Fri
Jan 10 2025
06:30 am
By: bizgrrl
The National Weather Service is predicting 2-8 inches of snow today through tomorrow morning.
Winter weather message.
WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM EST /9 AM CST/
THIS MORNING TO 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ SATURDAY...
Snow will begin by mid to late morning, moderate to heavy
at times this afternoon and evening. The snow may mix with sleet
or possibly freezing rain for areas east of interstate 81 and 75
this afternoon. Total snow accumulations between 3 and 6 inches
west of interstate 81 and 75, and 2 to 4 inches east. Ice
accumulations around a light glaze.
Accuweather has a great radar map to follow.
We'll see. I'm ok with snow here in the South. I always hope it's gone the next day.
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It will be here tomorrow. It's coming fast and hard, and cold.
We're in way better shape than last year. We'll see howe it all plays out. Here's hoping we don't lose any lives due to carelessness, neglect, or stupidity. That's a big order around here.
Welp, it's quit snowing. Looks like the hand is dealt.
Honest to God, if people stayed off the roads for the next 30 hours and let the road crews do their job, by Monday, businesses could open. It would take a huge commitment and buy-in from the community.
A shout out to anyone venturing out today.
The warming centers at Vestal United Methodist Church and Magnolia United Methodist Church need drinks (water, coffee, milk, sodas etc.), cups, and casseroles (i take frozen lasagnas because I have a lazy streak) to operate until Friday, when the weather breaks. Anyone that can find it in their heart who has the means to help, it sure is appreciated. Working with Tim Jackson and Kecia Armstrong has been a humbling and fulfilling experience. I will find it hard to repay them for their care for the less fortunate and for offering those of us in the community a chance to help out. We can do this.
Thanks.
(in reply to fischbobber)
Thanks.
Are there special times for
(in reply to fischbobber)
Are there special times for drop offs?
We've tried to drop off at a couple of churches in Blount County to find out no 9ne is there.
Whenever I have a load, I've just driven by and dropped it off.
(in reply to bizgrrl)
It's been a long time since I've seen Christians acting like Christians. It's been a pleasure to help.
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Better than we were isn't the same as where we need to be. And folks, that's where we sit with our winter weather response. We have designed a response based on our historical averages , highs in the mid forties and lows in the upper twenties, temperatures than would not trigger the warming centers because these are the normal situations people deal with. We have now blown past our planned worst case scenario.
This is a City/County/Community plan, and frankly, I've seen worse. You can't blame planners for weather that turns 12 degrees below historical averages for the whole damn season, and that's where we are. This isn't about the City or the County doing anything wrong. This is about the weather going to extremes. Instead of warming centers being a stopgap measure to prevent deaths from exposure, this extended cold spell is fundamentally changing the way they operate in the short term. We are having to adjust the plan to the circumstance, and adjust the plan for the future. No longer are we just dealing with homelessness, we are dealing with how we're going to address climate change as it deals with homelessness. This is two anomaly weather years, back to back.
We base our warming center plan on a twenty-five degree base. We plan for 18 days of that. We blew out of that plan last week and we've got two months of winter left, and based on what we've seen so far, this will extend to March. It started early and doesn't look like it's going to let up.
So, what does that mean? Well, for starters, warming centers operate on donated funds and effort. They do not have an endless supply of food, and volunteers are tough to come by. Nobody wants to just help out anymore, they want to run the show and install their own agenda. The warming centers all have someone running the show that know more about what they're doing than anyone bitching. Read that last sentence again. What they need are supplies, tampons, underwear, toilet paper, food, casseroles, fruit, package non-perishible items, oatmeal, cup o soups, volunteers and money.
The food, supplies, and volunteers are immediate needs. We need that today. There is a two day cold bitter rain that will be above freezing and then we go right back to unseasonable bitter cold, and the doors to the warming centers will reopen. We need food and volunteers to make this happen, and we need them now. There are no gray areas or room for public debate. Let's be real clear about people using this situation for political advantage or to advance an agenda, you are the problem here. We need to get this done, and while everybody has their own ideas, our plan is what we've got and we have to make it work. If you don't like that, show up and get involved. It took two years of planning to get to where we are and that plan is working, it just isn't big enough. Here's where you can participate to change things. (link...)
The money will be vital to keeping this operation afloat. I don't know how the churches are going to manage utility bills. I saw the 18,000 number bandied about earlier today and I'm wondering if someone is estimating the bill or trying to fix the HVAC system permanently. There's well over 100,000 dollars worth of structural upgrades that need to be addressed if Magnolia Ave UMC is going to achieve it's mission. And it will happen, but it's not going to happen this week. This week, we, as a community, have to decide whether we're going to help therse churches keep their doors open until we can address these issues when there aren't an overwhelming number of people needing immediate aid. And we are going to have to decide that next week, and probably every week until this years jet stream decides to stay north of us. Nobody planned this, this isn't the governments fault, it's what climate change looks like. We need to adjust and adapt.
So why am I writing this? I don't want to see people die because they live in a community that will abandon them. If you're able, particularly if you're young with a bunch of energy, or old with whatever skills you've learned in life, we need your help with volunteering. Get your Sunday School Class. Reach out to Young Life and other groups on campus. Put a bug in your Professors ear about extra credit for volunteer work (that's how they used to get us to show up) , do something, and do something positive to help. Everybody's got a crappy plan that won't work, save yours for the meeting. Work with the warming on what they have going. It's not perfect, but it's working.
Finally, food and supplies. We need them. Tampons are a huge need and anyone that has ever bought them knows that price gouging is standard practice. If you see a sale, grab a box. We need coffee, and hot chocolate. Oatmeal. Things that can be heated. Casseroles. Bottled water. Toilet paper. If you are looking at something wondering if there is a need, there probably is. If we can all work together, bringing what each of us has to offer, we can get through this as a community. We don't want to be a community that allows its own to die cold and lonely just because we want to argue instead of help when the time to help is upon us. The time to help is now. KARM, Salvation Army, Magnolia Ave. UMC and Vestal UMC are all partners here. Please find it in your heart to do something. Large things happen when people band together doing little things.
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