PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Subfreezing temperatures across much of the U.S. left millions of Americans facing dangerous cold as Arctic storms left four dead and knocked out electricity to tens of thousands in the Northwest, brought snow to the South, and walloped the Northeast with blizzard conditions that forced the postponement of an NFL game.
It’s fine, just make sure you still get to work, your health and safety means nothing if your boss can’t have a 3rd vacation home.
I haven’t checked yet to see if my little dog has decided to poop in the house yet. He’s a chihuahua/dachshund mix so he has a short coat, but he refuses to wear a sweater or a jacket, so he won’t go out the dog door. My big dog doesn’t care. She’s got a big thick coat, so she goes outside and does her favorite winter activity- eat snow. She doesn’t care if it’s -40. That said, it’s currently -6, -16 with wind chill (in American dumbness units) here in west-central Indiana, so we’ll probably be doing some mopping today.
Edit: Yep, he pooped in the house.
Lafayette?
Terre Haute, sadly.
Oof, my condolences
Thank you. I hate it here.
I have a very similar looking mutt and she also fucking HATES the cold. Or rain. Or wind. Ive seen her hold her morning pee till lunch time if the weathers shit enough. Thankfully, no house shitting yet but she’s 5 so she has a few more years till she can’t hold it anymore.
He’s only 3!
This is great for the “global warming ain’t real” crowd
This year is extremely atypical. This is the first week here we’ve had it substantially below freezing. we haven’t dropped below zero… at all.
Its freakishly mild. to the point that all the idiots that go ice fishing… are whining about not being able to drive the decidedly overpriced trucks out onto the ice like they’ve always been before. yes, I enjoy the irony there. Also, little known fact. When you drive on lake ice, your insurance is suspended.
Overpriced 🤣.
Big mads. Imagine being happy at someone else’s loss, or happy at them being in because they own a truck. Unhinged shit really.
Owning a truck when you don’t need one is stupid.
Okay. Not what was said 🤷♂️.
I’m also happy if someone loses their giant climate killer in a lake.
To be fair, what was said was not exactly clear.
What was unclear?
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A couple guys I’m acquainted with were joking about that last week.
I reminded them when I was in school, it was snow days before Thanksgiving, white Christmas every year, and we could get snow in early April, whereas now I’m wearing a t-shirt and shorts in late December and it was warm enough to go swimming in the lake in November.
And I’m younger than them
My dad said this once, I asked him when was the last time he thinks he could DRIVE out onto the lake like he used to with his brothers as teens. He still maintained that “global warming” was making someone money more than it was real, but from then on he never mentioned it unless someone asked him directly, and hasn’t mentioned it at all in years. His wheels may turn slowly sometimes, but I think he’s getting there. Still votes against his own interests as a veteran who desperately needs affordable Healthcare and insulin, though.
I am in infrastructure and even our token office MAGA (pretty sure it is the law that every office has to have one) has come along on global warming. We know shit is overheating that shouldn’t be and flooding is happening where it historically has not happened before. How? Government works the same way everything else does. If your fridge breaks you get a new one and put it in the same spot. When government stuff breaks we put the new one where the old one was. Meaning we know that a given site didn’t have problems in the past but has them now.
Me personally I have just accepted that the rest of my life will be palliative care. It makes it easier to face this crap. I can’t stop what is happening, but I can do what little I can to minimize suffering as it happens. Maybe the nightmare scenarios will come and the last things I do on earth will be putting in pump systems to buy us more time. Maybe they won’t and I am worried over nothing.
Especially since global warming is probably what’s causing this.
They think because it’s not warm it’s not real. They really can’t get past that it effects everything.
Reminder to let your faucets drip overnight and keep the cabinet doors open under the sink to avoid freezing pipes. Stay safe!
