Getting ready for the storm?
Seems like an unusually quiet day in the comments. Partying, or getting ready for the storm?
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Seems like an unusually quiet day in the comments. Partying, or getting ready for the storm?
Happy to be where I am…it was near 80 today. I went through 40 years of New England winter weather; I had my fill and never want to see anymore.
Bracing for some wildly varying amounts of snow/sleet/ice/freezing rain. Not much left to do but get a good rest and wait for the trees to start crashing down.
Storm? What are you talking about? It is way too early for hurricane season to have started.
It’s cold here in the Midwest, but I suppose I should be glad that means our precipitation will not likely be freezing rain or ice. We’re supposed to get a fair amount of snow, but as cold as it is I’m guessing it won’t be the heavy, wet stuff, so might not be too hard to shovel.
I hope everyone else fares well!
No storms anticipated in the PNW, though where I am it is below freezing at nights, and about as cold as it ever usually gets in winter. The upside of the freezing nights is the sunny days, we get little sun in the winter.
There’s something to be said for maritime climates, Seattle is at 47 N (tonight’s low 28F) compared with Minneapolis at 45 N (-13 F tonight) and Augusta Maine at 44 N (10 F tonight).
Being hyped as an apocalypse here in Central New York which means we’ll get a couple of inches.
However, schools will need to be closed for at least a few days.
My low here on the Hood Canal is forecasted to be 32F from about 6am to 8am tomorrow, same as today. No more freezing forecasted for the next 10 days.
Here in Abq there’s supposed to be some snow tonight and it’s already raining.
The Sunday forecast looks unpleasant — low 22, high 32.
I don’t think I have ever seen such hysterical reporting on a snowstorm. Apparently, we are all going to die.
“I don’t think I have ever seen such hysterical reporting on a snowstorm. Apparently, we are all going to die.”
Ray, I’m afraid that wherever you’re living has substandard TV weather forecasters; where I live they’ve decided we’re already dead.
I went to Home Depot and bought a new shovel. We have relatives visiting and relatives next door, so we’ll have some manpower for group efforts. We’re currently living in an area which has few private plough services. The municipal government has some snow removal equipment, but almost certainly not enough as winter here does not produce much snow. I’m figuring our street will be the last place with which they’ll bother because it’s a dead end off a dead end and up a hill. Luckily, the grocery store is within walking distance. The forecast keeps changing as we are at the edges of the worst of it. Currently, they figure nine inches of snow over 24 hours (which we can handle knock on wood) and 0.13 inches of ice accumulation (Not Happy. Not. Happy.). If there’s a power outage it will be a disaster for us. We’re now living in town, but there are a lot of trees on our property.
What did she think was going to happen?
According to the story linked below, here is an apparent adult, a mature woman, one Lexie Lawler, a “labor and delivery nurse” at Baptist Regional Hospital in Boca Raton, apparently with a good career and position, who according to a video she posted, linked below, goes on the Internet and, so blinded by partisan hatred, looks into the camera, and very calmly wishes that when Karoline Leavitt, the White House spokeswoman, is giving birth to her child, Leavitt suffers a severe, disabling injury-see Lawler’s very nasty, exact words in the linked video below. *
A day or so later, her employers, getting wind of this post, fire her.
What did she expect was going to happen?
Given her expressed mindset and attitude, can she ever be trusted again to even be around pregnant patients, any patients?
Is any hospital, after doing it’s due diligence and seeing this video, going to hire her?
Given her performance, will she even retain her nursing license?
Was this rant it worth it to her?
See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/ohio-nurse-who-posted-disturbing-wish-upcoming-birth/
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrqCda34Nos
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG6E3bJBBjI and
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/01/23/nurse-who-wished-childbirth-disaster-on-leavitt-is-fired-n4948661?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Good luck, Art Deco! Ice is bad stuff. Apparently your community doesn’t have buried power lines?
Snow on Pine,
It is such a bizarre thing she did, but, sadly, not uncommon. She’s not the first medical worker or teacher to post a sadistic video. It’s sad, but not surprising that some people hold such outrageous and malicious views, but one would assume choosing a profession in obstetrics or children’s education would self select for compassionate people.
And then, what causes someone to turn on their phone’s video recorder, record themselves voicing such a cruel, outrageous, hateful statement and then log into their social media account and upload it? Upload it to a public forum where anyone can view it? Is their narcissism so great they assume they’ll be received as heroes? Are they so blinded by hatred that they do not think or care about the repercussions?
I hope she sees the error of her ways and finds help. At one point she dedicated her life, and took an oath, to help humanity. What changed?
RE: “Pictures from the past are immensely radicalizing.”*
* See those pictures at the American Tribune (for some reason I can’t cut and paste their address, but it’s really worthwhile looking this article up).
It really makes the point.
Rufus T. Firefly–Could it be that Ms. Lawler somehow exists in such a Leftist bubble that she actually thought that no one could possibly find her evil wishes repugnant, and that, instead, she would be universally applauded for them?
And why make them public?
Was she just that dumb, or just so steeped in partisan rage, that she didn’t realize (or even care) that, in the atmosphere created by leftist created “cancel culture,” not only would members of the public, but also her employers have their attention drawn to her post?
Apparently your community doesn’t have buried power lines?
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We just moved here. Haven’t done a survey. Looking out my front window, I see a utility pole right next to my neighbor’s trees.
RE: “Pictures from the past,” is both sad and infuriating to see the evidence of how far things have deteriorated, how much has been deliberately destroyed in the name of progress, diversity, and supposed “enlightenment.”
We stocked up on propane bottles, candles and lanterns that charge a battery and give light for a number of hours, after the Great Texas Snowmagedden of 2021. We normally have a lot of groceries in the house anyway. Phones, tablet and Kindle all plugged in to charge, and I’ve stashed a couple of bottles of drinking water here and there. We remember very well, going four days without water, and almost a week with no power. Other than that, planning to stay home until Tuesday.[I’ve seen the way Texans drive on slick, wet roads. I don’t have any confidence in their ability to drive on black ice.
What did she think was going to happen?
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We all have our shabby lapses. I can recall a pair of Democratic PR operatives being referred to as ‘Jen Psucky’ and “Marie Barf’ in fora like these. I cannot imagine the mentality which would have either living rent-free in one’s head for more than a minute or two, much less giving any thought to their husband or their children.
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A woman I was tangentially acquainted with fifty-odd years ago had this line in her obituary. “and Donald Trump, whom she loathed with an active and fiery passion until the day she died.”. The woman in question was born in 1935 and died in 2020, leaving a husband, three children, and five grandchildren. She’d been married for 63 years. Per the obituary, she had lots of hobbies. Perhaps she wrote her own obituary while ill, or perhaps her husband wrote it, or perhaps the son who lives locally wrote it (or his wife did), or perhaps her daughter (a public figure) wrote it. Indubitably, this woman never heard of Donald Trump until she was nearly 50. Until she’d reached age 80, he was aught but a figure in media chatter about celebrities, something to which a woman of her class pays scant attention (her husband is a retired cardiologist and she herself was a Seven Sisters graduate). Why does an octogenarian loathe anyone with ‘an active and fiery passion’? Why someone you never met who has done nothing to cause your family the slightest injury? Why a man whose life in politics is most notable for… advancing the idea that immigration laws should be enforced? Thoughts anyone?
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The woman in question was A.J. Hodges, the mother of the quondam Mayor of Minneapolis, Betsy el-Klutzo Hodges (who is now a circuit riding speaker on the subject of ‘whiteness’).
Sgt. Mom, no one can drive safely on ice.
Yesterday, we were preparing for the storm, and attending a funeral. Very sad, 70-year-old man in apparently good health fell over dead, probably a cardiac event.
This morning my husband is looking over the owner’s manual for the generator, to see what kind of oil and fluids it needs, since Generac just sent us an email telling us to check it after every 24 hours of continuous use.
Kate,
We have our Generac professionally serviced every 6 months: oil change, sparkplugs etc.. Ours has an exercise session every other week for 10 minutes programmed in. Does yours? With no hurricanes this year, the last time it actually ran the house for a few hours was early last summer when the electric company had to do some local maintenance.
Driving on ice: Mike, of spaghettimodels, said he’s going to GA to “ice chase”. I told him do not go. It’s nothing like snow, and he’s a Florida guy. I’ve experienced myself going maybe 2 mph and helplessly watching the car slowly turn 360 degrees and put its rear wheels off the road. Unless one is equipped with chains, or minimum studded tires, no one should even attempt to drive on iced roads.
Sgt Mom: fill a bathtub with water..emergency for drinking and can also be used to flush toilets
We are suppose to get a foot, should be the light fluffy kind as its only barely 20s all week.
But have everything ready as can be
Cavendish – that was hilarious!
My Generac blew up the week before Christmas. Literally shattered the intake assembly. I was standing there watching when it happened. Tech said a chinesium screw broke off the butterfly and fell into the cylinder which he said was a common failure, Currently no backup power and considering a Tesla Power Wall. 15 years faithful service including one week straight about 7-8 years ago. Tested weekly. Last serviced about two weeks before it blew.
RE: “Pictures from the past”, I’ve got a doozy I could add to the archive. Somewhere in my basement in one of a dozen boxes, is a picture of my oldest brother, quite a bit older than me. Someone, for some reason, took a picture of him on the school bus. He’s about middle-school age so this would have been maybe mid to late 1960’s. There’s my brother, before braces – terrible teeth – but the most interesting thing about the picture is the two kids in the seat right behind him. They have rifles. I assume they were in the rifle club.
Here’s my favorite weather report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbHW1T7boSc
Good luck to all of you who will be impacted by the storm. My family in Wisconsin is telling me I picked a good time to go visit Death Valley.
Thanks, physicsguy, there’s a Generac dealer nearby and once this storm is over we’ll sign up for routine maintenance. It’s only seven months old; runs occasionally as a test, and has run once or twice for real, so we know it works.
I’ll fill up a bathtub later this evening. I learned that trick in New England, where the power went out routinely. Here, with a generator, I’m more confident. However, a local Next Door post said that the city water system once suffered freeze damage, so I’ve got water stored. Better safe than sorry.
Mike Plaiss—Yeah, funny thing about that. As people have pointed out, it used to be that a lot of high schools had rifle practice as one of their class options and, in addition, in rural areas you used to see beat up pickups in high school school parking lots with rifles in gun racks yet, with all of these firearms available, apparently far fewer cases of school shootings.
A different mindset and set of different priorities and preoccupations at work.
One of my sons went to an urban, Catholic High School. They have a rifle team that practices in a shooting range in the school basement.
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Super cold here in TX.
So far, we’ve had 77 inches of snow this month and 183 inches this winter. Lately, it’s been cold enough to close the schools, the community college, and the university. That’s very rare, although closings during blizzards happens every once in a while. The goal has always been to avoid frostbite among children waiting for school buses. Luckily, there haven’t been any power outages. That’s all folks.
I took riflery at summer camp and again in high school, both in the 1960s, and I was surprisingly good at it for somebody with compromised vision who generally can’t do things like that. The point is that for years there, it wasn’t unusual to be handed a rifle and taught how to use it.
Forecasting 18+” here of the fluffy stuff. The winds are also predicted to be in the low to mid teens. Starting at noon Sunday, coming down until midnight Monday. In my experience (68+ years in the Northeastern US) should the forecast prove accurate we will… survive!
Godspeed.
So far the predictions for my area have been fairly spot on.
Looks like Madmani just lost the under-12 (perhaps even under-18) vote…
“NYC schools closed Monday due to snow storm, all students will do remote learning, Mamdani says”—
https://nypost.com/2026/01/25/us-news/nyc-schools-closed-monday-but-classes-moved-online/
Argh!! My weather app assured me the snow was over! After an hour in the cold getting it all up, I sit here in my comfy clothes, with my coffee and my newspaper, and it’s snowing again – hard.
We’ve had less ice than was predicted. Husband and dog are not enjoying their excursions outside. Grass and sidewalk alike are sheet ice. Power still on.
We have well water. When power is out we can use water stored in old laundry detergent bottles to refill the toilet tank after a flush. One of the few benefits of Low-flo toilets.