Welcome to the Bulwark Podcast

podcast and happy Monday,

happy Martin Luther King Junior day, happy Iowa Caucus Day.

Welcome back, Will Salitan, how are you?

I'm doing great Charlie.

We have this stuff outside that's white, it's a little cold, I'm not sure what it is, can you tell me?

Yeah, this is winter.

So as you and I are speaking, we're in the midst of the polar vortex here in Wisconsin,

it is right now, minus 8 degrees. That's not wind chill. That's minus 8 degrees. So it was an eventful weekend

You know as predicted I spent much of it snow blowing multiple times. It was heavy. I know nobody wants to hear about the snow blowing.

I have to confess that I actually don't mind snow blowing. I have a pretty big snowblower and

usually I can, you know, you have a sense of accomplishment. it's there and then it's gone, so that's okay.

But because this was very, very heavy snow, very heavy wet snow.

We had massive power outages all over the area and I was without power.

We had a complete blackout here for 24 hours

starting Friday night till 9 o'clock Saturday night.

Now, I mean that's bad enough but because I have a well pump that also

means no power no heat no water. Wow. Here's a pro tip here You can last a very long time without electricity.

If the toilets don't work, if the water's gone,

eh, kind of problematic. So my wife and I went out and I will confess that dry January was had a power outage on

Saturday we had to go out get a couple of beers download some stuff to watch at the local, you know, but we survive.

So at least we're online now.

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