Posted on 01/22/2005 4:04:20 AM PST by SamAdams76
Well all the stops have officially been pulled out by the weather prognosticators. They are on a "war footing." The Northeast is getting a true BLIZZARD this weekend. Not a "nor'easter". Not just your basic snowstorm dumping 6-10 inches in Boston and New York with a mix and changeover to rain along the coast. No! We are talking 20-30 inches of windblown powdery snow in many locations with no chance of a mix with or change to rain whatsoever.
The temperatures are currently running zero or below zero across most of the Northeast this morning so the cold air is in place and fully entrenched. With the high winds expected with this storm, This will be a true BLIZZARD.
So as I sit in the epicenter of it all (my area is expecting over two feet of snow), I thought I'd start this thead so that Freepers can give us reports of how conditions are in there area. And you don't have to be in the Northeast to participate as this storm is currently affecting Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia as it heads to the East Coast where it is expected to undergo what the weather nuts call "bombogenesis" and literally explode into a superstorm as energy is transferred over the comparatively milder Atlantic Ocean.
So there you have it. Even in areas where plenty of snow falls this time of year, you have people running to the supermarket early this morning to "stock up", as if somehow a few feet of snow is going to stop all commerce and transportation for the forseeable future (the reality is that we should be all shoveled and plowed out by Monday morning no matter how bad things get).
The local TV stations around here have gone absolutely bonkers, as they are wont to do. It's even more extreme this year because TV "broadcast" stations are struggling to maintain their relevancy in a high world of internet, satellite radio and many other distractions that consumers have these days.
Weekday "anchors" are being rolled out of bed early this Saturday morning as they throw on their hairpieces and head to the studios for all-day "wall-to-wall" coverage of this blizzard. Seasoned reporters are being sent to Home Depots where people are already nervously buying shovels (even though they likely have 7 or 8 shovels in their garage already) and supermarkets where silly old ladies are buying gallons of milk (that they normally never drink) and loaves of bread (that they will never eat and end up throwing to the birds). Other reporters will be sent into the streets to do interviews with snow-plow drivers and "public safety" officials. More junior reporters are being sent to the sides of highways for liveshots where absolutely nothing is going on presently. But they will stand there nevertheless, filming the traffic going by and commenting on "how dangerous" this highway will be in just a few more hours. Then when the storm hits, these same reporters will retreat to rest areas where they will continue their liveshots as their cameramen instruct them to "sway in the wind" and "hold on to their hats" to help convince the viewers at home that the storm is severe indeed.
Yes, it's going to be a fun weekend in New England and the Northeast in general. But the beauty of this is that is is on a weekend. If we are going to get a true blizzard, the timing just couldn't be much better. We are able to get our normal errands done on Saturday morning and then in the afternoon, we can retreat to our homes and stoke up the fireplace as the snow moves in. Then tomorrow (Sunday), we can sleep late and take our time shoveling out. Then we have a perfect excuse to sit around the warm house all afternoon watching football as THREE out of the four teams still playing are all in the snow-bound Northeast. The ratings ought to be phenomenal, provided the power doesn't go out.
So post conditions in your area here.
Outside my home (approx 30 miles northwest of Boston near the NH border), it is -11 degrees! It is daybreak and the skies are mostly clear with some high clouds. It is COLD out there, almost too cold for snow. But it's coming, at least that's what they tell me!
Damn, I KNOW I typed a response to this, but it doesn't show up on the pings: I may have been confusing Latin School with Francis Parker, but the girls I knew who went there would've been there A BIG 30 years ago: Lisa Segal, whose mother was a stained glass artist who lived on Wells Street in Old Town, and Polly Pen, a teenage actress who was still in highschool when she performed with me in the original production of GREASE, in 1971, in Chicago, before it was picked up by two Broadway producers (after being rejected by Dick Clark) and brought to NY in '72. Polly later became a composer and recently won an Obie Award for her music.
"If I could send ya stuff through the screen,I would.I have some homemade Bouef Bourguignon in the ice box,and some homemade beef & veggie soup...if you'd rather that"
Somehow, when you post, it always comes back to food, doesn't it? The wifey and I raided the frozen leftovers tonight too. Seafood stew and BBQ pork, YUM! YUM! Now if I could just find the stuff to make that tort!!!
(Haven't opened the door in eight hours, not sure if I can now.
You were in the original "GREASE"?
That was before I moved to Chicago,but one of my dear friends went to high school with the guys who wrote that.
Hmmmmmmmmm Celeste Holmes went to Parker,as did Edward Gorey (both long before the time frame we're talking about),and Jennifer Beals and that girl that John Kennedy Jr.(what is her name? the blonde actress...something Hannah?) once dated.
My daughter's much younger than that...30 years ago,she was a baby.:-)
But I remember the stained glass artist on Wells. That's something,anyway. LOL
Edward Gorey was from Chicago?
Made roast turkey tonight;the Bouef Bourguinon is from the night before. :-)
Now,if only I could decide what to make tomorrow,I'd be okay.
Gorey was born and raised in Chicago.
That would explain his choice of coats...I'm off in search of food. Take care....
I'm trying to channel your cupboard.....let's see, now.
Mix the canned tuna with some mushroom soup (do not dilute) add mushrooms, canned or fresh pre-browned, heat to a simmer, dash of hot sauce and serve over toast. (For even more crunch and depth, drain and add a can of corn.)
From the College Student Living Alone Cookbook, by a former college student who lived alone.
Good luck with the food ...enjoy!
I guess this weather stuff only effects people when it moves out of Minnesota! We got our first real snow Jan. 21
Had about 2" before this. But it only matters when it goes east. I feel left out.
I used up my mushrooms(fresh) in the Bouef Bourguignon,but there is a tiny can of Chinese straw mushrooms in the pantry.I never have mushroom soup (there's chicken noodle,chicken broth,bean and bacon,tomato,green pea,vegetable,Scotch broth,clam chowder,shrimp bisque,lobster bisque,beef broth,beef consume,leek,and some others.LOL),several different "HOT" sauces (would you like the Peri Peri from South Africa?),and I think a couple of cans of tuna.I only have creamed style corn,though,and that doesn't sound as though it would work.
Hmmmmmmmmm...maybe I'll just make clams casino,a green salad and spaghetti.I still have some Italian bread,so I can make garlic bread.
Too bad about the creamed corn. If you had regular niblets you could add it to the clam chowder, again with a dash of spice and either eat it as is, or as a dip with Fritos.
Ye gods and little fishes...next you'll be trying to shove AMERICAN CHOP SUEY at me. :-(
Sorry,don't have a Frito in the house. LOL
$250.00 ticket to drive in the snow. Say you have a Hummer then what?
One of your friends went to high school, in that case, with Jim Jacobs. The other author , Warren Casey, was originally from Yonkers NY, and moved to Chicago in the late 60s. He had been a high school art teacher, but rather than teach in the Chi school system, he chose to work as a clerk at Rose Records in the Loop, and get involved as an actor in the off loop theatre scene. Jim lives in California and is very wealthy from the megasuccess of the entire Grease franchise. Warren, who was gay, died of AIDS sometime in the mid-1980s. I had already moved from CHi at that time.
I was very fond of both of them. BTW, my character, MILLER, was stricken from both the Broadway production and the movie, but it was my character in the original who was Rizzo's boyfriend, not Danny Zuko, and my character who had the hotrod Greased Lightning, about which I sang the song in the show, long before John Travolta sang it in the movie.
One of your friends went to high school, in that case, with Jim Jacobs. The other author , Warren Casey, was originally from Yonkers NY, and moved to Chicago in the late 60s. He had been a high school art teacher, but rather than teach in the Chi school system, he chose to work as a clerk at Rose Records in the Loop, and get involved as an actor in the off loop theatre scene. Jim lives in California and is very wealthy from the megasuccess of the entire Grease franchise. Warren, who was gay, died of AIDS sometime in the mid-1980s. I had already moved from CHi at that time.
I was very fond of both of them. BTW, my character, MILLER, was stricken from both the Broadway production and the movie, but it was my character in the original who was Rizzo's boyfriend, not Danny Zuko, and my character who had the hotrod Greased Lightning, about which I sang the song in the show, long before John Travolta sang it in the movie.
I now ask myself how all this information somehow managed to get onto a thread about the blizzard. Curious.
That's fascinating! Many thanks for all the inside info.:-)
What's a cubit?
The measurement from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger;about 18 inches. Why?
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