Posted on 01/07/2025 7:25:15 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
As Winter Storm Blair wreaks havoc across the United States, blanketing highways with snow, disrupting power grids, and bringing life-threatening conditions to millions, the absence of leadership in promoting remote work is both perplexing and deeply frustrating. With the storm spanning over 1,500 miles from the Plains to the Mid-Atlantic, affecting more than 60 million people, this is a moment when proactive policies could save lives, reduce economic disruption and maintain a semblance of normalcy.
The National Weather Service has issued stark warnings, with blizzard conditions, significant icing and dangerously low visibility reported in numerous states. In Ohio, where my hometown of Columbus braces for up to six inches of snow with winds gusting at 35 mph, traveling by car is increasingly perilous. Across the Midwest and Northeast, the story is much the same: jackknifed trucks on icy highways, stranded motorists and overwhelmed emergency services.
Yet, federal, state and local governments, along with business leaders, remain silent on one of the most obvious solutions: encouraging or mandating remote work.
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Yeah, I remember driving through heavy snow storms with rear wheel drive cars (up hill, both ways) before we had cell phones, and we always seemed to manage getting around.
Try this one trick!
PONY UP FOR SOME NEW TIRES EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS!
The libertarian in me hates to say this, but sometimes I think it should be a law, that any time police are called to the scene of an accident during weather conditions, even if it’s just leaving the road and not involving another vehicle, it should be required to check the tread depth on the offending vehicle, and cite the dipwads driving in snow on bald tires.
I don’t see why not.
Situational Awareness: A Critical Life Skill You Didn’t Know You Needed!
This essential skill can help you avoid dangerous situations, as well as live a more intentional life.
Situational Awareness: A Critical Life Skill You Didn’t Know You Needed:!
January 6, 2025 Lindy Comments 0 Comment
From the Epic Times (1/3/2025):
A domestic disturbance call is made, a police car arrives, and two officers step out. The scene is chaotic. Screaming can be heard from inside the house. Toddlers are crying in the front yard, and it’s after dark.
The officers are trained to analyze the situation quickly, detect potential threats, and ensure the safety of everyone involved—including themselves.
Their training teaches situational awareness, the concept of being fully aware of what’s happening around you. It’s critical for those in the military, law enforcement, and professions like first responders to help them deal with stressful and potentially life-threatening situations.
Continue Reading @ The Epic Times.
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Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that there had been a “significant increase” in the past 10 years of homegrown violent extremism.
Mayorkas said, “We have a heightened threat environment, as Director Wray and the attorney general both articulated, and we’ve been saying this for quite a number of months.
We have not only the persistent threat of foreign terrorism that, of course, created the Department of Homeland Security, but we have adverse nation-states, and for the past 10 years, we’ve seen a significant increase in what we term homegrown violent extremism.
It is a very difficult threat landscape and it is why that we as a community, not just the federal government, but state and local officials and residents, need to be alert to it and take the precautions necessary to avoid violence from occurring.”
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I didn’t learn it, I just did it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)
you may have been imprinted. I was.
I spent over 40 years working. None of the jobs I held COULD be done remotely. I had to be where the work was.
What a dumb-a$$!
Probably. I also began earning some sort of income from the time I was about 12.
Here in eastern Kansas we had 12-18 inches of snow and winds gusting up to 45 mph. Then the next night temps dropped to ten below. Everything is shut down. Churches, schools, banks.
I live in southern NH.
I have a sloped driveway.
Every Black Friday in November I have an appoint to have the studded snow tires put on my 4WD Tacoma pickup.
I put a 75 pound sand bag behind each wheel well in the bed of the truck.
I have an appointment on March 27 to put my regular highway Michilin tires back on.
I also have a snow brush, a scraper and jumper cables in my truck.
Anyone who worked remotely for weeks, months, or even years during the COVID fiasco obviously did not need to be in a workplace to get the job done.
The government leaders who imposed those lockdowns -- and the business leaders who went along with them -- completely destroyed their credibility over that. This is why nobody with half a brain takes any of them seriously anymore.
Back in 83 in Colorado we had 34 inches in 24 hrs with 60 mph winds. Things were closed a couple of days.
I just got a call from a lumber yard customer of mine in Rochester, NY.
He wanted a truckload of rock salt(941 50 pound bags).
I could have sold it to him yesterday morning. I can not today. New York state government declared an emergency.
They met with our main supplier yesterday(American Rock Salt) and ordered them to supply the state of NY with all the salt they could dig out of their mine until further notice.
Or Hillary.
Or any other blue collar job.
NHL New Jersey Devils: The 334 Club
Long story short ... January 22, 1987 ... massive snowstorm shuts down the Northeast ... the NHL game between the New Jersey Devils and the Calgary Flames at the New Jersey Meadowlands sports complex started two hours late because many of the HOME team's players couldn't make it to the arena. The visiting team was able to make it on time because they were staying at a hotel right across the road.
334 New Jersey fans braved the elements to show up. The team recognized them for their loyalty by creating the "334 Club," giving them free tickets to other games and team memorabilia. They still hold reunions around January 22nd every year.
…my hometown of Columbus braces for up to six inches of snow with winds gusting at 35 mph
Yeah. Plumbers and auto mechanics should work from home. Brilliant.
New tires can only do so much, but when you get into a snowdrift for whatever reason, like trying to bust through a drift to get to a road or driveway, and you don’t quite make it and the car bottoms out on top of the snow, even chains aren’t gonna help u til you clear away the snow from the frame.
It’s easy, hold your children to the commitments they make. My youngest son inherited the lawn mowing summer chore as a teenager. There was an online gaming tournament he wanted to compete in, and i said fine, as long as the yard was mowed before sundown on Sunday. Sunday thunderstorms rolled in. He wanted to put off mowing the lawn. i said what was the commitment you made. he went outside and mowed the lawn in the rain. And he came back in laughing. It was much cooler to mow the lawn in the rain. Now he’s grown up, successful and is recognized as a get things done guy in his career. And he did a good job on the lawn.
“When the blizzard hits, why are we still commuting?”
Driving to/from work in Alaska for 20 years, I never asked myself that question. It was called “life”, and we weren’t pansies.
My Jeep and I “plowed” the way out of our subdivision after a blizzard. I didn’t have a plow. Neighbors waited for me to leave, and then they followed in my tracks.
Yes! They’re also thinking of naming rainstorms! When the new AI quantum computers are perfected they are going to name individual raindrops and snowflakes!
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