First Snow of the winter has arrived!

The fluffy white hexagonal crystals of the crystalline solid phase of H₂O are dropping from the sky at a steady pace here in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, exactly 1 week before the "election" of a replacement POTUS to take over for the brain dead senile walking corpse currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the capitol of the Fascist States of Amerika.  Looks like we will get an accumulation of at least 6" here in Anchorage, and as per forma with the first snow, Happy Motorist who manage every year to forget you have to slow down and triple your following distance behind the CO₂ spewing atmosphere wrecker ahead of you to avoid ending up in a wreck yourself.  As of 8PM last night, 64 crashes had already been recorded, with another 40 vehivles in "distress".  I think that means they got stuck, not that they're worried about whether there will be liquid hydrocarbons available to fill the tank available for the remainder of the loan coupons still outstanding from its purchase.  Here in Alaska and the rest of the FSoA right now, the power packed energy dense lifeblood of the industrial civilization is still flowing copiously out of the gas and diesel pumps of convenience stores and truckstops, as 99.999% of oblivious drones believe it will be for the rest of their lives, along with the juice flowing through the copper wires strung around town delivering power to run their refrigerators and big screen TVs and information and electromagnetic signals  being delivered back and forth  in flurries of bits more dense than the white crystals currently sharing the airspace with them.  The FSoA is not Cuba, here in the Belly of the Beast both the hydrocarbons and dollars are still moving around with enough lubrication to keep the civilization humming reasonably peacefully.  It remains an open question how long it will take to disappear here after the triage of 3rd World countries dropping back to 17th century living as they undergo Demand Destruction, unable to access the credit required in the trade of oil for debt.

As it happens, the snowfall coincides with an appointment with my Prosthetician, who I am having update my prosthetic leg which no longer fits on my stump well enough to use at all, and weven when it still did fit wasn't very useful because I couldn't get it on and off without help and also caused phantom pain in y missing limb.  I am having him change the attachment system so perhaps I can use it at least on the occassions I have to venture out into the world, which in general is only for doctor's appointments or to buy cancerettes.  Everything else I get delivered, purchased online primarily food from Fred Meyer (a Kroger affiliate) or Amazon for everything else.

Last winter was record setting for snow, with small mountains of it pushed around into piles that didn't all melt off until into May this year, and which by January had turned most roadways into Canyons between 6 foot high piles on either side covering the sidewalks and bringing any movement by foot around town to a complete halt.  Hopefully this year the new mayor will do a better job managing the snow removal, which was a huge issue in the campaign.  Not counting on that though.

Finally, the arrival of November and snow marks my 2 tear Anniversary living in the Post Acute Care facility that warehouses 100 or so residents fortunate enough to be sufficiently disabled that medicare & medicaid together along with all your retirement income minus $200 in money they generously allow you to keep for personal expenses each month.  Needless to say, $200 doesn't last very long these days if you buy anything at all.  With the extreme shortage of Affordable Housing in Anchorage, as well as a similarly extreme shortage of Home Health Care workers, it remains an open question as to whether or not I will ever leave this place to live independently again, or be stuck here until I die,  Fortunately, unlike the Assisted Living Grand Guignol Kafkaesque nightmare facility I was stuck in for 7 months after the amputation of my leg, this place has a reasonably professional staff as well as decent enough food I can stomach eating.  It costs a fortune, but for a lucky few of us the socialized medicine system is working and covers the bill.

There is also other ongoing good news as I continue to work diligently on my TOP SECRET project to fund the SUN Foundation, and hope to be able to get off the ground by Spring of 2025.  K-Dog is working with me helping with the website, and I hope to be able to let the rest of you in on the project before the end of the year, but for now it needs to remain a closely guarded secret.  Suffice it to say that if all goes as planned, there will be enough money generated to develop a SUN Communal Living Center/Doomstead and I will be able to get out of here to live there and manage it.  Time will tell.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2024/10/27/first-heavy-snow-of-the-season-is-possible-for-anchorage-starting-late-monday-says-weather-service/

First significant snowfall of the season hits Southcentral Alaska

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