Sorry, Charlie Sheen, but this storm is big news today: Blizzard-like winds, bitter sub-zero wind chills, snow totals of 1-2 feet (oftentimes with a nice sheet of ice underneath), and whiteout conditions are greeting Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and huge swaths of the Midwest today in perhaps the worst one-day snow storm since the pre-World War I days of the early Twentieth Century (links at bottom; images above from the Kansas City Star and Weather.com). And the Northeast is next up in this storm's crosshairs (apologies to CNN and the American left).Virtually unprecedented things are occurring with this storm. The Governors of Missouri and Kansas have declared a "state of emergency" due to weather conditions. Illinois mobilizes its National Guard. An airport shuts down in Dallas, Texas. Interstate 70 is completely closed across mid-Missouri. Places of business that hardly ever close for an entire day -- such as malls and law firms -- are closed. Other businesses that rarely close at all, such as banks, are widely closing early.
And it's on a God-awful day like today, during the middle of the most despicable winter that I can recall, that I'm left to think of the likes of Al Gore and the democrat party and their incessant calls for massive increases in federal regulatory powers and federal bureaucracy under the guise and excuse of far leftist "climate change" legislation (previously called "global warming" by the American left, although not any longer).
How's that Cap'n Trade "climate change" bill working out for ya, democrat party? Since everyone's at home paying no attention to anything but the weather today, it might be a perfect time for Pigsnout Waxman to deliver to Harry Reid hundreds of pages of new amendments to the bill, and then try to jam it through the Senate when no one's looking. "Never let a good crisis [here a terrible blizzard] go to waste," no? I still recall when you guys rammed the health care monstrosity through the Senate on a snowy Christmas Eve in 2009. Can we get a redux with the Cap'n Trade?
Oh, but wait! None of those maneuvers will work. Not any longer. I forgot this is 2011 -- not 2009 or 2010. Well, it was just a thought. Damn pesky democracy, elections and ignorant populace. Now excuse me while I go shovel snow for the third time already today.
2/2/2011 Update: Sure enough today, Al Gore is actually trying to blame this blizzard on global warming! (http://blog.algore.com/2011/02/an_answer_for_bill.html) Fortunately for the world, the masseuse-loving (allegedly), Internet-inventing divorcee Gore could not more irrelevant these days. And while he may not be taken seriously any longer, he does work for a good laugh quite often.
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/01/2624165/another-winter-storm-arrives-in.html
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_6340e01f-16f6-55c9-b739-7f07c33e37a7.html
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/storm-impacts-midwest-february_2011-02-01
http://dailyherald.com/article/20110130/news/701309913/
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/01/2624165/another-winter-storm-arrives-in.html
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_6340e01f-16f6-55c9-b739-7f07c33e37a7.html
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/storm-impacts-midwest-february_2011-02-01
http://dailyherald.com/article/20110130/news/701309913/
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Postscript: As alluded to in my first sentence, I hated to butt down so quickly my latest Charlie Sheen post from this morning. But this terrible storm just couldn't be ignored until tomorrow. One blog post per day is always the best way to go, but sometimes circumstances make it impossible. (And holding Sheen until tomorrow wasn't much of an option either, since it would have been pretty old news by then).
ReplyDeleteNot so fast! I'm seeing that there are even more new Sheen revelations coming out today. Now THOSE I can blog about tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I debated even getting into the Cap'n Trade stuff on the blizzard post. But can you tell -- the process by which that bill was rammed through the House, and by which the health care bill was jammed through the House and Senate, still angers me to this day. I don't need much of an excuse to bring those things up.
the beautiful snow, I am located in the tropics have never visited by snow, but I rate the snow is a much-awaited many people and fun. it did not like what I see and read because the snow is very dangerous if you do travel and if its very cold temperature. I hope someday I can touch snow and sharing stories with my friends who want to play snow.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the snow that's as dangerous as all the crazy drivers who are clueless on how to properly drive in it. Everyone on the road is either a maniac driving too fast or a moron driving too slow. It seems like only I drive the correct speed. I'm the smartest man on the road, you know.
ReplyDeleteWarmest year in the history of recorded weather. If you're unable to do simple research to realize global climate change is having an effect on ALL weather, irrespective of season, then you're too naive to engage in this discussion.
ReplyDeleteWe've generally had global cooling since Al Gore's propaganda film in 2000, but sure enough, a few isolated years such as 2005 and 2010 were hot ones. There you have it! Please. And now in 2011, we're having the worst January that most of us can remember in the Midwest. Back and forth the climate goes, as always. And I take it, "anonymous," that you agree with Gore's mindless assertion that global warming caused Blizzard 2011. If so, you're a loon. No more, no less.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the time to do any research, but I don't need to research the fact that Al Gore is a goofball...I'm pretty sure that scientists and weather experts have been studying weather cycles for many moons and didn't need Al's 'help' to figure out that some years it's hot and some years it's cold. Big woo.
ReplyDeleteAl Gore has become filthy rich from his propaganda. So some might consider him actually to be very smart. But I still agree he's a goof.
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