By Donald Jeffries
"I Protest"
January 29, 2026
Much of the country is dealing with severe cold and snow as I write this. In Virginia, we were hit with close to a foot or so of snow, but the sleet and freezing rain that fell for hours, and coated the top of it, really made things precarious. It's like walking on a frozen pond, only every few steps your boot caves through to the ground.
For the first thirty years or more of my life, I never worried much about the weather.