Personally I believe in absolute free speech except for the obvious exceptions. I hate some of what the left has to say, but they have a right to say it.

Holt crap. AccuWeather is now estimating total losses from Helene of 145-160 billion. https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/helene-aftermath-dozens-dead-historic-flooding-millions-without-power-amid-catastrophic-destruction/1697545 For a local comparison, the costliest weather disaster here since 2000 was I believe the coastal Gale of 2007, which caused 1.2 billion in damages (2007 dollars, so would be more like 2 billion adjusted for inflation.)

Jim is the absolute best at this with politics and weather. This morning he took the headlines and changed them to things he likes. Trump's "very violent" purge day was turned into cleaning house on bureaucracies (so much more benign) and some guy on a street corner in the rain in Michigan yelling "get that b*tch out of here" to a motorcade (I think he thought it was Kamala) became Walz was booed out of the stadium.

Pretty apparent that both sides have a "free speech" problem, which is really them just not wanting to hear anyone with an opposing viewpoint. That issue is not home to only one side of the political spectrum and anyone who claims otherwise is probably a part of that problem.

Wasn’t even in the ballpark of January 1950 up here. But I would say it was the most impressive cold snap since 1990.