Posted on 03/14/2017 1:31:45 AM PDT by EinNYC
This Nor'easter, named Stella, is coming on like a son of a gun! My sidewalks are already indistinguishable in height from the lawn on either side. I spent a lot of Monday preparing to be snowed in: moved up medical appointments to Monday morning, topped up the gas in my car, corrected deficiencies in food staples supplies (shelves were already conspicuously bare in many aisles), laid in a good supply of crickets for my lizards, studied weather reports, and checked on friends.
How have you in the Northeast prepared for Stella? If you stay home, how are you going to pass the time during the blizzard?
It’ll be clear and 70 here in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. I’ll go into work for a few hours, then pick up some ribs to Q, to be accompanied by some dirty martinis out on the deck with family, once they get home from skiing.
I’ll call it spring storm Glock.
Looks like my van’s transmission chose a good time to burn out. Woohoo!
Working from home....not happy.
Working at home on my laptop. I’m an accountant. It’s tax season. But I’m allowed to smoke my pipe while I’m working, which I can’t do in my office. It’s my office, my building, my company, and I can’t allow smoking , thanks to the neo puritans in the Pennsylvania state legislature.
I’ll be heading North in a week or so - I expect all you good Yankees (former Rochester, NY denizen) to have everything clean/clear/de-iced/and all the salt washed away by then....
I believe NYS knows what the difference is between weather and blizzard. I lived all of my early life (30 yrs.) where we got >125 inches of snow every year. (That would be Buffalo and Syracuse)
In 1985, I traded blizzards for hurricanes and never looked back !
Shoveled about 5 inches just now in the sleet so the dog could do her business. All warm and cozy now.. :)
Remembering a blizzard in Maine, when I was four; remembering a blizzard in 1966 and getting stuck in a Glass Host turnpike-side restaurant for three days; remembering a fresh ‘good snowfall’ in Denver on 01/02/77; and now, sitting in Louisiana, watching the global warmist Eastern seaboard-based Weather Channel flagellate themselves while exhorting the rest of the nation to join in their misery, in my tshirt, scrubs and slippysocks with a predicted high of 61 degrees.
I am going to go out into the woods and enjoy the hot 70 degrees predicted here at 6500 feet in the Colorado mountains. My turn will come later. We did have major flooding three and half years ago though.
TRUMPS FAULT
****We needed a break from the constant finger pointing and nonsense of current politics!****
Yes WE Do!! That is why I post ‘music video’ threads; to lighten the load.
I don’t watch the news anymore - it’s all about the Trump haters and stupid celebrities. No thanks! I’m usually glued to the Weather Channel so that I can check on locations where my family members live.
Off topic, but I wish FR still recorded the number of ‘views’ per thread as well as responses. It helps to know if some threads are worth posting...or a waste of bandwidth.
thx for the thread.
That’s quite a camera! Picks up sound too.
It’s really tough here in San Diego too!
I was going to male veal/elk/wild boar meatballs tonight...
To be honest, the predictions were that Long Island, for once, would not be overly affected by the storm.
In Central NJ, 7:30am, it’s storming!
Bombay Gin is my choice
Do you know Judy Collins’ brilliant song “The Blizzard”? About a lady stuck in a restaurant in Colorado during a snowstorm.
Going to set up our canopy, patio heater, and slow-cook a pork roast in the smoker for dinner.
The PI Day Blizzard
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