:? Everyone ok up North? Drink lots of cider.
The silence is unnerving. Then again, it IS the weekend.
Okay down in my area. Several hundred thousand people across the state were out of power, though, including a large chunk of the Boston suburbs. It looks like most of them are back on. It's really from my neighborhood out to Cape Cod that has the most outages now. My apartment didn't actually lose it at any point, so we were lucky.
Official tally from Logan airport was 24.9 inches. Haven't got a good count from the southcoast but we were supposed to get about 6" less than them.
It's been a long day of shoveling on my street, including a fun part where my girlfriend and I walked down to dig her car out and found the jackholes down there shoveling onto her car, tripling our workload. I gave them some shit and they helped us out a bit, at least.
We got thumped pretty good here in Maine. I think they had pretty much 3 feet in Portland. I had over two feet at my house. Took me better part of two hours to clean it up so I could actually leave my house.
Greater Boston Area is ok. Matter of fact, I was even able to get a chicken parm sub.
LAst I heard though, the MBTA still wasn't running, so I'm stuck with whatever is in walking distance for now anyway.
I have seen snow almost every day this week.
Because it's been beautiful and sunny alot, so I can see the snow-capped peaks of the Cascades and the Olympics.
I think I did see 3 or 4 flakes stick to the pavement in the cul-de-sac I live in back in December.
Providence sucks monkey dicks.
No word from the mayor or the governor involving the loss of plows on Friday night.
Not a single plow has touched my street.
And the idea of plows running on Sundays is fucking ludicrous, also. Every piece of shit fat goombah that owns one will happily go free their mothers for a gabbagool sangwich, but they aren't going to come this way. I can't walk to the main road to even catch a bus. I'm trapped by a 5 foot wall of snow that separates "That which have been plowed" and "that street full of Guatemalans."
Well, the epic Guatemalan families on my street have been busting their ASSES trying to shovel every driveway and help anyone they can. My driveway is clear. The parking lot where Navyguy is parked 2 houses down isn't bad, but this bitch of a woman who lives there cleaned her own car off and a path for herself and threw snow in the way of everyone else...Guess what we're doing today. :evil:
I'm so glad I'm moving out of this cunt of a city before next winter. I hate it. I want it to burn back into the fucking swamp from whence it came.
Where you moving to?
All MBTA service is still suspended. They hope they can resume service tomorrow. The fuck? Gonna loaf about in my boxers.
Also, bearman- it just occured to me, there is someone here who lives near the border of NH- trippinprincess. Perhaps you were confusing me for her.
The Territories of Mangville.
About 3ft of snow. No loss of power which is a friggin' miracle. Managed to avert a running out of heating oil disaster with an 11th hour purchase of 5 gal. of Kerosine.
Phew!
Hah, Mang, if you want a thought to help keep you warm....just imagine how people in England would react to 3 feet of snow.
Quote from: Cain on February 10, 2013, 05:59:37 PM
Hah, Mang, if you want a thought to help keep you warm....just imagine how people in England would react to 3 feet of snow.
True! The UK usually grinds to a halt for an 1" of snow, let lone 3'. For me, the snow isn't really much of a problem. My early life was spent in Newfoundland, so huge snow drifts was business as usual. Hell, they didn't ever used to call it a 'storm', it was just 'snow'. It was never an 'if' only a 'when' and 'how many feet'.
Don't know what it's like in other states, but in Connecticut, just about anything that falls from the sky is called a 'storm' even if you get a few tiny flakes gently drifting to the ground. For me, storms imply violence so, if I don't see trees bending over or high-speed debris taking flight, it ain't a storm, it's just
winter.
We did have some gusts but nothing like what was promised, at least not where I am in the middle part of the state. The shore got hammered yet again.
My concern wasn't the snow so much as losing power or running out of oil (or both) because I didn't want the pipes to freeze. That would've been the death blow to our rather anemic finances, hence me seeking extra employment.
Quote from: Queef Erisson on February 10, 2013, 03:36:50 PM
Where you moving to?
All MBTA service is still suspended. They hope they can resume service tomorrow. The fuck? Gonna loaf about in my boxers.
Also, bearman- it just occured to me, there is someone here who lives near the border of NH- trippinprincess. Perhaps you were confusing me for her.
South County near the university. They didn't lose power, and they actually plowed their fucking roads.
My road JUST got cleared. It took a backhoe and a state sand truck to do it, but still no city trucks to be seen. As I've said, Providence doesn't work on Sundays. Union. :roll:
Quote from: Queef Erisson on February 10, 2013, 03:36:50 PM
Where you moving to?
All MBTA service is still suspended. They hope they can resume service tomorrow. The fuck? Gonna loaf about in my boxers.
Also, bearman- it just occured to me, there is someone here who lives near the border of NH- trippinprincess. Perhaps you were confusing me for her.
Was I confused for?
Apparently we got 28" which was mildly surprising. I swear we used to get more snow like this when I was younger. Maybe it just seemed taller then.
BF and I played (tromped around in) the snow with our friends next door until somewhere between 3 & 4 am Fri-Sat. Many a beer and a bit of whiskey was consumed.
Actually had day off together thanks to No-One Can Drive Anywhere. So made breakfast for once (around noon), threw some Cabin Fever + stuff in crockpot to heat up and went outside to dig our half-buried/half plowed in cars out. As usual snow meant park whereever you feel like, don't leave room for anyone else to move, or, in the alternative, don't bother to move your car so the plows can come in, so that was fun. But managed to get cars of the way.
Buried around the area are balloons filled with water and food coloring that are probably still not frozen yet because why would they?
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on February 12, 2013, 05:45:57 PM
Quote from: Queef Erisson on February 10, 2013, 03:36:50 PM
Where you moving to?
All MBTA service is still suspended. They hope they can resume service tomorrow. The fuck? Gonna loaf about in my boxers.
Also, bearman- it just occured to me, there is someone here who lives near the border of NH- trippinprincess. Perhaps you were confusing me for her.
Was I confused for?
Via Facebook, yes.
This storm was proof of why I need the HORRIBLE RICHTERRAN LAND CRUISER. Laughter and 4wd got me farther in snow than swearing and shovelling.
Okay, about the storm, someone help me out here, when did they start naming fucking snow storms? I mean, yeah, Nemo...it was cute, aside from the barrage of unfunny "OH HAI LOOK I FOUND NEMO" Facebook posts from those bankrupt of creativity. Is this a new thing?
I vaguely remember hearing on some weather channel blurb that this year they decided to start naming snow storms for some reason. I don't think they said why, or if they did I wasn't paying attention. My guess is that people have nothing better to do with their time and to allow for stupid facebook jokes
weather channel named it, but the US weather bureau and the world meteorological organization is torqued about that, because they have the mandate from god to name storms or something. i heard a quote from one of them on NPR saying that they are afraid people will thing that the snow storms are actually hurricanes. :lol:
This was the end of my driveway last Saturday morning:
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Long Island is not exactly well-prepared for this amount of snow. No plows came through until Monday, and there's a lot of elderly people in my neighborhood who can't shovel themselves out.
I also learned the hard way apparently I still get pretty asthma-y when exerting myself in the cold. An hour of shoveling left me wheezing for breath for the next 12 hours. :x Walked my ass to the pharmacy to pick up some Mucinex so I could function.
No real disasters for me though. Power and Internet actually stayed on for me, probably because Sandy already tore down all the trees.
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on February 13, 2013, 09:35:35 PM
weather channel named it, but the US weather bureau and the world meteorological organization is torqued about that, because they have the mandate from god to name storms or something. i heard a quote from one of them on NPR saying that they are afraid people will thing that the snow storms are actually hurricanes. :lol:
A Nor'Easter is pretty much a cold-fed hurricane, and they can be just a destructive. But naming a clipper that swoops over the snow belt is dumb.
The pro to naming is record keeping. Because "Blizzard of 2013" could be a number of large storms from the Rockies to New England.
The con is that it's wicked dumb, and has already caused confusion that they're hurricanes up here. Someone wanted to know how we went from Sandy to Nemo without having a Z storm.
Don't worry.
as the storms continue to get worse and more frequent, those people that are confused will get naturally weeded out in the destruction.
Oh look, here comes Warm Front Wally.
HIDE THE KIDS!
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on February 14, 2013, 12:09:57 AM
Oh look, here comes Warm Front Wally.
HIDE THE KIDS!
:lol:
Quote from: Suu on February 13, 2013, 10:27:37 PM
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on February 13, 2013, 09:35:35 PM
weather channel named it, but the US weather bureau and the world meteorological organization is torqued about that, because they have the mandate from god to name storms or something. i heard a quote from one of them on NPR saying that they are afraid people will thing that the snow storms are actually hurricanes. :lol:
The con is that it's wicked dumb, and has already caused confusion that they're hurricanes up here. Someone wanted to know how we went from Sandy to Nemo without having a Z storm.
Once I realized they were talking about the snow storm and not some regular hurricane happening nowhere near here, I was wondering where A-M went.
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on February 14, 2013, 03:15:02 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on February 14, 2013, 12:09:57 AM
Oh look, here comes Warm Front Wally.
HIDE THE KIDS!
:lol:
Quote from: Suu on February 13, 2013, 10:27:37 PM
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on February 13, 2013, 09:35:35 PM
weather channel named it, but the US weather bureau and the world meteorological organization is torqued about that, because they have the mandate from god to name storms or something. i heard a quote from one of them on NPR saying that they are afraid people will thing that the snow storms are actually hurricanes. :lol:
The con is that it's wicked dumb, and has already caused confusion that they're hurricanes up here. Someone wanted to know how we went from Sandy to Nemo without having a Z storm.
Once I realized they were talking about the snow storm and not some regular hurricane happening nowhere near here, I was wondering where A-M went.
yeah. i didn't read anything explaining why they arbitrarily started with 'N'...