LITTLE GEMS

Powered by gas through this run of truly cold weather.
Natural gas is the most efficient, cheapest, and most effective form of transferring power from a fossil fuel to a thermal unit (the heater in most homes).  What can go wrong with this rather simple system?  Well, in extreme weather conditions the plant that sends out the gas can throttle back the gas pressure in order to give everyone some energy instead of some more than others.  The supply of gas kept in reserve in most energy company yards is not sufficient to power all the heating needs of an entire geographic region if the temperatures drop to sub-zero levels and the winds rise to high numbers.  The wind helps suck the warmth out of the walls of even the most well-insulated homes under such conditions.  The calls of no or less heat go out to all the heating and air-conditioning companies serving a region, but there’s nothing to fix in so many cases because their either is not enough gas or even the newest of heating units cannot keep up with providing necessary heat if the weather is too cold for too long.  Finally, the best defense is a pre-conceived defense.  Get your heater and air-conditioner system, if you have them, checked before each season starts.

The crooked advertises continues.
Rushing across the screens of all of our televisions, about giving up Social Security, drugs better than Viagra, even tiny tablets that give us fruits and vegetables. The rotten, lying and simply awful political ads are gone, at least for a year or so, when they will start occupying the air waves and building to a nearly unbearable intensity for the next election coming in 2024

Persons of the Week

The Walworth County Sheriff’s department has its annual ice safety training before the temperatures plummet.