It’s Jan6, 2024 The chant #VoteBlue2024 is needed and a reminder that 81 Million came out to end the era of trump … we need folks who sat on the sidelines to help keep our Democracy intact!

The 2023 anniversary of the Jan6 insurrection was met with a year of absolutely nothing being done by both the newly elected MAGA and established members of Congress. The House of Reps was retaken by the Republican MAGA. It took several candidates and even more votes to decide on a Speaker of the House… clearly, Rep Jeffries is more qualified than them all, but he is a Democrat. The debt ceiling bill, among other bills, sat, even though it is a per usual procedure, Americans had to wait for child-like people who were elected to prestigious positions to perform their mandatory duties as congressional members of the US government. The problem and question was, and continues to be, is if their behavior was or is appropriate given the enormous amount of things looming upon the US as a whole. While some duly elected officials worried, others like the MTGs of the party were smiling and smirking over the enormous amount of chaos! The idea that any POTUS would try to overturn the Government was crazy, watching it live and then seeing a new duly elected group of seemingly unqualified politicians continue the chaos was, is still like watching America slip into an abyss

Americans who voted for Republicans got duped!

– Nativegrl77

On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses Congress in an effort to move the nation away from a foreign policy of neutrality. The president had watched with increasing anxiety as European nations struggled and fell to Hitler’s fascist regime and was intent on rallying public support for the United States to take a stronger interventionist role. In his address to the 77th Congress, Roosevelt stated that the need of the moment is that our actions and our policy should be devoted primarily–almost exclusively–to meeting the foreign peril. For all our domestic problems are now a part of the great emergency.

Roosevelt insisted that people in all nations of the world shared Americans’ entitlement to four freedoms: the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear. After Roosevelt’s death and the end of World War II, his widow Eleanor often referred to the four freedoms when advocating for passage of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mrs. Roosevelt participated in the drafting of that declaration, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948.

Source: history. com

From Sat, Jan 6, 4:16 AM PST To Sun, Jan 7, 4:00 AM PST

Special Weather Statement issued January 6 at 4:16AM PST by NWS Seattle WA

…AFTER A RELATIVELY MILD WINTER THUS FAR, THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES OF THE SEASON JANUARY 12-15, 2024…

An active weather pattern will continue to impact the region through at least the next week as a series of strong frontal systems bring additional rounds of lowland rain and mountain snow to Western Washington. Heavy snow will slowly decrease in intensity through the Olympics and Cascades this morning as snow transitions into snow showers. After a brief break Sunday into Sunday night, prolonged heavy snow is becoming increasingly likely Monday through Thursday as a series of systems move across the Pacific Northwest. Current forecast snowfall totals of 2 to 5 feet over 2000 feet will be possible through this timeframe.

Currently, there is a 50-80% chance for 48-hour snowfall totals in excess of 30 inches over the Cascades above 2500 feet, including Stevens and Snoqualmie passes. In addition, westerly winds will increase during this time, with gusts to around 40 mph and even higher over the high Cascades Tuesday with a 65% chance for peak wind gusts over 50 mph. Anyone with travel plans over the Cascade passes and/or through the rest of the Cascades and Olympic mountains will need to be well prepared for dangerous travel conditions due to a combination of heavy and blowing snow.

The potential also exists for much colder temperatures across Western Washington by the second half of the week as a much colder airmass settles into the Pacific Northwest. Uncertainty still exists in how cold this airmass will be with disagreement in how far south high pressure penetrates out of southern Canada.

Currently, there is a 50% chance for the low temperatures to drop below 20F Thursday night through Saturday night across the lowlands. After a relatively mild start to the winter season, these temperatures will come as a drastic change to many. While the details remain unclear, it is worth monitoring the forecast for potential changes and additional information over the next several days.

For more information about current conditions and forecasts, visit http://www.weather.gov/seattle.