Weather, Rush, and More Weather

Southern winter weather and remembering Rush Limbaugh. 

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Carol: 0:17

Good morning. It is Ash Wednesday, February 17. Now I am a Catholic but shame on me because I'm not a I'm not an active participating Catholic right now. And I no shame on me for that. But I'm sitting here in bed having a cup of coffee. It's 10 o'clock in the morning, watching the news. I am going to work today later today. And I've been off for four whole days. Now, three of those days was a legitimate three days off. Saturday, Sunday. And of course, Monday was Presidents Day.

Carol Marks: 0:54

Yesterday, I decided not to go to work because we had some slightly bad weather. And I was just wary of the streets. So I decided to take personal time off, which they gave us an option, you know, to do that at work, but we were supposed to get slammed like with this big huge ice storm, but thankfully we did not. However, poor Texas. Oh my goodness, y'all pray for them out there. Oh, that would be very scary. I remember several years ago. I mean, I'm talking to several years ago, my daughter is now 25. This was when she was six months old. So 25 years ago, we had a huge ice storm here in Alabama. We had just moved into a house, my my firstborn was only six months old. And here comes an ice storm. And we had knocked out our power for a week. Y'all brand new mom scared to death. But luckily, we went we went and got a generator. And we had heat. And we had ways to heat up food and all that, which was good. So we got through it.

Carol: 2:02

But y'all, I'm from Ohio. And I've seen lots of snow. But I had never been in an ice storm before that was crazy. I've never seen anything like it. And that's the only time I've ever seen anything like it. Thankfully, we have not been in another one.

Carol Marks: 2:23

Okay, so I have a blog post up over at Carroll remarks calm with a whole list of sites that I'm on with social media channels, because I'm thinking about getting rid of Facebook and Instagram. Now Facebook, I don't think it'd be that hard, because I've done it before. And I really didn't even miss it. Instagram I might miss because I like taking pictures and posting them. But the reason I would get rid of Instagram is because Facebook owns Instagram. And I just want to get rid of anything having to do with Facebook. So I'm on telegram I have two different counts on telegram. One is for personal close friends and family. And one is for my political stuff, their channels over there at telegram. I'm also on gab, I'm also on me we so if I can fail on Twitter, of course, if I can phase out Facebook and Instagram and just stay on those channels. And I don't know, maybe I should just rip it off like a band aid because if I don't get rid of them, I'm still going to post to them and then ignore my other channels. I just have to pull the band aid quickly, I suppose. But I will leave that blog post up over there. Facebook, so people, my friends and family can follow me on other channels if they want to. What else? And I guess I just don't want to be one of those people that keep saying I'm going to get rid of them. And then never do. Well, if you're a regular listener or reader or follower of me, you realize that we had to cancel our trip to tunicate this past weekend because of the weather over there. However the gent just texted me and asked if we would like to go this weekend and of course I said yes. Yay. I'm excited about that. Okay, that is all that I have for this morning. I will be back maybe later today, tomorrow, Friday. I don't know when but I will be back with some other commentary and remarks. And stay tuned don't go anywhere. Well, good afternoon. It is now 230 I have arrived at work sitting in the car. Just wanted to come on for a few minutes and talk about the news of rush limbaugh's death this morning that I heard sad, very sad. He was a voice that

Carol: 4:58

was very influential and he will be missed. And I hope other people will step up and come forward and I know those are big shoes to fill but at least try to fill them. We need more voices like rush. Now I didn't know The man obviously, but as someone on Twitter said, It's funny how you think you know someone, because they've been a part of your life for so long, even though you've never met them in person. And that's how I feel, too. It's funny how you think you are, you get to know someone, but you really, that you've never met them. But they're, I guess, because you listen to them and they're on your radio, you think you get to know them or become their friends, whatever. But and I don't mean any disrespect, by what I'm about to say. This is in all honesty, how what came to mind when, when I think about rush when I was a teenager. And when MTV first came on the scene, I was a teenager, in a small little town in southern Ohio. And so when MTV came on, it opened a whole new world for this for that teenager. new types of music, different kinds of people, different voices, different cultures. I mean, it really opened the world to me, opened my eyes to me to realize there's a whole bunch of stuff out there, and it's, you know, good stuff, and I want to be a part of it. And I think that's how rush was for me, too. When I first discovered him on on talk show radio. I realized, oh, wow, there's other people out there that are like me, kind of, and I don't know it, just it it. Wider network of people, I suppose it showed me there was a wider audience out there than I had thought before. Because I had never really paid attention to politics until I had children. And I guess I matured and grew up a little bit after having children and settled down, started watching the news. And of course, the news is the news. But when you when you discover talk radio, it's it's just really unique. And I like it. And I hope he will be missed. Rush will be missed. That's all I wanted to say.

Carol Marks: 7:38

All right, standby. I'll be back in a little bit. Maybe tomorrow. Okay, this is the last segment and then I will upload it here shortly. For Friday. Happy Friday, by the way. I just wanted to share real quick with you the other day. I was at work. So it was it last night or Wednesday night. I can't remember when it was it was just a couple days ago. It wasn't last night. It was the night before. I was sitting in my car having lunch. I go to lunch at six. So dinner really from six to seven at night. I sit in my car and my lunch. And I knew we were supposed to get snow that day that evening. But you know, it's Alabama, whatever. And so at seven o'clock, I go back into work. My husband starts texting me, he says hey, you may want to come home because it's getting ready to snow really fiercely. And I thought okay, whatever. So I started watching the weatherman. And of course, he said, Yeah, when this happens, it's gonna happen quickly. And so I kind of started getting worried. And I decided Alright, I'll just go ahead and go home. And so about, well, not right at 730 I started shutting everything down at about 720 so 730 I walk outside and YALI was already on the ground, like two or three inches was already dumped on the ground and it was still snowing and it was wet, wet snow. I had to get something out of my trunk to shovel all the snow off of my car so I could say to get home. Now since it had just fallen, all of the roads were covered. driving home was very, very scary for me. I know I grew up in Ohio. I know I've driven on snow but it has been a very long time since I have done that. So I was white knuckling it the whole way home so scared, but it's gone now. everything's back to normal, and we're going to have great weather coming up. Okay, you guys have a great weekend. I shall return with another episode. Later. Have a great weekend. Bye