How to Prepare for a Winter Storm
The University of Badassery Podcast
C. J. Ortiz & Pat McNamara
5.0 • 736 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Preparing for power outages, water loss, and freezing temperatures is very different from preparing for other storms or disasters, and the average person is unprepared for them. Here are some starter tips to help ensure you and your loved ones are as safe, secure, and comfortable as possible.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the University of Badassery Podcast, where Mac and CJ are going academic on ass kickery. |
| 0:06.9 | Ha ha. Don't suck. The |
| 0:23.6 | The Welcome to this impromptu version of the University of Badassery podcast. For those who are |
| 0:57.4 | regular listeners to this show, they haven't heard from us in a long-ass time. And as we've told |
| 1:04.2 | you guys before, me and Mac have a coaching squad and we do live streams weekly. So we feel like |
| 1:08.5 | we're podcasting all the time, but we realize we probably |
| 1:11.5 | need to get back to this. However, we just explicit, it's January 26, 2026. Today, we just came through |
| 1:19.9 | what was supposed to be a massive winter storm here in the Carolinas. And of course, Pat Mac is |
| 1:27.2 | joining me. Pat Macs say hey to the people. |
| 1:30.3 | Jay, glad to be back on the University of Bad Assery. We're going to talk about the basics of storm |
| 1:38.7 | preparation. And particularly for winter storm since we just came through this, this one was different, |
| 1:46.1 | Mac, because it started like West, like in Texas and- |
| 1:51.5 | Yeah, man, it blanketed like most of the contiguous 48, the lower half, you know? |
| 1:56.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:57.4 | So the four, the meteorologist, and God bless them, man. People give them so much shit. And it's like, okay, you figure out the weather, man. You know, you do it. I can imagine that if it does them no interest to be incorrect about anything. They don't want to be incorrect. No, of course not. So if they are incorrect, it's because they're not God, so they can't |
| 2:21.5 | control every little thing. And sometimes, especially in a storm like this, they have to wait |
| 2:25.4 | till things get really, really close to deadline. |
| 2:28.3 | To they quickly a little bit more. |
| 2:30.0 | You're right. And so, but anyway, one of the things I've noticed on my feed is the number of people who are not necessarily experienced in preparation. |
| 2:40.7 | They suffer the most. And so I was telling my kids yesterday, before we knew this thing was going to dissipate, I just really feel for those who are unprepared, |
| 2:52.1 | particularly, you know, single moms, kids, and that sort of thing. |
| 2:57.1 | Deadbeat dads, they don't have an excuse, |
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