re: #284 jim in virginia

Diffuse disasters- ice storms in, what, six or eight states?- are hard for the media to cover; and the economy and the new regime are the big stories now anyway.
Flooding in New Orleans is dramatic and easy to report.

The 1938 New England hurricane did horrific damage but it was, IIRC, the same time as the Sudetenland crisis. It got little national notice.

Glad you have power again.

You’re glad? My wife had about decided that she was ready to gut and field-dress someone in order to get a hot shower and to wash her hair.

Since she made the statement whilst holding a 12 inch butcher’s knife, I paid rapt attention to her needs.