Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

I've pointed this out before. If humans think there is anywhere they can't build and live that Mother Nature can't touch in some way, they are sadly mistaken.
I don't care if it's fires, tornados, hurricanes, floods, mudslides, earthquakes, droughts, etc., no place is immune from everything.

 

They're not. The fuckers on the far right are trying to pin things like water supply, etc., on them because, duh, blue bad, libruhls evil.

Another three inches of snow for us overnight predicted, but no ice and freezing rain. Water seems to be back flowing for most of Richmond now, hoping the boil advisory is lifted by no later than tomorrow morning. My cats will be sad to go back to tap water after drinking bottled water for a week.

 

I’ve got a buddy in Palisades and one in Altadena. Both have lost their homes. Beautiful areas, never would I have thought that they were that vulnerable. Mother Nature is an amazing thing. I live in a beautiful canyon, our only saving grace is I don’t think I’ve ever seen howling dry winds in our neck of the woods.

However, I was in S.F. during Oakland fires and never thought that would happen either (dry howling winds in Sept ‘90).

They’ll build them back.

I’m in South Carolina for a few days; my colleagues are telling me about hurricanes and it’s chilling. 20 feet swells from the ocean?? Damn.

 

New England weather frequently sucks, but it's seldom dire. Of course, I live on a sandspit where winter storms regularly wash away parts of the landscape, and a direct hit by a hurricane would probably obliterate most or all of Cape Cod. My consoling thoughts are that New England hurricanes are rare and the Cape is a small target. By late March the slush storms will have ground my soul to powder, but they don't kill people unless they drive poorly.

 

The snow has finally stopped. I'm not sure of the official airport reading, but my tape measure has it at 9 3/4 inches on our side patio and at 9 1/4 inches on the back deck. Drifts in some spots in the yard are easily more than a foot deep.

The entire city is basically shut down. A friend who works for UPS posted on Facebook that they are closed today because trucks can't make the run back and forth from the DC in Little Rock because I-40 is still a parking lot. We have Blink cameras at our cabin in the Ozarks. Based on the snow around the backyard fire pit, there's at least 15 inches of snow there. The heaviest snow was south of I-40 in the Ouachitas. I keep hoping somebody will livestream from one of the mountaintop state park lodges, but I've not seen it yet.

 

For those wishing to help, we have a new donations thread stickied to the top of the page for wildfire relief.

 

My car was almost free of snow/ice, then we got another four to six inches of snow last night and it’s covered again. The kids were out of school Mon-Wed, went yesterday and are off again today.

I planned to go to my bar today to make my NFL playoff picks, but I reckon I’ll punt on that.

I do need to walk down the street and check the mail for the first time this week.

 

LOL. For real.

 

Wait, TV stations in Minnesota make reporters do live shots like that? I figured snow would be such a regular occurrence they'd get a pass.

 

I find both people tweeting here to be a bit wrong headed, but I'm posting it for the video. Migawd.

 

A guy interviewed last night pointed out that 3 days ago the fire was at PCH in Malibu and now it's also near the 405 at Mandeville Canyon and MountainGate Country Club. He started blaming politicians for lack of preparation and they ended the interview. What I believe is, this fire is so immense that any water that might have been available would not have been enough, any firefighting personnel that might have been available would not have been enough. There are times that even the best preparation can become overwhelmed.