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Bring Your Eschaton Shovels
Well, Snowmageddon II will be here soon. Six to 12 inches fall and strand people for a day, government yawns. Now, three days later, we’re projected to get 2 to 4 inches, and Gov. Ralph “Interstate” Northam has declared a state of emergency.
This storm has snarled traffic and stranded motorists (let’s hope not for 24 to 30 hours, Ralph) in Kentucky and Tennessee, and it’s coming here tonight. Just like last time, it will start with rain and a rapid temperature drop. Makes all the road prep work by the Virginia Department of Transportation ineffective.
To be fair, the emergency declaration is retroactive to Jan. 2 to allow otherwise dubious contracts to be honored as exemptions, although each exemption must be published. Still, which contracts/services were not pursued because there was at the time no declared emergency?
Oh, and he called up the National Guard. Probably just likes saying he did so on Jan. 6.
I don’t expect things to be too bad, but just the same, I still have in my car a case of MREs; a case of water; a can of gas; three rolls of socks, shorts, and a T-shirt; a magnificent jacket; toilet paper and paper towels; and some packs of chicken and tuna, for when an MRE isn’t yet justified but I got the ‘unger. And that’s not all, but ’nuff said. And a GMRS radio. It’s not CB and it’s not ham, but I know the rule of three, and I have local repeaters dialed in.
And that stuff will stay in secured, covered parking, just like it did last time. The view from my window is amazing.
Published in General
CTLaw, you might get some of this if the expected “bombogenesis” comes to pass.
Meanwhile in Wisconsin . . .
Six inches and still falling. Even stopped the mail on my street.
But, priorities: Need to go to the store tomorrow to get something.
:: old man pulls up a chair next to the wood stove ::
“Did I ever tell you about the Winter of 2019 . . .”
Here in WNY, lake effect snow is in the process of clobbering Buffalo. We are just off the northern edge of the plume coming off Lake Erie, so we have seen a flake or two. Unless it wobbles around we’re in the clear. Everything hinges on the direction of the cold air; if it comes from Ohio it generally misses us, but if it comes from Canada we get dumped on.
I love my home but I am not fond of weather that has to be shoveled.
TOTALLY liked this for this quote alone…YES! Well done, sir!
A case of water in your car? You know water freezes, right? It also expands. Not that that will probably matter.
It’s the rain that freezes on the road and is then covered with snow that is the killer. I’ve had relatives trapped on roads in NC as a result.
Chains for your tires and 4WD will also help.
Quoting my son: “Your pickup isn’t 4WD???”
And I’m south of it. The sun was shining today as 18 inches fell in Cheektowaga.
We get weather in stripes. Another artifact of Lake Effect.
Excerpt from a story I read once:
Blackfaced Coonman moves smoothly into action. He whips out his hogleg, which is a literal Smithfield ham, cured and pepper coated in a cloth sack, and does nothing but stand there holding this ham. The rest of …
I don’t know, it seemed appropriate.
Is it still true, that Syracuse gets more snow than Buffalo?
Is that sweat I see dripping off your brow…or did you just spill your beer?
What’s on the grill today?
Looks like steak to me!
Here in the Lynchburg area we got a dusting. If no snow had been predicted and we woke up to this, it still wouldn’t be worth discussing much. Glad ol’ Wreck It Ralph declared the emergency and spared us common-folk here in the central portion of the commonwealth or we’d never know what to do.
I haven’t had a real steak in soooooo long. Not sure I remember what one tastes like.
Democrats want you to eat bugs.
Tried that in Beijing. Enjoyed the novelty. On the same scale as pumpkin-flavored ice cream or any flavored coffee.
I think so. I went to college out that way, and there were a couple of days every year the snow would drift up to my second story dorm room window. Of course, that was before #globalwarming/#climatechange/#whatever.
Well it doesn’t taste like chicken!