DIS GUY
People are not really happy, and they're acting surprised that they have to complain.
See, there was this big snow.
Some of you, like our readers in Nashville, got ice, which really complicated things, as it brought trees crashing to earth from the accumulated weight. Only they did so through the power lines.
Power is still out for thousands across the region, more than a week later, with the injury compounded by frigid temperatures that have not relented.
Thousands of people across Nashville Electric Service’s service area remain without power, as of 3 p.m. Monday, more than a week after the historic ice storm.
The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency reports that the death toll from this storm is at 23.
In Nashville, city leaders and neighbors are pushing to know why these outages have lasted so long, while also working to get everything back up and running.
Northern Mississippi, pretty much a stranger to wintry weather, is also in an ice storm-induced miserable boat.
Every meter in one county was without power. Over a week later, they are almost at 92% restored.
Tens of thousands of Mississippians remain without power nine days after a winter storm knocked out electricity across the state of Mississippi.
Alcorn County Electric Power Association lost power to every meter in its service area when TVA lost transmission to all its substations. CEO Sean McGrath said fewer than 2,000 outages remain as of Monday evening.
“This was a life or death situation for our members,” McGrath said. “The only word that can come to my mind is post-apocalyptic is how it felt.”
McGrath said crews from across the country are assisting with restoration efforts. He visited with the governor during a Monday visit to Corinth, where people continue to gather at the warming center.
“It breaks my heart because, you know, I know I’m responsible for getting their power back on,” McGrath said. “We don’t take that responsibility lightly. We’re trying everything we can to get it on.”
New York City, on the otherhand, was getting ready for it's first weather challenge under the direction of its brand-new mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
Even before the predicted snowpacalypse hit, good commie that he is, Mamdani was out crushing little ones' hopes and sweet, sweet dreams of a snow day.
'Oh, no, rugrat slackers,' the mayor decreed, 'You're gonna go to school remotely
.'There are words for asshats like him, and I'm sure even the littlest Big Apple tykes know them.
So the frozen precipitation made its way to the city, and while it didn't have the spectacularly destructive ice accompanying it, what it did have were absolutely brutal Arctic temperatures that settled in for a ten-day stretch. The wind chills are always exacerbated by the canyons that the city's massive skyscrapers form.
It's damn cold. Bone chilling, lethally, cut you like a knife, cold.
As far as snow removal went, Mamdani's first grade is a fail, even darn near a week later.
Sitting in a taxi trying to get to an appointment. Should take 20 minutes, we are at an hour and ten minutes and counting. The streets are a disaster. It hasn’t snowed in 5 days and the streets still haven’t been cleared. Poor ambulance sitting in aessentially a parking lot with… pic.twitter.com/1FzbguGkeL
— Debra Messing (@_debramessing) January 31, 2026
... I’m praying for the person needing emergency care.
I’ve lived here for 15 years (this go around) and this has never happened. The plows have always worked around the clock to get the city back to working.
I wonder what happened? 😏
Hang in there New Yorkers.
When a plow does make it by, city residents are finding their cars trapped against the curb by a rock-hard, frozen, and refrozen wall of ice, sometimes feet high.
Buses cannot get to the curb if they can get through at all.
Why aren’t the HOT GIRLS for ZORON out supporting the mayor & shoveling this slop?
— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) February 2, 2026
It’s over a week now pic.twitter.com/ojUuApanQR
Which means forget about garbage pickup for over a week. Unless, of course, it's at Gracie Mansion - the mayor's crib. They didn't seem to have an issue.
And they knew this was coming.
.@LawrenceBJones3 slams Mayor Mamdani after deadly winter storm in NYC, saying poor planning and photo-op press conferences left people unprepared and cost lives:
— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) February 3, 2026
“This wasn’t a test—this is primetime now. This wasn’t something like COVID, where nobody saw it coming; the… pic.twitter.com/IIWZvkGObZ
...“This wasn’t a test—this is primetime now. This wasn’t something like COVID, where nobody saw it coming; the forecasts had already told us. It takes about 30 minutes to an hour to get frostbite or hypothermia. So while he was parading around doing press conferences in his custom jacket, he did not plan at all. And now you have people who are dead as a result of it. The city looks like a mess—you can’t even get the snow removed from the sidewalk, trash everywhere. The city was a dump before this, and it’s only getting worse. This is not a test, this is game time, and as we know, Sean, he wasn’t prepared.”
If only that was the worst of it - inconvenience and irritation.
But you know it wasn't.
Zohran Mamdani reveresed long0standing policy in the face of incoming extreme weather when he said there would be no more of the homeless encampment sweeps, which pulled NYC's homeless, whether they wanted to or not - or had the mental ability to make a rational decision or not - off the sidewalks and into shelters before the weather hit.
Oh, no - the warmth of collectivism means even a mentally fragile senior citizen has a right to decide if he wants to stay in his cardboard box in the middle of a snowstorm and below zero windchill.
Police and social workers were allowed to inquire if a homeless person would care to head to a shelter, but if they said 'no,' that was that.
Leave them alone.
Hey @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani: Seven days after my 1/26/26 post, people are still sleeping on freezing sidewalks.
— Sam E. Antar (@SamAntar) February 3, 2026
This video was taken this evening, only two hours ago. This is the outcome.
Location: Lexington Ave armory on 25th street. https://t.co/NQImmTB81D pic.twitter.com/2HliyBaVhQ
Which is how Mayor Mamdani wound up, at last count this morning, with SIXTEEN frozen corpses and desperate scenes like this.
BREAKING - Shocking footage out of Zohran Mamdani’s New York City, captured by NY Scoop, is going viral, showing homeless people sitting over manholes for warmth as snow and garbage line the streets, while 16 people have already died from the cold pic.twitter.com/JiVYTlK2IH
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) February 3, 2026
Sixteen people are dead thanks to his virtue signaling.
Mayor Mamdani (34, nepo baby) vows no more encampment sweeps, campaign promise to the progressive base. Cold front hits NYC. Code Blue issued. 16 dead on streets so far, frozen, exposed, ignored. Giuliani: every mayor for 40 years cleared streets below freezing. Mamdani changes…
— MAG🔫1775🇺🇸 (@realMAG1775) February 3, 2026
...Mamdani changes policy. Result: bodies pile up in his first month.
The theater people's kid tried to squeeze out a tear for his performance this morning.
Mayor Mamdani confirms sixteen deaths during dangerously cold weather in NYC https://t.co/pQ0L9i5Yzz pic.twitter.com/zHAPfvu95u
— New York Post (@nypost) February 2, 2026
In a sick kind of a joke, a not-as-yet-named non-profit is handing out thin little blankets to NYC homeless that have Mamdani's name emblazoned on the back. They are less than worthless, much like the mayor. And the homeless look at them as another reason they can stay outside.
It's the cruelest sort of jest with lives literally on the line.
These blankets were handed out by a nonprofit whose spokesperson — who spoke only on condition I don’t name him — said this was a “stunt” and don’t want to disclose who they are “for fear of retribution.” The red was chosen to protest the mayor’s “socialist, communist” beliefs
That money wasted makes you sick.
Instead of using the tools available to get people who are clearly mentally incapable of surviving on the streets into care during freezing weather, a nonprofit is handing out blankets with Mamdani’s name on them, as a form of protest. No gloves. No hats. No real intervention.… pic.twitter.com/JF2YgAGZ7W
— Robert Holden (@BobHoldenNYC) February 2, 2026
...Just a blanket and Mamdani parading around in cute embroidered jackets with his name stitched on during propaganda pressers. Think about that. He’s effectively telling people: you can stay on the street and die. That’s not compassion.
In Queens, Brooklyn, and the outer boroughs, people are shoved onto old yellow school buses where the heat barely works and they’re handed cold food. That’s the level of dignity this administration thinks vulnerable people deserve. Two systems. Two standards.
The blanket itself says it all. It’s not a pathway to safety. It’s an encouragement to remain on the street. And honestly, nothing better symbolizes the Mamdani homeless crisis than these dull, Soviet-colored blankets stamped with his name. It’s the dumbest, most cynical marketing imaginable.
Mamdani is completely over his head. And it wouldn’t even be worth commenting on if people weren’t literally dying on his watch. When your only answer to a life-or-death crisis is a jacket with your name on it, you’ve failed. Period.
There's more to come.
Eastern US braces for another snowstorm bringing arctic temps and likely travel delays https://t.co/Kj7H41bdeT pic.twitter.com/xyOmiScD4P
— New York Post (@nypost) February 3, 2026
Today’s cover: Mamdani still will only force homeless NYers off the streets ‘as last resort’ – even as deep freeze death toll rises to 13 https://t.co/s6XZ7DpMfo pic.twitter.com/xx5QC2YTTm
— New York Post (@nypost) January 31, 2026
And, I guess, more to go.
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