Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

I surprised your gov didn't authorize kids to go to work in factories on snow days.

 

I figured from the start that with the onset of remote learning, the cherished "snow day" would go the way of the buggy whip.

 

Here is the thing that most people don't get. At least here, teachers work extended hours and extra days to build snow days into the schedule. We usually build in 10. Last year, we used one... meaning every teacher in the system worked nine extra days without getting paid for them.
Any time the system brings up "virtual learning days" we collectively say we're sure to get right on it.

 

Growing up, we always had four or five snow days built into the schedule. Then, in the early 90s, we went a few years without using them so my senior year of high school (1994) they cut back to one snow day and trimmed a week off the school year.
On MLK day it snowed and didn't get above 10 degrees the rest of the week, so it all froze over and everything was paralyzed. Our cushion was wiped out right away. From then until early March we did not go a week without having at least one snow day. They wound up taking out several scheduled holidays and we still graduated a week late. It was like a karmic bitch slap on some level.

 

The situation I described last year, we either wanted paid for the days we worked or days cut at the end of the year. Nope.
In fact, we lost a snow day in November because the geniuses making the schedule had no school on election day (schools are out precincts) despite not having an election. Teachers still had to work as a PD day.

 

What happens here is that if the governor declares a state of emergency, missed school days don’t have to be made up. And those have started being handed out generously the last 10-15 years, which keeps the teachers union happy. Not all of our Republicans are as dumb as Tuberville.

 

St. Louis-area fire department turns one of its trucks into a thrill ride.

 

While that is a low bar indeed, some of them are as dumb as he is, or improbable as it sounds, even dumber.

 

The temperature this morning when I went out for a walk was 47 degrees warmer than it was Saturday.
We are supposed to get record highs tomorrow as well as another blast of high winds.

 

It's been shit cold and wet here for three weeks straight but it's going to be 66 and cloudy but not rainy on Friday, so yeah, I've booked a tee time.

 

Freezing fog.
2 of the dumbest words in the English language.
Has been an ice rink here the last 3 days.

 

Don't think I'm going to like this. I need the cone.

The hurricane cone graphic is changing this year. Here’s why experts say it’s needed | CNN

CNN — The iconic cone graphic used by the National Hurricane Center to depict the potential path of tropical systems will undergo a noticeable change for the upcoming hurricane season.
The cone will be deemphasized over land in the continental US, with more emphasis being placed on expected impacts by showing tropical storm and hurricane watches and warnings instead. This means you’ll see active tropical alerts instead of a cone where applicable over land.
Watches and warnings used to only be shown alongside the cone “in a line along the coastline of the affected area,” NHC director Michael Brennan told CNN. Now, the alerts are taking “precedence over the cone,” and “will be predominant on the graphic,” NHC spokesperson Maria Torres told CNN.