Lots of
really nasty weather building up for the US for Christmas, good luck to everybody in the path of it. Been prepping for it like it's a hurricane, although thankfully where I am the forecast has shifted for the better. Still will plummet over 50 degrees overnight on Thursday and turn into a hard freeze over the next few days I don't think the wildlife will care for. But no rain in the mix now, so I'm hoping that hundreds of elderly people dying with no power in the cold doesn't just become a yearly thing like the flu for Texas.
And since I know spite is a powerful motivator around here, just remember if you should find yourself suffering and stranded somewhere, or even in danger of death:
A bitter, misanthropic boomer
will be having horny thoughts about your insufficient BOOTSTRAPS and getting himself off. You must deny him the satisfaction, even if you're forced to cut your neighbors open and crawl inside them for warmth.