内容摘要：A pair of eagles soar near a totem pole near the Quinault River, Wednesday, May 22, 2024, on the tribe’s reservation in Taholah, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

A pair of eagles soar near a totem pole near the Quinault River, Wednesday, May 22, 2024, on the tribe’s reservation in Taholah, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Open cabinets in bathrooms and in the kitchen to allow warm air to reach pipes, the weather service advises.The agency also recommends insulating exposed pipes if possible, disconnecting outside hoses and turning off water to sprinklers.

Installing and testing smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors is also recommended.One of the main things Carlson, the driving school owner, always tells his students is that “if you don’t have to drive, don’t. If you can stay home, just do that.”But for those who must be on the roads, take it slow and give cars in front of you plenty of extra distance, he said. It might be a good idea to double the distance for when you begin to break. And as you begin to drive after stopping, “kind of feather the gas,” he said. “Just kind of ease into that acceleration.”

If you do get stuck, use a technique similar to the motion of a rocking chair.“You want to do a rocking motion,” Carlson said. “Give it a little gas and go forward,” he said. “Just keep doing that back and forth until you get yourself out of the rut you’re stuck in.”

Another bit of advice from Carlson: Avoid being over-confident.

“If you have four-wheel drive, don’t think you’re invincible,” said Carlson, whose school in Moorhead is just across the state line from famously snowy Fargo, North Dakota. “We have that problem up here — people who have four-wheel drive think they can do whatever they want.”The median pay package for CEOs rose to $17.1 million, up 9.7%. Meanwhile, the median employee at companies in the survey earned $85,419, reflecting a 1.7% increase year over year.

CEOs had to navigate sticky inflation and relatively high interest rates last year, as well as. But the economy also provided some tail winds: Consumers kept spending despite their misgivings about the economy; inflation did subside somewhat; the Fed

The stock market’s main benchmark, the S&P 500, rose more than 23% last year. Profits for companies in the index rose more than 9%.“2024 was expected to be a strong year, so the (nearly) 10% increases are commensurate with the timing of the pay decisions,” said Dan Laddin, a partner at Compensation Advisory Partners.