The Pyramid People

This week, there was a big snow storm and cold temperatures across much of the US. In my area, we have maybe 24"-36" accumulated snow on the ground in spots. A bunch of "alerts" kept popping off on my phone with doom porn about snow and cold. It's weird how people have devolved into a panic/effeminate norm in just recent years of just my life. This kind of storm is a pretty common event in Northeast Ohio.

Many people were miffed that some local Sheriffs didn't declare a "snow emergency". In a "snow emergency" you can't even go on the road without getting a traffic citation, so you couldn't go to the grocery store or whatever. The reasoning of the Sheriffs is "we live in a snowy area." The roads were fine really. I'm glad I didn't have to commute in this mess, but I did normal errands through the snowy days. It's really not a big deal.

I think that split between the more practical, pragmatic people and the pyramid people will keep growing. The pyramid zones will be bad places to live.

In northeast Ohio, the winter of 2025-26 has been pretty cold and snowy so far. This winter is a break in a 10-15 year pattern of milder winter temperatures which more panic mongers attributed to "global warmaids". People don't know shit but claim perfect knowledge and foresight about almost any topic.

The long term winter snowfall average is about 110 inches per year, however, it generally doesn't accumulate on the ground the whole winter. The normal pattern is snow accumulates for maybe a couple of weeks starting in late December, then warmer weather and rain melts it, then it snows and accumulates again, then melts a couple more times through January, February, and March. The pattern of snow accumulation and melting varies quite a bit from year to year and also seems to wobble up and down in a decades or maybe centuries long cycle.

Winters from maybe 2010 until the early 2020s were generally milder than winters I grew up with in the 1970s through the early 2000s. I cross country ski, specifically go "skate skiing" in the winter as an alternative to road cycling or mountain biking. It requires well groomed trails--a park employee on a snowmobile drags a roller around to pack the snow, then uses other various implements to keep the trail in nice shape. Good ski conditions require about 18" of snowfall, very cold temperatures, and occasional new snow. A couple of warm days, just in the mid 30s, will destroy the trail. In the 90s through the early 2000s, I would be able to ski many times through a winter. Over these mild winter years, I didn't bother dragging the skis out of storage and waxing them, etc... I probably only went a couple of times over 2020-2024.

Anyway, I'm starting to see "the pyramid people" are almost entirely useless. Their life is all about opinions of scammers and partaking in scammer plans.