Most of us in Texas had to run our air conditioners for a while today.
Only in the northeast do they think their local news merits our attention.
I remember once Fox running with a traffic-jammed bridge leading into NYC as a big news item.
6-12 inches in lower NY is not that unusual, nor is lots up near Syracuse.
If they don’t like it, don’t live there.
Here in Indiana we had a much hyped blizzard warning the day after Christmas 2012. It turned out to be 5 inches of snow and 25 mph winds.
Now 1978, THAT was a real blizzard.
You can if you want.
In CT it is called Charlotte.
When did they start naming any old storm that came along! When I was young, we just called it winter!
Most of us in Texas had to run our air conditioners for a while today.
At the edge of the system here in Toronto; 5cm so far with another 20cm by tomorrow evening. The worst is expected to hit during the morning rush (better than the evening rush, prefer stuck at home over stuck at work.
The map is underdone.
So my snowblower hit our buried newspaper last snowstorm, and started making an ominous clunking noise. I’m hoping it survives this storm. Otherwise... we’re going to have a nice day-long family snow shoveling day.
I have the cars at the bottom of the hill, just in case.
Good times!
Reporting from Worcester, MA
The first flakes haven’t fallen yet and already I am deeeeee-sgusted.
I’m a cranky old yankee, so please make allowances. (Small “y” yankees are the tough old bastards of yore. The big “Y” is some kind of New Yawk aberration.)
New Englanders USED TO BE known for taking adversity in stride. A snowstorm on the way? I’ll fill the wood box. A BIG STORM in the offing? Then I’ll top off the rock salt bucket too. Maybe even a HOWLING BLIZZARD this time? Enough already. Jeez.
This afternoon, I saw lines at every gas pump in town. This for cars that are going to be PARKED for the next three days! And the supermarket parking lot looked worse than Black Friday at Wal-Mart. For God’s sake, why? You dopes will get to the store again in another day or two, no matter how much snow we get, you ninnies. Relax already!
Old yankees like me are never unprepared. Never. Of course I’ve got gas in the car. Of course I’ve got enough food to last a week before I’m down to dried beans and salt pork. (Well, make that six months, a la prepping.) And of course I’ve got a shovel, mittens, boots, a windshield scraper and rock salt.
Hell, I’ve even got a snowblower, a generator and a roof rake in case it gets really deep! I’m dug in and ready for anything God wants to throw at me, man!
But these wimpy, liberal, pissy-pants sheep running to the store screaming for a gallon of milk because there’s a storm coming ... can’t stand ‘em. Lord!
I GOT IT! (Oh this is brilliance)...
SNOWSHOVEL READY JOBS!
Your endless unemployment benefits have EXPIRED. No more sitting at home in front of the computer masturbating with one hand and eating Cheetos with the other, suckers!
Report to Boston with a snow shovel. Dress warm.
2 ft? Pfft. A trifle. We had five feet in a couple days in Syracuse back in ‘66. Mom and Dad ran out of smokes and sent us kids trudging to the mailbox at the end of the sub division where some friends had deposited several packs.
Now I go to the Sierras to see 40 foot snowfalls.
So I get this alert on my SometimesSmartPhone from the weather people who are sometimes accurate... Says we have a winter storm watch for Friday into Saturday. Said weather prognosticators mention that we could expect an accumulation of 10 to 14 inches of fluffy globull warming accompanied by a trace of solid globull warming which will posit itself on all exposed surfaces. Like the porch. And the walk. And the drive. Sounds like I get to see if my old John Deere Globulwarming Blower will work one more time...
Even more interesting is that bloviators such as Algore and his ilk somehow in their twisted logic proclaim in their best ‘The Sky Is Falling’ voice that this is proof of - yep - globull warming. I have lived through, oh, at least a handfull of years and have observed cycles of massive globull warming accumulations, and years when it was 68 degrees (F) on Christmas day and it most certainly was not a white Christmas.
You know what? Back before some shyster pseudo-scientists discovered that they could get a bunch of Government Grants (i.e. your and my money) by fudging the facts and creating a nonexistent crisis, we had strange weather patterns. Real research shows that it has been happening that way for, oh, millennia. Before these pseudoscientists told us that we had to give them more of our money, drive Government Motors Dolts, use corn as fuel instead of food, and put up windmills that don’t feed the grid to any significant level (but DO kill a lot of birds) we knew what this really was...
And we called this.... Winter.
Actually as of 11pm ET, it was upgraded to "Blizzard Charlotte"
I remember a blizzard on Long Island in Feb ‘61 - street got plowed two days later - by bulldozer.
The one good thing about that order is that at least the snowplows will have the roads all to themselves to do their jobs so when the snow stops, I can go back to my regular routine all that much quicker.
Never once have I "panic shopped" at a grocery store. Nor am I a prepper. It's just that I'm a normal person who has sufficient canned/dry goods to last me a couple weeks. I'm not going hungry - or thirsty, for even if I lose power, I can put cans of beer out in the snowdrifts to keep cold. I'll be fine.
The one good thing about that order is that at least the snowplows will have the roads all to themselves to do their jobs so when the snow stops, I can go back to my regular routine all that much quicker.
Never once have I "panic shopped" at a grocery store. Nor am I a prepper. It's just that I'm a normal person who has sufficient canned/dry goods to last me a couple weeks. I'm not going hungry - or thirsty, for even if I lose power, I can put cans of beer out in the snowdrifts to keep cold. I'll be fine.
I got a kick out of these headlines
Gov bans travel...
Offenders face fines, jailtime...
DETAILS: NYC... BOS... RADAR...
HISTORIC, EXTREME SNOW...
Winds near hurricane force...
WATCHES/WARNINGS...
Long Gas Lines...
‘Panic Shopping’...
Gov. Cuomo Declares State of Emergency in New York...
Bloomberg Shrugs Off Storm...