One of my friends in the Mt. Shasta area said he had 2 feet of snow outside his window. He has a snow blower and a 4 wheel drive truck but they haven't plowed the main roads in front of his property yet. So, the snow is building up from Redding north all the way up into Canada in some areas now including Mt. Shasta. So, it has been snowing in the Mt. Shasta area basically continuously since it got dark Tuesday night there.
* WHAT...Large breaking waves between 14 to 19 ft along southwest facing beaches and between 19 to 22 ft along well exposed west facing beaches.
* WHERE...San Francisco, Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore, San Francisco Peninsula Coast and Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast Counties.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM PST Frida
If your rear end of your vehicle goes out from under you the best way (if you have enough paved road to do this) is to turn into the slide with your front wheels.
If you are a front wheel drive this could get a little tricky but still under most conditions you should turn into the rear wheels sliding out from under you while removing your foot from the gas pedal. But, mostly once your rear wheels go out from under you you don't want to put your brakes on unless you want to die soon hitting a tree or something because this can put the car into a spin (as in 360 degrees or more).
This is why if you are not used to driving in Snow or ice or slush or black ice it is better not to be especially on freeways when it is like this because other cars or trucks might not know how to properly drive under these conditions either.
Sometimes you can down shift even with automatics or sometimes you can pull up on your hand brake to straighten your car out when the butt goes first down a slope but not always. So, if you start spinning out and survive it it might be better to just stop driving if you don't fully understand the dynamics of snow or ice or slush driving so you don't die.
Downshifting with front wheel drive on a down slope might be a problem so if you are going straight put your hand brake on lightly to straighten out the car while you also release your foot off the gas pedal. Often by downshifting with a front wheel drive and by using your hand brake while pushing the button down so you can release it at any time you can survive some pretty serious situations.
just remember if your car starts sliding sideways or spinning around applying the brakes in any way might be the last thing you ever do.
From Yreka to Dunsmuir and Redding at least. However, at night I would be careful of Black ice everywhere because you usually can't see it and if you don't see it you could easily be dead soon.
So, be careful even Thursday night and Friday night because of this. After Thursday and Friday of rain melting snow then it snows then it rains on a daily basis sort of one neutralizing the other so snow likely cannot accumulate most places under 4000 feet in elevation as a result throughout Siskiyou County where Mt. Shasta (the mountain is). Under these conditions like I said really be careful of unseen Slush and Black ice everywhere both of which are extremely dangerous for newbie drivers in ice and snow.
If you see ANY Black ice one way to stay alive is to severely reduce your speeds in your vehicle or just get off the road so you can stay alive through these conditions.
It was a blustery day today as Winnie the Poo would say and windy everywhere. I had to be very very careful walking my dog along the particular beach and be ready to run from rogue waves also today. If I looked inland to the SouthEast I could see cirrus clouds that were very beautiful. But, when I looked out to sea I saw 7 to 10 foot waves with white Caps. This is the weather you do NOT want to be out to sea in anything less than maybe 50 to 100 feet ship of some kind and sailing there is too much wind to safely sail in this either even if you had the stomach for bouncing over the choppy stormy seas. So, today I saw no boats at all out on the ocean because it is just too rough.
The rain chances where I live are as follows
Wednesday today 30% chance of rain but none so far as of 5 pm Wednesday
Thursday 10% chance of Rain
Friday 80% chance of Rain
Saturday 40% chance of Rain
Sunday 70% chance of rain.
There are also two storms here:
The Bomb Cyclone and the Atmospheric River combined are the first storm causing a lot of havoc now north of Marin County all the way into Canada where there were 400,000 people without power at midnight last and one dead from the storm as of last night Tuesday.
So, some people are going to have to deal with snow or rain ongoing from last night until the following Wednesday with no let up at all especially around Healdsburg and Mt. Shasta in Siskiyou county for example. In other words 8 days of snow and rain in places from San Francisco north into Canada on the coast.
Interstate 5 is still closed from Fawndale rd. redding, California north all the way to 21 miles south of Yreka so likely either you would have to go inland up 101 into Oregon or some other route that you might be able to drive through if you are going there now. The least likely to see snow (even though it could be snowing some places along 101 too) is 101. But, flying north to Oregon or Washington likely right now is your best bet because of conditions EVERYWHERE in Siskiyou County all the way to Ashland, Oregon with snow right now.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-nuclear-doctrine-changes-russia-ukraine-war-west-rcna180772
If the Kremlin was hoping to instill fear among its Western foes by lowering the bar for its use of nuclear weapons, then it may have been disappointed Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's broadened nuclear doctrine appeared to be a thinly veiled threat to the United States and its allies over their ramped-up support for Ukraine.
The updated document includes a change that allows for Moscow to launch a nuclear strike if attacked by a nonnuclear country, such as Ukraine, that is supported by a nuclear state, such as the U.S. It was formally approved the same day that Kyiv used its first U.S.-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles against Russia.
But while the chances of Putin deploying a devastating nuclear weapon in his war with Ukraine are never nil, world leaders and analysts alike expressed doubts that the change amounted to much more than a new and more intense effort to deter the West.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told NBC News that he saw no indication that Moscow is imminently intent on using nuclear weapons.
“I don’t see a change in their strategic force posture and so we’ll continue to remain vigilant in this regard,” he said on the 1,000th day since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
“He has rattled his nuclear saber quite a bit and this is dangerous behavior,” Austin said of Putin.
Kyiv’s allies in Europe were just as unmoved in public as Washington.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told a news conference in Brazil on Tuesday that the “irresponsible rhetoric coming from Russia … is not going to deter our support for Ukraine.” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot dismissed Putin’s decision as “rhetoric,” adding that “we are not intimidated.” European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell also condemned Putin's threat of nuclear escalation as "completely irresponsible."
The Kremlin seemed eager to play up the idea of rising tensions.
Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the state news agency Tass on Wednesday that a special hotline designed to calm crises between the Kremlin and the White House is not currently in use.
But behind those remarks from Western officials lies a sense that the change to Russia’s nuclear doctrine constitutes a propaganda tool — backed by a powerful arsenal but weakened by its repeated use — rather than any dramatic shift in Moscow's plans, experts told NBC News.
“Russia’s move will tie in with the campaign by its backers in the West to paint the easing of restrictions on ATACMS strikes into Russia as a dangerous escalation,” said Keir Giles, senior consulting fellow with the London-based think-tank Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia program.
“Since there’s little Russia can do in response in practical terms, it turns to threatening language on paper to undermine the resolve of the outgoing Biden administration. That’s understandable — direct and indirect nuclear threats have been so effective in the past in deterring Biden from backing Ukraine fully, that it would be disappointing for Moscow if this latest move didn’t make a difference,” Giles told NBC News.
The Biden administration's reversal on letting Kyiv use long-range American weapons for limited strikes inside Russia followed months of pleading from Ukraine and warnings of dire consequences from Moscow.
Intimidation has long been a favored tool of the Kremlin in its attempts to shape Western policy, and the Kremlin's doctrinal changes were once again backed by grave threats from some of its leading public advocates.
“Our enemies are forced to admit that the determination of the Russian President to firmly defend the fundamental interests of the country by all available means narrows the room for maneuver for Washington and Brussels. Attempts by individual NATO allies to participate in providing for possible long-range strikes with Western weapons deep into Russian territory will not go unpunished,” Putin's spy chief Sergei Naryshkin said in an interview with the magazine National Defense.
“Russia’s new nuclear doctrine means NATO missiles fired against our country could be deemed an attack by the bloc on Russia,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said. “Russia could retaliate with WMD against Kiev and key NATO facilities, wherever they’re located. That means World War III,” added Medvedev, who is now the deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council.
For all that observers will have been poring over the small print of the updated document Putin signed Tuesday, the power to unleash nuclear war is ultimately concentrated in the hands of the Russian leader alone.
“In all, the new doctrine says that Russia will use nuclear weapons whenever the President decides to do so,” William Alberque, former director of strategy, technology and arms control at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said in a post on X.
Still, the steady bloodshed of the war in Ukraine over the past two years and Putin’s unpredictable nature mean that any nuclear posturing cannot be dismissed out of hand, analysts say.
"The doctrinal changes have indeed been in the works for some time. It does appear that the timing of the decree was chosen deliberately, to send a (strong) signal of disapproval of the decision to give the authorization," said Pavel Podvig, an expert on Russia's nuclear forces.
A nuclear strike would nonetheless make little strategic sense, he said, especially at a time when Russia's military is making territorial gains inside Ukraine and such an escalation would risk blowback even from Moscow’s allies.
"It would be a serious gamble," Podvig, a senior researcher at the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research, said in an email. “But I cannot, however, rule out that the Kremlin is prepared to take its chances. Especially if Moscow feels that it can count on a weak response.”
However, luckily my angels have told me I'm going to survive this even though I knew last summer I also might die around now. So:
Once again I live on by God's Grace alone.
Somehow I am used by God and angels to help save your lives worldwide.
That Trump is Evil to me at least is not debatable. The quality that is most disturbing to me about Trump I would describe as:
INSIDIOUS
Some people say he is a LOOSE CANNON which is also true and also why Putin wants Trump dead eventually too. But, for now, he is just threatening Melania in Russian newspapers with her naked pictures displayed all over. From Putin's point of view this just means they are starting to go after Trump's family.
I don't think this is lost on Trump either being a part of Putin's Mafiya and and oligarch for Putin as well.
If you look closely in Trump's eyes now there is only terror in the promises he made to sell his soul to the Devil (PUTIN). I don't think Trump is long for this world (one way or another at this point) and I think he also sees the writing on the wall.
Trump is just too big a Loose Cannon for Putin to feel safe with Trump still being alive.
Sort of like with:
| Yevgeny Prigozhin | |
|---|---|
| Died | 23 August 2023 (aged 62) Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast, Russia |
| Cause of death | Airplane crash |
| Resting place | Porokhovskoye Cemetery |
| Spouse | Lyubov Valentinovna Prigozhina |
