Who was effected by the ice storm this weekend. 4 huge pine trees down in my yard blocking access out. 10s of 1000s without power.

Truthfully?

I'm enjoying this.

and here i'm complaining because it's cold and windy for the south...probably won't hit 32% this winter...

Blame it on those lousy democrats.

That's terrible! Sorry to hear that!

My city had several inches of snow!

Must be that global warming. What do you know , I guess ice and heat do mix.🤪

Nothing wrong with setting environmentalists
on fire to warm an area.

Round 2 of ice storm coming for southeastern states. Better keep your kindling dry and LP tanks filled. With 1/4 “ or more of ice, power might be out for days. Better make a run for food and beer. I hope everybody stays safe.

I'm in Michigan and I just had to deal with snow and cold temps.....the normal things I have to deal with during the winter. I have a small generator in the event of a power outage which in my area are rare. I believe in the 5 "P's"....prior planning prevents poor performance.

My brother lives in Florida now and when he first moved there he told me people were wearing the same kind of clothes when it was 65 outside that we wear when it's below freezing. It all about what you are used to.

What should be learned now is that wind and solar powers are vulnerable to cold weather and that natural gas is vulnerable in southern states.
I hope lessons have been learned and hope there will be a concentration of efforts to rectify the problems....that anti renewable energy and anti fossil fuel zealots will put helping people ahead of their positions on energy.

Some are speculating that the severe weather in the south was weaponized against them by HAARP and similar weather modification facilities, so that too would become political, if true. But I think that would be jumping hastily to an unnecessary conclusion, seeing as we’re in this grand solar minimum event.

Putting any conspiracy theories aside, we should all be watching for any news relating to the food supply chain and thinking about what we’re going to eat next winter. The FSC was tight just before Covid hit, due to drought, fire, and flood that decimated crops in 2019. In 2020 it became very strained when farmers were left no choice but to plough their fully grown vegetables back under the soil for lack of workers to pick them, and meat packing plants closed - as I’m sure you will recall - and ranchers were forced to slaughter their herds and lose the meat, and milk was dumped out on the ground. Presently, we are at a point where there are no more reserves at any stage of the FSC, and food is just moving straight through. I can see the effect of this at the grocery store I work at. My freezers are never more than half full, though we are told to make the shelves appear to be full by moving over products to empty spots where they don’t belong. At this point, one good corn, wheat, or soy crop failure is likely to crash the whole system. Remember, even if you personally don’t eat any of those three big crops, most of the country does, since they are put in almost all packaged foods. If more of those packaged foods start disappearing from the shelves, the people who eat those things are going to need to find other products to eat, and as it is, those other products are already on a tight supply.

When the shelves are bare, don’t blame the preppers. The preppers are people who spent years buying just a little bit extra each month until they built up a winter cache, creating no shock to the system. Rather, blame the panicked people who did not prepare early, who rushed out when the trouble became obvious and emptied the grocery stores in a day.