Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/8/2017 12:25:15 PM

Once again the people who want to tell us what the weather is going to be like in 50 years can't get it right 4 hours in advance.  This is just the beginning of the mess.  Be glad you aren't here.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/8/2017 12:50:21 PM

A few snowflakes fell and now they are closing the schools.  It is well above freezing, and ice is not an issue.  

Name:	blmeanie -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/8/2017 1:03:55 PM

I'm on a 16th floor in Buckhead, traffic at standstill.  One truck I've watched go 100+ yds in 30 minutes

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/8/2017 1:10:06 PM

That sounds about right.  A lot of businesses have probably released their employees all at once.  I don't know why, in the South, meteorologists insist on creating a panic; and then there is no plan about how to handle it.  I guess spending most of my adult life living up north has jaded my thinking.  The problems up there are diffeent - the guy driving an SUV at 60mph, because he thinks his SUV has made him invincible, black ice, when people get released from work before the roads get sanded.  It's just snow and a little common sense goes a long way.

Name:	HARRY -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/8/2017 6:56:50 PM

The premature school closings are all about liability. No harm no foul.

Name:	blmeanie -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/9/2017 8:40:31 PM

Snow storm knocked a lot of tree limbs down, one pierced my roof, patched it up and then noticed the main power line wasn't just above the roof anymore and found it downed and up against a gutter...all that while standing in snow and slush on the roof.

Anyway, took this from about 250' up (drone)

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/9/2017 9:07:49 PM

So we have Charter internet and TV. Internet works fine but no TV. Go figure.   

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/9/2017 9:38:28 PM

We had no internet all day, and the TV went in and out.  I guess it was snow gremlins.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/9/2017 10:31:20 PM

Well, now that I am an unemployed lake bum, not full time but a lot more than in the recent past, these things are a little more important, lol.  When I got to the cabin earlier today I wondered why it was so cold inside....then I tried to turn on a light...no power.  Doubles my resolve to run a gas line into the new addition so we can have a propane-fueled backup heat source.  And another generator to match the one we have in town.

Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/10/2017 1:09:10 AM

Where on the lake are you located?

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/10/2017 8:40:44 AM

Parker Creek.  TV signal finally appeared a few minutes ago.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/10/2017 12:12:16 PM

Yeah, as often as the power goes out here, you need a back up generator.  

Our Charter/Spectrum goes down a lot because we are at the end of the line.  I have to say, it has gotten better in recent years, but we went through a period where it was down a lot.  

Name:	Mack -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/10/2017 5:40:15 PM

After our Bham power stayed out for 4 days when Ivan blew thru, got a whole house generator fueled by ALA Gasco. It is a 15KW that works great. Now ask me how many times the power has been out for more than 30 minutes since Ivan?? Right..ZIP. Good expensive UPS system never used...

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/10/2017 7:09:00 PM

LOL. Bought a middle of the road portable about ten years ago for the house in Montgomery and the power has been rock solid ever since.  

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/11/2017 9:01:22 PM

It's called insurance.  Back sometime in the 90s we got a killer snowstorm in VA.  Bought a snowblower that year and it never snowed to any consequence again.  Always credited it to the new snowblower in the garage.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/11/2017 10:24:22 PM

Being a new "Moretimer", that sounds like a good insurance policy! Especially if it works!

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/12/2017 11:24:19 PM

What will you do with all your free time?  it was very hard for me at first, but I finally got into the groove.  But I am still a procastinator at heart.  

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/13/2017 1:04:11 AM

After I work down the list of things that went begging in the past 30 months I will volunteer...maybe Meals on Wheels, a church mission trip here and there, and find something to do that is intellectually challenging.  I wouldn't mind some part time work from home in the cyber security arena, as there is a critical need for people who can at least spell security and know which is the business end of a computer.  When I saw what people are making in DC in that workstream and how miserably they perform, it worries me that we will fall behind our adversaries.  I strongly advocate less paperwork and more penetration testing, but the latest process contains myriad multiples of the old process requirements, and attempts to arrange penetration testing (I.e., Red Team) are met with petty squabbles over the Rules of Engagement.  It is STILL the "stay out of my rice bowl" mentality.

Sorry for the epistle but I care about my profession and it's current state worries me.  

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Welcome to snowmeggedon part deux
Date:	12/14/2017 12:34:09 PM

I totally get it.  I don't subscribe to the "getting hacked, and oh, by the way, you get free cyber security for a year".  I do think we are falling behind in our cyber security.  

I still care to some extent about my profession.  Transfer of critical defense and defense/commercial parts and knowledge is being watered down, in the face of companies making money.  Now that DoD is out of the loop on Committee for Foreign Investment in the U.S. and it is strictly a Commerce deal, it scares me to think what might be allowed for the sake of dollars.  It may be great for the seller, but Americans will pay the price when our electrical grids are being controlled by foreign entities.  

I had a bad feeling years ago when we started letting countries take their production off shore.  Now it is just assumed that any sale, will include the right to manufacture in a foreign country.  Protests aside, companies look for the quick dollar, not the long term consequences.