day every day. This is where we bond.”

Meck takes a quick headcount of everyone in the room. “Tell Bodhi to order at least 5 large Za’s,” he shouts to an assistant.

Both meteorologists agree that the cloud will do no harm to the environment. The government agrees. An inspector from the EPA once visited, almost wrote the store up as a root source of global warming, but took a huge hit off a nattering nabob rig and remembered he was in Kentucky where warmth doesn’t exist, and left.