Posted on 12/25/2022 6:46:04 PM PST by janetjanet998
The blizzard ended Christmas morning, but the emergency was far from over.
With first responders in Buffalo and the Northtowns finally able to start maneuvering, the devastation from the fierce winter storm that battered the region with gale force winds, lake-effect snow and bitter subfreezing temperatures was coming to light.
Sister says Buffalo man died in the blizzard on his 56th birthday On Day 3 of the storm, desperation was growing.
At least 17 people were dead, and authorities said there was no question that the death toll would increase.
Have family and friends still in the area. One friend was amazed (and angry) at the amount of traffic even after the travel ban was in place. Quite a few people simply did not take the warnings of impending weather seriously. Then around 10:00 Am Friday it hit where they lived and just white. In Genesee County, dozens of cars stranded or off the road and that’s one rural county. With a travel ban in place one wonders if auto insurance will cover in full damages to vehicles.
I don’t think it was people freezing to death in their homes as much as medical emergencies and EMS could not reach those people. It sounds like a majority of the deaths were people trapped in vehicles.
Was looking at a National Grid outage map at https://outagemap.ny.nationalgridus.com/ a few days ago and was surprised at the outages, especially in areas like eastern Orleans County. I think the ash trees starting to die off in large numbers from Emerald Ash Borer are going to cause more and more problems for power lines. When I was back in the area earlier this year, the amount of crown die-off from EAB was very noticeable in some areas. A good wind storm is going to take these weakened trees down.
My sympathy has always been with the Ben Carson’s and Thomas Sowells of the world.
This is what it looks like when the people lose faith in the institutions that are supposed to make civilization function. The weather has been politicized to the point that every normal occurrence has become the fault of people who have a disagreement with the democrats on tax policy. People no longer trust the “leaders” that went on TV to tell them that they MUST get the jab or else they will be branded mass murderers. When every weather event, from a hot spell to a rain storm to a dry spell is a cataclysmic catastrophe, then none are a cataclysmic catastrophe.
After a volcano blew up in AD 536, the sun was obscured for nearly two years, only as bright as the moon at mid day.
This was when the Christian Emperor Justinian was trying to put the Holy Roman Empire back together.
Temperatures plunged, there were no harvests at all for 3 years. A decade later, the population of Europe was cut in half. Massive famines occurred all the way around the northern hemisphere from Ireland to Japan.
There were no records of what happened in North America or the Southern hemisphere, but tree ring and ice core data indicate this was a global event. Wars and pandemics broke out everywhere among the famine-weakened peoples.
Imagine the level of social collapse following such an event today. Buffalo is just a local, temporary disaster. Imagine the irony if, after all the man-caused global warming hoopla, the world were plunged into darkness, cold and crop failures.
Here is an excellent 16 minute video on the events following the AD 536 volcano:
536 AD - Worst Year in History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ab0D36x4U&ab_channel=KingsandGenerals
Where is Al Gore when Buffalo needs him?
In the old days people were more prepared
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Yes, they were more prepared because they had more common sense. Today, people are so dumb they have lost all self-preservation instincts.
OH my God!
Seriously? They should be shot on sight. Burning building down?
And people wonder what would happen if the grid totally went down.
We had gas heat growing up in MA. It was a unit in the basement and came out of a 2 x 4 foot vent in the first floor. We used to take turns standing over it sometime. The bedrooms were on the second floor and there was an 18 inch square vent above the heater. Didn't work all that great so we kids had space heaters. I remember sleeping downstairs in a chair on some cold nights when there was no electric. Always had that gas heater as it didn't require electric to run so we always had heat in one spot of the house.
Kerosene heaters were popular too but cost too much to run anymore and I haven't seen a gas station that sells K in years.
Now they want to do away with gas altogether in places like NY, MA and force everyone on electric. Once that's done, expect hundreds or thousands to freeze every winter.
Seems I saw that on Little House or some TV show. The rope broke on the person.
This is our backup to the wood stove. Actually been letting the boy run it on low in his room on these zero degree nights.
Designed to fit two 1 pound cylinders but can also use a hose adapter for 20 lb cylinders which you can run two of. I've always just run one 20 lb. Running the heater on high will eat up that 20 lbs in a couple of nights. I filled 2 tanks before this cold snap we're on the tail end of. I don't think we've used half a tank yet.
The drifting is pretty bad everywhere, but worse in the city. 4-5 feet in our yard and we’re one of the lucky ones!
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I grew up in Noth Dakota where three-day howling white-out blizzards were part of the winter. The only time we went out was to tend the animals in the barn and get water from the well. Those were the days before REA and light bulbs. The four of us survived in a converted granary with only a cookstove for heat. We had an adjoining room where we stored the lignite coal we used to fire the cookstove. My dad had to kick the skunks out from under the granary before he was able to convert the building into the living quarters. Flax straw was used for banking around the exterior of the shack. Old repurposed windows were nailed on as storm windows over the existing windows. As a young boy, I remember waking up in the morning and using my fingernails to scratch thick frost off the inside windows to try and peer outside. Kerosene lamps and lanterns keep the darkness of winter at bay. No one froze to death. Yes, country boys did survive.
Hochuls incarcerated individuals having their way
I agree with you both - with the following caveat; would those who vote the other way treat you the same?
One of my buddies participated in the snowmobile rescue back in 77.
We lived in Orchard Park up near Chestnut Ridge Park at the time.
I remember being on the back of his sled going down the main north/south road in town when we went over a bump.
We looked back and realized we had just driven over an abandoned car covered in snow.
Most homes (dare I say, most Democrat homes) don’t even have a small generator which may make living possible.... but they’ll have 5 tv’s and the latest iPhones.
I do wonder how many people stuck in all that weren't let go early from their jobs, as had happened to me a few times.
We are so screwed.
I thought I had cut down all the Ash trees on my 12 acres in NH a couple years back.
Nope, one came down Friday night. It is in a wet area a couple hundred feet from the house.
It is now laying down. The whole root ball is exposed.
A Red Maple broke about twenty feet up and is laying closer to the house. Some of its limbs are within 50 feet on the house.
I went over to my daughters house with the tractor on Christmas Eve to help push the rest of a big White Pine tree away from their driveway. It broke about twenty feet up.
The log across their driveway was two feet plus in diameter.
There were lots of people without power around here on Christmas Eve.
Just a delayed celebration of Hocul’s victory!
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