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Up To A Foot of Snow in Store for Parts of Massachusetts by Monday.
Accuweather.com ^ | Sunday, January 17, 2010 7:42 AM | AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Meghan Evans

Posted on 01/17/2010 8:49:23 AM PST by ohiobuckeye1997

A storm spreading locally heavy rain into the Northeast will meet colder air and allow for a treacherous wintry mix and snow to fall over portions of the region. Most of the accumulating snow will fall overnight into Monday morning.

The heaviest snow will thump over a small swathe from the Berkshire Mountains in northwestern Connecticut to southern New Hampshire and southeastern Maine. Six to twelve inches will fall in this corridor. Portland and Portsmouth are among the cities and towns that will be digging out from this much snow.

Lesser snowfall will reach southward into greater Boston through Springfield, Mass., and westward to the borders region of northern Pennsylvania and western New York state.

More mixing will keep amounts down across areas from the central Appalachians in West Virginia and central and northern Pennsylvania.

Motorists headed northward out of the big Eastern cities, especially bound for northern New England, will meet with snowcovered, hazardous roads and highways tonight into Monday.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; coakleybrown; ma2010; marthacoakley; massachusetts; scottbrown; snowstorm
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To: Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness
You sound like a "Broken Glass Republican" to me.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

21 posted on 01/17/2010 9:13:32 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: catfish1957
Good point, but it is my understanding that MA gets less liberal as you move west from Boston. If that hurts overall turnover, I think it will hurt Brown.

Central MA is more conservative than the rest of the state, so snow or no snow, Obamao or no Obamao, Brown likely would have taken the general area.

It's inside Rt.128, the greater Boston area, as well as the cities of Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill to the north, and the cities of Brockton, Fall River, and New Bedford to the south that Brown needs to carry.

There, Brown needs an all-out assault on scullery maid, Coakley, and it's looking very likely that that's going to happen since the anger in this state over the status quo is very palpable. I have never seen anything like it in the 40 years of 'pahking' my arse here.

22 posted on 01/17/2010 9:33:38 AM PST by Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness (Eenie meanie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak....)
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To: RummyChick

“roads should be cleared by Tuesday”

You won’t hear that from the MSM if Coakley loses. They’ll attribute it to low turnout due to bad weather.


23 posted on 01/17/2010 9:34:47 AM PST by Starboard
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To: LonePalm
You sound like a "Broken Glass Republican" to me.

More like a "Broken Glass Constitutionalist" I be.

24 posted on 01/17/2010 9:35:47 AM PST by Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness (Eenie meanie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak....)
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To: ohiobuckeye1997

The perfect GOD inspired perfect storm!


25 posted on 01/17/2010 9:37:08 AM PST by mmanager (It is time to prune the tree.)
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To: All

HELP SCOTT DEFEAT THE OBAMA SOCK PUPPET!!

(stole this from another FReeper, but bears repeating)

•People in ANY state can volunteer for the phone bank! http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/phone-calls-for-freedom-call-1?commentId=2600775%3AComment%3A1891491&xg_source=activity

•Anyone… Anywhere… Contribute! https://www.icontribute.us/scottbrown

•Live in or near MA? Volunteers still needed at many regional offices. If you can help, please email Laura@brownforussenate.com and she will tell you how.

•If you live in Massachusetts, become an election judge. In Boston they pay $135-$185 and they NEED Republican monitors.

Needed; military and retired law enforcement VFW and police organizations etc to monitor polls- prevent the voter fraud they’re plotting right now. Video tape everything; document everything; prosecute the perpetrators. http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id=3599

.


26 posted on 01/17/2010 9:44:46 AM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: bigbob

Brown also needs the older citizens to be able to get to the polls to defeat the health care bill that will so affect them in a negative way.


27 posted on 01/17/2010 9:47:21 AM PST by Tweeker
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To: ohiobuckeye1997
The storm is supposed to be over by noon on Monday. The area north of 495 along the New Hampshire boarder is supposed to get the most snow, 5 to 9 inches of wet snow. In Massachusetts terms a minor nusiance storm. All roads will be plowed well before the polls open. Tuesday is supposed to have a few showers and 37 degrees.
28 posted on 01/17/2010 9:50:57 AM PST by pietraynor (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Particularly if weather.com is right and it is followed by rain and snow on Tuesday: http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/02116?from=today_topnav_Pets


29 posted on 01/17/2010 9:50:57 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: darkwing104

Don’t you know we Republiucans are the cause of global warming with our SUV’s and 4x4 pick ups. We’ll just blast through the snow. Really in Massachusetts 5 to 9 inches is a nothing storm.


30 posted on 01/17/2010 9:55:11 AM PST by pietraynor (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan)
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To: darkwing104
Don't you know we Republicans are the cause of global warming with our SUV’s and 4x4 pick ups. We'll just blast through the snow. Really in Massachusetts 5 to 9 inches is a nothing storm.
31 posted on 01/17/2010 9:55:19 AM PST by pietraynor (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan)
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To: WesternMA

It means we might have to wear jackets and hats.

Ha! I can tell you’re a real New Englander! Three feet of snow wouldn’t stop us. We’ve experienced worse.


32 posted on 01/17/2010 10:04:27 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: ohiobuckeye1997

If it turns out to be a real weather situation by Monday in Mass, it will affect the already marginal enthusiasm among those that would have or might have voted for Coakley.
These people are not terribly motivated to begin with: a foot of snow would only leave one option for the Coakley campaign: bring the polling places to THEM. You’d need a little more passion than they could muster to go out in really bad weather.


33 posted on 01/17/2010 10:05:42 AM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: pietraynor
I grew up in New Hampshire. I know a few inches is nothing but a stooge in a snowplow could make it 4 feet in a matter of minutes...


34 posted on 01/17/2010 10:09:19 AM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness
Most of us here are ready to walk barefoot over hot coals studded with shards of glass to vote Brown on Tuesday!

You said it! It will be the liberals who bear the ill effects of inclement weather, because their enthusiasm for Coakley is weak. They will not go in the morning, because they are state workers and have to punch a clock. When they get out of work, they'll feel the cold air and see the snowy roads, and decide they would rather go home and see what is on TV instead of making their way through the polling places.

I'm going before work in the morning and am self-employed. I don't care how long it takes...I'll be wearing my nice, warm brown coat!
35 posted on 01/17/2010 10:29:24 AM PST by LostInBayport ("It's not the Kennedys' seat, and its not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat." -Scott Brown)
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To: ohiobuckeye1997

I would think the Brown voters have jobs, snow tires and a lot more at stake. They’ll show one way or another.


36 posted on 01/17/2010 11:49:57 AM PST by poobear
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To: LonePalm

After Tuesday they’ll be called “broken sheets of ice Republicans”.


37 posted on 01/17/2010 11:50:25 AM PST by supremedoctrine (Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn.)
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To: ohiobuckeye1997

This is a little concerning. The few conservatives out here are in the rural areas near the central/western parts. Those areas are going to get hit hard from what I hear. I hope people don’t see the polls and relax or think that it is not worth the trip in the snowy mountain roads out here. Some of the roads are very hard to travel on in the winter unless you have good snow tires.


38 posted on 01/17/2010 11:53:40 AM PST by mrsixpack36
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To: catfish1957
It gets somewhat less liberal, but the “lesbian capital of the US” is in the western part of the state closer to the NY border LOL.
39 posted on 01/17/2010 11:58:11 AM PST by mrsixpack36
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To: Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness

“As a resident of the snowiest part of MA, north central right along the MA/NH border, I can tell you it won’t mean a thing.”

Yeah! You guys are used to this in the winter.


40 posted on 01/17/2010 12:09:53 PM PST by RoadTest (The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. Ps. 119:130)
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