I won’t ever forget how cold it got here last Christmas in Appalachia.

I closed the store for the 24th and 25th. When I came back the place was flooded because the heat stopped working and the pipes in the ceiling exploded. The entire store was flooded and I spent the day after Christmas pushing water out of the store.

I had to take a heater and melt the ice to finish the job.

What a nightmare.

As an American, I’m wildly entertained by thought of calling a swimsuit a bathing costume

I’m still holding out hope that this el niño cycle will pass and we’ll get a few more winters with snow and actual cold.

I mean, it’ll be a consolation prize before we all burn to a crisp before we drown and/or die of crop failure and/or die by super hurricanes and/or die of a horrible infectious virus that escaped the “perma” frost and/or die as society collapses around us and violent idiots use this opportunity to live out their homicidal fantasies couched in faux political rhetoric and/or the violent idiots in charge of governments nuke us all to death and we all die in multiple blasts and/or in the nuclear fallout that follows and/or the accelerated crop and/or societal failure as the remaining countries go to war over precious resources and/or the remaining livable land on the North Pole.

But, in all likelihood, we won’t get those last few winters because scientists are predicting this El Niño period will be inescapable and will only jumpstart the inescapabale warming period were barreling toward.

Merry Christmas.

Forget White Christmas, the next generation will celebrate Wet Christmas instead.

It’s storming and 60 degrees where I live.

It should be cold and snowing.

I’m glad I never had kids. Can’t imagine how bad it’s going to be in a decade or two when the shit really hits the fan.

These are the temps in the notoriously cold Minnesota as well. I’m unsettled and upset.

Winter mornings shouldn’t feel like spring middays

January and February is when it normally gets cold here.

People like to pretend that Christmas was a time of snow and ice, but that’s pretty rare. Dickens wrote about them, but his childhood coincided with the coldest decade in over a century.

And reconsider if you want to have kids given the worst is almost certainly yet to come.

At least we won’t be cold.

True, but think of the shareholders

Until the gulf stream gets fucked, then Ireland, the UK, and plenty of other places in Europe will suddenly plummet in temperature. Remember we’re further north than the bulk of Canada… fun times ahead.