If you go 30 miles outside of Atlanta in any direction, you will find a bunch of well prepared rednecks laughing at Atlanta and doing donuts in the snow with their four wheel drive trucks.
"A country boy will survive"
Ha! Same here, where it was feet instead of inches. I believe it's a city vs country thing, anyway.
The less government "help" we get (due to low voter density and other factors) the more ready we tend to be on a personal level. Those dependent on .gov for everything have more critical paths to failure...a topic that comes up a lot here in various forms.
Hey, the forces that drive the jet stream work kinda like pushing on a string.
The BBC had a nice story on that with some cool animations. Looks like we can expect some of this "unusual weather" to become usual. Let us hope the gulf stream is not going to ape the same behavior. Lots more power in that one, being water instead of air.
My first reaction is that no matter the change, the Earth has a lot of inertia, so I went looking for who got the other side of the coin. So far, some places on the other side of the equator, and California.
Y'all gardeners and soon to be gardeners take note - crops from CA are going to be scarce for awhile, and prices will be going up - time to think about being more ready on your own in that set of endeavors.
Due to a second-order effect (corn prices going way up awhile back and people selling herds they couldn't afford to feed, early), beef is also on the rise - it takes a long time to build a herd back up after a major selloff (which didn't affect store prices downwards much, even though there was a lot more meat on the market than usual last and this year and wholesale prices were down - the usual ratchet effect in the place most of the markup occurs - retail).
For once i can make a prediction I'm pretty sure about. Food's going up in price faster than is normal. Bullish if you have your own supply, or the means to create it. More work, but it's generally better quality anyway.