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Monday, March 13. 2017

Stock up on canned goods


Expecting a blizzard in the Northeast - a Nor'easter in fact.  Good fun.  I would not be surprised to lose power, and we still have not bothered with a generator. I'll pre-post some items in the pipeline just in case the breeze knocks out the power.


If our homemade server goes down, then that's just more proof of climate change.  Speaking of global warming (which I am in favor of - warm is nice. I don't know why nobody talks about the advantages of a little warming) Meyer is excellently rational here:  So Skeptical Science Is "Correcting" Me


So is this:  Scott Pruitt Is Absolutely Right About Carbon Dioxide


Giving names to snow seems silly to me because snow is routine in winter, but this one is called Stella 



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Down here in Pa. we are ready. finally bought a portable generator at Costco, had an electrician install a plug for the generator cable, thru the main box, runs the whole house. Have to feed it gas every so often, but sure beats candles, and with propane heat, it powers the air handler. Snowblower works too. Can't wait. Love snow.
#1 Oldblood on 2017-03-13 17:26 (Reply)
Good Luck BD and family!
#2 faculty wife on 2017-03-13 17:34 (Reply)
I am a proud Survivor of the Blizzard of '78.

http://www.blizzardof78.org/
#3 Jim on 2017-03-13 18:18 (Reply)
We lost power for 72 hours during Winter Storm "Atlas" in Oct 2013. Heavy wet snow hit "West River" SD hard then and many many trees that still had foliage were lost. Ranchers lost thousands of head of cattle. I'd already installed a "Generlink" on my electric meter so we could power the whole house with our 7200w generator. Had we not been able to power our freezer, I'd have lost at least ~$500 worth of bison, elk, and salmon. Generators have become an essential appliance, which we first learned after Hurricane Isabel, when we lived in VA (power out 5—five—days). Moreover, in the rural county where we lived in VA, we lost power about a half-dozen to a dozen times a year (and were only about 50mi from the DC Beltway). It's nowhere near that bad out here in SD.
#4 dhmosquito on 2017-03-13 19:41 (Reply)
the weather here is also wretched. I might have to close the screen door tonight.
#5 Vic Morrow's tommy gun on 2017-03-13 20:39 (Reply)
between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles basin there are dozens of what are now dry lake beds (playas). in the 12,000 or so years since the last ice age ended, these playas have gone through two dozen lake-marsh-playa cycles as the climate cycles between wet/cool and hot/dry. it is a stone cold fact that the only warminering cycles caused by George W. Bush and capitalism were those in the last two hundred years, because, Science!
#6 Vic Morrow's tommy gun on 2017-03-14 01:00 (Reply)
Stella!
#7 Zachriel on 2017-03-14 10:31 (Reply)
Up here in Quebec, we have a natural gas furnace. Runs without electricity. The furnace has a thermopile that drives the thermostat circuit.

If it gets too warm for the stuff in the freezer, I'll just put it outside.
#8 Earl Wertheimer on 2017-03-14 10:33 (Reply)
I grew up in the 40's and 50's just North of Boston. These March blizzards were common and as a kid lots of fun. Living near the ocean when a winter Nor'easter hits usually means a lot of snow or freezing rain. So we were always happier to see 2 feet of snow than freezing rain and slush. I could make big bucks shoveling snow and two feet of snow was usually too daunting for even those folks who preferred to shovel their own snow.
#9 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-03-14 11:55 (Reply)

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