This is getting a bit out of control, folks. I know that I am a Chicago native with a snow attitude but people in this town are doing everything short of sacrificing their young to please the Snow God.
I just came back from the store where people seem to be preparing for the final judgment. One woman had two carts (which she was pushing and pulling) filled with toilet paper and water. I wanted to do an intervention and mention the likely possibility of spring.
If you turn on the radio, it is filled with assurances that radio stations will remain active throughout the “coming emergency.” Not only that, police are reporting an increase in auto accidents — BEFORE A FIRST SNOW FLAKE HAS FALLEN. I am waiting for conservative members of Congress to demand snowboarding meteorologists to force them to tell us the whole truth and when we can expect warm weather.
I am looking out the window at the first flakes now falling. My kids are watching cartoons and all is well. I have not even begun to look at the kids as foodstuffs if we run low on food. For those regulars in the area, the Turley blog will remain active through “the coming emergency” though the host is likely to begin consumption of Bloody Marys in . . . five, four, three, two . . .
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And whats that someone said earlier?
“Do you have a preference for how people die?
People were going to die today regardless of the weather.
It’s sad but it’s also a part of life.”
Yea. We should mail this thread to the whiny families of those dead people…like the ones who burned to death in their home struggling to keep warm for weeks in sub zero temperatures without power.
Tell em to suck it up and stop with all the whiney stuff.
😐
After all, some really smart lawyer sitting in his Georgetown Brownstone said people die every day, and one way’s good as the next…so what the hell are they cryin about.
Right?
Its just a “little snow”.
What are they whining about?
😐
After all its “just a little snow”.
Thousands still lack power after Northeast storm
By NORMA LOVE, Associated Press Writers Norma Love, Associated Press Writers – 22 mins ago
CONCORD, N.H. – Frustration turned to resignation Saturday for hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast struggling to survive another day waiting for utility crews to restore electricity after powerful storms socked the region with heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.
The region was left to deal with the fallout of gusting winds that created near-blizzard conditions this week in what was the third strong storm this month for some areas. Parts of New York got more than 2 feet of snow while some areas of coastal New England were drenched with flooding rains.
One man was killed by a falling snow-laden tree branch in Central Park in New York City, and two people in Candia, N.H., died in a house fire caused by improperly using a propane heater to stay warm, fire officials said.
The highest wind reported from the storm was 91 mph off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. — well above hurricane force of 74 mph. Gusts also hit 60 mph or more from the mountains of West Virginia to New York’s Long Island and Massachusetts.
Frustration was beginning to show on Charlotte Letteney’s face Saturday at Concord High School, one of 24 shelters in New Hampshire. Letteney, 64, of Allenstown, arrived Friday night with her 66-year-old husband, who is a paraplegic, two granddaughters, her grandson-in-law and 6-month-old great-grandson.
The family left their mobile home when the temperature dropped to 46 degrees and Letteney’s hands had gone numb, leaving behind four parrots in covered cages and a couple of days’ worth of food for their dog, Bosco. They have no car — a city van brought them to the shelter — and no way to get home to feed the animals or to let the dog out.
Still here.. (channeling “The Abyss”).
Still here Professor Turely. Three and a half days in the cold without power (and generator fuel too low to waste on internet) but tonight glorious electricity along with the lovely central heating it brings with it (and it is lovely) and we’re none worse for wear. Low on firewood though. I’d stay and respond to each monotonous item pinpuller gave me but frankly after three and a half days of this I’m feeling too good to waste it on that.
Besides, we have another front moving in and being low on firewood I’ve got to get a choppin. Time to break out the big bar husky, cut that well seasoned oak into some nice 18 inch rounds, lug em up the narrow path I dug through the snow and split them puppies up.
Heaven knows we’re gonna need em tomorrow.
This is Ice Station Zebra, signing off.
ThirtyPercenter
“I’m sure people throughout the Metro region will find these public comments about the deaths of people from this storm as amusing as you do, right?”
Too soon?
I’m sure they have better things to do than read a blog, don’t you?
“I’m sure the apathy to the suffering of others (we’re without power, and struggling to keep warm, and praying our roof doesn’t collapse as we have 3 feet and counting) will be welcomed as amusing.”
I have plenty of empathy for others-but since I’m in middle Tennessee it doesn’t matter a Tinker’s damn. It’s like the Sam Kinison bit about the starving kids on TV.
“Just as amusing when the republicans mocked the deaths and suffering of the people during Katrina.
What were some of the comments?
Oh yea.
“people die every day”.
“its just water”.”
Don’t you mean “neocons”?
There’s a difference between black humor and callous indifference and you don’t seem to understand the distinction. I might feel the same way in your situation-I might not.
I guess if I was really fearing for my life I wouldn’t be checking my Twitter updates to see what that dude in Virginia thinks about the natural disaster outside my house.
I also wouldn’t lecture people I really don’t even know about having the same level of reverence for things that I do.
“And other similar comments to the ones being spouted here.
Proving you people are just as sick, twisted and apathetic as the people you waste your days condemning.”
And yet you continually waste your time here.
“This thread and the comments sicken me, and should sicken any decent person.”
So now it’s a litmus test?
“We’ll email this threads link along with the story and comments to marcfisher@washpost.com.
He’s asking for stories about the storm.
Maybe he’ll find this one as amusing as all you.”
95% of the commenters live outside the storm path.
Jonathan Turley writes (amusingly I might add):
“I must confess difficulty in trying to shovel snow with my Rothko prints and de-ice my windshield with hot lattes made by Leslie and passed by the children from the kitchen.”
I remember the dark cold mornings in the north as a child when mother would pass pot after pot of hot water to him from the stove to de-ice the wind shield.
“Pinandpuller 1, February 6, 2010 at 3:24 am
Do you have a preference for how people die?
People were going to die today regardless of the weather.
It’s sad but it’s also a part of life.”
Incredible.
I’m sure people throughout the Metro region will find these public comments about the deaths of people from this storm as amusing as you do, right?
I’m sure the apathy to the suffering of others (we’re without power, and struggling to keep warm, and praying our roof doesn’t collapse as we have 3 feet and counting) will be welcomed as amusing.
Just as amusing when the republicans mocked the deaths and suffering of the people during Katrina.
What were some of the comments?
Oh yea.
“people die every day”.
“its just water”.
And other similar comments to the ones being spouted here.
Proving you people are just as sick, twisted and apathetic as the people you waste your days condemning.
This thread and the comments sicken me, and should sicken any decent person.
We’ll email this threads link along with the story and comments to marcfisher@washpost.com.
He’s asking for stories about the storm.
Maybe he’ll find this one as amusing as all you.