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― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― That Girl (thatgirl), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Do they still do the Nerds Blizzards? How about Heath Bar? MY GOD I HAVEN'T HAD A BLIZZARD SINCE 1991!
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
BOO THERE IS A BLIZZARD KEEPING ME FROM MY BLIZZARD!!!!!!
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 17 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
not sure what this means for my viewing of the 'joe millionaire' finale
― maura (maura), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
From 7Online: "Today, we expect to get at least 18-24 inches of snow. If we do, we are looking the sixth largest, all-time accumulation. However, we will probably get at least 20-21 inches of snow today."
― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
That's just so sad...and slightly disturbing.
The snow here is what, 3 inches maybe? Not bad, it's been far worse several times so far this winter.
― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm actually not positive about Dairy Queen absences here or not. I was sure I knew the name from somewhere before encountering them on my trip across the country in the 1982 move, though. Hm...
*checks DQ website*
Okay, they're around -- several in LA alone -- but apparently they're teamed up with Orange Julius out here -- I remember OJ more thoroughly from the seventies, so perhaps DQ just bought out the name?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 00:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.dairyqueen.com/ tells more, and there's a direct link to Orange Julius stuffage as well. Er, go nuts?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 00:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oh, and Ned/Chris, none of us are morons. We don't go, "Oh god, snow, that's unexpected!" Some of us actually enjoy changes of seasons. Some of us have lived on both coasts and find your decision to stay on the left one disturbing, at best. Always remember that. ALWAYS.
― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 00:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Hey, I never doubt that people actually want humidity in August.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
(this Dairy Queen has been just easy walking from Ned's past house for years)
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 01:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 04:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
i'm very happy to stay here. i've been eating some wonderful food, enjoying good company. my sister made sambar last night, my bro in law made beef stew...pressure cookers rule.
i'll be holed up watching their matrix dvd over and over in different languages and eating fabulous food...cool enough.
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 05:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Best thing I seen all day: the buses keep stopping at the one nearest my house, which is completely plowed in with snow. I mean literally, the entire little box for people to stand in is packed up with snow to the rafters. WHO ARE THESE BUSES TRYING TO PICK UP? Snow men? What the hell?
― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
And my dumb kid just went out to meet a friend for coffee. I told her it was literally getting worse by the minute, but ... kids.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
It is absolutely bonkers how long our travel bookers (wherever they are located) kept insisting our flight was not cancelled, despite us sending them screenshots of texts, emails and web updates from the carrier saying the flight is cancelled. It went on forever. They finally relented and re-booked us for Sunday, but when we tried later to see if we could get out a day earlier, on a Saturday flight, the process began anew. "Our system is showing the flight is not cancelled" etc. Like, look at the news, dummies.
Christmas Eve gonna be a flashback to peak covid Christmas Eve, when we bundled up and had drinks with friends in their backyard despite it being -2 or whatever it was. The shrimp and oysters (remnants of a truncated Feast of the Seven Fishes) literally froze, and we had to thaw them under the same ad hoc conditions (fire pit, heat lamp) that we were desperately enlisting to keep ourselves warm.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 December 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
my stepmom just cancelled her flight to Duluth to see the grandkid for Xmas... -37 with windchill
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 December 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
In Miami it will be a bone-chilling 43 degrees on Xmas Eve.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
I was just on a zoom with a colleague in Atlanta, and she said there was a darn good chance of snow down there
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 December 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
tiny flurries on the afternoon walk in brooklyn
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 December 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
It is currently 14 degrees Fahrenheit in the ATL.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
a bland balmy 60* in Oakland, we're missing out on all the fun
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
no one asked you, andy
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
heh.. we see NO SNOW here ever so I guess I'm a little jealous
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
To be clear, we got next to no snow here. Inch and a half? 2 inches? It's mostly really cold.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
After tons of time and bullshit and money, we managed to reschedule (most of) our trip. But just to show how the universe works, because we were stuck here another couple of days I was here to hear what sounded like water running in our neighbor's backyard. It sounded like a hose or sprinkler, which is not something you want to hear during frozen temps, so I investigated with a flashlight. And indeed, they had a outdoor pipe under their stairs spraying water all over the place. The twist? They had literally left for Hawaii a couple of hours earlier. Fortunately we had their house key, so I was able to go in and turn off their water main and (checks notes) save Christmas.
Meanwhile, the stories from places like Buffalo are horrifying, as were the videos of parked cars in Seattle just sliding hundreds of feet down icy hills, hitting car after parked car, like a huge, expensive pinball machine.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
just coming up for air this morning in sunny Buffalo. my wife wanted us to go visit family in texas for christmas but i talked her out of it... "who wants all that hassle of travelling during the holidays", i said... wont write a novel about it here but just say that ive lived through plenty of huge snowstorms here & this was just on another level completely, never seen anything like it. sad times here.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link