today. bone chilling cold and some seeing temperatures well below 0 and the chill extending to places not used to it. texans hoping to avoid another power crisis as frigid conditions are there. is sunshine state, florida, could see its coldest christmas in more than 30 years. blizzard warnings in effect for more than 10 million people in the upper midwest and great lakes region. those conditions basically snowstorm on steroids. across the country widespread power outages. more than 1 million reported from texas to the east coast. all of this is also causing some chaos for travelers. we were scheduled to leave at 7:50 this morning. we got a text last night saying they rescheduled us to austin at 12:00 today with a layover. no, no, no. this is a mess. the kind of cold that hurts your face. it looks a little chaotic. i m wondering how everyone will make their flight. the wind is pretty brutal. i felt like i got frostbite instantly. at the hotel they had the screen of f
lends credibility to a policy that you might not agree with. all i can say is, yes, that is a risk, but there were occasions where we overtly, at the podium, disagreed on the evidence that was underlying, or at least explain to the evidence that underlay a decision. so, for example, in the move of the two metre rule to a lower figure, example, in the move of the two metre rule to a lowerfigure, i was clear on the podium that two metres is safer than one metre, full stop. it does not mean it is unreasonable to make a policy decision to move, but the evidence base was clear. so thatis but the evidence base was clear. so that is a rather long answer to your question, because i do not know whether, ultimately, it is the right or wrong thing for us to have been there. i think it is something worth looking at. my gut feeling is it was probably overall beneficial for us to be there. probably overall beneficial for us to be there- probably overall beneficial for us to be there. , .