One More Night

Just one more night of this shit, and then it's supposed to warm up into the positive teens tomorrow, then the 20s on Saturday, then the 30s on Sunday, and finally the 40s on Monday.  Then it starts going back down again, but not below zero for awhile.  We only got down to zero this morning, but it stayed in the single digits all day with wind chills well below zero.  It was only supposed to be six below tonight, but we've already got 13 below at 10:30.  The schools have been closed all week, and we still haven't gotten any mail delivery.  I've been saying all along that it must be worse in the open country than it is here in the swamp, but I had to go to Indian River today and the road, while not perfect, didn't seem all that bad.  Everything has been plowed, but they can't use salt on the roads when it's this cold, so there is a bit of a snow pack, but it's not too slippery, again because of the cold.  Indeed, the snow was so dry that the cars were kicking it up like a cloud of dust.  Not a problem if you don't follow too close, which some people do, the idiots.  Of course that was only 20 miles on a state highway, I don't know what kind of shape some of the back roads are in.  

I've been saying all along that they should have some kind of single payer health care like Canada has.  As Uncle Ken pointed out, it shouldn't be any more expensive than what they've got now.  Back when Obamacare was being debated, I read that about half the people in this country are already on some kind of government assisted health care: old people, poor people, veterans, active military, Indians, and I don't know who else.  Like Uncle Ken said, we are paying for all of it, one way or another.  So why not make it unanimous?