Hi, friends!
Here I thought we were just forecast to get cold as hell weather this weekend with an inch of snow. That’s no reason to rush to the grocery store. It’s fine. Just miserable cold.
And now? They’re saying there’s a chance of up to 8-10 inches of snow, plus cold as fuck. So now I need to grocery shop for a few more essentials.
Wish me luck, may the odds be ever in my favor.
The tradition of my community being more interested in alcohol and frozen pizza than eggs, bread, and milk holds true.
…here’s to getting snowed in with good booze & easy food
…honestly…that…doesn’t sound so bad…like a little mini-lockdown without the virulent disease part…practically a holiday, really
…I mean…shame how the weather totally fucked up your broadband & you can’t help out with the stuff at work that wouldn’t be a problem if they just did what you already told them to…but truly this is an age of miracles because it turns out the TV still gets *its* internet connection
…I dunno…probably something to do with living right, I expect
…but you could always say you were downing tools tomorrow in solidarity with minneapolis?
As long as the power doesn’t go out, it will be nice.
We’re pretty much gonna have a city *and* i think Metro-wide “Snow Day” tomorrow!😁🥳
We ALREADY have 324 schools closed for tomorrow, because of the cold–this is “Halloween Blizzard” levels of EPIC for closings, if my guess is correct. It’s WILD:
https://kstp.com/school-alert/
and these are our weather alerts so far:
https://kstp.com/weather/weather-alerts/
Channel 5 also has an update on the status of Liam & his dad;
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/lawyer-father-5-year-old-son-detained-in-columbia-heights-were-legal-asylum-seekers/
I was wrong, Liam *wasn’t* born here like I suspected he may be.
But he and his Dad *were* here legally, and had “come in the right way” after fleeing Ecuador.
We *all* knew “The Cruelty is the point!” though.🫤
The lies from ICE about his mother refusing to take him are especially douchey.
School board positions are voted in. She’s not going to make shit up just to say it on tv because of how many people record things. Also, we’ve established a billion times that ICE people fucking lie.
Hell, our own DOC (Department of Corrections) Chairman is SAYING that they’re making stuff up & lying!
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/minnesota-prisons-head-calls-out-ice-misinformation-on-arrests-cooperation/
https://www.fox9.com/news/mn-department-corrections-video-disputing-dhs-ice-detainers-jan-22
It’s *wild* to see even *cops* saying, “Yeah, No, that’s not true.”
Good luck, may your power hold up, and may your pipes *not* freeze, Brighter!
Wow… I guess those will be the first to go in the apocalypse.,
Yeah, we got to hit up the Walmart tomorrow. It’s going to be crazy as fuck.
Oh god fuck no.
Well, I can see a semi-rural Walmart maybe being okay. But there isn’t enough money in Missouri to make me go to a St Louis one tomorrow.
And by “okay” I mean still a madhouse but at least not like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in the parking lot and frozen pizza aisle.
There is no “semi” in our “rural”.
Jane Elliot is one tough smart lady.
…not to sound like I get some sort of commission for driving people on to the whole ATP/bluesky protocol “thing”…but…this seemed relevant/useful/maybe constructive to mention…not that you couldn’t get it other places but a lot of places used twitter as a public service broadcast channel for warnings & stuff so might be the sort of thing it wouldn’t hurt to encourage?
good luck!
we were supposed to get hit by a good chunk of sleet overnight…enough for a code orange…
seems to have missed us mostly…..this sucks… roads are iffy enough i need to pay attention on my way to work….. but not so iffy i can leave an hour or two late and blame it on conditions…
meh…guess ill just have to work a full day then