{"id":4493,"date":"2021-01-15T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2022-05-06T01:11:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T01:11:30","slug":"the-winter-storm-continues-but-not-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/the-winter-storm-continues-but-not-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winter Storm Continues, But Not Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20201109ff\/20210115-1035-US-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s Friday morning. I&#8217;ve written, briefly, about the weather and vaguely-related topics for three days now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/a-winter-weather-advisory-next-mornings-progress\/\">A Winter Weather Advisory, Next Morning&#8217;s Progress<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(January 14, 2021)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/a-winter-weather-advisory-forecasts-and-making-sense\/\">A Winter Weather Advisory, Forecasts and Making Sense<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(January 13, 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;Winter Weather Advisory&#8221; doesn&#8217;t apply to my part of Minnesota this morning. There&#8217;s still a blizzard in progress elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I heard about school closings on the radio this morning, and the announcer said that quite a few area businesses are closed, too: and advised calling ahead before going outside.<\/p>\n<h4><a name=\"mostly\"><\/a>Mostly Masked in Minnesota<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/back-from-the-hospital-the-masked-minnesotan-rides-again\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20200519ff\/20200902-BackHome-DSC08852-329.JPG?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Masked Minnesotan Rides Again\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Me? I&#8217;d planned on staying inside today and tomorrow. I plan on staying inside most days, now that I think of it.<\/p>\n<p>Which may help explain why pandemic precautions aren&#8217;t bothering me.<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t bothering me all that much, that is. Speaking of which \u2014 When I go to the local Walmart for supplies, I&#8217;m noticing more folks wearing masks. Now it&#8217;s the rare exception who&#8217;s maskless.<\/p>\n<p>I was the rare exception one time. I&#8217;d gone in for meds, realized that I&#8217;d forgotten to mask up while parking, and went in anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I used the entrance near the pharmacy, walked straight to the prescription pick-up&#8217;s &#8216;wait here&#8217; floor marking, did the pick-up-meds routine, and went straight out. Holding my unfastened winter coat over my face as much as possible: the classic &#8220;Dracula&#8221; pose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I felt slightly silly, but nobody stopped or bothered me. Living in rural central Minnesota probably helps. We&#8217;re not perfect people in these parts, by any means. But I suspect we&#8217;re a tad less likely to make unnecessary trouble for each other.<\/p>\n<p>There are individuals who aren&#8217;t like that, and that&#8217;s almost another topic.<\/p>\n<h4><a name=\"views\"><\/a>Views<\/h4>\n<p>One more thing. My webcam is still online, sharing its view Ash Street South and 9th Avenue, Sauk Centre.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GTpd5LSRO-0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"329\" height=\"185\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/iframe>Which isn&#8217;t nearly as picturesque as Waitsfield Covered Bridge in Vermont.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/webcam\/\">Webcam: Sauk Centre MN<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GTpd5LSRO-0\">Covered Bridge Webcam from Vermont&#8217;s Mad River Valley<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There. I&#8217;ve talked about the weather, mentioned my webcam, and now it&#8217;s nearly time for lunch. After that, I really ought to get back to my current &#8216;to do&#8217; writing project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now it&#8217;s Friday morning. I&#8217;ve written, briefly, about the weather and vaguely-related topics for three days now: &#8220;A Winter Weather Advisory, Next Morning&#8217;s Progress&#8221; (January 14, 2021) &#8220;A Winter Weather Advisory, Forecasts and Making Sense&#8221; (January 13, 2021) The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/the-winter-storm-continues-but-not-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[200,194,132,195],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-covid-19","tag-minnesota","tag-weather","tag-webcam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-1at","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5882,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/5882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}