Posted on 02/09/2017 9:51:22 AM PST by SamAdams76
It's snowing here in Connecticut. I did not have to show at my New York City job because apparently I am "non-essential." So I'm doing conference calls from home and I'm very quickly responding to emails in order to prove that I am always available, even in the face of a historic blizzard, of the type that we have not seen in these parts since the Obama Administration.
The wife has on the television the obligatory "wall-to-wall" coverage that the local stations always subject us to during these "very dangerous" weather events. Scrolling along the bottom of the screen are all the school closings as well as other events that must have a lot of people disappointed. For example, the Stamford HS Bake Sale is called off. There shall be no Bingo tonight at the Danbury Youth Center. There are no Arts and Crafts today at the Newtown Public Library. If you were looking forward to the lecture on Native American Embroidery at the Town Hall in Greenwich tonight, well I have bad news for you.
I can only imagine that the entire Northeast is similarly paralyzed at this moment. The people on TV tell me so. Wide-eyed and breathless reporters are doing "live shots" with swirling snow all around them. They bravely tell us that the wind "is really picking up" and they magically produce wooden rulers out of their coat pockets in order to show us how many inches are now on the ground. They are telling us that if we don't need to be on the roads than don't be on them so that the "road crews can do their job." I assume news crews doing live shots are exempted.
You know the storm is getting serious when the local meteorologists start referring to it as a "nor'easter" and give us trivia on past historic "nor'easters" such as the one that shut things down for two days back in 1948. Or that one in 1977 that buried Buffalo (and it wasn't until a week later than anybody noticed).
I was told by the TV news today that I should not be taking a boat out today in the open waters of the Long Island Sound unless I had experience with gales and "the proper equipment." Thanks for that guys.
The buses and subways are in full operation but probably running mostly empty on account of everybody being told to stay away from work and school today.
The Storm Cliche desk at the news stations are in full operation. People venturing outside are "braving the elements" and "taking their lives into their own hands." Even those sitting at home are not totally safe. We could be subject to "scattered power outages" and so five minutes was given to some man from the local utility company telling us to gather our candles, our flashlights and to fill our bathtub full of fresh water. Just in case.
Due to the cold weather (that usually accompanies a snow storm), we are breezily told that we can use the back porch of our house as a refrigerator in case the power goes out. But we are also warned to make sure all our lids are tight as raccoons, squirrels and stray dogs evidently like to forage for food outdoors.
I am not sure how I could survive this storm without the wall-to-wall TV coverage. I'm so glad I did not go into the office today, or I would not be getting all this needful information on how to weather this blizzard - yes, they are now apparently calling it a blizzard and there is another reporter out there, bracing himself against the gale and flailing his arms madly...
It’s winter. It snows in winter.
What self-worshipers we are.
Yep, Breaking News- It snows in the winter in the North.
It’s about time some of the fun got spread around.
Got a foot of snow and still coming down. It it getting really old the hysteria that comes with snow storms now. NYC schools never, ever used to close. Now the commie mayor closes schools before the snow falls and shuts down express subways. What a bunch of pussies. Growing up in NYC, I had one snow day when we got two feet of snow.
don’t worry...global warming will melt it by late July.
We got 8 inches in upstate NY, it’s really not a big storm until it approaches 1.5 feet.
I hope you stocked up on bread, milk, and toilet paper.
Thanks for that eccentric LIVE! report, it’s hilarious. Mind if I share it?
Send Al Gore, he’ll stop it with Climate Change Lectures.
POLAR VORTEX!!
Meh. It’s another 80 plus degree day here in Texas.
Channel 3 in Hartford is calling it Blizzard Chris?
We had a catastrophic snow here in Iowa yesterday; almost 3 inches.
My snowblower hasn’t run all year; yesterday was close.
It was so cold I had to wear a winter coat to work, but back to 50 tomorrow.
The shorts and short sleeved shirts will be back tomorrow
You won't see them 'til Spring; they're buried in the blowing and drifting snow, LOL.
Go for it! I want the whole world to hear my survival story of the Blizzard of ‘17 (not to be confused with the Blizzard of 1917).
“catastrophic”...
“historic’...
“paralyzing”...
They forgot:
***apocalyptic***
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