Osler's Razor

As you may have read, Waco has been deluged with nearly an inch of snow, and things there have gotten very bad. Schools, liquor stores, pet-care facilities and other institutions have been closed for days. The streets are full of wrecked cars and orphaned children, left to fend for themselves in the cruel outdoors, where wind-chill temperatures are approaching thirty degrees. Looters have have been foiled only by the fact that food stores were cleaned out at the outset of the storm. Tigers and bears are now roaming the streets, picking at the remains of those residents who have been stranded in their cars.

It will be years, probably, before the city recovers. I have received terrified reports from friends there that some residents have resorted to cannibalism (which seems awfully soon), while others have taken to locking themselves into their homes and watching hockey on VS, a channel few knew they had in their cable networks. Baylor students, desperate to stay warm, have risked expulsion by taking up the last-ditch tactic of consuming alcohol.

Please, if you can, help the Wacoans. If we don't, there may no longer be a Waco to help.