Experts say shaking felt in western Ohio and neighboring Indiana was caused by a phenomenon known as “frost quakes.” …The Dayton Daily News reports they occur when soil soaked with moisture goes through a quick freeze, causing an expansion and contraction that can be violent.
I’m ready for it to stop being so goddamn cold.
also:
moving in all this snow?
bad timesss.
At least you could have got your shit together and snowed like this YESTERDAY so i could have gotten that goddamn SNOW DAY i wanted so badly
COME ON
There is so much snow that cleveland metro is having trouble keeping the roads clear. WHAT?
The fact that NE Ohio is really on top of their shit when it comes to snow removal is really disappointing when it means you can get a ton of snow and still have to go to work in the morning.
oh no more snow!
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I think that time of year when it snows and snows and doesn’t stop for three to four months has come to Cleveland. I have conflicting feelings about this. Right now I still think it’s pretty, but by the end of January my thoughts will probably be focused more on murder-suicides.
The Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project has adopted as a point of unity “We reject the commodification of our shared and living Earth”. We probably would have signed on to this point of unity had tonight not happened. We henceforth reject this point of unity unless it is changed to something along the lines of “We support the commodification and destruction of our shared and living Earth”.
We have done this because fuck mother nature. No, but really, fuck her.
All summer, more than a year after the drought began, fountains sprayed and football fields were watered, prisoners got two showers a day and Coca-Cola’s bottling plants chugged along at full strength. On an 81-degree day this month, an outdoor theme park began to manufacture what was intended to be a 1.2-million-gallon mountain of snow.
This is just a collection of things I think are neat.
A general overview of 'things I think are neat':abandonment/the post-industrial midwest, anarchism (syndicalism, insurrectionalism, etc), race/ethnicity (esp. defining/constructing the boundaries of whiteness), gender, class (talking/thinking about class generally seems to be an underrated activity), health care (access to, the experience of obtaining, etc), art, science fiction, punk music, conservative talk radio and anthropology (which probably incorporates almost everything else about people).
