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Ladies and Gentlemen, we begin the most audacious fight of the season.  The Sun, our most prestigious resource on the planet, has officially declared a fight with the Snow.  This will more sound like a PSA or a Safety Bit. This year, Fairbanks had received a record of snowfall that the city / region has not seen since 1992.  In that winter, it was ~139 inches.  This year it was ~92 inches.  The average between 1991-2020 was ~65 inches. Fairbanks snowfall statistics | Sonot Kkaazoot This brings up a couple of topics (fights) that are worth mentioning.  The first fight to bring up is the fight between the Snow Load and the rating of your roof.   With all this excessive amount of snow, it is best to check your roof.  Any home built after '96 has ~50 pounds per square inch of load tolerance, with a decrease in tolerance as the older the building is, with something ~30 pounds per square inch for buildings built in the 60's.  If you're in the ...

Today's Friday Night Fights blog will be more real-world, as I'll talk about my observations of the Ukraine War that is going on right now.  Needless to say I am none to pleased by how this is being handled, nor how my weird brain is predicting the outcomes of this.  This may sound like a rant or an opinion piece, and that's fine by me. ------------------------------------------ First on my observations of how it is being handled.  This is not 19-teens.  This is not World War 1.  Stop treating it like it.  Everything I learned in history class about WW1 growing up through the 80s and 90s, and everything I learned as an adult reading past wars as a hobby clearly defines this as a moment where we didn't learn, and now history is repeating itself. Russia invades Ukraine.  Russia tells its people one thing, but also cut off comms from the rest of the world.  From what I could gather from the web, the Russian people might as well be back in the early 1...