The Ancient Village, 25th Day of Childwinter, 526 M.E. (Aldebaran): Although a massive winter storm tore through the Eastern United States yesterday and today, killing seven and leaving more than a million people without power, it wasn't much of a storm here in Atlanta. The temperature never dropped below freezing, and we had some overnight rain and rain all day today, but no snow, no accumulations of ice, and no extraordinary threat to life and property. I was correct - it turned out to be a big nothingburger ("Oh boy, right again!" - Laurie Anderson, Let x = x, 1982). 

The rain here finally ended at around sunset, and the temperature is expected to remain above freezing until about 3:00 am. It's going to be a cold week with with overnight lows in the 20s and even down to the teens by next weekend, and highs in the 30s and 40s. But with no rain or other precipitation in the forecast, I'm not worried.

Speaking of ice, they shot and killed another person in the streets on Minneapolis this weekend. Naturally, ICE, the DOJ, and the Stable Genius immediately labeled him an "domestic terrorist" and depicted him as a gun-wielding maniac attacking the occupying troops in Minnesota, but video clearly shows he was assisting an injured protester (he was a nurse) and holding a cell phone. I'm old enough to remember Kent State and when troops killing U.S. citizens on American soil was considered a bad thing ("I guess I just wasn't made for these times!" - Brian Wilson, I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, 1966).