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It's a lizard out
Feb. 1st, 2011 07:24 pmBlizzarding now, according to NWS. I agree that visibility and road conditions are vile and they are correct in counseling people to stay home, indoors, and not drive. However, I just don't see the snow accumulation rate with which they've been threatening us for days now. They had lowered the bar but raised it again in the last hour so that once again we are to expect 18 inches total accumulation. Even if you count everything since yesterday, I see only about 5 inches so far.
Left work at 3:00 and glad I did. Roads were abysmal, with blowing, drifting of as much as 8 inches deep, and areas of near-zero visibility. Most drivers were being very cautious and reasonable, but of course there's always an idiot. He tailgated me for about three miles before passing in a plume of kicked up snow and noise, after which he was immediately stranded tailgating the car ahead of me, which was traveling at the same rate of speed as I was. I hope he ended up in a well deserved ditch and did not have a head-on collision with some innocent driver in the oncoming lane.
Library is closed all day tomorrow due to weather, as are the schools. Free day off. Well, off normal work but I have plenty to do. Really should be weaving all day, in fact. The weavers' meeting that was set for tomorrow morning has been called on account of weather.
Both local ground hog events have also been cancelled. Woodstock Willie will not be dragged from his den in the teeth of a raging blizzard at dawn tomorrow. Neither will the poor ground hog at Brookfield Zoo. But what does that mean about winter? Without any prediction at all, will it last until February 2012? One hopes not.
The Chicago Tribune, which hosts the most celebrated local meteorologist Tom Skilling, had an article today in which he explained why this blizzard was genuine and would be dangerous-not-to-be-scoffed-at. Of course the only comments were from moronic right wingers who wanted to blame everything on Obama (the weather?) and the communist-liberal conspiracy. The blizzard was a lie, they insisted, and would not happen. Furthermore, it proved that global warming is a lie (how can it do that if it does not, in fact, take place?) And, more importantly, it proves that science is a lie and should be ignored. Where on earth do these people come from, and how do they manage to get so completely brainwashed?
Left work at 3:00 and glad I did. Roads were abysmal, with blowing, drifting of as much as 8 inches deep, and areas of near-zero visibility. Most drivers were being very cautious and reasonable, but of course there's always an idiot. He tailgated me for about three miles before passing in a plume of kicked up snow and noise, after which he was immediately stranded tailgating the car ahead of me, which was traveling at the same rate of speed as I was. I hope he ended up in a well deserved ditch and did not have a head-on collision with some innocent driver in the oncoming lane.
Library is closed all day tomorrow due to weather, as are the schools. Free day off. Well, off normal work but I have plenty to do. Really should be weaving all day, in fact. The weavers' meeting that was set for tomorrow morning has been called on account of weather.
Both local ground hog events have also been cancelled. Woodstock Willie will not be dragged from his den in the teeth of a raging blizzard at dawn tomorrow. Neither will the poor ground hog at Brookfield Zoo. But what does that mean about winter? Without any prediction at all, will it last until February 2012? One hopes not.
The Chicago Tribune, which hosts the most celebrated local meteorologist Tom Skilling, had an article today in which he explained why this blizzard was genuine and would be dangerous-not-to-be-scoffed-at. Of course the only comments were from moronic right wingers who wanted to blame everything on Obama (the weather?) and the communist-liberal conspiracy. The blizzard was a lie, they insisted, and would not happen. Furthermore, it proved that global warming is a lie (how can it do that if it does not, in fact, take place?) And, more importantly, it proves that science is a lie and should be ignored. Where on earth do these people come from, and how do they manage to get so completely brainwashed?
