Storm’s coming; not sure if you’ve heard about it or not. In my neck of the woods they’re predicting somewhere between six and twelve inches of snow tonight through to tomorrow morning, depending on where you look, and temperatures– not wind chills– around ten to fifteen degrees below zero for Monday. Along with 20-30 mile an hour winds, which will probably mean wind chills around forty to fifty degrees below zero.
The governor of Minnesota has apparently cancelled school in the entire state on Monday. He did this yesterday. My local school corporation/state government isn’t quite as on the ball but I figure there is exactly zero chance that there’s going to be school on Monday (and if there is, I’m betting we’ll have around 30% of our students) and a pretty damn good chance that there won’t be school on Tuesday either. There’s always a delicate balancing act in situations like this; on the one hand, fucking cold; on the other hand, many of our kids are flat-out going to be safer and, more importantly, better fed at school than they will be at home. I know for damn sure some of my students get their only hot meals of the day at school. Then again, a lot of those kids who aren’t getting fed properly at home don’t have coats, either.
Now, in this specific case, it’s pretty clear-cut– if there are really ambient temperatures of fifty below zero outside, the buses aren’t even going to start– but if you’ve ever wondered why the big districts don’t close at the same rates that smaller/more rural ones do, that’s probably a big part of it; student safety cuts both ways. Either way, I don’t really mind; I’ve had enough of being off of work and am looking forward to getting back– which will probably last through all of an hour or so of actual school.
The wife made a trip to the grocery this morning, returning with piles and piles of food; the two of us sat down and put together three or four days of meals and went out and got everything we needed. I’mma eat real good for the next few dinners, y’all:
- Beef Stroganoff tonight; and then, in some order or another
- Skyline chili
- Hoppin’ John
- Pappardelle with an authentic ragù.
As usual, recipes are heavy on Thug Kitchen and Albert Burneko, and both of these sumbitches need to give me a cookbook I can buy now.
Also? My wife bought me a mortar and pestle. Which means I can grind up those dried ghost chilies I bought a while ago and make death chili. Which I won’t even be able to eat, and neither will anyone else, but omg excited. I need to find some uses for it other than grinding up those peppers, I think, but surely there’s something out there.
Wait! I have one: I can also commit felonious assault, because holy shit is this thing bigger than I thought it was going to be:
Stay warm the next couple days, y’all.
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I live in Canada and snow is not a big deal for Canadians…but we love to complain about it. Nothing like nasty weather as a common enemy for us to become super friendly. Hope you keep your hydro and stay warm. 🙂
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I’m on the Gulf Coast, and the news media is losing their minds because we will be below 32 degrees. All of our pipes will burst, plants will freeze and die, and there will be chaos. All of this without a chance of snow or ice.
Enjoy your feast, especially the chili. We are about to make some at my house as well. 🙂
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Mmmmm…. Skyline Chili. Just about the only thing I miss about where I used to live (the suburb of Cincinnati known as “northern Kentucky”).
My clone cooks with bird’s-eye chilies sometimes, but even he wouldn’t touch ghost chilies — those things are weaponized in some places, you know.
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I’m not worried about the snow at all– northern Indiana gets tons of it off of Lake Michigan; this is nothing new. And I’m more accustomed to cold than most, too, although I’m not sure I wanna face off with a Canadian. 🙂 That said, -50? Sheeyit, I’m staying inside.
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I think you got a molcajete…..If it’s about 10 pounds, and made out of volcano rock, that’s what you’ve got! Lots of people use them for guacamole too, the more you use it, the better it’ll get!
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Too darn cold ! Brrrrr ,,,stay warm 🙂
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I spent my day here in West Michigan breaking up the large, compacted snow bank at the end of my driveway in preparation for the next foot of snow; thank you, City Plows, for putting my tax money to good use. I also wasted some time wondering if any local pickup plowers would consider taking on a last minute OTO contract for tomorrow night. (The answer was no).
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We aren’t too far apart, then, unless by “West Michigan” you mean the UP, which I kinda doubt. We’re about to get hammered– how is it up there?
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I live near Kalamazoo, where the snow started around 5pm and I started drinking Bell’s Smitten Ale an hour later. Roads are already snow covered – it’s really coming down out there.
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And Katy, I’ve already had one other person take one look at it and use that word, which I’d never seen before today, so yeah, that’s apparently what it is. 🙂
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It’s supposed to get bad here in northern Illinois too. They’re predicting 18 below.
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I’m in KANSAS. WE have impending temperatures of -7 degrees as a HIGH for Monday. Yeah, “Day After Tomorrow” wasn’t even that good of a movie, but I’m getting scene flashes of frozen people…
Did I mention that I really can’t handle the cold? They don’t cancel my work. Ugh.
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At least you’re getting that much snow, here in England if anyone even mentions the possibility of light snow everyone loses their mind and starts hoarding like its the coming of the next ice age, lol
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True story: there are a couple of pictures floating around of the meat counter of one of our local grocery stores– literally picked completely clean. I mean, shit, people, it’s a big storm, true, but everybody’s being ridiculous right now.
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Stay warm and I would be equally excited if someone bought me a pestle and mortar… I think the only reason nobody has yet is because they know I’d be grinding up anything in sight and throwing it in our food.
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