It’s not a farce simply because it isn’t affecting you personally.
I stated it was a farce here. Not elsewhere.
Fortunately it didn’t get bad here and we didn’t lose power. It got pretty bad in some places https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/complete-devastation-oxford-ms-mayor-075821078.html
A friend’s daughter is there are school, with no power and temps in single digits. They are saying it’ll be weeks before the power is back on. He’s going to try and drive there now to get her