I feel a tad guilty checking the weather forecast this morning. I'm seeing when over the next day or two, we might get the less-than-a-tenth-of-an-inch of rain that's about a 40% probability for Los Angeles. Folks in and around New York are checking on the almost-certain 28+ inches of snow that's already beginning to fall.
A year or two ago, the grief this blizzard will cause back there would have been frosted with an insult to everyone's intelligence. We would have heard that all this snow and ice is proof that there's no such thing as Global Warming. And we'll probably still hear that from someone but most of that faction seems to have thrown in the terrycloth on that line of unreasoning. The new stance is that, yes, there is Climate Change happening but it's arrogant and idiotic to suggest that Man could have caused it or could possibly undo it.
For years, we've heard from these folks that American ingenuity and exceptionalism can achieve anything. Odd how they seem to draw the line at preventing mass shootings or improving the environment.