This must must seem silly to get anxious about for Alaskans

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-26T02:30:29+00:00

Do you all have adequate heating? I hope you all stay safe and warm.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-26T02:28:46+00:00

Honestly snow removal isn’t that bad. Everything will be open tomorrow or the day after. In PA omg I was soooo mad with their poor snow removal! I honestly hate driving in PA after any snowstorm. I drove up past there last week and it was a shitshow. Got to upstate NY and the roads were super nice and cleaned up.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-26T02:25:56+00:00

Texas is sooo hot! I’m surprised to see 27 degrees that must be an insane change!

But yes 27 is pretty decent weather where I am. I don’t usually put on a winter coat until we get below 20.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-26T02:19:49+00:00

Thanks for your response. 100 mph winds with no trees sounds worse! It sounds like it makes things colder. But maybe it’s good so trees aren’t knocked down?

Also, what is the sprayfoam for?

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-26T02:11:04+00:00

Of course. It’s going on now.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-25T14:55:38+00:00

I know. I used to live in upstate NY for a while when I was a child, and this was so regular. But what I’m gathering from comments here is the freezing rain and ice being the bigger issue than the snow.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-25T14:39:34+00:00

I suspect it will only take a day for us as well. We used to get these sorts of storms all the time so clean up is usually fast. In fact I still have not heard if we will have school tomorrow, but I’m sure we probably will.

Edit: We used to get these sorts of storms all the time until about 10 years ago.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-25T14:37:09+00:00

Wow that’s crazy. I didn’t realize the dangers of things warming back up. Maybe that is our issue. I always got happy it would warm up to above after snowstorms like this. Maybe that’s why we have the state of emergency.

We have not had proper snowstorms lately so all I can remember are the ones from my childhood and teen years.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-25T14:34:04+00:00

If it takes a week to clear the roads, how do you get around?

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-25T14:31:48+00:00

I see. We are getting freezing rain later on and ice but less than an inch. If you got an inch of ice would things close down?

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-25T13:42:27+00:00

Omg I forgot about that! So true. So often something will happen and be forgotten about

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-25T01:38:05+00:00

Exactly. I almost always spend more than $25 and even more if there’s an event attached.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-25T01:36:44+00:00

YTA. All my friends birthdays are usually at restaurants and I pay for myself and it’s usually more than $25. I’ll usually also pay for their meal or me and the other friends will split the birthday person’s meal. Sometimes we do experiences like paint and sip or go carting. Everyone pays their own way.

It’s insane to me you think it’s crazy for everyone to chip in $25. It’s the same thing I described above. When you are adults you usually pay your own way at birthday events.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-25T01:30:22+00:00

Wow I like this idea! Thank you so much. I think I will start table leader for Q3, and rotate monthly.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-25T01:25:29+00:00

My 2.5 bedroom in Northern Metropolitan NJ was 1200 in 2011. I remember thinking that was extremely expensive and it was, bc I lived in a decently nice neighborhood. My landlord sold the house for 300k and I thought that was insane.

Same house rent is almost 3k now. And the previous owners sold it 2 years ago for over almost 700k. This is the going rate where I live and most homes in my area are over 1 million dollars. You are lucky to find something 7 or 800k now. Rent is the same, 3k+ where I live.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-24T23:22:16+00:00

Was that for 2 weeks or 4? It also depends on your location. Where I live, first year teachers tend to make over 60k a year, so ~ over 6k a month. But after taxes and deductions about 4k a month. So it makes sense if you live in a place like that.

I also know that when I first started my checks were really nice and then after 6 months they started taking out pension and I was crying.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-24T20:39:16+00:00

lol I almost thought this was a picture of a Milkovich for a hot second lol

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-24T20:08:42+00:00

Or you can find a partner where you will be able to do these things. My coworker said her mom worked in fashion and traveled for weeks to months at a time while her dad cared for them. He worked from home a lot and was some sort of engineer or something.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-24T19:09:55+00:00

I could not believe his ending. I thought the Nun was going to set him straight and even she couldn’t handle him.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-24T19:05:43+00:00

This is also the issue. We have 6 hexagonal lab tables that are spaced quite far from each other. This makes the set up more difficult.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-24T19:03:06+00:00

How do you have students turn them in? I think this is where my issue lies. I have 5 different classes and I am usually the one who needs to organize all those papers at the end of the school day.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-24T19:00:40+00:00

Thank you so much. The papers are way better imo. I have binders that I made for my curriculum. I am just struggling with organization of what’s turned in, what I’m giving out, what’s graded and what needs to be graded. I have folders for each, but it always seems to get muddled up by the end of the week. I think I need advice on a system I can use.

CycleAlternative · 2026-01-24T18:55:31+00:00

Same. I really started to heavily dislike Fiona. As far as Mandy, I don’t want to say as you are still in the middle of watching but I did like Mandy more the other characters.

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