BLIZZARD!

In Miami it will be a bone-chilling 43 degrees on Xmas Eve.

I was just on a zoom with a colleague in Atlanta, and she said there was a darn good chance of snow down there

tiny flurries on the afternoon walk in brooklyn

It is currently 14 degrees Fahrenheit in the ATL.

a bland balmy 60* in Oakland, we're missing out on all the fun

no one asked you, andy

heh.. we see NO SNOW here ever so I guess I'm a little jealous

To be clear, we got next to no snow here. Inch and a half? 2 inches? It's mostly really cold.

After tons of time and bullshit and money, we managed to reschedule (most of) our trip. But just to show how the universe works, because we were stuck here another couple of days I was here to hear what sounded like water running in our neighbor's backyard. It sounded like a hose or sprinkler, which is not something you want to hear during frozen temps, so I investigated with a flashlight. And indeed, they had a outdoor pipe under their stairs spraying water all over the place. The twist? They had literally left for Hawaii a couple of hours earlier. Fortunately we had their house key, so I was able to go in and turn off their water main and (checks notes) save Christmas.

Meanwhile, the stories from places like Buffalo are horrifying, as were the videos of parked cars in Seattle just sliding hundreds of feet down icy hills, hitting car after parked car, like a huge, expensive pinball machine.

just coming up for air this morning in sunny Buffalo. my wife wanted us to go visit family in texas for christmas but i talked her out of it... "who wants all that hassle of travelling during the holidays", i said... wont write a novel about it here but just say that ive lived through plenty of huge snowstorms here & this was just on another level completely, never seen anything like it. sad times here.