Michigan residents asked to keep thermostats no higher than 65F through Friday evening during cold snap

No heat interruptions yet, but Consumers Energy still asks Michigan to keep thermostats at 65:

A Wednesday night plea for customers to turn their heat down made an impact, [Consumers Energy spokesman Brian] Wheeler said.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took to Facebook to ask Michiganders to reduce usage and an emergency alert was sent to cellphones.

Residents should keep thermostats down through the end of the day Friday, officials said, to avoid the possibility of service interruptions.

I went out in the subzero temperatures to grocery shop yesterday, and it was chilly in the store: Now I know why

The natural gas company had a fire at a compressor station and basically had to burn off an entire natural gas storage field yesterday in a controlled manner in order to prevent an explosion. It was their main field supplying us here in Michigan for the winter. Now they'll have to tap reserves.

They're asking everyone to reduce thermostats to 65F to conserve gas in the meantime.

It's -11F this morning.

Now ain't that a kick in the head.

Learn to code: Diversity is just code for . . .

. . . nonwhite.

The utility companies in Minnesota wouldn't have to say this if natural gas were reserved for residential heating and coal for electricity

Extreme Cold Straining Xcel Energy’s Natural Gas System, Residents Urged To Turn Down Thermostat:

“We need those in Becker, Big Lake, Chisago City, Lindstrom, Princeton, and Isanti to reduce use of natural gas. Until further notice, you are urged to turn down your thermostat to 60 degrees or lower and avoid the use of other natural gas appliances including hot water,” Xcel Energy said. WCCO’s Reg Chapman said shortly before noon Wednesday that Xcel Energy is asking customers to lower thermostat to 55 degrees. Xcel Energy says residents’ cooperation is critical to prevent widespread natural gas outages. The company also suggests using electric space heaters.

About 39% of utility-scale electricity generation in Minnesota came from coal-fired electric power plants in 2017, down from 49% in 2014.

Increasing amounts of natural gas are fueling electricity generation in the state. In 2016, about one-seventh of the natural gas consumed in Minnesota went to the electric power sector, more than double the amount of natural gas used for electricity generation in 2011.

Why were the Tiananmen Square protests so Asian?

No diversity for Asia: China für chinesische, Ausländer raus!

Hey Donald Trump next time let them eat road kill

I wonder if Ron Fliegelman has been to Oregon lately

Weather Underground bomber unmasked — as city schoolteacher

Antifa member gunned down in Eugene, OR, explosives suddenly turn up at police station

Explosives found outside Eugene police station

Obama beat Romney but never got the House back, best case scenario now for Trump

No, until Hillary Clinton the GOP had no path.

Six more years of gridlock is the future, at best.

And to think, he coulda been a contenda.

"I used to love her, but it's all over now."

Trump never got that separation of powers thingy, didn't realize even a Republican legislative is his enemy

Separate! Separate! Dance to the music . . .

Saving feral cats is a fool's errand: Cats account for 90 percent of the domestic animal cases of rabies in New Jersey since 1989

Midland Park allows residents to have more dogs, raises household limit:

According to the New Jersey Department of Health, between January and September there have been 142 cases statewide of animal rabies, including five in Bergen County. Cats account for 90 percent of the domestic animal cases in the state since 1989.

 

Here's what's wrong with Chicago: 1,745 people there are trying to save feral cats from the cold

Memo to you lunatics: God sends cold weather like this to cleanse the earth of vermin. Don't get in His way. You are not doing His work. You are mentally ill. Shelter in place and seek medical attention as soon as it's safe to go outside.

‘It Takes Just Five Minutes To Save A Cat’s Life’: How To Protect Feral Cats During The Dangerous Cold Spell

Climate reality check: It's only -3.8F on my electronic weather station this morning in Grand Rapids

The record low for this date was -22F, January 30, 1951. That record was matched as recently as January 19, 1994.

The coldest reading ever in Grand Rapids was -24F, a twofer on February 13-14, 1899.

Meanwhile, Chicago's coldest temperature EVER was as recently as 1985, at -27F. It's -20F there at this hour, which will put this in the top ten lowest lows ever in Chicago.

It could be a lot worse, and has been in my lifetime.

Rashida Tlaib closely linked to Palestinian American Congress and Maher Abdel-qader

RASHIDA TLAIB’S TIES TO ANTI-SEMITISM RUN DEEPER THAN PREVIOUSLY KNOWN

DC Antifa leader Joseph Alcoff arrested on multiple felonies for November attack on US Marines

DC ANTIFA LEADER CHARGED WITH ‘ETHNIC INTIMIDATION’ RELATED TO ATTACK ON MARINES

True believers are piling on Cernovich in defense of Christianity much like defenders of socialism pile on its critics

True believers say Catholic pedophile priests, Catholic betrayals of its own supporters, and legalized licentiousness everywhere are not representative of Christian civilization, much in the same way that the left has said perennially that Stalin's crimes in Russia and Maduro's in Venezuela, et cetera, do not represent real socialism.

The true believer dies hard because ideology, whether it's religious or not, is the opiate of the people, blinding it to the reality staring it in the face.

And the reality of Islam is that it exalts servility to a religious principle.

George Washington, dear friends, would not take the Lord's Supper, nor kneel in church. The father of our country, first in the hearts of his countrymen for many reasons, including those.

How about DC agree to stop trying for statehood . . .

. . . and we agree not to burn the place down.

How About a 'Grand Compromise' on D.C. Statehood?

Kamala Harris must be on Trump's payroll

She'll have to pry my '97 Olds from my cold dead fingers.

Even President Norman Vincent Peale says you can do it, fired journalists!