Someone I know in Ohio said they were expected to be at -40 today, and that they even closed the churches Sunday. Notice how everyone on the teevee talks about the freeze, but they never think to mention the external factors they went into making it happen? Thanks, Exxon and Koch brothers!
CHICAGO — Hardy Midwesterners well accustomed to frigid weather found Monday’s blast of arctic cold to be far beyond anything in recent memory, breaking records and testing their legendary ability to cope with winter’s extremes.
Brutal subzero temperatures forced school closings, kept people home from work, stymied air travel and posed real danger to anyone lingering outdoors as arctic air swept across the Midwest on its way toward the East Coast.
Like a “how cold was it?” joke, the weather across much of the USA was so cold even western Michigan ski resorts shut down and some airlines, such as JetBlue Airways, simply stopped trying to operate most routes between Chicago, other Midwestern cities and the Northeast.
Tuesday promises to be even colder as the “polar vortex” of frigid arctic air advances, bringing what forecasters say will be record-breaking cold to the East and Northeast.
Below-zero temperatures, some into double digits, brought life to a virtual standstill across much of the upper and industrial Midwest. Chicago saw a record low minus 16, and Quincy, Ill., tied a record at minus 9. Wind chills across the Midwest were 40 below and colder.
The cold stretched into southern regions accustomed to a milder January. Waco, Texas, saw 16 degrees and Monroe, La., 19, both records.
In the 2012 presidential election the 17 Koch brother’s funded groups raised and spent $407 million dollars to defeat Obama and the Democrats. Romney and Obama combined spent $434 million to defeat each other. Adelson spent $100 million of his own money to defeat Obama. That’s why presidential elections now cost more than a billion dollars to run. How can this be good for any democracy? Wealth redistribution.
Amazing ain’t it. No matter how dramatic the conditions, Corporate media can still ignore the obvious. Every news source outside the US quite readily notes the effects of climate change. If the phrase even occurs during US coverage it’s to denigrate the very idea.