An early blizzard has struck New England. This should not be news except that it happened before Halloween! That’s right, it’s not even November and already people have lost power and more than a foot has landed in some parts of New England This makes me ponder a very important question. Where’s Global Warming?
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — Millions of people from Maine to Maryland were without power as an unseasonably early nor’easter dumped heavy, wet snow over the weekend on a region more used to gaping at leaves in October than shoveling snow.
The snow was due to stop falling in New England late Sunday, but Halloween will likely come and go before many of the more than 3 million without electricity see it restored, officials warned. Several referred to the combination of the storm’s early arrival and its ferocity as historic, yet another unwelcome superlative for weather-weary Northeasterners.
“You had this storm, you had Hurricane Irene, you had the flooding last spring and you had the nasty storms last winter,” Tom Jacobsen said Sunday while getting coffee at a convenience store in Hamilton Township, N.J.
“I’m starting to think we really ticked off Mother Nature somehow because we’ve been getting spanked by her for about a year now.”
Read the Rest: Snow Smacks Northeast; Power Could Be Out for Days
Al Gore and Charles Johnson are not available for comment. The AGW apologists will claim that Global Warming means colder and snowier weather. Reality doesn’t matter to people like Gore or Charles Johnson.
Update: Treat this as an Open Thread.
Tags: Al Gore, Blizzard, Charles Johnson, Global Warming, halloween
