33 Replies to “Blizzards And Bullshit”

  1. and to think there are morons out there in government and NGO’s that think they can control the weather by trying to reduce the naturally occurring CO2.

  3. Total rubbish. Shining a light on the difficulties these farmers are facing diverts valuable Interwebs linkages, bandwidths, and such from the real-world suffering of transgendered students at our universities. Also issues associated with the use of bathrooms and non-offensive gender neutral language. Pfft!
    #cowslivesmatter

  4. Blizzards do happen and over the years we have had our share of dealing with feeding and caring for livestock after an unusual heavy snow storm.
    The “Bullshit” part of the story is disgusting. It seems that there are social justice workers in every area. During WWII people did not worry about minding other people’s business and at the rate things are going with Islamic terrorism and the economy I suspect there will come a time again soon when people will be too busy trying to stay alive to be everyone’s SJW.

  5. Devastating. If you live in a city, you have ever little appreciation for the challenges of farming.

  6. I saw this on a difference scale whilst living in the Niagara Region and there was a huge hail storm knocked the tender fruit crop to the ground. gawd I really felt badly for the small scale farmers that couldn’t afford crop insurance year after year.
    da gubbamint was worse than useless, land use regulations for instance prevented them from selling to developers, and AT THE SAME TIME, brian mulruin’s much touted free trade agreement opened the door to cheaper California wines. the result was very predictable; thousands of acres of long established vineyards ripped out of the ground to avoid taxes and levies and other gubbamint measures to take their cut, (much like a mafia don). I was there, I saw it with my own eyes, feel free to google it for yourself. Lieberals or Conservatists, didn’t matter, they all did it.
    oh yes, oh what, oh what, will the legions of SJWs do when they succeed in closing down farms because of the ‘uncaring attitude’ of farmers? you know, that ‘butterfly effect’ moment when the ONLY foodstuff in the gubbamint subsidized apartment is a can of oh, kale or sumptin?
    whut indeed.
    it’s coming, mark my words, and all the guns and provisions filled bunkers ain’t gonna make a go**mn difference.

  7. and by the way, I would NEVER have known of this sad but true tragedy if I hadn’t checked today’s SDA.
    let me double check:
    http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/12/27/say-hello-to-snow-toronto-under-storm-watch-starting-sunday-night.html
    mmm hmmm . . . . . no mention of the deaths and loss in Canuckistan’s biggest daily, only the ‘it’s all about me’ angle what effect it will have on Tranna.
    the more things change, the more they stays the same. who was it coined that phrase?

  8. The internet is such a boon, the BS flows faster and faster…heh
    I know I walked through 2 feet of snow 3 miles, uphill both ways, to school…
    Yeah, I remember – 50 F with a 50 MPH wind. windchill of -100 and some F…Lost a couple weak cows that day. No internet to talk about how bad it was…over the winter a range cow loss of up to 10% didn’t used to be uncommon. Wasn’t talked about much…no internet…townfolk always wagged their jaws a lot. I guess the village is getting bigger…heh

  9. Oh, speaking of BS, if you can see vehicle lights a half mile away, it ain’t a real blizzard…

  10. Heartbreaking.
    In a culture where reality increasingly loses to “the official narrative”, handed down to us from top men on high, the import of weather, like that of islamic terrorism, is not the reality of the thing, but what the official “caretakers of the culture” say about it. On their view, real reality—the really important bit—is created by their sayings. The “weather pornography” practiced by the MSN, treats weather as an opportunity to titillate its viewers. Many of us have thus become inured to weather’s real consequences, especially when they happen to those who live out there, beyond the narrative, in fly-over country, where they cling to their guns and religion.

  11. Human activities on this planet are a pimple on the ass of what mother nature throws at us. Thanks for the reminder, Kate.

  12. As I was growing up, we never lost a cow when it got as cold as 60 below F. The problem in the US seems to be when the weather changes, when rain turns to freezing with high winds so the hair loses all insulation value. I also wonder whether cattle in Texas have fur as thick as in Canada as 20 or 30 below is not routine there.

  13. If I’m reading it correctly the storm was particularly devastating because the farmers couldn’t get to their stock to look after them. Many animals suffocated in their open pens when the snow piled in on them. The dairy cows that couldn’t be milked will likely lose some of their milk production and even where they could be milked the trucks couldn’t get in to pick up the product. Mother nature can be one mean bitch.
    And from the media not a word about this because ‘it’s just some farmers nobody cares about’ and snow is only a story when it falls on a major city.

  14. Cattle don’t have fur, so doubt there’s any difference.
    These were mostly diary cattle, not known for being very cold tolerant. Anyways, cows are kinda stupid about storms, they face with the wind allowing the wind to blow into their ‘hair’. Buffalo face into the wind.

  15. You see, this upsets the narrative they have established on AGW. One
    unseasonably warm day in late December is de facto evidence of global
    warming, yet the great lakes being still frozen over in August is merely
    a weather anomaly. Think of the irony of the people who cannot tell
    the difference between weather and climate making these idiotic
    distinctions.
    My view has always been that these matters are products of unimaginable
    complexities that cannot fit into any computer model. It is not just
    cycles, it is cycles within cycles, within cycles, etc. If one cannot
    even define all of the factors that drive weather, what chance do your
    limited models have of predicting global climate?
    Perfect case in point is the El-Nino phenomenon. I live in Southern
    California. Seeing idiots blame droughts on global warming make me
    chuckle. So we get 5-6 years of dry, followed by 1-2 of wet Winters.
    This is not connected to global climate, it is the typical weather
    pattern I have been witnessing for 59 years in Southern California.
    We always have droughts, that is why we spent billions developing
    aqueducts, reservoirs, pipelines, etc. over 50 or 60 years. We
    never once had a shortage of water, that is until liberal judges
    in Sacramento started closing off the valves and starving the
    Central Valley and Southern California.
    A long time ago, I heard a line by some Canadian comic where he called
    a 40 Watt light bulb a Canadian space heater. I can see these morons,
    these bitter clingers to junk science huddling around one of the these
    space heaters in the middle of 100 year mini Ice Age still insisting
    that the -20 degree temperatures Summer weather they are experiencing
    is not evidence that AGW is a false theory.

  16. And from the media not a word about this because ‘it’s just some farmers nobody cares about’ and snow is only a story when it falls on a major city.
    Just as well, or there’d be a whole raft of new laws…anyway, real farmers and ranchers don’t need anybody to feel sorry for them. Not the kind of people who need their grief ‘affirmed’.

  17. Many authors give their predictions for the coming year at Foreign Policy:
    http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/01/from-new-flu-strains-to-refugees-to-obamas-final-moments-as-us-president-a-year-of-big-change-and-ch.html
    Thomas E. Ricks
    My guess is that global warming will become the top story of 2016.
    This will happen because we will face a series of anomalous and odd weather events — big storms in unusual places, storm surges in cities that historically have not been flooded, shifts in ocean currents, and such. One effect of this will be to sweep away the lingering skepticism about global warming. Another short-term bottom line: I wouldn’t invest in Florida banks or real estate anytime soon.
    […]
    https://foreignpolicy.com/author/thomas-e-ricks/

  18. dizzknee, you really are one stewpid turd. AGW has been disproved, it’s just that you are to F’n stupid to grasp that.

  21. I feel sorry for the owners and the cattle. We’ve been fortunate to have a great winter here so far. 125 kph wind and heavy snowfall is going to be tough on any beef herd, let alone dairy cows and calves.

  22. I’ve been coping with the furious onslaught of Lingering Frost Bruce here. They say it’s the worst frost since 2015.

  23. I’ve been coping with the furious onslaught of Lingering Frost Bruce here
    Burlap and golf shoes are selling briskly.

  25. You’re ignoring the first question, which is
    //AGW has been proved?//
    Show us where, with citations.

  26. My cousin still rides out onto the range on horse in March to round up the cows and calves to bring them in where they be safe and have food to eat. they like to hide in the bushes so she brings a border collie with her to encourage them along. Terrible the loss. I also like to say that I heard it here first.

  28. Well it appears you aren’t the sharpest knife in the SDA drawer. First off….you weren’t there so you don’t know how bad the blizzard was. Considering it was in Texas and New Mexico and the pictures show 6 foot (minimum) snow drifts I would say it was pretty severe. Even in Canada such drifts are troublesome. Second…the story said the guy lived a half mile away and asked his wife to put the lights on so that when he was walking to his house he would see it. It didn’t say he would see them from a half mile away. If you’re going to be an idiot be one at one of the idiotic websites run by liberals/socialists who can’t comprehend English either.

  29. You wrote:
    You’re ignoring the first question, which is
    //AGW has been proved?//
    Show us where, with citations.
    +
    The “question” I responded to, in its entirety:
    dizzknee, you really are one stewpid turd. AGW has been disproved, it’s just that you are to F’n stupid to grasp that.
    As for YOUR question, start here:
    http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/

  31. First off….you weren’t there so you don’t know how bad the blizzard was.
    Duh, in a real blizzard you literally can see 10 feet or less. Unless he had a handheld GPS, he wasn’t walking there in a real blizzard, lights, or no lights. Speaking of dull knives…

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