The Weather GuysTM have said we have some more snow coming on Monday or Tuesday, though they haven’t said exactly how much we might get.
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It was 44 years ago the Blizzard of 78 hit New England.
I remember the high winds, whiteouts, high snowfall rate, snowdrifts that reached the eaves on some houses, roads that remained impassible for days, a town on the Cape Cod coast (Hull) that became an island when the only bridge in and out of the town was under water because of the storm surge, summer homes on the Manomet cliffs being washed away when the stormy seas undermined the cliffs and they collapsed which too the homes on top with them, Route 128 – the circumferential highway around Boston – turning into a parking lot with thousands of cars and trucks stuck in the snow and drifts.
I was living just south of Boston back then I was busy during the storm and the days afterwards, working with the state civil defense and local amateur radio groups to coordinate transportation to and from the local hospitals, delivering medications to snowbound people, and manning one of the shelters for those who lost power and had no heat.
I and the others were busy for five days dealing with the blizzard and its aftermath.
While the blizzard’s impact here in New Hampshire wasn’t quite what was seen in the greater Boston area, there were still the heavy snows, wind, and snowdrifts to deal with. There wasn’t nearly as much snow, but what’s the difference between 1-1/2 feet and 3 feet of snow if there’s a lot of drifting snow?
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Will Washington State try to go the route California has talked about and try to impose a ‘Wealth’ tax as a means of taking even more money to spend on things those outside of the greater Seattle area could not care less about? It looks like they are.
They are going to make the same mistake a number of other countries have and drive the wealthy out of the state, the wealthy who will also take their wealth (and the jobs they provide) with them.
California has talked about doing the same thing for a couple of years now but haven’t gone forward with it (yet), perhaps because the wealthy – including many Progressives – have told Sacramento they would pull up stakes and leave, taking their money and businesses with them if they were stupid enough to pass such a tax. We know that isn’t an idle threat as we’ve already seen the flight of capital, businesses, and people from the Pyrite State for friendlier business/tax climates due to the already confiscatory tax and regulatory environment. A wealth tax would have seen that exodus turn into a flood of people and businesses fleeing California.
Do the Washington State legislators think the same thing wouldn’t happen in their state if they impose a tax that will have such broad implications? It’s obvious to anyone paying attention that they are only paying attention to the piles of cash the millionaires and billionaires in Washington represent and ignoring human nature.
What a bunch of morons.
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We’ve heard that the number of deaths attributed to Covid has passed 900,000 here in the US.
Sorry, but I’m calling Bulls**t on this one.
Again, the total includes the deaths for those who died who also tested positive for Covid (in other words with Covid), not just those who died from it. It would be easy to apply the same ratio Italy used when revising their Covid death total downward, reducing it by 97%. However, I will be more generous, using a 90% reduction for US deaths which would reduce the actual number of Covid deaths here to 90,000 over a 2-year period. That’s more akin to what we would see if we experienced two consecutive bad flu seasons.
I have to wonder if the CDC will revise the death toll by counting only actual Covid deaths?
Probably not. It wouldn’t serve the narrative.
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Biden has replaced Jimmy Carter and Obama as the ‘worst president ever’ and he managed to do it during the first year of his (hopefully) only term.
Obama wasn’t kidding when he said “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.” If anything, he understated things. Then again, SloJo has been deteriorating at a faster rate than WRBA had planned on and their ability to cover it up has been dwindling, even with help from the DNC-MSM.
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I don’t know about you, but I know I am sick to death of the whole Covid thing. I am tired of it. I am tired of people who don’t know me or my circumstances deciding for me what I can and can’t do regarding things they should have absolutely no say about.
They want us to wear masks that both we and they know really don’t work.
They want to push the idea that the latest Covid variant is more contagious (it is) and just as deadly (it isn’t) as the previous variants, a means of extending their control of an increasingly non-compliant population. This control includes everything from mask mandates to draconian measures to ‘control’ the unvaxxed and unmasked.
I am tired of the government overstating the number of Covid deaths, the sole purpose of which is to justify the very measures people are increasingly coming to resist or ignore because they are tired of them, too. (The only exception to that are the so-called Karens who love to lord it over the rest of us, using our non-compliance as an excuse to pester and harangue us and to virtue signal to the rest of the Karens.)
I am tired of hearing stories about parents/teachers/child care workers being condemned because they can’t keep masks on their two/three/four/five-year olds or businesses banning children under 5 if they weren’t vaccinated. (The only problem is that at the time this was happening no children under 5 were vaccinated because none of the vaccines had been approved for children under 5.)
I am tired of the two-year running commentary from the news media, the daily totals of new infections, new hospitalizations, and new deaths. Rather than being informative it is now macabre. You can almost hear the excitement in the news clone’s voice if there is an increase in any of those numbers.
I am tired of it all. I’m sure all of you are, too.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where it’s been wicked cold, we have a little more snow on the way starting late Monday evening, and where a number of the towns around the lake will start their town and school district meetings to decide how much they’ll be spending in the coming year.