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They keep making far-off predictions.

Far off being the key.

Then when the time eventually arrives, they dismiss the now “old” prediction as old news. As not serious.

And then they make new far-off predictions again.

Well, enjoy the cold, losers.

"Well, enjoy the cold, losers."

I'll agree with you on that. In my area on the Rockies, temps went low enough last winter, that propane in large tanks nearly stopped producing enough pressure to run small furnaces (lowest low about -39 F, strings of nights in the minus thirties). Some of the few residents are trying to flee for the south now and have "for sale" signs up. Sometimes within the next six years, we might be seeing temps well below -44 F (below temps that allow propane to produce pressure regardless of tank size).

Folks sometimes see the views here in summer and move into the locale. Then they get the winter surprise. It can be and has been a killer.

Winter before last, we had spraying ice that piled up deeply (feels like sand instead of snow) and prevented coming or going for most residents for several weeks. It piled up to about three feet deep again within a half hour after clearing on some roads (wind gusts to around 100 mph). Expecting another wet winter now with much ice spraying from the nearby peaks.

I'm designing modifications for a vehicle now (some steel plate fab to do) and regard it all as a set of interesting projects for an adventure. Will also be modifying home utilities for yet more extreme cold during the next few years at least.

Those who don't have experience in working with metals, electrical work, thermal tech. and other technologies with their own hands should focus on southern locations. Relief from the unusually extreme winters may not come for at least another 11 years or so, and services will continue to decline with the increasing debt problems in northern/mountain areas (foreclosures, a barrage of new regulations and property abandonments due to tax hikes continuing thick in the middle of nowhere on the Rockies). Ranching is also quickly shutting down because of new laws, rising taxes, legalistic feuds, increasingly brutally cold weather, wind, etc.