This photo is of I90 near Kadoka, SD. This is why the Interstate remains closed. pic.twitter.com/ynLU4ydk5B
— Tea Storm Chasers (@TeaStormChaser) December 23, 2022
Buffalo, NY: Sounds like a bad situation overnight into this morning with hundreds trapped in their vehicles in dangerous blizzard conditions with no emergency services able to respond. Hopefully before the band heads back south people can get to a warm shelter
Obviously the Dakota Sioux have failed to fulfill their obligations to invest in renewable energy sources. So….
They’ll be clearing ice off the solar panels with front end loaders. I read it in the article.
There’s always comedy gold to be mined in the replies.
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Only if you promise to talk about the EV vehicles parked in the garages because people won’t take them out in this weather…
3:46 PM · Dec 23, 2022
Watching my neighbor try to warm up his hybrid Toyota highlander enough that it’ll let him start it. Apparently if it sits more than an hour at 0 F the computer just says nope. Won’t even let the gas engine start.
50,000 btus of propane for an hour just so he can move it into the garage.
At least a hybrid has an engine.
0F is not that cold. -18C in Canada where temps are in around -40C in Sask, Alberta and BC.
-40C is also -40F
Global Warming.
Global warming is for the summer months. El Niño is for winter. Cold and lots of snow disrupts the GB narrative.
Not really.
When the globe didn’t warm as ordered, they switched from saying global warming to climate change, and said extreme weather will be the result. Haven’t you been keeping up? I’ve had warmunists tell me this current winter storm is due to climate change (AKA global warming) caused only by our emissions. That will be the CBC narrative (if you actually listen to them) in 3…2…1…
Spot on, The governor of New York State just claimed on the news that this blizzard is definitive proof of climate change…..between that and Turdeau’s Christmas message I’m about to take out my sister in law’s tv with a potato cannon.
Aren’t there reruns of Bowling For Dollars to watch? Gotta be better than the ‘news’. Gotta be better for your blood pressure too.
Muzzle on a potato cannon is greater than 20mm and thus is banned. Please report to thought police immediately. Sorry too late
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/23/over-200-million-under-winter-storm-warnings-advisories-blizzard-blasts-u-s/
Denver, Colorado, for instance, experienced a roughly 68 degree drop in less than one day, with the temperature dropping 37 degrees in the span of one hour alone.
Portions of northeast Florida, for example, are expected to see lows dropping into the low 20s. Hard freeze watches and warnings are in effect
Children just aren’t going to know what snow is anymore…
and their outdoor skating rinks will freeze, and become unusable!
And, more (things that you won’t see on CBC):
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/23/first-blizzard-reported-at-cincinnati-airport-in-44-years/
Reminds me of the late spring storm in southern Alberta in ’67. Had to dig our way out ’cause a drift had formed over the leeward side of the house & buried the front door. Still had a coal furnace at the time, too. Dad fed the cows in the barnyard pulling our toboggan on his hands & knees, one bale at a time.
D. B. – In the early 70s we had the same thing happen in New Brunswick. We had a Kodak slide (a non-digital picture lol) of the porch door fully blocked by snow except for a 1′ X 2′ hole at the top of the door. I wish we had today’s long track, high HP sleds back then. Of course I was too young to drive one at that time.
It was quite the spectacle. Our doorway was blocked past the top. Opened the porch door & no light coming in. We hadn’t moved the cattle to the range yet, so feeding them in the barnyard wasn’t terrible. Easy for me to say, I guess. I wasn’t the one pulling the toboggan for 50 cow/calf pairs, plus a few steers & bulls. One drift went over the slab corral fence & the residents walked right over the fence & into the barnyard. Never lost a calf that spring.
Neighbours had already moved their cattle to the range and, with 4-6 feet of snow on the ground, the cattle couldn’t graze. The Army flew a Chinook into their hay yard (first time I ever saw one in real life, flew right over our house), loaded it w/ bales & airdropped them for the cattle.
We never had a snowmobile at that time either. Nor a 4WD truck or tractor. Would have been nice. Dad fired up one of the old Minneapolis-Moline tractors (can’t remember if it was the GB or the U) to try to get around the yard. Backed it out of the quonset, put it in forward, turn right, slowly moving ahead and the front wheels start to climb something. Pulled back the hand clutch in a hurry, took another look, tried it again, same thing. Gets out of the tractor for a looksee, overcast sky, light snow, flat light, he couldn’t see the 10 foot drift he was trying to climb from the cab.
D.B. – In a later storm in the late 80s my girlfriend and I were walking down the main road of a small community where my folks lived. We were wearing snowshoes. I was ahead and stopped at a drift. I stepped to the side. She walked almost right into the drift in the middle of the road, not noticing that I had stepped off of our chosen path. The wind and snow were so heavy she didn’t see the drift right in front of her, or me. The snow was so deep that a Mac tandem-axle snow plow/sander got stuck in a drift nearby the next day. The emergency light on the top was all that you could see above the drift from the side.
I loved those storms. Too bad with global warming we’ll never see cold or snow again…
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/4b/2b/28/4b2b280d4293dc0f29a1960213e80278.jpg
Was it not ‘68? It seems we all talk about no snow that winter and then it dumped like crazy. Everyone I discussed it with keeps saying spring ‘68.
“Kids just won’t know what snow is.”
I’m heading right through there next week. It looks like Kadoka is open, but further east 90 is closed and 29 is closed south of Sioux Falls.
Enjoy your fully-vaxxed road trip. Take lots of breaks and get out and walk around.
Right now he’s boning up for his trip binge watching Ice Road Truckers.
I was curious to know if this trip is an indication that, through the Biden administration, Canada has been able to resume restamping Chinese steel with a Canadian point of origin, or if it indicates more expired or contaminated “vaccine” is making it’s way into Canada.
Could just be Fentanyl, but you never know with this guy.
It’s not the white Christmas we were looking for.
I just jump started a stranded lady out in front of my house.. Her battery was not as healthy as she thought it was.. That is if any thought was put into it at all.. EVs will suffer the same fate, except they are going to be bricks on the road.. Stranding people and blocking show removal.. Just a few more economic % points off the top..
The idea that everybody is going to be on the ball is just not going to happen.. Two EVs and one charger.. Somebody is going to get the short end of the stick.. The EV zealots have not accounted for the hassle or just where half of the cars on the road park..
IMO they dont want you to have a car..
If an EV gets hit by a snowplow, perhaps the resulting fire will melt some snow.
I just love an optimist, joe.
There’s always a dawn even after the darkest night. And sometimes even when it’s dark, if they hit that EV at night.
Looking on the bright side … I don’t see anyone protesting.
Shoplifting is way down too.
The warming continues.
Used to be like that on some of our roads back in the day. This a good storm we are having in eastern Ontario. At least it will make the idiots forget that the planet really isn’t warming for a day or two.
I love the irony, the Rosebud Tribe. Rosebud was name of Citizen Kane’s sled.
“About 60 percent of reservation residents have wood-burning stoves,”
But they need the state to bring them firewood.
Does the state have to bring them arrows when they hunt traditionally?
No. Just bullets and KFC.
Steve
Do they hunt KFC?
Yes, apparently it’s traditional.
Home town for me. The picture is a little deceptive as it shows the interstate passing over (overpass) the lower road.
It does bring to mind the blizzard of ’66 before the interstate was completed that far west. The drifts in our yard reached the roof line and were hard enough we could just walk up onto the roof. The neighbors spent 4 days with us as the power and phones were out but we had a coal furnace and lots of emergency firewood.
The natives need firewood because they already sold all the plumbing and wiring for firewater and have burned all the woodwork and carpeting from their BIA houses.
Nothing has changed in 60 years, not even the weather
Correction. That is an underpass where the local road passes under the interstate. Most likely the east exit to Kadoka. The truck stop is on the north side of the road where the loader is heading.
Looks like the blizzard of ’78 in NW Ohio. We were snowed in for a week until the National Guard could dig us out, the county road equipment just couldn’t handle the size of the drifts.
Buffalo here…
Moved here in 1980, haven’t seen anything like this in all those years, and we’ve had some doozies. Hell, a state of emergency was declared Friday morning and the way the snow bands are set up, we’ll be locked down through Sunday easily
This reminds me of the Blizzard of ’77, except Lake Erie isn’t frozen over so that the winds could drive the snow from the western end, and dump it into Buffalo proper.
I’ll be amazed if we’re dug out by mid week.
Maybe I should put the 7 foot snow blower on the tractor for X-mass day!!!
Just a couple of years ago – there was snowmageddon in Newfoundland.
I recall the storm of 77/78 – stranded up in Sudbury (of all places, lol) for 3 days before we got dug out. No power and then the deep freeze set in – brutal. I recall FLA freezing up around then as well.
Storms in early 90s – one right after another in March one year – dumped feet of snow each time shutting down city streets. Then a deep freeze few years later that froze half the city’s water pipes for weeks on end.
Yep – same as it always was, in winters here.
A moment in history, the start of the next little ice age, hopefully not the full blown one.
This time of year, my fervent prayer is that the weather will be decent so that people can get home for Christmas. Obviously, this year my prayer wasn’t answered. But do remember – back in the day when we managed to miss a roadblock and – complete with newborn and cat – headed south through a blizzard while heading “home’. The look on the face of the RCMP officer manning the south end of the closure was interesting. We realize how fortunate we were and would not do that again.
Let’s just hope the Donner Party has made it safely out of Montana by now. All the restaurants are closed and, well…
…I just hope they packed lots of canned goods this time.
My Tesla model y ran just fine in the -34 C .
Holds charge well. Starts up no problem.
I charge it mostly at home and have only used charging stations for a couple trips to Creston.
So far I’m really impressed. Even my grumpy dad grudgingly admitted he’s interested now but worries what his buddies will think if he gets one!
The battery lasts for hours and hours in idle mode. As it only heats the seats it will keep you warm much longer than a tank full of gas.