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*'''Comment''' The alternate altblurb is getting better, but still suggests the cold knocked out the power and killed most of the people, rather than the snow and wind. Not trying to diminish the importance of the homeless people who legit froze, they're just few and far between the car crashes. Anyway, Merry Christmas! [[User:InedibleHulk|InedibleHulk]] ([[User talk:InedibleHulk|talk]]) 00:10, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

*:No, thats not how its phrased. The storm (already implying wind and snow) brought low temps which gad both e effecr of knocking out power and killing several (not necessarily only to those without power). There's a point t in being too pedantic in wording blurbs. [[User:Masem|M<span style="font-variant: small-caps">asem</span>]] ([[User Talk:Masem|t]]) 00:45, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

*'''Comment''' Parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the corresponding states along the same longitudes were just about the only places that did not see extreme weather over the past 72 hours (south of, oh, 60-ish.) The Pacific northwest actually saw two separate storms, each highly disruptive. Four highly unusual things about the Dec 22-25 storm. (1) The deep jet stream trough has dragged freezing temperatures, often colder than Nunavut (northern Canada), all the way to the Gulf of Mexico; (2) This is the second generational-level storm to hit Buffalo / Niagara region within a single month; (3) More than 2/3 of Canada and U.S. (and parts of Mexico) were or are under weather warnings: rainfall, flash flood, wind / sieche, flash freeze, freezing rain, freeze (in southern states), snowfall, winter storm, extreme cold, blizzard -- at the SAME time. Most of the Canadian population and more than half the U.S. population were directly affected. Many places transitioned from an above-freezing warning to one or more below-freezing warnings without the storm ending. Many of those areas were under warnings for DAYS. (4) Transportation disruptions across Canada and the U.S., were exacerbated by Christmas holiday travel. All travel was shut down at the two largest airports in Canada (YYZ, YVR) for nearly a day -- and that simply does not happen in Canada with typical snowfalls. (Other countries come to YYZ to learn how airports can continue to function in snow.) Add to this the heavy cancellations of passenger rail in both Canada and the U.S., due entirely to weather. (VIA Rail had to cancel all Christmas Day and nearly all Christmas Eve travel on its most heavily used route -- train was hit by a tree, trees across the rails, and a CNR derailment on the same tracks. The weather in that region was the same as Buffalo conditions.) Add to this that in Buffalo and other places, all fire trucks and a significant number of other first responders were immobilized by the snow. (How many police cars were struck in accidents while responding to other accidents?) Add to this the death rate (which will climb, because in this kind of situation, specific news is slow in getting out -- remember Buffalo part 1, and multiply by 10). But please, don't use a storm name. It is not government-issued, like hurricane names. It is only one commercial media channel's branding. Btw the last event at all comparable to this in intensity and scale happened in 2008 -- and I would say, based on precipitation, temperature, wind etc, it was not as severe, and definitely not as severe over as wide an area. (Yes, I know the U.S. has had other winter storms since then, even large-scale ones -- but not as severe overall, by several magnitudes.) - Tenebris [[Special:Contributions/66.11.165.101|66.11.165.101]] ([[User talk:66.11.165.101|talk]]) 00:43, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

== December 22 ==