No words....my words have escaped me.

How dare she cosset dairy products like this - you can bet if almond milk were threatened she'd be all, no, fuck YOU almonds, you belong in roca not hippies.

Hey, the shit'll hit the fan if grade schoolers don't get their chocolate milk tomorrow. This is serious.

I'm with gus.

I'm bummed that I can't get eggnog in the stores anymore.

The impact on transportation of milk products affects the public peace. So without this proclamation, we'd risk milk riots?

Meanwhile, my favorite lunch spot has been closed for three days. THAT'S a disaster. I want my lamb shawarma!

He's right. If I can't have steamed milk with my coffee, someone's gonna pay.

The Seattle Milk Riots of 2012 are imminent. Weather Channel just upgraded us to SEVERE WEATHER with red lines, and have the temps in Seattle not rising above freezing now until tomorrow.

http://i.imgur.com/E6Ejq.png

I'd say head for the hills, but...

To paraphrase The Simpsons: "Folks, I'm pleased to announce a new truckload of milk, with its smooth good taste and rich dairy flavor, is already heading towards Seattle and the driver has been instructed to ignore all stop signs and crosswalks."

I better still have butter tomorrow. I will not become Norway.

The fuck? This is the only thing she sees fit to do, to make milk truck drivers work overtime? I'll be sure to stay well clear of any milk trucks I see on the road, knowing that the driver's been at the wheel for two days straight.

In the meantime, actual emergencies are happening all over.

You know this is ultimately about Washington's dairy farmers, right? Her making this declaration starts the process they might need if they end up losing a week (or more) of income, assuming the farms in question have federal disaster insurance. Darigold--a co-op that has a horrific environmental record in the state--has farms and rural pasteurization plants all over the place.
Yes, the National Guard line is nonsense, but it's part of the "federal disaster" nonsense that needs to happen for the farms to collect on their insurance.

Cows get milked on a schedule, without fail. The bulk tanks on the farm are only so big; if the milk truck can't get to the farm to pick up the milk, thousands of gallons of milk (worth multiple thousands of dollars) will get dumped at each farm until the milk truck can get there.

This is similar to what happened to the dairy farmers in the Northeast when there was flooding everywhere last summer.

You can make fun of it if it seems funny, I guess. But nothing about the waste of huge amounts of a food and farmers' loss of a huge amount of money is particularly funny to me.

I hope Comte located a cow already.

Washington has been dealing with snow and ice for hundreds of years, billions actually. Modern delivery and refrigeration and pasteurization supply chain problems are due to our more centralized methods, quite frankly.