This week in Plano:
…but normal service resumes later next week:
I was going to take New Wife on a little car trip over the weekend up into the Ozarks as she has Monday off, but I don’t live in Chicago anymore so my blood has thinned. Yeah, I’m a big pussy.
We’ll stay indoors, wrap up / stay in bed, hope that the ice storms don’t cause any power outages, and trust that I don’t end up looking this:
Looks like Scotland is having a Frank Zappa moment…
Nothing yellow about that…
Oh, and by the way, that’s close to where Mr. Free Market, Doc Russia and Combat Controller go deerstalking. Not at this time of year, though.
As some may be aware, the Brits have been getting slammed by storm after storm after storm, bringing rain, floods, gales, more rain, more floods, more gales, and now… snow.
Even the stiff upper lip of Mr. Free Market is trembling, as witnessed by something he sent me yesterday:
Although I must say that the views on the FM estate are quite lovely:
Yeah,I know: according to the global warmists, snowfalls in Britain were supposed to be a thing of the past. So who are you going to believe: a bunch of watermelon alarmists and panic-stirring journalists [some overlap], or your own lying eyes?
I know, we all have a good chuckle at stuff like this:
And then there’s this, which pushes the needle even past Code Red (click to embiggen):
I know, I make fun of our Oz friends a lot on these here pages, but this is no laughing matter:
About 100,000 homes in the Sydney area are said to be at risk, with 31,500 of those being in the city’s North Shore. Residents have been warned to take action before it’s too late.
‘Under these conditions, some fires may start and spread so quickly there is little time for a warning, so do not wait and see,’ the Rural Fire Service said on Monday.
‘There are simply not enough fire trucks for every house. If you call for help, you may not get it. Do not expect a firetruck. Do not expect a knock on the door. Do not expect a phone call. Your safest option will always be to leave early.’
Sheesh.
Looks like everything’s more dangerous Down Under: snakes, spiders, sharks, Train Smash Women — and now, fires.
Good luck, me old cobbers. Holding thumbs on this side of the water…
The night before last saw our first freeze of the season, which predictably brought howls of anguish and suffering from our north Texas residents — I mean, I had to turn on the car’s heater (and turn off the house’s a/c) for the first time since April.
Of course, this opens us up to ridicule from our northern neighbors:
Bet at least we’re not as bad as Florida:
I wonder how many trick-or-treaters will have to change out of those Tarzan- or ballerina costumes for tonight?
Found via Insty (thankee, Squire), is this incredible piece of investigative journalism done by someone who, I suspect, isn’t a journalist:
Horrifying: Media and Climate Hoaxers (But I Repeat Myself) Report That Literally Everywhere on Earth is Warming at Twice the Rate of the Rest of the Earth
You’d think an actual journalist (I know, more rare than a virgin at a Clinton cocktail party) would have noticed this, but as the headline suggests, most of the journo persuasion are riding the Doom Wagon (no relation) for all it’s worth.
Anyway, follow the link and read it all the way to the end, where Ace makes this conclusion:
One begins to suspect that climate “scientists” have made up a scheme of dozens of “adjustments” they have granted themselves to make to the actual data, enabling them to tweak any temperature down and any other temperature up.
As we say here in Texas: ya thank?