Meanwhile, it's in the 50's during the daytime here, and we are in drought season it seems.

Hi choad--stay safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!etc.

Here is handy info for those of you in the Northeast.  Scroll down for your school closings and flight info.

Hope you are stocked up on mixers.  It's my experience that one almost never runs out of booze during natural disasters, but mixers are another matter entirely.  Never mind the goddamned bread and milk.

P.S.  San Antonio's projected high is mid-70s.  The sky is so blue and bright.  Neener neener.

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Baywolfe wrote:

I'm sure it made perfect sense to the original European inhabitants of New England to live there.

Only the tards stayed. The smart ones filled their holds with salted cod and sailed home.

Emmeran wrote:

Massachusetts hits the panic button

Appears this storm follows the usual pattern of dumping award winning snow depths directly on your doorstep. Plus side, you guys are better equipped to handle it.

choad wrote:

Power winked out so I bundled up and stalked around outside. We have our two feet so it can stop any time now. Tried to check the beach and seawall across the street but snow's drifted there to 4 feet. Not blowing too hard but no telling when the power will croak for good.

That is a good bit of snow for our coast there. Ho was the wind, any sustained speeds?

Piddly shit here in PA... just about 4" on the ground.  But, the schools are closed so it's a day off.

Power has stalled here for most the past 5 hours, winds have picked up, gusting to 50mph and forecasts still report another 12 hours of this shit. I typed the same sentence twice, so this is a quick post.

So, choad...You buried?  Or what?
Hope you're ok...
...I had to run the A/C in my car* on the way home this evening...For some reason I feel guilty.


*Well, okay, I didn't HAVE to, but you know what I mean.

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George Orr wrote:

So, choad...You buried?  Or what?
Hope you're ok...
...I had to run the A/C in my car* on the way home this evening...For some reason I feel guilty.

*Well, okay, I didn't HAVE to, but you know what I mean.

He chose to move back there, I pity him not.  He knows it's fucked over, under, sideways down.

Florida North

I see you guys did get a little too, I reckon I'll have to post a few pict's of what we got out here in Podunk.  Actually I was mildly impressed, it wasn't a blizzard by any measure but definitely a respectable storm.  Naturally every Jimmy-John was out with his tractor or truck w/plow soon as the first flake touched down but that is what passes for winter-time entertainment out here in the bogs.  I think I had three different neighbors plow my drive just to put reason to the cost of their toys.

Still don't see why they shut the state down though, this was nothing more than your standard monthly blow by high-plains standards.  Everyone all rushing off to the grocery like it was the end of the world or something; although Georgie was right and I did run short of mixers.

This surfaced this morning, High Street in November.

2014-11-08 Sat 01:02:56pm

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Fall River Man Shoots Cars Parked in Shoveled Spots

Ahh, now that feels like home, like loosened lug nuts, and a brick through the window. We're forecast 8" of Ice Pellets on Monday. There will be tears.

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Looks like we get a break from the snow today, the rest of the week well not so much.

The Last Ice Age hit in a matter of a week or so.  Mammoths found frozen with flowers in their mouth, etc. in the tundra.  Why people think weather changes are always gradual is beyond me.

Good luck Nanuk.  Hope you have the local Mormons staked out, remember their larders!

Limber up that shovel again

Careful, dude, or you'll have to bunk in Hyanus next time you miss the last boat.

Yeah, well, that sucked. Power winked out around 8am so I said fuckit, larded up the blankets and went back to sleep. Power's back, sun's out, sort of, but the wind's pitching a bitch, gusting to- let's say lots. Intermittent white out.

Seriously, that's enough of this shit. If I had an ice cutter, I'd sail south and look up J_R.

Two flat tires today had to be changed out in the freezing bluster.  One pierced by a bolt (9/16" wood bolt) the other apparently just said "fuck it all" and let go.

Luckily I have rolling spares, bald as fuck but will do for now and that the boy had the car and so his young ass is out in the single digit chill changing tires.

Last edited by Emmeran (2015-02-15 20:13:04)

My rear brake pads chose this weekend to start squealing... changed them out in 19 degrees in a snow-filled driveway (all garage bays being filled for the winter)... Brrr!  Fortunately no bolts were stuck and it went quickly.

Yakutsk, Russia is the world's coldest city: average winter temperatures hit -30 degrees. It's also the largest city built on permafrost.

Well, yeah.  What fucking Ivan thought that was a great idea?

One day you are up, the next your freezing balls off brass monkies. I will be there in stoic yankee land soon enough. Flying into the face of the next blow.

Last edited by Johnny_Rotten (2015-02-16 12:34:02)

Boston's beaners are losing their shit. Their roads and transit systems, historically overfucked and underfed by favored contractors, are... well, see for yourself.

Jamaica Plain: ‘Guy Took My Spot ... So I Put the Snow Back’