Really yucky weather in Baltimore. Doesn’t look like much accumulation, but freezing rain is coming down fairly hard. I tried sweeping the snow off the bit of driveway out my side door and that was a hard nope ( this is how I gauge snow vs ice and wetness of snow).
Work is canceled. Now I spend all day worrying about people in Texas. One set of cousins in Austin have power but no water and have taken in a friend with no electricity. I’m going to reach out to the others there today. Mac seems to be fine, but I am going to reach out to f try rinds around to line up a place for him should he lose power/heat.
One set of friends had a pipe burst in the ceiling and a section of drywall fell into their living room. Another had all the pvc for their pool system bust. It’s really criminal how they let the electric grid go. And asshole Cruz flew his family to Cancun for vacation.
That just might be the thing people in Texas remember next time he's up for re-election. I hope all his future opponents of both parties are being photographed helping out people stuck by the side of the road and families without power or water.
How many times have we thought people would finally be offended by Ted Cruz? But yeah, I live in hope that people in Texas will figure out that AOC didn't sabotage their electrical grid.
I need to get more productive. And yet.
In all politics is local news, in past years the local city races have always been between known democrats, although they are in theory non-partisan. This year the wife of the state senator for the area, a Republican, changed her designation from Republican to Democrat the day after she announced that she was running for mayor. Tons of money and the nastiest lie filled campaign ever. Also a couple city commission seats experiencing the same kind of big money sabotage of long time local dems. And of course sign stealing, although they did immediately come replaced my signs when I emailed the current nice mayor's campaign. Yes, local level Republicans are scoundrels too.
Did I get my David's mixed up again?
Was Cruz just in the last election? Wondering how long before his next race. People can have surprisingly short memories. I don't have a lot of faith in people understanding and believing that the human cost of this disaster is due to anti-regulation and pro-privatization policies.
That chucklefuck isn't up for re-election until 2024, unfortunately.
Yeah not cool to go to Mexico during this, even forgetting pandemic!!
I’m registering people and checking IDs, it’s a big clinic that does like 1500 people a day so they need lots of volunteers—I think they pay the people actually giving the shots thougg
Yeah, he was re-elected in 2018. Sigh. Everyone hates him! Including other Republicans! Fuck this guy, seriously!
It looks as if the foot or so of powdery snow has been condensed into about 6 inches of pack snow by the sun today. Easier to keep one's footing in, so that's nice.
I checked to make sure the alley cats found the food I put out for them this morning, and not only was it gone, but it appeared there were bird tracks in the snow leading up to the edge of the deck I poured it beneath. They may have gotten a bigger breakfast than I intended. Oops.
Birds do like to steal cat food. Presumably they know the risks.
