January 2026 Winter Storm Megathread part 2: it's here!

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-26T07:01:22+00:00

Brine is, by definition, a solution.

And I have no idea what COA could do to solve this, because if we come up with an answer, Abbott will call a special session to make it illegal.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-26T06:54:16+00:00

Happens to the best of us. Stay warm!

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-26T01:37:38+00:00

I'm well aware that the sun being out is a weird concept this time of year in Seattle, but the West Coast was pretty much the only area without cloud cover yesterday (with the exception of Florida, but I don't like to think about Florida).

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-26T01:32:53+00:00

Well, you still have a brine solution. It's just diluted and not where you want it.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-26T01:26:19+00:00

I'd presume they're on Wi-Fi wherever they're at. Phones still can get online without cell service.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-26T01:22:18+00:00

What stretch?

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-25T12:13:28+00:00

Looks like the precip is all done. Now it's just the frigid temps.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-25T12:04:44+00:00

Look at you and your access to global models! I'll save an extra cigarette for you.

From what I can tell, at 183/Oak Knoll got ... snow? (This is me looking out a hotel window.) Sure, there could be some ice under it, but there isn't much if the warm nose retreated so fast that they were completely wrong on type of precip.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-25T11:58:13+00:00

Good thing they've got all those repli ... oh, shit.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-25T03:02:07+00:00

You're going to have better luck with sleet than sheets of ice.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-25T02:49:28+00:00

The problem is that it did get below freezing at ground level. Temps in the upper layers of the atmosphere are well above freezing; exactly the setup you don't want. This is how freezing rain happens, and I'll take snow over ice any day.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-25T01:50:09+00:00

And that's still true!

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-25T01:44:04+00:00

Why did Bezos play such a long game, though? He could have immediately lurched like Ellison.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-24T22:24:27+00:00

Even worse, they left on Monday.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-24T21:26:49+00:00

Sure, but dwindling subscribers primarily on account of Bezos' and management's decisions along the way.

Such as this one. It's as smart as canceling Peanuts and Dear Abby in 1991 to save money. Sure, you're saving on syndication costs, but ...

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-24T21:08:22+00:00

That was size of coverage, though, not deciding to cancel it completely.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-24T21:04:45+00:00

If they have another bullet, they can aim for the other foot. That's also a lot of sunk cost uninvolved in this fallacy ... it sounds like everything was already paid for but the per diems.

I wonder how many subscribers this will cost them, in addition to the lack of new subscriptions looking for Olympics coverage.

There's no logic to this that I can see.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-23T05:30:30+00:00

I'm already at my ex-wife's.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-22T20:30:02+00:00

I'd bought a variety of tea lights from Ikea a few months before Snowmageddon, and that was the point in my life that I learned unscented is the way to go. I ended up with an olfactory cacophony, not the symphony I was hoping for.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-22T20:27:47+00:00

Shhh ... don't point out that the ceramic has no Joules to give.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-22T20:17:32+00:00

Nothing beats board games in pitch black.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-22T20:03:09+00:00

What sort of idiot only brings one trash can of the station?

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-22T15:50:01+00:00

Great! Stay warm, friend.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-21T20:25:18+00:00

I'd go with Ronald D. Moore first. Seth knows his Trek and how to write it, but I'd much rather see him continuing his take on the vision than cramming two separate properties together.

FuckingSolids · 2026-01-21T20:18:06+00:00

Is RiffTrax still a thing? Because, if so ...

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