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There has been a lot of weird weather reported this past week in the USA and other countries. I ran a cross a you tube video saying that lots of retired navy and intelligence people settle in Southwest Missouri and Northern Arkansas.

Supposedly due a significant elevation above sea level. However, it’s also subject to lots of tornado, storms, and electrical outages, and the winter can sometimes be pretty bad.

I think I heard that Joe Bastardi was predicting this summer a repeat of 70s type of weather-much worse than some of the recent ones.

I recall the early 80s the most, because I had just started to commute 75 miles to St. Louis. There was an overnight snowfall of 21 inches overnight. When I tried to call in, the phone rang and rang, until a security guard finally answered and told me that no one was going anywhere and to not worry about staying home.

Two days later, I got caught in a blizzard on the way home that added a huge amount of the white stuff on top of the first batch. I missed the first turnoff the interstate to go home, just couldn’t see it till I was on the overpass. Had to stop and clean off the windshield every 15 or 20 minutes. Took forever to get home.

That year, there was only 1 day of school for January and February. Very memorable winter. 1978 was not so hard for me, as I was teaching, and only had to drive 3 miles to school, and got to stay home on really bad days. Plus we had a wood stove in the basement, and 2 fireplaces upstairs and lots of firewood gathered from the National Forest.

Our west Michigan snow machine (lake effect) has been going for over a day now. Fortunately we are on the east side and only have 5 inches or so on the ground. It is dang cold, high 20's during the days. We have a fire in the woodstove almost every night.
I started some fall romaine in an outside barrel in early October. It was doing good and I kept it under glass. When it started getting too cold I brought it in in smaller pots - 5 of them and set them by our south side slider. Even though we got plenty of sun in November it never got more than a few inches tall. So much for that experiment! I cut it all off and ate with a pathetic last cherry tomato cut up. A micro microgreen salad. The last of the tiny broccoli I found still growing will probably go into an omelet tomorrow morning.
It's going o be a long winter.

I still have the newspapers from the ‘78 storm - when it hit my small town it basically cut off all communication with the outside world for a few days. EVERYONE was helping everyone else in digging out and making sure people were ok. Getting snow off roofs - there was one partial collapse... The papers had articles about truckers (I think 2 or 3 I’ll have to recheck) parking under the overpasses, getting drifted in and suffocating. As with any major weather event I’m sure that some places were hit much different then others.

Interesting the thing about meterologists - I imagine they love the science so much they still want to be involved or view it.