The weather in the USA...
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abe11825
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My friend in Peabody, Massachusetts (north of Boston) keeps sending me pictures of her area. Almost weekly for the past month or so, vicious wildfires are circling the cities near her. They seem to stop for a few days and then, due to lack of rain and having heavy wind, they start back up again. All it takes is one smoldering pile to start another section of burn. She said that it's so heavy and thick some days that her husband can see and smell the smoke several towns over while he's at work. He works the graveyard shift so he drives through it in the morning to get home. She has to stay inside because it triggers her asthma very badly, so she can't walk her kids to school or play with them outside. When they are driving to do errands (she doesn't drive as they have one car - his), they travel in such dense smoke, that it's hard to see down the road. It's so scary when she tells me this because it's such a new thing for the area to go through. There's no stopping it at the moment.
bcuster
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Yuwipi Woman
First major winter storm of 2025 could bring record snow to KC.
Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/weather-news/article297923583.html#storylink=cpy
First major winter storm of 2025 could bring record snow to KC.
Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/weather-news/article297923583.html#storylink=cpy
Yuwipi Woman
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Getting freezing rain now. I'm supposed to get between 4 and 8 inches of snow today and another 2-4 tomorrow. Luckily, I don't have to drive to work until Tuesday.
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Where I'm staying these days is off-grid ready. If the power fails, I have oil lamps, a wood stove, and lots of good books.
bcuster
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You are well prepared. Good luck. Looks like we dodged the bullet here…
Yuwipi Woman
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It looks like its rolling in behind schedule. It's just now starting to show. I'm used to the bad weather and well prepared. I'm really grateful to my neighbors who will dig you out after a storm. By Tuesday I should be good to travel. When you get weather like this on a regular basis, you get used to it.
bcuster
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Video shows semi-truck driver avoiding cars while sliding on Kansas City highway
A quick-reacting semi-truck driver avoided slamming into other motorists Saturday as the truck slid down the highway.
www.kshb.com
Please be safe
petee
no gods, no managers
Video shows semi-truck driver avoiding cars while sliding on Kansas City highway
A quick-reacting semi-truck driver avoided slamming into other motorists Saturday as the truck slid down the highway.
Please be safe
that's some good driving right there
8ball
Testicle Menace
Yuwipi Woman
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Got about 4 inches of snow on the ground. It's still lightly snowing. I'm hoping this will be it. I feel sorry for people who have to go out and check on cows.
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Skinny Ethel
Are you happy now
Ours has mostly been washed away by rain.
bcuster
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Ice?
bcuster
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Where storm dropped as many as 18 inches of snow in parts of northeast Kansas
A weekend storm brought 14 inches of snow to Topeka, but other communities in northeast Kansas recorded as many as 18 inches.
www.cjonline.com
Yuwipi Woman
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I ended up with about 5 inches of snow with a thin glaze of ice underneath. I'm about 75% dug out. I would have been dug out sooner, but I spent yesterday watching videos on Youtube and eating the veggie soup and cheddar bay biscuits I made.
Skinny Ethel
Are you happy now
Huge snow and now wild fires in La. Nature is welcoming Trump in bigstyle Mr climate denier.
petee
no gods, no managers
we had about 1 in. monday in NYC but my friend in DC got about 9 in.
ice-is-forming
I was born naked, shameless & fucking outrageous..
These fires are insane! And almost 100% uncontained - the amount of evacuations and properties lost, I think I read this is the worst in 30 years..
skyscraper101
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I'm heading to LA next week so I'm really hoping it gets contained ASAP.
tony.c
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Happy Tree
maagilises metsas
Just spent 2 hours on Tiktok watching all the devastation. I do feel for these people; I mean, not everyone is a multi-millionnaire and those who are are also humans with feelings. Plus the big insurance problem now and in the future. One might hope that now "real, normal people" (rich, white) have been affected by climate change our governments will be urged to take it more seriously.
story
Changing the facts
At this point, I almost feel as if they’ve deliberately allowed us to pass the tipping point so they can say “oh well, there’s no point in trying to make a difference now, so we’ll just carry on taking care of ourselves and see if we can survive, and fuck the rest of you”.
petee
no gods, no managers
and of course...
"But just as soon as they mobilized, something else started happening: Prices started going up. By the 8th, when tens of thousands of people had already been evacuated, a client sent them a Zillow listing for a little two-bedroom house priced at $3,800 a month, on the market unrented for 60 days before the fires, in a part of Altadena that did not burn. Within the hour, and by the time the agents were able to check it out for themselves, the price had almost doubled to $6,500"
"But just as soon as they mobilized, something else started happening: Prices started going up. By the 8th, when tens of thousands of people had already been evacuated, a client sent them a Zillow listing for a little two-bedroom house priced at $3,800 a month, on the market unrented for 60 days before the fires, in a part of Altadena that did not burn. Within the hour, and by the time the agents were able to check it out for themselves, the price had almost doubled to $6,500"
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