Weather Altering Tactics

Could a foreign adversary be affecting America's weather? Could our unusual ice storm be something other than entirely natural? Cloud seeding is reputed to work, but could other world powers deliberately be changing climate patterns to hurt America? 

Not Much Warmer

February started with bitter cold and fluffy snow that thankfully was easy to brush off the SUV. The day was not ultimately as cold as the days that ended January, but it was not exactly a good time to tan. I managed to do a good portion of my daily five mile walk in the mall and found a hitherto unknown portion of Macy's by pressing the wrong button on the elevator. The mysterious 1-M, which obviously was not meant for public access, with some boxes of "inventory", and some closed doors, at least one of which was likely the loss protection office. So I found a two floor retailer that actually had effectively four levels, with 1 and 2 open for shopping, I-M that obviously is not meant for the public, and three, listed as "offices and restrooms". At least the store was nice and toasty. 

A Warmer February?

It would be hard to imagine the weather in the new month being as awful as the previous month's, but it is not starting off with promise. It is sixteen degrees and snowing, just what we did not want or need. Of course, one day does not a month make, but it is not an auspicious start. 

Some Honest Questions

The government of the city of Nashville and our electric service have demonstrated unpreparedness, negligence, and incompetence. Why was aggressive tree cutting or at least paring back initiated near electric lines and transformers? Why did it take so many days to bring in additional help when the scope of the outage was immediately observable? Why are so many still without electricity even now? I am sorry if my presentation is disjointed, but our home does not have electricity restored yet. 

Nashville's Own Treemageddon

My hometown looks like a World War I battlefield with trees knocked down and broken to bits all over. We lost electricity between four and six in the morning Sunday and have not had it restored since. I apologize to my daily readers for not producing a column for several days but had no means to publish without the power to go online. There is nothing funny about this as people have died in Davidson County, across Tennessee, and throughout our nation due to this weather cataclysm.  

Bill Cassidy Turncoat

Louisiana has produced plenty of unscrupulous politicians over the years but none are worse than disgraceful United States Senator Bill Cassidy, who is one of the Republicans in name only with which the nation and Trump must suffer. Cassidy spits in the face of Angel Parents and all the other victims of illegal aliens to side with Communists, ANTIFA, and anarchists. Cassidy is eager to abandon rule of law for the law of the jungle by confronting Trump and comforting foreign parasites who have breached our borders to leech off hard-working Americans, that is when they are not killing us with smuggled drugs, their habit of driving impaired, or outright murder. God bless Donald Trump and our Federal border and immigration enforcers. Satan is for Cassidy and the chaos he fosters. 

Feeding the Hysteria

The first reports I heard last week about the looming winter storm said my home town of Nashville was facing a snow accumulation of thirty (30!) inches. The shelves of grocery stores and similar provisioners in  our area were immediately laid bare by scared Southerners who took it as the gospel that a weather catastrophe was about to strike us. By midweek, the forecast had settled down to a more manageable amount of eleven to thirteen inches. That would be no bargain, but people have survived worse. The WSMV weather team last night had reduced projections to a mere three to four inches, that is a relatively normal event in typically sunny Tennessee. So why I ask was the initial prediction so dire? Were certain folks stoking a panic for their own reasons?