The rural wildlife here does seem to be enjoying/tolerating the snow (or at least the spilled birdseed from sloppily filling the feeders)
Looks like the finger of the hellmouth has reopened between Southern Pines and Henderson and has built the standard no-snow dome over the Triangle (snow storms from dual low pressure systems be weird yo)
I'm right around the ❌ - so I'm on this wee edge of that moisture mass - it's been "sprinkle snow" all day here.
However - it does look to be building in and trying to push east a bit since this snap - so there's [hope/despair/excitement/dread insert your snow emotion here] coming ❄️
I got out in the world today and clearly the snowpacolypse is coming because everyone was losing their heads. #dogdadjoke
(half-joke - it was insane out there. There were a ton of angry old people at the WalMart - and I actually wasn't one of them today)
My particular secondary road in #orangecountync #ncdot really doesn't seem to have the resources or the organizational capacity at this time to have gotten out in front of this one
The trope that people like to express is that #ncdot never gets out in front - which is definitely not true - it just seems maddeningly inconsistent
Between the coming snow and long-range 8-14 day outlook from the NWS - the rural areas of the county are going to be treacherous for probably another week+half #ncwx
A play in 5 acts, 4 pictures
#5acts4pictures #dogsofmastodon #fedidogs #chaosaussiesauce
Act I: Chaos takes his ball to the river
Act II: Chaos learns that shallow NC rivers don't freeze over
Act III: Chaos extracts himself from the river, and having survived - runs around like... chaos... all across 5 acres of frozen tundra until... chaos contained and warmed
Act IV: Dad retrieves ball - almost but not quite falls into the river himself
Act V: Chaos reunited with ball. Continued chaos
I did say take care of yourself
I did post the Leslie Nielsen Gif
I guess the only sysadmin and network admin inside T-Mobile Fiber did run into some...
squirrels
To all the systems and network admins in the southeast:
Take care of yourself first.
The systems will wait.
Also:
Following up on that #orangecountync email notice - the county sent out another email notice of a second closed meeting on February 3, prior to the regular board business meeting.
This email has more specific references to the NC General Statutes of why a meeting can be closed.
It does seem like that there still will be some Orange County NC related news coming related to at least two closed meetings... after February 3rd.
Interesting: #orangecountync sent out this email notice to the Board of Commissioners notification list this afternoon around 2pm (The list gets county board meeting announcements, public notices regarding the board, that sort of thing)
The Board is in an emergency closed session tonight, which is a bit unusual in my memory.
Guessing there will be some County-related news coming soon 🤷
