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WE’RE IN FOR IT!
The first big snowstorm of the season arrived over Thanksgiving weekend. A major winter storm impacted Lake Geneva and the surrounding area from late Saturday, November 29, to Sunday, November 30, 2025, with heavy snow accumulation and dangerous travel conditions. Snowfall totals reached about 6 inches in Lake Geneva, and hazardous weather advisories were issued due to the storm, which was followed by strong winds causing blowing snow. The holiday storm resulted in car crashes, flight cancellations, and power outages in the Milwaukee area.
Post-Thanksgiving travelers in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas see hundreds of flights canceled and delayed after the snowstorm. On Sunday, about 300 flights into and out of O’Hare had been canceled by early evening, while about 1,600 had been delayed.
In Wisconsin, utility crews worked to restore power to thousands of people. We Energies reported more than 6,000 power outages, with more than half in Milwaukee and South Milwaukee. Others said power lines were sagging under heavy, wet snow. The next ten days are predicted to be cold, with lows getting down to the single digits some nights. There’s a chance of light flurries throughout the week, but thankfully no storms.
On the national scene, the storms of November and before still blow as strong as or stronger than those in the Midwest. Murder on the high seas and outright war crimes being committed in the Caribbean by American civilian and military authorities and servicemen and women have had a deeper negative impact on society as a whole than the weather. The weather is mostly the province of God, except for predictions about when and where weather changes are occurring and headed, but the conduct of the nation’s military is definitely something that is the full and unavoidable responsibility of the nation’s leadership. The leadership, if elected, is hard to change when it makes mistakes. Mistakes of deliberation or ignorance force the people of the country to endure the depressive results of things being done that they almost certainly do not want to see done.
Current reports of survivors of some of the supposed drug-carrying boats coming out of Venezuela being blown to pieces when clinging to the record of their sinking crafts are disturbing, to say the least. Even in a declared war, the forces of the U.S. are not allowed to kill unarmed combatants from the opposing side, nor kill those surrendering to be held prisoner, and certainly not civilians. At times, in a fierce hot war, such rules are gone around (Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki), but there is no declared war with Venezuela, nor even on drug suppliers, despite the use of that word colloquially, like calling the Department of Defense the Department of War or the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Drug dealers do not get executed, except in a few Asian or Middle Eastern countries, and are not held in much respect by those countries considered first world. Even in those countries, the suspected perpetrators are arrested and tried before any punishment is handed down.
The winter of cold, ice, and snow is accompanied across most of the countryside with a deeper and darker winter of our discontent as a nation. It is not easy to be ashamed of what we’ve done, and it is even harder to accept being ashamed of what others do with our democratic selection of leaders who do not do what is expected of them or act in ways that only bring shame to those who perform such acts in our names.
