From the Boston Globe:
Still snowing like crazy, but apparently it is flooding in many areas, which is not the winter storm norm. Ha Ha. I see lot of people dissing global warming, but this is caused by global warming. The ice is melting at the poles, the oceans are rising, thus flooding. Thus extremes of temperature. We are having a record long cold stretch here, below freezing since December 24th. Stronger storms. It’s not good news, people. NECN flooding post
Brief aside, saw Urgent Care doctor yesterday as mine was not in. Nothing serious, not really that urgent, but as he’s reading my chart (I did NOT have blood work done) he said it shows that I have not been eating enough. I was too surprised to ask how he got that from my chart, but have to call my regular doctor tomorrow and will ask. That’s puzzling, don’t you think? Besides, after being on Prednisone for five years, there is no way you could call me underweight. Anyone who tells you that Prednisone does not cause weight gain has never been on it. Trust me. I know whereof I speak. 🙂
We’re having a snowstorm here in New England. Like the many, many, many snowstorms just like this one (and worse) that we’ve had here in New England. One would think that it’s the Apocalypse from all the hype. News is not about telling you the facts, it’s all about how to get more ratings. How to get more ratings? Try to scare you to death about every little thing that happens, or even might possibly odds are a million to one but still someday maybe could happen. Responsible reporting has gone the way of the passenger pigeon. I love a good snowstorm, and it’s been a few years of really lame ones recently, but they were a regular occurrence for most of the seventeen years I’ve lived here. It’s not like it’s been a hundred years since we had a good storm. Good grief. I don’t even have tv, and I am still just fed up with the irrational hype. Once in New Hampshire, my husband worked three miles from our home, and it took him four hours to get home. That was snow. Stay home if you can, having stocked up on no-heat or extra water-needed edibles and bottled or jugged water (if you have lots of jugs hanging around) in case the power goes out, make sure to clear your roof if it starts to get deep up there, and have some sort of emergency heating available, and candles and matches. People survived big storms before we even had stores to buy these things and alarmist reporters and weathermen to make it all seem like the worst thing that ever happened anywhere anytime. So glad I don’t have tv, and an added bonus is I don’t have Trump in my face at every opportunity. I’ve had this laptop on for less than half an hour, and I am already saturated with the hype. It’s everywhere. Chicken Little, anyone? I loved that story when I was a kid.
strangely peculiar 