Jackstraw

Pretty wild flood warning stripe right through the middle of OH. Unfortunately there were some deaths from flooding in southern IN.

I was astonished. I didn't realize this was a country of aristocrats... https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/21/health/how-to-cook-from-home-coronavirus-drayer-wellness/index.html

I hear ya but the "olds"? Lmao, I'm a year away from being the "olds".

So did IL issue a "Stay at Home" order or to SIP? There's a big difference.

Very hard to do? How about impossible lol

If you're staying home whether self induced or just trying to be socially responsible and want to geek out about this here ya go. It's a worthwhile internet rabbit hole to dive in to. If you can skim through some of the geek speak you can get a feel of how this came about, the groundhog day "we seen this before", and how far behind the information cycle we're being fed is from fact. Trust me if you have trouble sleeping like me this stuff is better than counting coronaviruses lol...... http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/covid-19#bibliography&1-7

Gotta love a P&C like this lol.....

Those are valid questions to my post and I guess one thing I should've clarified was when I said our medical infrastructure and system I was in no means singling out all of the medical professionals from researchers to doctors, nurses or hospitals. My take on medical infrastructure and medical system runs the gamut from federal to state and local governments to private entities. It is absolutely ridiculous to rely on one or some of each of those when there is a pathogenic pandemic affecting the entire social spectrum. Our medical infrastructure was and is woefully unprepared to handle this. The medical community (not the infrastructure) has been worried about this for over 30 years. Numerous studies and reports have been presented that we as a country and even as a world society are not prepared for a planet wide pandemic, including the John Hopkins report in 2018 which got shoved under the rug. Since this is mainly a weather board I was just trying to use the way we learned to become proactive instead of reactive to severe weather events to state how we should use that same approach when it comes to biological threats. I would've thought, especially after 9/11, our medical infrastructure would've been better prepared for a biological threat, be it terrorism or natural. My spouse and I have worked in the medical community for over 25 years and I will tell you this is one of the biggest fears from medical professionals I've heard over the years. This is the same stuff I heard when I lived in hurricane country 30 years ago, the big ones gonna happen and we're not ready, hence my loose analogy that hopefully this is the pathogenic Hugo. One fact I think people don't quite understand. The population of this planet has nearly doubled in the last 50 years. Half of that new population lives in densely packed environments. The odds of a zoonotic virus making its way into the human population have increased 100 fold over the last 50 years. We've now had a consistent outbreak of these viruses every 7-10 years for the last 40 years. Luckily, most of them haven't been as contagious as this one from a human to human standpoint. It's really simple math. Hindsight's 20-20 sure but my hope is, like the lessons learned from violent weather as populations increase and become more vulnerable, we can move forward with a better understanding of our own arrogance here and take measures to be proactive instead of reactive to something that can affect so many people in such a short period of time.

After getting a cold soaking to the start of the day temps shot up to the 60's this afternoon. Was forecast to keep raining but as the evening progressed and the radar dimmed the BratGrillThrowback sounded like a good idea. Currently 68 with greasy flame drips and chilly mugs

I don't believe a thing that China reports. This is going to come in waves until if/when we have an effective vaccine. Just like violent weather the best thing we can do is be prepared, which this show's we're woefully not. Over the last 30- 40 years we've updated building codes, evacuation plans, invested in public awareness campaigns and in science (like anything now-a-days not enough there) in hurricane prone areas from lessons learned since Cammile, Hugo, Andrew and Katrina all of which have undoubtedly saved thousands of lives. We've done very similar things when it comes to tornado outbreaks. Sure warning times have probably helped the most but without the investments in all of the above warning times would be much less effective. We can go spend 100's of billions to fill our emergency oil reserves during this yet our medical system and infrastructure is nowhere prepared. I kind of look at this as the biological Hugo. There's going to be another one, a biological Andrew, even a Katrina. Just like violent weather we know it's going to happen. Hopefully this will begin a trend to start investing in better "building codes", better "response plans", better "public awareness/education" and better "science" at a public health level. Nobody is 100% sure yet but more than likely this may eventually run it's course with time, maybe even a year or longer. But ones going to come along that is really a nasty one, that it is extremely resilient and resistant to whatever we throw at it. I hope it's not this one but when that bug comes around we better be a lot more prepared than we are now. Telling NY the big white ship with the big Red Cross is coming ain't cutting it

So much for social distancing, geez we've gone over the edge man.

No ball to watch on TV so I came across Mike Rowes (Dirty Jobs guy) "How Booze Built America". Explains everything going on today lol. Edit: I swear don't know how I missed this, it's the best show I've seen in ages. Maybe it was the booze lol.

I still don't understand, WHY toilet paper? I must be missing something lol.

Nary a nibble. Think they were as stunned as I was at how hard it was snowing lol. Still a decent moon underfoot in the mornings I'll give it a go again tomorrow. FWIW there was a trained spotter report of 2 inches in 30 minutes over by Anderson about 15 miles SE. We had some decent 1 inch an hour rates for a couple hours. I'd say this Hail Mary scored one for the home team

Ended with 4.5, heck of a lot more than I expected. Reports of almost 6 just my E and SE. In general looks like 3-5 across the area from the reports. Some melting been going on. Should freeze back up shortly. Back to sports Groundhog day on TV

Not sure of the stats but when I was a youngster the old timers around here used to say we get the biggest snowstorms when high school and NCAA tournament time comes around in March. I know my parents were stuck for 2 days at the Anderson high school WigWam gym about 25 miles away when they were in high school in the late 50's travelling with the local team to a tournament. Hey, it's Indiana, no matter what it comes down to ball lol.

Pretty crazy, you can see where its snowing from the meso temp map. Some areas 7 or 8 degrees cooler under the precip shield than areas 25-30 miles away that aren't...

3 inches on the board and still coming down. Will it keep coming or turn to crap? It's half time, we'll see how the last 2 quarters go. This is ALMOST as good as tournament ball, well at least it's something lol.

Don't underestimate the evapo cooling with this system. I'm down to 30 degrees just off the ground and 34 at the roof line (was 36 and 35 at 7am). I know some may think I'm nuts but, especially this winter, I have seen as much as 5 or 6 degrees difference from ground level to 10 feet AGL. Makes a BIG difference when your straddling the freezing level. Official 2 meter temp readings be damned!

Right?!!! Us folks down here in the snow desert should change St. Pattys day to 12/25 and make Xmas in March lol.

Big if but IF the surface temps can stay steady where they are at (actually down to 31 from 36 at 7am) and looking at the radar returns this has the potential to be the best snow of the season locally. 925-850 temps should remain below freezing for the duration. We're currently accruing at 1/2-3/4 an hour. Just measured 2.5 currently and still moderate to sometimes heavy big 'ol flakes. IF this can maintain through the afternoon and we hit 6 it will officially be the biggest snow of the season locally lmao.

Yeah, for once the NAM wasn't a sham lol.

The muddy snow hounds are lovin' it lol......

I picked a helluva a morning to go fishing! I started this thread as kinda a joke but I just measured a little under 2 inches and it's still coming down hard. Visibility less than a half mile. Secondary roads are starting to get some snow cover. If this system was a 100 miles north it'd probably have a "hot" tag lol. Pleasantly surprised......

I was a field service engineer for 10 years before my current job and was NEVER home, sometimes gone 2 or 3 weeks at a time. I got to travel all over the US and Canada which was great but I got so sick of living out of hotels and eating at restaurants besides being away from my wife and family for such long periods. Took my current job because it allowed me to be home and now the wife hates me lol. I work 90% from my home office, occasionally getting to go in for corporate crap or a rare customer onsite. My friends who go to a workplace say I have it made but it really is hard. When I said its not what it's cracked up to be is because working from home almost all the time requires a lot more discipline than most people realize. It's really easy to get distracted and complacent. Didn't take me long to figure that out. I built a shed away from the house that's my home office so I have some kind of "feel" like I'm going to work . I will admit, the 50 foot commute is pretty sweet lol.