The Icy Teeth of Washington

The photos are too pristine…time for a great big belly flop!

It is getting to be a bit much–wind and plenty of snow in Alexandria. Waiting for  it to let up and begin shoveling the sidewalks.

And Larry feeds those birds …

Seriously, great photos! They look like fangs.

I think somebody should write another Twilight series based on the Obama administration.

Very tired of all this global warming crap in Virginia.  Thanks Al Gore.

No you don’t understand. It is global warming that is causing the worst snowfall in 100 years. Yeh, that’s the ticket!

Hope you’re staying warm inside.  I experienced one like yours in Ohio one year.  I had to shovel a path a a big circle so my poor Great Dane could go outside to lift his leg. 

My dog swims around in a circle until its clear enough to squat.

I was just worrying about Larry’s Rotties.

The pictures always look so serene.  But having just left the “snow belt,” I know it can cause absolute havoc for residents.  When we left Philly on Monday, the snow was piled up from the shovel and plow out in 4-5 feet mountains.  I don’t know where this additional downfall is going to go, short of bringing in the trucks to cart it away.  And that means money and manpower, things many of these states just don’t have.  Plus, I understand there’s another system predicted to hit the Mid-Atlantic next week.

I love the snow.  But too much of anything is not good!

Stay warm, Larry.  My in-laws are worried about power outtages with this storm, which isn’t a joke when you’re in your 80s and recovering from a stroke [my father-in-law].  We got them stocked up, shoveled the first round.  But it’s worrisome. Thank goodness my kids are in the area and the neighbors are great.

Guess 2010 might go down as the Great Snow Job.

Larry, be careful when you go outside. Those icicles can fall on you and give you a serious injury. I am not kidding you – I’ve seen it happen.

In metro NY we’re suppose to get a foot or more of snow and it’s coming down steadily. They want people to stay home. Actually, the precip now is a mix of snow and sleet – very slippery. They cancelled classes at my campus, which sucks because I have a chemistry tutorial and a chemisty lecture on Wednesdays and Mondays. We have a Chemistry exam a week from today. Because Monday is a holiday, school is closed on Monday.

The Chemistry Prof. told us that we were all going to have to take the test anyway, even though he hasn’t covered all the material on the test! He has us set up to take the test on school computers. Each student will get a different test, generated from a bank of questions he made up for himself. Because the chemistry prof. arranged a specific time to use the computer center for the test, we have to take the test on Feb 17, impossible to change the date. Because the old fart chemistry professor has already generated the tests, he can’t remove questions we haven’t covered yet.

After the Prof. pissed and moaned about how all his plans had been ruined by the forecast of snow today (and wasted 20 minutes of class time). I raised my hand and said “Sir, can we think of a solution for this?”

Answer: “NO, everything is set up.”

I asked him, “Can’t you just print a test on paper and let us take it that way?”

He got really angry at me.  The class of (mainly 20 year olds) started to snicker.

I said, “Sir, I don’t mean to be disrespectful. I’m just trying to think of a solution to the problem. If we can’t take the test on paper, what is your counter-offer?”

The class isn’t that big, only around 30 students so it wouldn’t be an onerous task for him to correct tests written on paper.

Right, I know. Who cares about Arabella’s academic problems. I bring it up to show how authorotative figures, when approached appropriately and politely, can insist that it’s their way or the highway, even when presented with a reasonable solution.

The funny thing is that most of the students in that class just sit there like lumps and don’t participate in class at all. If he asks a question, they just stare at him. I’m the only one who raises my hand.

He often asks a question and then points to me and says, “No, not you. I know you know the answer.”

Reminds me of politics. Present a solution to a problem. Answer: No.

Finally the powers that be tell you to sit down and shut up.

Demint said it will keep snowing in Washington until Al Gore yells UNCLE.

Larry: Just a suggestion from someone who has lived in snow country their entire life.  If you’re expecting more snow or it’s starting to get icy, you might want to shovel it off the deck.  The more moisture content and ice the snow has the heavier it gets.  Like a roof, decks only have so much load bearing capacity and they can collapse.

The pictures are beautiful.  Stay warm and safe.

yeah i wish they would stop with the AGW crud.  its not just the snow – i think we had 2-3 weeks where temps were single digets, and droping around 0 at night.  it hasn’t just been cold – its been a nasty, freezing cold of a winter that cuts right to the bone.

global warming?  Really?!

i think the last arguement i heard on it was something along the lines of “the fact that its getting colder is proof that its getting warmer”.  doesn’t quite make sense.

wow, those pics look epic!

any wooly mammoth sightings yet?

Waaay cool ….

Damn global warming….oh…wait…I’m inside with the heat on. My bad.

The years are warmer, the ice at poles are evaporating, water molecules have to go somewhere, it’s winter, so it’s snows…somewhere. Lucky DC.

What’s your snow load limit on the house/porch, Larry? Have fun with your new home security setup!!

Larry,

Your yard and deck are beautiful. Buzzlatte’s advice is correct, the added moisture will wither buckle or rot the wood is left unattended.

While icicles are pretty to look at, they also tend to damage the roofing as they melt. You may want to condsider taking a regular “digging” type shovel and knocking them off, before exposing yourself to a new roofing job. Snow shovels are too thinnly made – a heavier digging shovel works best.

Stay warm, and enjoy as much as you can. Must seem like the winter from Hell for those of you close to the Mson Dxie line.

Only wooly rotweillers.  And they are so damn dainty they barely poke their ass out of the house to relieve themselves.

When the “science” is corrupt then you never know what they will come up with. I suspect they will do focus groups first next time out and see what will sell, then the “scientists” will get on board and start manufacturing the data to prove it. I really think these corporatists will learn a lesson from this and get away from “warming” or “cooling” scares. I think the next thing will be “acid oceans” you still get to regulate CO2 that way. Who is to say what the p.h. of thecean water is a mile down. It’s not like we all have research submarines. Somebody can dump a deoxifying agent in the sea, photograph a bunch of floating dead stinking fish and put it on the T.V. I think it will be this or something like it. The globalist corporatisis aren’t going to give up the dream of owning everything we have so easily. Politicians are just tools in the toolbox for these guys. Al Gore isn’t an evil genius, just a tool. He was in the right place at the right time, and was created with a purpose. Kinda like our current President.

thanks for taking care of our feathered friends! they need all the help they can get :-[

Yep, and water weighs 8 pounds a gallon. It all adds up.

Well, you guys on the Eastern seaboard may have snow, but out here in California, it’s raining.  Worse, the rain clouds clear up and then the sun comes out, putting waterspots on our cars that we then have to rush out and polish off so that our cars can look cool, as is required under California law.  So don’t think that the East coast has all of the problems of the world.

Yup.  It’s pretty, but it can break the toughest joists if it gets too heavy.  Lots of expensive repair when it melts.  But, maybe this can be part of bo’s jobs plan!

Yep, also ice dams can form as it starts to melt and refreezes. Ice is much heavier than the snow is.

Here in Tampa it’s freezing again tonight and the strawberry farmers are going to be watering all night again using millions of gallons of water for the strawberries. Meanwhile, Tampa is considering using filtered toilet water for people to drink.

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Would-you-drink-filtered-toilet-water/wsfYe0Ijsk2yuuNXsVNF5Q.cspx

In California you have your own Natural Disasters:

  Earthquakes
  Wild Fires
  Mud Slides
  Celebrities

I was living in Jersey when the last monster storm cycle [1996] hit in the region.  The roof to my back porch, which was basically flat, took a lot of damage and there were multiple roof collapses in the Jersey/Philadelphia area.  Plus it was the only year out of 10 that I had water in my basement. 

Too much of a good thing is definitely a pain in the rear [and the wallet].

LOL!

It just stopped snowing here in Fredericksburg VA!

Quite obvious nobody has taken the time to see what “global warming” really is all about.  It’s about the average temps planet-wide, not some little snowfall in Washington D.C.  It’s likely the climate change probably will result in more storms like this shifting southward.  Get used to it.

Last I heard from reading what the “real” meteorologists were saying… not the “engineer” guy turned head of the IPCC but real weather experts… They said we are entering a 20-30 year cooling period now. They also said it is cyclical. Funny how not having a vested interest in research money makes things so much simpler to explain. The AGW gets more convoluted by the day. Let it go. It’s over. Wait if I am not right that it will come back packaged as acid oceans using the same Chicago Climate Exchange to trade carbon credits. I think they will use a real celebrity next time around… sorry Al.

Aren’t celebrities “man made” disasters? Just checking. =-O

Those are beautiful icicles-  but that is one hell of a huge roof ice dam.  I am seeing a glimpse of your future Larry, and it’s not good.  Water stained ceilings and/or gutter and downspouts ripped off the house from the weight. You need a snow rake for the roof STAT.  ( Do hardware stores in DC even carry those?)

Great advise buzzlatte. That was nice. And please do not try to catch one of those larks.

nice pics…love the look of snow covered landscape…it’s like looking out over a blue sea, something tranquil about them…but at the same time claustrophobic…wonder if Starbucks is open.

Yikes! FROZEN LARKS, in Larry Johnson’s backyard.

Go go go frozen larks.

Go go go frozen larks.

I just hate you frozen larks.

Quit singing your own frozen lark tunes .

Listen frozen larks.

Don’t you know is winter time.

You don’t make any sense anymore frozen larks.

Being lonely there looking for food. Your brain must have frozen.

I don’t pity you frozen larks.

You are intellectual larks.

You look for food that was there in the past.

If you don’t fly away to Florida, frozen larks you are going to die.

You will soon be looking like dead lark.

Soon you will be looking like dead lark.

Dead lark

Yikes! FROZEN LARKS, in Larry Johnson’s backyard. 
 
Go go go frozen larks. 
 
Go go go frozen larks. 
 
I just hate you frozen larks. 
 
Quit singing your own frozen lark tunes . 
 
Listen frozen larks. 
 
Don’t you know is winter time. 
 
You don’t make any sense anymore frozen larks. 
 
Being lonely there looking for food. Your brain must have frozen. 
 
I don’t pity you frozen larks. 
 
You are intellectual larks. 
 
You look for food that was there in the past. 
 
If you don’t fly away to Florida, frozen larks you are going to die. 
 
You will soon be looking like dead lark. 
 
Dead lark

Betcha the Rotties love it. Our Rottie/German Shepherd mix loves the snow.

Poor Frosty!  A bit of cabin fever there, Larry?   Stay safe. 

No more rain through the weekend here on the beautiful Central Coast of CA…or so they say.  Sun, peaking out then disappearing.  My kids having to walk their road and haul up the groceries until it dries out and they can get some decomposed granite down on the curves and slippery parts before the next rain.  That should solve their problem though.  We are blessed. 

Ah, Arabella, I know the frustration of being old enough to offer pre-computer solutions to present-day problems. The young’uns think if the computer is down there is no other way to do things. We spent an hour at a Home Depot showing the staff how to calculate sales tax and make change when their computer went down. No I am not kidding.
I once taught a college-level class in traditional animation (which is calculated in tens and hundreds of an inch) and asked – If a character moves one inch in ten frames how far does he move in 1 frame? They all looked at me blankly and more so when I asked “Does anyone remember the decimal system and moving the decimal point?”
Sigh.
And yes, I gave paper exams.

 You have Executive dogs

Well, seeing how everyone is giving Larry advice on how to survive the storm, I’ll chip in:

Larry, no matter how tempted you are, don’t go out there and try to make any snow angels.  When you’re moving your arms and legs back and forth, you could sink out of sight, and then who would feed your dogs?

That’s what’s so funny about my situation. I am a returning student (57 years old) and this Professor is older than I am! He constantly insults the class by saying “Didn’t you learn this in high school?” or “Come on, what’s wrong with you. Can’t you add?”

A real charmer. No wonder the 20 year olds just sit there and stare at him. I’m the only one who engages with him. Also, I’ve corrected a few of his math errors when he’s writing stuff on the board.

Glacier melt is also threatening water supplies, the UCS said, which showed less water flowing from the glaciers to the great rivers such as the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra that sustain the Indian subcontinent.

Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University, said there is strong evidence from a variety of sources of significant melting of glaciers – from the area around Kilimanjaro in Africa to the Alps, the Andes, and the icefields of Antarctica because of a warming climate. Ice is also disappearing at a faster rate in recent decades, he said.
“It is not any single glacier,” he said. “It is very clear that these glaciers are behaving in a similar fashion.”

The World Glacier Monitoring Service shows a similar picture. In a 2005 survey of 442 glaciers, 398 – or 90% – were retreating, 18 were stationary and 26 were advancing.

Didn’ t the IPCC get their best stuff from a backpacking magazine? Maybe the Old Farmers Almanac would be better?

And one more, I think…

Scientists have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf.
The researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart.
Although polar bears are strong swimmers, they are adapted for swimming close to the shore. Their sea journeys leave them them vulnerable to exhaustion, hypothermia or being swamped by waves.

According to the new research, four bear carcases were found floating in one month in a single patch of sea off the north coast of Alaska, where average summer temperatures have increased by 2-3C degrees since 1950s.
 

It’s technical but you can check the World Glacier Monitoring Service data here: http://www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/

The Bible speaks of terrible catastrophies during the end times – people certainly open their eyes when they get old. And people hate each other with so mush – passion (like you said yesterday) that there is no way that a catastrophic earth warming is not going to produce wars beyond the scope we have never conceived. The few that survive will have plenty of natural resources to enjoy. And air conditioners are getting much more efficient with SEER ratings getting closer to 20.

Come to think of it, this report is probably easier to read, but lengthy: http://www.grid.unep.ch/glaciers/pdfs/glaciers.pdf

Here’s a simpler explanation:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1962294,00.html

Basically, you really can’t tell from one year or five or ten of localized anecdotal weather patterns. You have to do research over decades.

We can collect the DNA and other materials from these polar bears and when the earth cools down again after the wars we can recreate new polar bears – many different species – even more beautiful than those we have now – like with different color hairs, different size ears and long tails.

The Obama administration will appropriate 1 billion for that type of research and another 10 billion for the facilities underground that would resist the effect of the end time wars.

But if the localized anecdotal weather patterns contradicts the previous findings, what do you do?

Winter 10′

Anybody else hearing this?

Larry: If you have 30 of snow, Frosty can LITERALLY kiss your ass and he doesn’t even have to tip-toe. 

Looking at those photos I’m wondering, how are the roofs holding up under all that snow?

And those poor birds, I bet they migrate next year.

Larry: If you have 30 inches of snow, Frosty can LITERALLY kiss your ass and he doesn’t even have to tip-toe.   
 
Looking at those photos I’m wondering, how are the roofs holding up under all that snow?

You are all scientific illiterates. Here’s the junior high school version: warming oceans lead to greater moisture taken up into the atmosphere, which leads to more precipitation, meaning stronger and more frequent summer and winter storms. The overall climate model for global warming does in fact predict bigger, nastier snowstorms along with bigger, nastier hurricanes. It also calls for bigger, nastier droughts in other places whose climates are also changing.

Climate models are, however, exceptionally “complex systems” (that’s an actual science phrase, look it up), meaning that dramatic variation at any given point — like, a major east coast cold snap in the dead of winter — is not only possible but, at various places and moments across the globe, a virtual certainty. 

This is all readily available information, you know. It doesn’t take much effort at all to acquire a basic understanding of climate change. If the world ends in the century to come, it will be precisely because of ignorance like this, just sheer, sneering contempt for knowledge and reason. Couched in arrogant presumed superiority, as always. 

Lets face it Darwin, the hotter it gets the more we use our AC. The colder it gets the more we use the furnace. Only when the Chinese make the cost of energy skyrocket to the point that it is very difficult to pay will we do something significant about it.

An example is this: I see a lot of people idling their cars when they park to do errands. My conclussion on that is that gasoline it is still very cheap. Gasoline is expensive when people don’t idle their cars anymore in order to enjoy the car a/c.

And besides, why do cars idle when the are in a stand still position? If cars idle when they are in a stand still position then global warming has to be meaningless. Global warming will mean something when cars are build with engines that stop cold when the come a complete stop.

That’s because DeMint, like most Republicans in Congress, is a moron who apparently couldn’t pass a Junior High school science class. See my comment above. 

Right, right…humans are pumping more carbon into the atmosphere than has ever happened in literally millions of years, by a factor of 10, and we know as demonstrable fact that that carbon gets trapped there, and we also know by demonstrable fact that our carbon-infused atmosphere traps more of the heat that the Earth gives off, but nonetheless, you’ve found a scientist who thinks it’s actually about to get cooler…

I’d laugh if humanity’s dilemma wasn’t so tragic. 

Anybody else hearing this?

Sorry, but not all climate scientists are republicans looking for some way to make money out of this disaster. Nor are they meteorologists reading out of a 4th grade text book.

Wait and see… “acid oceans” will be next. You heard it here first. Still trading carbon the same way. just with no heating or cooling. SSDD.

Oil prices are set where they are to control the Mid East and thereby world politics. There is no shortage of oil. There never was. It forms from the heat and pressure of the Earth’s crust from inorganic material. Being lighter than rock, it migrates up over time. This is why the North Slope is so productive, and why we won’t allow any more drilling there. It would bring the truth out. The truth is we have been funding political engineering schemes around the globe for decades with artificially high energy prices.

No, actually, I didn’t hear it here first. I heard it from climatologists and oceanographers first. 

http://www.wunderground.com/climate/acidoceans.asp

Duh. 

You’re on a roll, oowawa!

And is the poster “dead lark” the same as “lark?”  Are we reading coded messages now? 

If so, I need my decoder ring.

I’ll play the You Tube bit again. Took me back to the good ole days.

LONDON: The world faces an oil supply crunch within the next five years, British business leaders led by Virgin tycoon Richard Branson warned on Wednesday.

The rate at which oil is produced risks hitting a peak by 2015, sparking a surge in crude prices and living costs, said a report from the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil & Energy Security (ITPOES), of which Branson is a member.

The report, entitled ‘The Oil Crunch – a wake up call for the UK economy’, urged the formation of new organisation to address the issue, with members representing the British government, businesses and consumers.

“The UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES) finds that oil shortages, insecurity of supply and price volatility will destabilise economic, political and social activity potentially by 2015,” the report said.
 

Hey moron, next time get your facts right.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/RFK-79834057.html

Dear Mr. Johnson,

My feelings are hurt. I only stand in the yard and look innocent. Just because I’m a jolly, happy, soul doesn’t  mean you have to be mean to me (sniffs and wipes away icicle).

Sincerely,

Frosty the Snowman

Opinion A has been prepared by Chris Skrebowski, a recognised independent oil-industry expert. He looks in some detail at the evidence which defines global oil reserves and extraction rates, and concludes that the global peak production rate for oil is likely to occur within the next decade (maybe within 5 years) at a value no higher than 92Mb/d (million barrels per day). This compares with the current record extraction rate of 87Mb/d set in July 2008, and the conclusions drawn are essentially the same as those reached in the previous ITPOES report. At first sight, this is surprising but on closer examination it is clear that the fundamental issues identified in the 2008 report remain unchanged.
Namely:
The net flow rate data shows that increases in extraction will be slowing down in 2011-13 and dropping thereafter. Given the long lead-times involved in developing the necessary infrastructure, this trend is unlikely to be reversed within the next 5 years. The industry is not discovering more giant fields at a sufficient rate. There are concerns about the levels of reserves quoted by the OPEC countries (which are critical to the confidence levels associated with future production capacity). There are indications that underinvestment in the oil industry over the past decade has led to infrastructure  and under-skilling problems that will make it particularly difficult to increase production capacity rapidly in the short-term. 

Prime Obot – here is the kindergarten version.:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/RFK-79834057.html

So who is the moron? You or RFK Jr.?

Also if this global warming crud has been bad for years, why has it taken 100 years for DC/Philadelphia to get this level of snow?

Man made global warming is a hoax and people who benefited from this should be doing the perp walk.

You may want to check out the History Channel series on how the Earth Was Made to start realizing that we haven’t been around all that long and are not powerful enough to do what the global warming cult have claimed.

Prime Obot -

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/RFK-79834057.html

So who is the moron? You or RFK Jr.?
Go back to your cult kool aid. Americans are not drinking it anymore.

Prime Obot -

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/RFK-79834057.html

So who is the moron? You or RFK Jr.?

Oooops–sorry Peggy Sue–deleted the vid.  I don’t want to appear to be poking fun at Lark/Dead Lark, because he/she continues to surprise me with statements that make my jaw drop open, and I have learned to value that kind of off-the-wall inscrutable free-association.  However, it is indeed like being invited to enter the Twilight Zone.

Yes, and we’re all dining on soylent green as the scientists predicted back in the 70′s.

And the Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012, so by then our alien visitors will come to fix everything.  Noting to worry about. 

So, even if there wasn’t a crisis, then there would still be a crisis. Not surprising. Here’s a huge hint. Drill near the Arctic Circle, that is where the oil is. It comes from teh heat and pressure of the Earth and it’s lighter than the surrounding Earth. It will migrate up through the fissures qand cracks over time. Arctic Circle… do it.

So, even if there wasn’t a crisis, then there would still be a crisis. Not surprising. Here’s a huge hint. Drill near the Arctic Circle, that is where the oil is. It comes from the heat and pressure of the Earth and it’s lighter than the surrounding Earth. It will migrate up through the fissures and cracks over time. 

Soylent-Yuck!

Soylent-Yuck!  >:o

In other words, the China syndrome will arive.

It’s not Global Warming or Climate Change, it’s El Nino.  We here in the Pacific NW are experiencing just the opposite weather you all are.  This happens everytime El Nino moves into the high latitudes of the Pacific Ocean.  We get warmer than normal temps and less than normal moisture, while you guys get lots of snow and cold. 

Vancouver is having to truck snow in for the Olympics.  Gore must be suffering a brain freeze by now.

http://licencetodrill.ca/TheShow/MGM/Default.aspx?episode=2

Yeah, in the ’70′s the nuclear plants were going to all blow-up or leak, poison the ecology, and we’d have nuclear winter….still waiting for it to happen.

In the ’80′s everybody and their dog was going to die of AIDs.  Yup, still waiting.  Although, such a nasty disease is nothing to make light of.

In the ’90′s we did pretty good, life was a little better and general happiness was up.  There were some earthquakes and California was still due to slide into the ocean.  Still waiting but maybe the CA economy will dump the state into drink, not an earthquake.  So technically we’re still waiting for the big event.

In the 2000′s we were going to be toast at any second by terrorists – level orange- or the global warming was going to either fry us on the street or freeze us to death with national grid failures….tick,tick, tick. Still waiting.  Who stocked up on duct tape and plastic to keep out the dirty bombs?  Go ahead, raise your hands.

The point?  

Don’t worry.  Be happy.

Look up El Nino, Obut.  Perhaps this, which was forcast for this year, is what is causing this.  And I am sure at the back of your mind is the thought:  whoa, well El Nino is causeed by global warming! 

Look up the weather patterns of El Nino, and La Nina, makes for interesting reading.  This weather pattern is what is causing Texas and Oklahoma’s more than usual snow fall.   And is what caused incredible amounts of rain to fall not too long ago in California. 

You continue to believe in global warming despite this movement’s scientists admitting they doctored the results?  I pity you, fool.

yup you are right Reb.  Good call!

Minnesotans for Global Warming:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/10/minnesotans-g-warming-present-frozen-wasteland-who
FROZEN WASTELAND

Up here on the farm
We chop wood To stay Warm
We all could use some Global Warming

We all need to fight
To preserve our rights
I don’t want to be taxed a just for breathing

Open your eyes
Don’t believe their lies
It’s just a Frozen Wasteland

Al Gore is a liar
His pants are on fire
Plus he’s getting rich from carbon offsets

He’s loose with the facts
All he wants is a tax
Lets get together
Before it gets much colder

Frozen Wasteland
Its just a Frozen Wasteland
Frozen Wasteland
Frozen Wasteland
WE’RE ALL FROZEN!!

And watch on Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u03QcymdCtg

See, the “acid ocean” parachute is ready to be deployed. There has to be a contingency plan. The carbon trading houses are already established. These greedy bastards aren’t going to stop. Not so long as tsome of us still have enough money left over to tailgate party with after we pay off our electric bills and gas card every month.

The only risk is getting the oil out of there, because it is there. After all these years, the North Slope is our best producing field. As far as I understand, that oil decades after first being tapped still flows without the need for pumps and comes out at 140 degrees like a giant artesian water well. I am not saying we shouldn’t use unlimited oil, only that there is a lot more of it than people think there is. I don’t think in the 70′s when we had our first oil crisis, that people were all that worried about CO2. But they were worried about geopolitics.

To help melt through the ice dam on the roof — buy knee high nylons, fill them with ice melt (or softner salt if ice melt is not available) then place (throw?) them on the so they are perpendicular to the roof line. This will help the ice melt and will allow it to flow off the roof. Ice dams are nothing to scoff at — after they get started, the ice pushes up under the shingles and gets into your attic.

Hi, Doc!

I’m your neighbour in St. Pete.  So sick of this weather….

This is interesting, Darwin, because everything I’ve been reading recently is leaning towards oil peaking very shortly [in fact some claim it has already peaked] and that the public is being kept in the dark to avoid panic. 

But if I’m reading you correctly, there are also opinions indicating that production capabilities have peaked, which I assume means whatever oil fields exist present extraction problems we’re not prepared to handle due to infrastructure and technological shortfalls.

Just when I think I know something, I find out I know nothing at all. 

Story of my life.  

For sure, Larry Johnson is NOT from Montana or he wouldn’t be complaining about a little bit of snow in DC.  A native Texan, however, might find coping difficult. 

OMG–The video is out-f’ing-amazing!  Don’t miss this one, folks.  Thanks very  much for sending it along, Doc.

I live in Upstate CNY.  East of Lake Ontario (I think east is right) prime location for Lake Effect snow.

While you may think its a PAIN, it’s nothing compared to a LAKE EFFECT pounding.   

Some of them are democrat ex vice presidents that want to own 10 percent of the carbon trading house for selling it to the rest of us. But it isn’t red vs. blue… it is corporatists vs. the world. We are the world. The corporatists want all that we have and all that our children will ever have. Their tools just want their 10 percent.

There is also the newer ways of the fracturing of the shale fields to get natural gas. Natural gas burns cleaner than oil. Still, nuclear could be used more. The nuclear waste can be reprocessed. But then corporations couldn’t charge to store the waste.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf69.html

docelder–we’re vacationing in the keys—–the wind at Key West today was killer and freezing; even so, my face got sunburned!
Too weird.

Hey Larry! I see you’ve got some of what we have had here in Norway for the last 8 weeks:)
5′ of snow, and temps between -4 and 5 fahrenheit.
Enjoy while it lasts!

Prime Obot (and the rest of the Global Warming Cult) -
First you have RFK Jr. saying that the warmer winter weather in DC is an indication of global warming:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/RFK-79834057.html 
Now that he is called out on it, he thumbs his elitist nose and says:
“Idiots on the right like Rush like to point to any cold weather anomalies as proof that global warming doesn’t exist.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/RFK-Rush-Limbaugh-does-it-so-why-cant-I-83957782.html

Well if Rush is an “idiot” for pointing to cold weather anomalies then what does that make you Bobby?

I think Bobby might be back shooting junk because the anti-freeze must be getting to is brain.

Yeah but in Norway you have actual snowplows driving around. Here in DC not so much. We have 30″ in our back yard without drifting and the snowpiles are as tall as I am. We dont even have a place to pile any more snow and our alley is a disaster.

If I see Al Gore I am kicking him in the nuts. Really.

Good for you for feeding the birds; they and the squirrels have nothing once everything gets covered in snow. Do you notice the “silence” snow brings from insulating everything. Take Care and stay dry and warm.

It’s a shame the storm can’t drown that sewer forever.
In the meantime, I’m up here laughing my ass off.
30 inches….BIG f’ing deal.
Rebel pussies can’t handle a little snow.
Then some clown on TV is saying “white-out.”
Obviously this idiot has never been in an actual white-out.

Very nice Doc99

What is a “white out” graywolf?

Tom, shouldn’t you  be in Vancouver warming up for the 50km cross country.

The drifts are a killer in Alexandria

HC123,
The drifts are a killer in Alexandria, but at least the sun is out. How tall are you?

I assume your’s is a serious question.
Heavy snow, high winds that bring visibility to zero.
Like being inside a bottle of milk.
If driving, get off the road and stop.

I had time to see extensive reports last night.
Other than the misery index, this storm will wreak havoc with the economy.
The clean-up costs plus all the lost business will be staggering.

Speaking of our loved animals, we had a very sad incident in a neighboring city.
Yoris, a Belgian Malinois, and two year veteran of the police department, was euthanized after receiving numerous stab wounds by teenage boys.
He was a beauty and served courageously!

Thanks graywolf

So Hell finally froze over. I guess I’ll be getting that promotion now.

When do you Washingtonians start going Donner Party? I am looking forward to that.

No wait… going Donner is just a normal day for you people.

Yep, I should have. Missed the damned plane.

Here are some cell phone photos I shot today, of the ice covered Drammen fjord.

Nice pictures and that azure sky sure does look clean. Difficult to see Titus but he appears happy.