Once again, we are experiencing some light snowfall around here as we continue to get lucky in this usually harsh pocket of winter weather up here.
Meanwhile, what my dear fellow citizens are suffering through around the rest of the nation:
"In Chicago, snow removal down to a science; City shrugs at tales from Mid-Atlantic" by Michael Tarm, Associated Press | February 16, 2010
CHICAGO - After a brief respite over the weekend, it was snowing again in Washington yesterday.
Snow and ice also pelted parts of Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee for the second time in a matter of days, and travel conditions were poor....
Buried by snow this month, cities across the Mid-Atlantic were forced to scramble to locate plows, hiring hundreds from private contractors and seeking help from neighboring states. No place seemed more unprepared for the weather than the Washington area: The federal government shut down for days as District residents complained of a spotty, haphazard response that left some streets all but abandoned.
That's because they believe their own fart-misting lies.
And in the South, where even a light dusting is enough to paralyze commuters until the weather warms up and melts away the problem, most major cities have only a handful of plows - if any at all.
In Dallas, a city of 1.2 million people but not a single dedicated snow plow, authorities count on snowflakes melting the minute they touch the ground.
That did not happen last week, when the worst storm in nearly five decades dropped more than a foot of snow in northern Texas. All the city could do was send reconnaissance teams to identify slick spots and direct trucks to spread sand....
This is a NATIONAL DISASTER, America.
I just wanted you to know that when the fart-misters start belching again.
Like now, as the article turns into a turd with a smile on it.
The forecast: a mighty winter blizzard sure to dump a record-setting blanket of snow that will grow from inches to feet overnight, just in time for rush hour.
When it happened this month in Washington, the president called it “Snowmageddon’’ and an overwhelmed city could not keep its streets clear. When it happened last week in Chicago, they called it “Tuesday’’ and kept the blacktop black from first flakes to final drifts....
That’s not the case outside of Chicago and other cities in the American snow belt, where the strategy for cleaning the streets of winter’s wrath is often based on a calculated risk that snow won’t fall where it usually doesn’t.
But we have global warming, sigh. I don't even repost all the ClimateGate lies and links because its over. Even the most brain-dead slob around here knows global warming is a crock of shit.
And thus ANOTHER PILLAR of GLOBAL GOVERNMENT GOES DOWN -- and Goldman's didn't even do this one!
Most years, that gamble pays off.
When?
Hasn't payed off around here the last few years before this where record snowfalls forced the town to exceed the budget, borrow money, then cut teachers and close schools?
WTF?!!!
Oh, I SEE, it PAYED OFF for BANKS and BONDHOLDERS!!
I'm 'tow 'too-pid I 'torgot I's readin' a agenda-pushing prism of de ulites, duh!!!!!
But this winter, historic blizzards have struck cities where traffic-snarling snowfalls are rare or even unheard of, exposing the dangers of counting on the Big One not to hit.
Of LISTENING to those FART-MISTING FREAKS!
“You won’t see bare pavement for at least three weeks - and that’s if we don’t get another snow next week,’’ Steve Shannon, an operations manager at the Virginia Department of Transportation, said late last week about suburban Washington’s Fairfax County.
To be fair,
Like the newspaper would know anything about that!
What that statement says is "I'm about to shovel some agenda-pushing bulls***!"
the one-two punch of storms that socked the East Coast this month was record-setting....
Making excuses for government mismanagement, MSM? WTF?
Elsewhere around the nation:
"Power outages, ice slow cleanup" by Associated Press | February 14, 2010
ATLANTA - Southerners were trying to dig out yesterday after a storm dropped about a foot of snow in some sections before heading out to sea. The weather was blamed for deaths in the Macon, Ga., and the Louisville, Ky., areas.
That pisses me off because the LIES are NOT HARMLESS, they are FATAL!!!!!
Tens of thousands of people lost power in Texas and South Carolina, and thousands were stranded after airline flight cancellations. The National Weather Service said Dallas got 12.5 inches of snow, while Harkers Island, N.C., got 8.8 inches, and Belleville, Ala., got 6 inches.
Look at those snowfall totals in the SOUTH!!
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HANG IN THERE, fellow Americans!!!
You will get rid of it quicker than us -- I hope!!!!
And in a place where they are supposed to have snow?
"Avalanche kills oil executive in Alaska" by Associated Press | February 15, 2010
ANCHORAGE - The president of
Jim Bowles, the head of the oil company’s Alaska operations, was with a dozen snowmobilers in the Grandview wilderness area near Seward when an avalanche roared down a slope Saturday, burying him and Alan Gage.
Did the winding of the motors and the noise cause this to happen? You wouldn't mind standing under one and yelling at the top of your lungs, right?
Bowles’s body was recovered before nightfall, but Gage couldn’t be located before the search was suspended because of darkness.
Megan Peter, a spokesman for the State Police, said yesterday the weather was not conducive to a search for the missing man. Once the weather breaks, a search will resume, she said....
--more--"Did that only get one-day coverage because of the oil man?
For all I know, other guy still buried, probably dead by now.
And what do Eskimos (no offense intended) live in, state-schooled 'murkn (offense intended)?
"With igloo, Ohio man takes man cave to the next level
The freezing temperatures mean that the beer never goes warm.
Those people without power get it back yet, MSM, and why do you drop that aspect all the time, 'eh?
Yeah, pass me a beer, partner.
Like most of the Midwest, Ohio has been hit hard by snow this season. As of Friday, snow was covering some ground in 49 states, representing two-thirds of the nation’s land mass.
See why I get so irritated, readers?
Related: Climate changes are proven fact
Yeah, and it is DRIVEN BY the SUN, not MAN, and it has been GETTING COLDER for the last ten years!!!
Man, am I ever tired of agenda-pushing and insulting editorials and opinion pieces.
Nevertheless....
"Big gift for local climate efforts; Trust promises $50m in grants" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff | February 14, 2010
The state’s largest foundation will give $50 million to Boston-area nonprofits and efforts that fight climate change - one of the biggest gifts in recent years to that cause - in a campaign that marks a strategic shift for an organization that has never before publicized its charitable works....
PFFFFFFFFT!
Barr went public this time, Brandes said, to bring more attention to climate change, which is still hotly debated by some....
No, we AGREE it is HAPPENING, we just DISAGREE on WHICH DIRECTION and WHAT the CAUSE is!!!
Working neighborhood to neighborhood is in some ways more important to the fight against climate change than creating new national policies, said Katie Mandes at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Arlington, Va.
Everything in the NEWSPAPER has to have a WAR ANGLE to it, huh?
“The debate on Capitol Hill, the international negotiations - for most people, these don’t resonate,’’ Mandes said. But by explaining to people that energy efficiency saves money, she said, and that using renewable fuels helps national security, climate change issues suddenly become more personal....
Hey, EVERYONE WANTS a CLEAN ENVIRONMENT; however, that is NOT WHAT is being talked about here!!!
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I mean, SINCE WHEN has the NEWSPAPER been looking out for YOU?
Is that what the MASSIVE and MAMMOTH LIES are for?
Our own good?
Better snowmobile my butt back to New England.
"Snowmobilers warned about icy trails
New Hampshire officials are advising snowmobilers to take it easy, warning that low snow coverage is making snowmobile trails icy and has caused several accidents lately. Officials reported two accidents Saturday near Pittsburg, in the northern part of the state. In one, Peggy Howe of Dudley, Mass., suffered minor injuries when her snowmobile collided with another. About an hour later, Lisa Borders, of Carbondale, Pa., slid off a trail into a 6-foot deep drainage ditch. She was eventually flown to Dartmouth Medical Center in Hanover, N.H. Police could not confirm her condition. Two other accidents occurred Friday, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader. On Feb. 5, snowmobiler Gary Lopes of Dighton, Mass., died in Pittsburg, State Police said.
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Be careful out there, fellow Americans!
Snow likely a factor in Pa. ice rink collapse
The region has gotten more than 2 feet of snow in the past week and a half.
You know, you fart-misters should thank God no one got hurt -- especially the KIDS in the locker rooms!
Oh, right, about the basketballs:
Played last night for the first time in over a week and it showed. I supremely sucked. I can remember at least two air balls, a brick that almost broke the backboard from the foul line, one shot that hit the side of the backboard (the ultimate signal that your game sucks), and one guy rejecting my shot twice before the ball was even out of my hand. Even a couple strong moves bounced out, and of the two lay-ups I made the second one was an all-alone fast break that I almost f***ed up. I had plenty of turnovers, and the best that could be said was I didn't hurt the team. I ran up and down and got all tired, but I was never much of a factor. I could chalk it up to inactivity; however, I think the age is showing. All the nagging aches and pains are there as I prepare to play, and it is reflected in my game. Of course, given everything else this is nothing -- like making a mountain out of a molehill, right?
The other basketball that comes from rolling the snow is the high school regular season winding down. As of now it looks like only one local team may be good enough to reach the Final Four of the region (and they are all the way across the county). There could be a couple of surprises; however, it has been a very, very down year for the local leagues. I do believe they will get pasted when they take on teams south and west of here in the tournament.
But the REAL DOWNER was the PATHETIC COVERAGE of last night's season-ending contests. The local USED TO HAVE a STANDINGS and SCORING PAGE in addition to the box scores from the previous night; however, today it is just box scores with two half-assed game write-ups. I may not even but them during tournament this year. Papers are worse than the web now, no doubt, and MSM websites are worse than blogs.
Update: Snowfall outpaces predictions
Not where I'm from, Glob!
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