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First Winter Storm of the Season Brings Heavy Snow and Arctic Blast to Most Homeowners This Week 

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National Weather Service map of temperature drops across the country in November.

The first major snowstorm of the 2025-2026 season has hit the U.S., well before many were prepared.  Cool winds sweeping over the warm Great Lakes are sparking the season’s first significant round of snow, with what’s called “lake-effect snow” clobbering the Chicago area and Indiana Monday morning.  Some parts of Northwest Indiana saw more than … Read more

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘House of Dynamite’ Brings Nuclear Danger but Homeowners Have Already Been Digging In. What’s the ROI on Backyard Bunkers?

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Kitchen in an underground bunker with windows to painted backyard scenes. Credit: Rooted Elements Media 

Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, “A House of Dynamite,” lands on Netflix this weekend with a bang. In her latest, the Oscar-winning director behind “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty” takes on the unthinkable: a nuclear strike on American soil.  But for many, that premise no longer feels like fiction, and fears of potential nuclear … Read more