We seem to have dodged the arctic bullet that is the Great Ice Storm of 2026. We lost power for all of abot four minutes The pipes are okay, and the roads are relatively clear.
Not so for our neighbors to the north. I understand that Oxford, MS took a major hit, with substantial damage to the electrical grid. Those folks are in a bind.
Drinking coffee with Belle this morning, we were talking about being cold, and the lessons we have learned over the years. Both Belle and I grew up in the '60s and '70s. I remarked that back in those days, girls would sometimes wear clothes that exposed a bare midriff. I seem to recall a universal trait, that when I would touch an ice cube to an exposed belly button, the lady would object. Sometimes violently.
Moving to another survivor of the '60s, we come to the Air Force fleet of aging bombers, the old B-52. During the '80s I was assigned to a unit in the Army Reserve. Our headquarters building was just off the north end of the runway at Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, LA. Barksdale is a major hub for the B-52. They were aging machines in those days, but it seems that the service life of those airframes may be 100 years. The earliest of them were delivered in the 1950s and may still be flying in the 2050. Incredible.
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