{"id":8853,"date":"2021-02-18T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2025-02-08T07:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T13:40:52","slug":"storm-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2021\/02\/18\/storm-fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"storm fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>February 16, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winter beauty deep-cut I&#8217;ve been away from the north long enough to forget: The way the sun reflects the light off all that brilliant white and blasts it through the few windows we don&#8217;t have shrouded in blankets and towels. Our internet is out but we still have power. Hang in there, friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472362469_10170289575735203_1054815001788231402_n-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472362469_10170289575735203_1054815001788231402_n-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472362469_10170289575735203_1054815001788231402_n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472362469_10170289575735203_1054815001788231402_n-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472362469_10170289575735203_1054815001788231402_n.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>February 17, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Folks are asking me, so uh now what? I grew up in the north, but I have never seen anything like this \u2014 the unrelenting ice nor failing infrastructure. Feeling hopeless and survivor guilty with our power still intact, conserving what we can and thinking of our neighbors. Now pardon me while I try to barter oranges for milk for our babykid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"839\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472510148_10170289566660203_5797621367836169673_n-839x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472510148_10170289566660203_5797621367836169673_n-839x1200.jpg 839w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472510148_10170289566660203_5797621367836169673_n-768x1098.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472510148_10170289566660203_5797621367836169673_n-1075x1536.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472510148_10170289566660203_5797621367836169673_n.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>February 18, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, we&#8217;re in a state of emergency from a natural meets government disaster during a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, there&#8217;s mandatory water conservation, and yes, we have to boil that water so amoebae don&#8217;t eat our brains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You still have to wash your face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/472250436_10170290202100203_776094124692758111_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8857\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state of emergency from a natural meets government disaster during a pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8859,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions\/8859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}