Polar vortex the Sky is falling

[argentus]

I'm so over the hype it seems like every week this year the MSM have been hyping the weather to "Life threatening" levels.
I just saw next week another "Polar Vortex" is coming with historic cold. Now just how many times can we break historic records.

I grew up in the Midwest we walked to school in the freezing snow and just about blizzard snow fall. In today's world your flight gets canceled over an inch of snow. 

I'm over this nanny snowflake movement you might die it's snowing outside in case you live under ground with no windows to see for yourself.

Yes.  Growing up in Ice-n-Snow-Idaho, we called this "winter".    I'm not trying to minimize the severe conditions that people experience, only the response and drama.    Unlike you, we didn't walk to school during a blizzard.   We stayed home.  Nobody had to make a radio announcement, although often they did.   Stay home.   Okeydokey.   After the storms, we were often snowed in.   Us kids would ride our horses through the "tundra" and imagine ourselves warriors of the snow, and ride to the local store and get stuff for our Moms.   Snow days were a real treat.   The rest of town was mostly closed down.   I mean, sure the snow plows would push Main Street and some others, but nothing really functioned.   We stayed home, and were glad for the wood most of the outlier homes had put away for such conditions.    My Mom canned and dehydrated a lot of vegetables and fruits, and we also had stuff stored away in the fruit cellar entombed in layers of straw or hay.   

 I believe that cities are unnatural, and I also believe that the human civilization of the future -- should we survive and not kill ourselves -- will disperse the cities and tend more toward locally agriculturally sustainable civilizations.    Where I grew up, a small town in Idaho, is much the same as it ever was.   They cater more toward the visitor/tourist than when I lived there, but the population is fairly small still.   Yes, they require goods from the big cities and their supplies, but don't you worry for a moment that if TSHTF, these small places couldn't still sustain themselves.   That is the way we should all live.   Simpler, with less wealth, and more mutual assurance.