Joe Bastardi. Sigh :)
Posted on 12/16/2004 9:51:26 AM PST by CollegeRepublican
Snow can't be packed in the Northeast... ironically you have more chances of getting good "play snow" in the South than in the NE
I think I'll organize a looting riot.
Dang, we are in for a bit of a cold spell here later in the week also.
Fri Dec 17 Sunny 72° / 43°
Sat Dec 18 Sunny 72° / 46°
Sun Dec 19 Sunny 72° / 42°
Mon Dec 20 Sunny 72° / 42°
Tue Dec 21 Sunny 66° / 39°
Wed Dec 22 Sunny 63° / 40°
Thu Dec 23 Sunny 61° / 38°
Fri Dec 24 P.Clo 62° / 35°
Sat Dec 25 Sunny 56° / 33°
Then again, might be kind of nice having some cold weather at Christmas for a change.
Ack! I'd better run to the grocery store and buy all the milk, water and toilet paper I can find!
I'll bet the TV weather geeks are busily washing their turtle neck sweaters to wear on the day of the killer snow.
If it hits, I'll be kicking myself for not fixing the snow mobile.
I prefer Tim Blair's revision: "the Kabuki protocols". Same ol' song-and-dance...
already been skiing this winter----Stowe and Sugarbush--can't wait for some decent conditions, however.
yeah...i used to have fun up on sugerbrush...Unfortunatly i'm in the dc area now instead of the albany area so i need it to snow down here so i can load the car up and go to sigh West VA. Apperently there is skiing there, we'll see ;)
Ping
Be prepared to ski on ice. I have been skiing in Western Maryland, West By God Virginia, and Western Pa my whole life and the first time I skied powder, I felt like such a kook. Timberline in West Virginia is good as well as Blue Knob and Seven Springs in Pa.
haha thats what i figured. then again i usually ski on ice :\ i opted for the cheaper mountains in off peak times :) i was more of a fan of hitting jimmeny peak for 20 bucks after classes then driving 3 hours to the big mountains in plattsburg and what not at o dark 30 on sat morning to drop 75 bucks for a ticket ;)
you get what you pay for i guess. I'll check it out. I missed the last season as it was. Good skiing!
Oh, don't worry - one of my sibs will be sent to participate in that ritual!
At least in PA they know how to clean up snow. I've been living in central Colorado, just east of the Rockies, and they don't, they leave it to melt.
Busturdi is basically a scam artist. Check out various weather boards on the web, he's considered a joke by most people. However he's got a hard-core group of cult worshippers drinking his Kool-Aid; they typically spend all of their time basically parroting what he writes in his columns.
He's the weather equivalent of Jim Jones or David Koresh. I think the fact that he's not very good looking and not particularly well spoken and writes in a semi-incoherent manner makes him seem more "authentic." Over time I've seen a lot of people who were once JB fans finally see the light, though.
His modus operandi is to basically, every week, predict the most extreme weather he can possibly justify for the next week. In the summer, this means that every single week during June and July, he predicted tropical storm formation in the Gulf and Atlantic, usually 2-3 times a week, for the upcoming week. Of course, he'll eventually be right, and was finally right by August. During the winter, every week, he'll basically hint at/forecast a major snowstorm for the East Coast. This guarantees that if there IS A big snowstorm, he'll have "predicted it." However, he'll have a huge number of false positives.
Joe Bastardi. Sigh :)
When it can, it can. After each snow, it usually rained inside of a week.
I was working in eastern MA from 1997-99. Covered more roads than the natives did.
This Southern boy had to show to local kids how to build snowmen and had them built so as three (snowmen) were fighting each other. Showed them how to build igloos (never built one before) and later iced one with water so that the kid that threatened to tear it down, hurt himself running head first into it.
Showed them how to roll the biggest snowball (5 footer) and crash it down a hill through some trees. This would keep them busy for hours.
During quick & dry snows, shoveled the snow off a nearby basketball court and used it get the neighborhood kids to build things.
"We're Dooooooomed!"
The total population of the planet could be fit into 4 people per 8,000 s.f. lot, and wouldn't quite fill Texas and Nevada combined.
The econuts have no sense of proportion.
I heard on the radio this morning that there's a foot of "new snow" at that slope out in W VA.
Anyway, snow in DC sucks. People can't drive in even one inch, and it quickly becomes slush with a multi-week freeze/thaw cycle and lots of road salt. No good.
As opposed to Boston and NH where some years I didn's see my lawn from October through March. Packed snow was fine on the streets of NH, you learn to drive on it.
"We're Dooooooomed!"
That's right, don't forget the flashlight, batteries, and duct tape. Don't bother with the milk and bread, they are surely sold out by now :)
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