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it's coming down pretty hard here in hoboken (and presumably across the Hudson in Manhattan). i've already decided i'm not going to Philly tomorrow, whether or not the snow's keeping up. i'm drinking lots of tea and eating spaghetti.

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 17 February 2003 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

We had ours last night. Everything is buried in nearly two feet of this white shit. Also it is fucking cold. For some reason I do not find this whether enjoyable (however if I had a wide open space to safely drift my car in i wd probably think it was kind of neat)

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 17 February 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

This is why I live in

SAN FRANCISCO

please, enjoy your weather.

― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Monday, 17 February 2003 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

In Seattle, we are getting LOTS OF RAIN right now- gee, how unusual. ;-) Actually, I'm kind of bummed out; I really, really need new windsheild wipers, because my current ones do nothing more than smear around the water & make it harder to see. So I'm hoping that it peters out before I need to drive anywhere... I should just suck it up & drive to Shucks to buy new ones, but I'm incompetent at replacing them myself.

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 17 February 2003 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Just took these pictures out my window right now...

http://www.chrisbarrus.com/weblog/myimages/longbeach200302-mini.jpg http://www.chrisbarrus.com/weblog/myimages/longbeach200302in-mini.jpg

Please, enjoy your weather also.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 17 February 2003 01:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you, Chris- that appears to have stopped the rain here. Keep posting more palm trees, maybe it'll stay dry for a while! ;)

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 17 February 2003 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Now you tell me! I go out to enjoy my Swedish indiepop fest at Other Music, and NYC has been turned into a winter wonderland.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 February 2003 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Only other palm tree picture I have right now is this picture of a cell phone antenna disguised as a palm tree. There's a lot of these around LA/OC...

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/images/palm_antenna.jpg

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 17 February 2003 01:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris, I am enjoying the blizzard, actually. I was a good excuse to go out and buy mad mad foodstuffs. Also, I finally bought boots, and I'm rather please with their sharp appearance. (The Gallery shopping mall was shutting down, but K-Mart, where I bought my boots, was staying open. The workers were not pleased.)

Actually, I have to admit that San Francisco sounds pretty nice in general. I don't really like the cold, but I do like snow. (Curiously, it doesn't usually seem all that cold out when it snows.)

That palm tree is proof that mark s is wrong about the non-existence of postmodernism.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 17 February 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

That palm tree is ace.

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 17 February 2003 01:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose there's a mad appeal to stocking up on supplies in advance of a blizzard (or "BLIZZARD!" as the thread title screams). I do like the snow, I just don't really want it right where I live. Heck, I suppose I could even deal with the cold, but the one thing that drove me craazy is the constant dampness and dripping once things start to warm up.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 17 February 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

It's still coming down. Brrr, that looks nasty.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 17 February 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I just finished shoveling shoveling shoveling. My car is a big round lump identifiable only by its parking place. It's still coming down, but it's a little slower I suppose. Or not (just looked out the window). This pisses me off. I want to see Ladytron tonight. Motherfucker.

I just checked my hair and it appears there is no ice left in it. Now if my pants wd just dry out.

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 17 February 2003 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I still have a snowdrift in my apartment.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 17 February 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I'm making a delightful minestrone in honor of the snowy weather!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 17 February 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother's making monte! Blizzards bring out the cooking urge in people. I do like that. (Ironically it's snowing too hard for us to go skiing today, my parents don't want to drive, but we're going to cross-country ski around the neighborhood.)

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 17 February 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I made it to the office (the news watch NEVER stops!), but there's fuck-all going on now that I'm here.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

We have types of snow out there that even the Eskimos don't have a word for.

(I'm planning on making a red lentil and butternut squash soup with saffron.)

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 17 February 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm weighing the options of 1) making chicken soup and 2) going to the Black Cat tonight. Not that the two would be incompatible if I were to pick myself up and get something done.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Report from Denver: not a flake in sight. Sunny and 50 degrees outside.

― Mandee, Monday, 17 February 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

What should I do today?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Download AIM.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Reorganize sock drawer. Spackle the den. Experiment in the kitchen.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

There was lots of fresh snow to splash in last night if you were out. Also good exercise. Strange to walk out of mostly-quiet streets into surprisingly thronged establishments. And the ice forming on the windshield wipers of the cab I took home from a popular ILx bar was only mildly terrifying.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I was totally expecting this to be a Connor thread.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 February 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going out there. I've been told not to go into work but I desperately need groceries.

Mary, you should clean house and listen to your new Rae and Christian mix.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 17 February 2003 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

New Jersey looks like someone tore open an asteroid-sized pillow and dumped the contents on us. i may be forced to eat easy mac for the rest of the day.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I am making music, while my girl - who just flew back from Japan yesterday - sleeps away behind me. I love blizzards.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Classes were cancelled! My only goal today is to go to the gym!

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I want a blizzard!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I am CRAVING Dairy Queen now.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

http://home.att.net/~leahland/bliz.jpg

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

ARGH.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

It's saying... "Eat me, Dan."

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I couldn't get home until 5 in the morning because the train line froze. My mom was supposed to fly home today but is stuck here another day.

At least the psych rock show was good!

― hstencil, Monday, 17 February 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I HATE BOSTON WHY IS THERE NO DAIRY QUEEN HERE AAAAAAAAAAAARGH

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Felicity, what's Rae and Christian? Some Tammy Faye Starlite remix?!

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Outside in Seattle right now, on my deck. Jen, of course, really misses the NYC blizzard happening right now. She's sobbing.

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/seattle021703.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

what flavor do you want Dan? I'll go get one and tell you all about it.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

*sob*

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-three years ago)

You have Friendly's.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

AAARGH DON'T REMIND ME.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a Dairy Queen just up the street from me! I'd get ye one, Dan'l, but it'll take me a few hours. And then I'd have to go up to Boston.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan got's a major DQB goin' on...("Dairy Queen Boner")

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

DAMN SKIPPY.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Donut Bitch, did you study at the Gareth school of photography? (Hey Jen!)

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

HOORAY THERE IS A DQ IN QUINCY!!!!!!

BOO THERE IS A BLIZZARD KEEPING ME FROM MY BLIZZARD!!!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I bet this isn't a proper blizzard like the one that brought England to a halt a few weeks ago. We had nearly half an inch of snow.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Londoners will happy to hear the NY subway is running on or near schedule...And it runs all night! Nothing brings out my patriotic fervor like NY's mass transit system.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Please don't sing the praises of the MTA. I was stuck in the Queensboro Plaza stop last night for over an hour.

― hstencil, Monday, 17 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't let a little snow get in your way Dan
Here ya go:
http://www.fincosport-n-toys.com/www.fincosport-n-toys.com/snowshoes13.50.jpg

― oops (Oops), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, I do suppose it's easy to sing praises from the comfort of my own home!

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm on beer #3, stuck in philadelphia, have been eating fluffernutters all weekend

not sure what this means for my viewing of the 'joe millionaire' finale

― maura (maura), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I like this bizarro world where inch of snow = blizzard.

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-three years ago)

(I was joking, Rosemary, about how pathetic England is with a tiny bit of snow. I do know what NYC gets, most years.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't left the house all day (it's 5:30 pm now). I'm drinking martinis and watching bad movies on cable. I lived in upstate New York for three years. Winter doesn't impress me anymore.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The blizzard was all worth it for Dan's freakout (I experienced none of it in snow form being out in Chris Barrus land and all, but last week we did get the rain version of the same storm -- v nice).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

the view out my back door
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3237g/images/pingpong.jpg
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3237g/images/steps.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

MY GOD I HAVEN'T HAD A BLIZZARD SINCE 1991!

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-three years ago)

Actually, the Dairy Queen talk reminds me I haven't even been inside one since 1985 or so. Are they even out in California?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Dairy Queens? they've got "Queen" in their friggin NAME, Ned, I should think so

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 February 2003 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

OMG, if there aren't any in Ca. this means I could never live there.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Good call, Tracer. ;-)

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-three years ago)

THEY STILL MAKE ORANGE JULIUS??? Oh god now I am sad too :(

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't there an Orange Julius in Penn Station? Right near the 1/9 entrance?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

So the fact that there are both Dairy Queens and Orange Juliuses still out here without the attendant problems of snow automatically makes us envied all around? I can live with that! *hides from collective wrath*

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-three years ago)

I don't take mass transit! I have no idea! :(

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-three years ago)

(Pee Wee Herman voice) "I can't HEAR you!"

Hey, I never doubt that people actually want humidity in August.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, you never knew of the Dairy Queen on Fairview and MacArthur by the Ralph's?? (next to the.. dear god.. Pick Up Stix). I'm in hysterics!

(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-three years ago)

There was a Dairy Queen over there? *thinks* Huh. Okay. I have a dim image of one now that you mention it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Keep in mind.. Dairy Queens are relatively recent to California (if not the West Coast).. or recent enough such that the old DQ jokes never worked. The whole "Ha! Well at least I don't work at an F'in DAIRY QUEEN!" putdown became obsolete once DQ kinda "cleaned up" their stores and became just as, ahem, cool a place to work as any shopping mall food detail.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)

retail.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Dairy Queens were never really that bad, it's just a funny thing to say.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

During timesw hen my parents were low on money, we used to have to settle for Dilly Bars from Dairy Queen, rather than their more interesting offerings.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Felicity and I had an Indian dinner fit for kings, or er, queens. We tried to go to Flying A but the bastards were closed. We saw airline bags through the window but couldn't inspect closely enough to assess the right level of skankiness for a certain person. Felicity was drawn to the brown, but neither of us have a particlular affection for Fred Perry Airlines. Oh yeah and the snow, it's stopped now, what's up with that?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 04:42 (twenty-three years ago)

it does seem to have stopped, but it's too dark to tell. laguardia is closed until noon tomorrow, and i was supposed to be flying out. instead, i'll have an extended stay in nyc. and i will be spending my life on hold trying to change my flight. naturally, they don't let you do such things online. that would be far too convenient.

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-three years ago)

I love this snow a lot but wonder what it means for the FAP/b-day party...I'm still planning on having it but if it starts snowing again that may prove a problem. we shall see.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Matos: a little snow never stopped hotlesilxoraction from occuring!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)

my sentiments exactly

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't you think it's a little presumptuous of Matos to think he can just decide whether we're having it or not? Matos isn't the boss of whether we're happy Matos was born! I don't need to ask Jesus whether I'm going to celebrate Christmas!

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay! I had a blizzard this evening! Just before French class! With Butterfinger mixed in! It was grebt!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I only mentioned this because I've gotten two emails already asking if I'm cancelling/postponing the b-day party.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:13 (twenty-three years ago)

You know I'm kidding, right? Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. It's your birthday!

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:35 (twenty-three years ago)

of course I know you're kidding

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not. FUCK YOU MATOS. Obv. I'm kidding, I mean who are these wussbags who sit in their houses and do nothing over some snow?

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-three years ago)

did anybody ever eat "snow cream"? i wanted to make some but forgot how

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't recommend you do this with already day old snow, Tracer.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan Perry to thread. Again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

it's STILL SNOWING though. can't i just skim off the top without disturbing the gray ice underneath?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

No. It's tainted.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

This tainted snow you give me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

ARGH.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Took you long enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't touch me, please.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

let me guess, you can't stand it, right?

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I love you, Tracer, though you hurt me so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

now i'm gonna pack my things and SNOW! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah aaaaaaahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

did anybody ever eat "snow cream"? i wanted to make some but forgot how
Please see the Arbitrary Thread. At the time, the post was arbitrary (as I hadn't seen this one yet... or perhaps snow ice cream was just in the collective ILX conscience).

My toes are freezing because snow fell down in my boots when I was scraping off the car this morning.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread's great strength is the way its American contributors are being so unselfconsciously yet unmistakably American.

To the outsider it conjures a glamorous and poignant world. I have always said that anti-Americanism is a chimera.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahh, the PINEFOX.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha!, I got soaked to the bone in San Francisco on Saturday night!

HOWEVER, I really Loved SF this time. I think it has really come back down to earth and is much more pleasant/friendlier.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I know I get a tear in my eye when I read this thread.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

From my 50th-floor window i can report that the sun is actually out and shining on most of Queens. Oddly, however, the Citibank building remains shrouded in shadows.

Signs have been posted outside my building: "beware of falling ice". I looked about, noticed nothing untoward, and set off from under the overhang and was almost offed by an enormous chunk of - falling ice.

I agree with the Pinefox - anti-Americanism is a magical wingéd magical horse-beast.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

and magical, too

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

and thanks for the tip Sarah. Though I fear Ally is right. "Snow what touches brine / will never touch mine", or something.

The Pinefox thinks we are all a bunch of rustic naifs.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer, do you work in the Citibank building in Long Island City?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't made snow ice cream in a very long time. But it was perfect when I lived out in the suburbs and was too young to worry about things like dirt.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Ughhhh...I just dug out my car. Grudgingly I admit Ned may have a point regarding his choice of climate and transportation.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

DON'T TELL THEM WHERE YOU ARE TRACER. THEY ARE THE TALIBAN.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, you can tell I'm Taliban by the beard and the eyepatch. I can't wait to drink forbidden-by-Allah cocktails with the heathen Matos tonight.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

PF you can't ruin our fun: We have snow and you don't, nyah nyah!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the PF's thoughts of us are kind of poignant in their own way, actually.

I'm trying to think of ways that Matos is a heathen, and I'm realizing that we agree on almost everything music-related. Must find cracks in this facade of accord.

Funny you should say that about the Taliban - i work at the corner of Cortlandt and Broadway, so I'm directly across from the Trade Center site. Impossible not to think bad things in this neighborhood when enormous things fall 55 stories.

The sun's shining on Manhattan and Brooklyn now!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

And now all 5 boroughs! I even went over and looked out the other side of the building.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I thought by the comment about Queens that you might work in that big Citibank building in L.I.C. A friend of mine works right around where you work. Hey, you did have to deal with 9/11, but on the bright side you work right by Century 21!

I took my mom up to the 48th floor of the building I work in for the fantabulous view of Central Park today.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread warms the cockles of my heart.

Mmmm... hot cockles...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

No, i didn't work here then, hstencil.

Warm it up, Jody Beth!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm drinking hot chocolate. The ice is melting outside. It's supposed to be in the 50s soon.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

1. How am I trying to ruin your fun? If anything I am trying to increase it.

2. Ah, JBR.

3. Tracer H continues to intrigue me in lots of ways. He deserves his own thread.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to make homemade Orange Juliuses on Sunday night but opted for pina coladas instead. Who knew that orange juice, ice, vanilla and RAW EGG would be so delightful?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Stop being gross.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Who's being gross? Those are the ingredients to an orange julius!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

You have shattered my crystal palace.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread has now twice provoked in me great urges for dessert drinks. Orange Juuuuliiiiius (slobber slobber)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer H deserves his own thread.

This is productive and sensible talk. And to think that once upon a time I shushed you, Pinefox, not once but twice!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Some crystal palace you have, that one raw egg can so easily shatter it. Pfft.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

"Crystal palace"...ha!

(Looking out window at a world where everything is covered in approximately 1-inch of ice.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

You are both mean and I will cry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Has there ever been a Tracer Hand thread?

On the putative thread we would discuss why we find TH so intriguing.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

my dog does peeps in the snow.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Fo Shizzle My Blizzle.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"Peeps" like slang-used-in-rap-song, as in "down with my peeps in the ATL"!?!

Now I wanna see it, I wanna see your dog "do peeps in the snow". That's a whole new style of p0rn, fer sher.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris V., you simply MUST stop posting things similar to mine...for the past two threads I've posted in, I've gotten a "New Message" screen with a post by you that was on the same subject.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD MAN!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I tried to make an orange julius when I was little by pouring my breakfast milk into my orange juice. My mom saw what I was about to do and said that if I did it, I'd have to drink it. I did it anyway. I drank it. For the record, it did not taste like an orange julius.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Julius look we are twins.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

what's Rae and Christian

It's what I "hear" when you say "rave classics."

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 20 February 2003 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that what I'm listening to then, rave experts?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 February 2003 01:34 (twenty-three years ago)

gosh no, R & C are chillout. It was an actual mishearing from another time.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 20 February 2003 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh...and I thought you said Rave Christian, it's all coming together now.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 February 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

rave classics, in this case, i think:

jonny l - hurt you so
neuromancer - pennywise
aweseom 3 - dont go
shades of rhythm - sound of eden
ultracynic - nothing is forever
house crew - euphoria (ninos dream)

hmm, you're still missing all the best ones actually

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 20 February 2003 07:52 (twenty-three years ago)

hook me up!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

We're supposed to get a good 3 to 6 inches.
But I've heard that before . . .

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

probably another 3 months before we get any snow, if any at all - and it will be rubbish anyway, hmph

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Since when is 3 to 6 inches ever GOOD?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

12-15 here in worcester.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I get depressed just thinking about it.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

We had some good snow this year!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

good for Southern England agreed

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

suzy, it's not the size of the snowfall that generally matters, but whether it sticks.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not the size of the flake, it's the pile that it makes.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not the size of the cock, but how much satisfaction it brings to the recipient from a combination of technique, movement, shape, emotion, excitement and atmosphere.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

All I'm saying is whatever we wind up with BETTER not fuck with southbound amtrak tonight or I be PIYOSSED

xpost Mark you forgot longevity

― TOMBOT, Friday, 5 December 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

?!?

We were talking about snow!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I love to run around in the snow and cover myself with it but that's kind of gay and childish and like super dorky. I keep looking for excuses to go to the corporate office so I can run around in the snow but DENIED every time! I'm just gonna go smoke again. I remember when it snowed in April last year, I ran to the park and got into a snowball fight with a bunch of 12 year olds and they actually took me down, for real.

And then I got pnuemonia.

― Allyzay, Friday, 5 December 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

that's beautiful. (sniff)

(and neither gay nor dorky)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/images/blizzardycar.jpg

That's the car we found in the snow in April!

― Allyzay, Friday, 5 December 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

And this is where the snowball fight occurred:

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/nyc/tavern.jpg

― Allyzay, Friday, 5 December 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

fucking snowhogs

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, did the Predator take that photo?

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

And doodly doodly doodly almost one year later... still drizzly, grey, windy here in seattle. oh wow, the pain.

That pic I took above looked almost exactly like, well, what it looked like outside my balcony this morning, except darker.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

This weather is really really bad right now, wow. It wasn't supposed to get this blizzardy til long after I was safely on a train tonite, wtf! I'm never getting out of this hellhole.

― Allyzay, Friday, 5 December 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the wind is out the east. just once I'd like to see good weather come from the east.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

then I can die in peace

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

are you there God? It's me, lawrence

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i just checked port authority's website and supposedly all of the airports are operating with no delays/cancellations, and no problems on bridges/tunnels. this seems wrong to me.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick will be on an Amtrack train tonight! He better get home. Living alone is depressing, not to mention boring.

It's supposed to snow here all day tomorrow.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, lauren, that seems totally wrong to me too. But I'm hoping it's not! Amtrak is sketchy when it's 90F and sunny out.

― Allyzay, Friday, 5 December 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

all we get in Seattle is rain. if it snows a quarter inch people literally lose their minds. as a native Minneapolitan, it's pretty amazing to watch.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Almost as funny as watching people in southern California deal with rain!

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm about to be a total idiot and use my day of freedom here to Go Out In The Blizzard And Buy Clothing.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 5 December 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

If I never make it back to the Upper West Side
Tell my momma I was thinkin good thoughts when I died

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 5 December 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

ha i can just see nabisco skipping through the snow, while whistling some electro tune

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost back to Matos) That said, it did "snow" unusually early here this year, but it was, like, just millimeters, but surprisingly, no lost minds here -- and this is not counting the unusually early brisk week we had before that. ("WHO THE FUCK SPRAY PAINTED MY NEIGHBORS' FRONT LAWNS WHITE, I ME.. OH, that's frost. weird")

Now if we get past the inch mark here, I'm hiding in my bunker for a day, and will the let the crazies eat each other.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Be bold, young Nabisco.

*looks outside* Sun and clouds. Figures.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

actually maybe nabisco doesn't skip. maybe he frolics!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Nabisco proceeds or maybe even perambulates.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Nabisco processes and his friends are electric.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

PEOPLE clearly the man gets jiggy.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Does not Nabisco in the blizzard ponder the powers of a wizard?

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Nabisco has shot the food.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Once in a while he even shoulder dances!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Nabisco, you should be able to handle a little NY snow, considering where you grew up!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i go home early! i also stand on NJ Transit train platform for half-hour in blizzard like stupid motherfucker that i am!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

C'mon, my rhyme was totally Biggie! That's how I should be moving. But the only CD in my bag is the last Beat Happening so I think this means I will alternately mosey and hop.

Ms. Robotico: up until I was sixteen I lived in New Mexico and southern Colorado! The snow there was like a special effect: you could see it come down but it somehow managed never to affect anything, and most days it'd have melted away by the time you got home from school.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 5 December 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought you mentioned living in rural michigan at some point, my bad.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

He lived in CHICAGO! Nuff said.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Chicago, capital of Rural Michigan, the 51st State!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

there was a tiny layer of snow on the ground here when I woke up, but the sun got rid of it.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Time zones Shmime zones. Anything that touches Lake Michigan = Michigan. There. Let the federal rezonings begin.

Hey, if any of your midwesterners want to lend us some of those road salting machines here in Seattle, then we'll stop being Crazy From The Snow. We promise.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it will build character to deprive you.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, Calvin's Dad.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

a picture of my superfantastic hat, currently sitting on the coffee table in my apartment:

http://www.madbomber.com/madbomber/images/370L01small.jpg

of all the days to forget my best cold-weather accessory...

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, are you on flu medication?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Amoxicillin is my FRIEND.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I have that hat in brown and tan!!!!!!!! I should wear it tonight but I don't have a brown coat so black beret it is :(

― Allyzay, Friday, 5 December 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the fuzzy red baron hat.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

My street is going to be a blanket of snow by the time I get the hell out of here. Brooklyn people have a thing against shovels and rock salt. And the streets don't get plowed.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Do they just opt for snowshoes?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been trying to get everyone on the Red Baron/Lumberjack page since Halloween, I am so glad this is finally occurring.

― Allyzay, Friday, 5 December 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm going to wear my hat around the house this evening with flannel pjs and grumble into my toasty cup of herbal tea (blecch).

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a red and black wool lumberjack jacket. I love it. But it's too cold to wear it because it's not lined.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

man! It's been snowing heavily for eight hours straight.

From my workplace I can see the start of salt mines that extend under Lake Erie- soon we will be basking in salt. We're required by law to wear it on top of our heads in place of hats.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Do they just opt for snowshoes?

I live in a neighborhood full of very old Italian people. When it snows, they don't go outside so there's no need for the sidewalks or streets to be cleared. How nice for them.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

My goodness it is still blowing around!

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought I missed snow but I so don't now. Snow go away.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Today should be the start of yummy slush....sarcasm

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

today is the start of big chunks of ice falling off buildings

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm getting really bad about this days-later rechecking of threads I posted on but just since I know you all care so very much to clear this issue up: I lived in rural Michigan for two years (Big Rapids, 1993-1995). It was cold and there was lots of snow.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Third-biggest Nor'easter ever

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

so where da snow at?!?

― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Friday, 8 February 2013 14:59 (thirteen years ago)

we might get 3 feet of snow. wind gusts up to 50 mph.

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:21 (thirteen years ago)

Today is gonna be dead at work. Maybe we can leave early.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

i'm not opening today. people should really be out now buying too many loaves of bread and gallons of milk and not worrying about used records.

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

good luck New Hingland

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:39 (thirteen years ago)

Wife was absolutely certain they were call off my work today, didn't happen. We have a lot of Jerseyites though, will not be surprised if we close early.

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:53 (thirteen years ago)

think i have everything i need. cigarettes, big bottle of wine, enough weed to last until monday, fixings for beef stew, chips, salsa...hope i didn't forget anything.

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:21 (thirteen years ago)

don't plan on leaving the house until monday anyway. if i can get out of the house on monday...

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:21 (thirteen years ago)

Bought a WHOLE ROAST CHICKEN from the dominican place last night

~preparedness~

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 16:23 (thirteen years ago)

Hope you make it through ok, Scott!

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:23 (thirteen years ago)

That is my kind of thinking, Scott. I love stocking up and battening down.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 8 February 2013 16:24 (thirteen years ago)

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 16:28 (thirteen years ago)

have to check the candle situation though...might need to make one trip to walgreens down the road. plus,at walgreens i could stock up on emergency magazines.

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:30 (thirteen years ago)

I'm doing the same with cigarettes, wine, coffee, chicken and cans of coconut milk, and pottering little house projects. Cannot wait.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 8 February 2013 16:31 (thirteen years ago)

That is my kind of thinking, Scott. I love stocking up and battening down.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit)

this is fine and all but dealing a million savages in the supermarket who are freaking out and hording 10 loaves of bread and 6 gallons of milk is the fucking worst

― ω (carne asada), Friday, 8 February 2013 16:37 (thirteen years ago)

i brought work home with me too. my record cleaner and a big stack of reggae records that need to be cleaned, graded, and put up on ebay.

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

i mean how much more are you eating then normal just because there is snow on the ground

― ω (carne asada), Friday, 8 February 2013 16:39 (thirteen years ago)

I love stocking up and battening down.

Girl, you are weird. :) If this isn't a big flop in NYC, I will just be watching the library DVDs I've been renewing for 2 months.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 February 2013 16:40 (thirteen years ago)

man i remember working at the corner store in philly during a bad blizzard in the 90's and me and the wawa across the street were the only stores open on rittenhouse square and then the wawa closed and i actually saw a big crowd of people at the door of the wawa turn and stare at my little gourmet store. i think i screamed. they all came stomping in and bought whatever wasn't nailed down. sold a lot of brie that day.

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:40 (thirteen years ago)

I'm not eating more but it would be normal to need to go out for an ingredient or a fresh veg or something, and obv I won't want to do that so I should have everything on hand. Like I just realized that I'm out of ginger and lemongrass so I'll prob take a difft route home so I can stop by a veg market.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 8 February 2013 16:42 (thirteen years ago)

it's the Sandy effect i see around these parts making people extra crazy. but that was i once in a lifetime event. we've had plenty of snowstorms people, the Chinese place will be delivering like always and the corner pub will still be open.

― ω (carne asada), Friday, 8 February 2013 16:45 (thirteen years ago)

The first neighborhood pizza place just opened 5 blocks away from me so maybe I can have that delivered if starvation threatens, how exciting.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 8 February 2013 17:05 (thirteen years ago)

snowpizza

― dell (del), Friday, 8 February 2013 17:22 (thirteen years ago)

NYC weather looks completely manageable til 8pm btw

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:54 (thirteen years ago)

Oh shit it's on! At west 10th ave anyway.

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:09 (thirteen years ago)

Imma go find a conference room window, hold on.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:10 (thirteen years ago)

I should have bought more wine but it's snowing too hard to go out again now, I think. Maybe later on foot when I need to walk the hound. Have food and other supplies. Thinking this might be a multi-movie type weekend. Already feeling a little stir crazy though.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:12 (thirteen years ago)

Starrett-Lehigh building 'urges you to leave by 5 pm'

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:14 (thirteen years ago)

I have camped out on the couch with two pillows and three blankets. I do not anticipate leaving this spot for a very long time.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:16 (thirteen years ago)

Here in the Cleve we're not getting any snow to speak of, just a dusting, but the winds blowing by my 15th-floor window must be 40mph.

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:18 (thirteen years ago)

radar seems to back up weather.com's claim NYC gets a break btwn 4:30 and 7

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:19 (thirteen years ago)

Boss just gave me the nod to leave anytime I feel done after 3:00.

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:31 (thirteen years ago)

So this is the real thing (lots of false alarms the last few years). The guy across the road has been shoveling for the past hour--I still haven't made attempt one. The snow's past halfway up my tires and still falling fast.

― clemenza, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:36 (thirteen years ago)

picked out my blizzard soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxXf8x2WfE

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:47 (thirteen years ago)

Scott I'm p sure you're not allowed to listen to that?

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:48 (thirteen years ago)

cars banned in massachusetts after 4 p.m. today.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/massachusetts-governor-bans-driving-ahead-of-winter-storm-nemo/article/2520976

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:00 (thirteen years ago)

[iatee approval goes here]

― mookieproof, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:02 (thirteen years ago)

anyone caught driving past 4 will be put in deval's secret snow jail indefinitely.

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:03 (thirteen years ago)

According to his Tweet, he's only banning cars "on the road".

― Aimless, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:19 (thirteen years ago)

so close yet so far

― iatee, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:20 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/VYSSN26.jpg

― ω (carne asada), Friday, 8 February 2013 20:23 (thirteen years ago)

Andrew Sullivan-style view from your window.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/snow_zpse5ceb37c.jpg

― clemenza, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:33 (thirteen years ago)

how many decimetres have you got there

― mookieproof, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:47 (thirteen years ago)

We measure things differently here--we're about a four or five chocolate glazed high. I'm heading out with shovel...tell the world my story.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/mccabe_zps6d55b455.jpg

― clemenza, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:52 (thirteen years ago)

That really is a lot of snow out there--much worse than that "Snowmageddon" of two years ago that turned out to be no big deal in Toronto. But I realize it's even worse in NYC and thereabouts. Seems like we've gotten off relatively easy a lot the past few years; we're forfeiting our god-given right as Canadians to be supercilious about bad weather.

― clemenza, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:03 (thirteen years ago)

I think we're too far west to get the worst of it; we're "only" supposed to get a foot, and right now there's maybe 1"-2" on the ground.

(upstate NY, about 150 miles due north of NYC)

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:14 (thirteen years ago)

its not supposed to stop here until late saturday? something like that.

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:20 (thirteen years ago)

We're up to 20 cm/8 inches here. I went out for a short trip and got stuck twice--once on my street, once in a parking lot.

― clemenza, Friday, 8 February 2013 23:06 (thirteen years ago)

Things I got the last of at the Key Foods just now:

Potatoes
Zucchini

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:08 (thirteen years ago)

I guess everyone has the same idea to make a big pot of soup.

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:10 (thirteen years ago)

i made a ton of beef stew. gonna go have some.

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 23:10 (thirteen years ago)

live remote!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgU9c8K50qM

― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 23:42 (thirteen years ago)

- only a slushy inch or so here so far, but it's freezing up and getting messy
- savages bought all the skim milk; had to get 1%
- rough night to be a food delivery guy

― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 February 2013 00:04 (thirteen years ago)

It's horrible outside here in Boston. I am bored.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 00:57 (thirteen years ago)

harbl

― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:08 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Bcdncx3.jpg

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:10 (thirteen years ago)

it is so snowy outside. windy too. drifty.

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:35 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah the house was kind of shaking and I think I just saw a man cross country skiing down the street?

― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:37 (thirteen years ago)

i still see the occasional car drive by and i'm like duuuuude you better be on the way to the hospital with a pregnant lady cuz otherwise...

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:52 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah I don't think you're even allowed to drive here right now. The only cars I can see are emergency vehicles and snowplows.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:54 (thirteen years ago)

I am in connecticut rite now

― iatee, Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:18 (thirteen years ago)

it's pretty bleak

― iatee, Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:18 (thirteen years ago)

also there is a snowstorm

― iatee, Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:18 (thirteen years ago)

no cars though right

― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:19 (thirteen years ago)

live actioncam from greenfield massachusetts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luzzqZuXvL0

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:21 (thirteen years ago)

i opened my back door a crack and got a windblown face full of snow immediately. well played, blizz

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:22 (thirteen years ago)

I hear teh wholing winds
I do not like them
the snow is fluffy
like sugar of the Captian
I hope for the best
please mighty one spare us!

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:24 (thirteen years ago)

you're basically ice cube in those coors light commercials

― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:24 (thirteen years ago)

I kind of can't even see much through the windows anymore. The Dunkin Donuts across the street looks like it's still open though.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:27 (thirteen years ago)

New england is safe as long at D &d is lights on

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:30 (thirteen years ago)

i hope markers doesn't run out of junk food

― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:33 (thirteen years ago)

http://emergency.tufts.edu/weather/winter-power-outage-tips/

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:33 (thirteen years ago)

almost had a disaster tonight --
was in a hurry to get home and left my keys hanging in the lock at work (i am an idiot.)
but i got home and realized i had no keys and took a can back to work and thank god they were still there.
helen is at work until 12 or 1 or 2 or so, depending, and our roommate is MIA.

but i am home now and almost drunk and listening to jerry jeff walker and making italian sausage with eggs and potatoes.

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:35 (thirteen years ago)

took a CAB back to work

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:38 (thirteen years ago)

riding a toilet through the blizzard - it sdoesnt get any better

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:45 (thirteen years ago)

home now and almost drunk and listening to jerry jeff walker and making italian sausage with eggs and potatoes

glad it worked out!

― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:46 (thirteen years ago)

As long as you're sure your roommate isn't, like, under a snowdrift somewhere between home and the subway, he'll probably come through okay. Glad to hear about your keys & return home!!

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:01 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGpjsgquqw

― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:06 (thirteen years ago)

yeah pat's fine. he eventually texted back. i think he is probably drinking somewhere. xpost

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:07 (thirteen years ago)

that's good to hear, stoner.

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:08 (thirteen years ago)

That reminds me to friend him for that Lady Sybil crack, though. That was genius at work.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:09 (thirteen years ago)

WAS NOT STONED! JUST IN AH URRY!!

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:09 (thirteen years ago)

pat is VERY funny xpost

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:09 (thirteen years ago)

why does netflix include CLUELESS under sci-fi & fantasy!@?

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:12 (thirteen years ago)

also apparently conan is a sports movie???

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:12 (thirteen years ago)

gonna watch more house of cards.

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:19 (thirteen years ago)

pumpin giron is a sports movie

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:50 (thirteen years ago)

Just stuck my head out for a smoke. Has anyone noticed that it's snowing kind of hard out there?

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:25 (thirteen years ago)

I hope Helen wore her moon boots.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:25 (thirteen years ago)

pretty windy, too!

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:26 (thirteen years ago)

i convinced helen to leave her bike in the city and take a cab home. she wanted to ride over the bridge. nuts!

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:27 (thirteen years ago)

helen is fierce

snow makes me so happy

― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:29 (thirteen years ago)

yeah it is pretty nice to be inside and warm and check out the snow falling down.
i kinda hope the trains are suspended so i can justify not opening the store

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:30 (thirteen years ago)

I am not sticking my head anywhere, probly gonna watch Paths of Glory.

(also i have no one to eat my enhanced cookies with)

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:33 (thirteen years ago)

NO, we do not need suspended trains bcuz I wanna see Abbas Kiarostami's first film @ Lincoln Ctr tomorrow night!

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:34 (thirteen years ago)

aw, i'd eat cool cookies with you if i could!

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:35 (thirteen years ago)

thx, you big fuzzie.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:37 (thirteen years ago)

cars banned in massachusetts after 4 p.m. today.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/massachusetts-governor-bans-driving-ahead-of-winter-storm-nemo/article/2520976

― scott seward, Friday, February 8, 2013 3:00 PM (Yesterday)

should become permanent policy imo

― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, 9 February 2013 06:37 (thirteen years ago)

CNN's reporting on the blizzard from pvd

the dog is waiting for us to go to bed so he can steal away and take a furtive dump somewhere, he refuses to go outside cuz the wind and snow lightning keep breaking his concentration

I wish link wray's "ice people" was on youtube

― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, 9 February 2013 06:51 (thirteen years ago)

CNN is reporting that cars are being towed in boston. in boston! imagine that!

― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, 9 February 2013 06:52 (thirteen years ago)

maybe I should just go to bed so the dog can do his clandestine business

― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, 9 February 2013 07:00 (thirteen years ago)

damn theres a lot of snow outthere

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 9 February 2013 12:25 (thirteen years ago)

maria with a shovel! i cackle at her. but i'll help i'll help. just need a little more coffee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xXTv-BnZE8

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:00 (thirteen years ago)

I don't know where my car went this morning. Nowhere to be seen!

― collardio gelatinous, Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:40 (thirteen years ago)

its in there somewhere.

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:47 (thirteen years ago)

this was really just a storm here. not a blizzard. i could hang out on the front porch last night. blizzards are scarier. you can't see anything in a blizzard. it was windy though.

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:48 (thirteen years ago)

i appreciate the encouragement, but i still have my doubts xp

― collardio gelatinous, Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:50 (thirteen years ago)

i like to call it a "wallop" xp

― collardio gelatinous, Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:52 (thirteen years ago)

yeah it dumped a ton of snow really fast! pretty impressive.

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:57 (thirteen years ago)

i can't really tell how much we got because it's already blown all over the place. my car doesn't look too buried tho.

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:57 (thirteen years ago)

8 or 9 lousy inches in NYC, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:07 (thirteen years ago)

For a few years I worked on Christmas Eve and drove the 70-ish miles home after the store closed. Every time, it was basically through weather like last night. Maybe not quite as bad, but close? Snowflakes coming at you in the high beams, I haven't driven in 14 years but I can still see that.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:08 (thirteen years ago)

NSTAR's power outage map for southeastern Mass:

http://outage.nstar.com/outage/outagemap.aspx

― collardio gelatinous, Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:14 (thirteen years ago)

bus outta here pushed back by an hour, so inconvenienced.

― 乒乓, Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:17 (thirteen years ago)

there is an *insane* amount of snow outside right now

― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:18 (thirteen years ago)

bruins still plan on hosting the lightning at 7 pm this eve. if you can get there, might be a good day to get cheap tix.

― collardio gelatinous, Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:21 (thirteen years ago)

Uh I just tried to walk the dog and take the garbage out back and it was up to at least my mid thighs. I had to pick up the dog under one arm, had the garbage in the other hand and couldn't even make it 1/2 way through the parking lot before I gave up and turned around. Can hardly see the car tbh.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:03 (thirteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ARWU-tAqBTo/TtrlbknYopI/AAAAAAAA6i8/_aLB6KTFHSU/s1600/P1010083.JPG

― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:10 (thirteen years ago)

Ha not quite. He put the breaks on as soon as he looked out the door. Not a fan of snow, this one.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:13 (thirteen years ago)

cyrus loves to jump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8zWFaF97YY

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:35 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah I had to carry my dog TO the heavy snow because the supers threw that chemical ice melt all over the sidewalks after they shoveled this morning. Stupid stuff burns her paws.

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:36 (thirteen years ago)

Aw man a couple years ago that happened to B and all of a sudden he started limping and crying and I didn't know what was wrong adn it was the SADDEST thing. There still aren't really any cars except emergency vehicles out and people are just walking in the street. Am gonna venture out in a bit. Will take pictures.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

I need to get Bucket a new set of those little balloon-like dog shoes, then she can tromp right over those melt pellets.

She's pretty snow-positive for a chihuahua mix-- I guess it's the dachshund blood in her.

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:51 (thirteen years ago)

it's still kind of snowing/blowing around here and the sun is shining so brightly that the air is basically full of swirling glitter. I could watch this shit all day.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:57 (thirteen years ago)

moar photos plz

(now that i know you're all safe and sound)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:19 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.joe.ie/news-politics/world-affairs/video-great-timelapse-of-the-nemo-snow-storm-in-the-us-0033928-1

― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:19 (thirteen years ago)

just shoveled for like an hour. now going to drink a huge cup of tea.

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:29 (thirteen years ago)

Oh noooo Internet just went out.

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:43 (thirteen years ago)

Went out. People are just roaming the streets. There's an impromtu dance party happening in the square down the road and people are building a giant snowman. Everyone is being really friendly but it kind of looks like the end of the world since the streets there are so few cars around and nearly everything is shut.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:12 (thirteen years ago)

after walking butter in the storm for 30 minutes at 3:30 AM he finally relieved himself, and me, I know you all were concerned

maybe we should get him together w/ benson and bucket

― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:42 (thirteen years ago)

butter, bucket, and benson . . . YES!

― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:45 (thirteen years ago)

B dog FAP!

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 9 February 2013 20:16 (thirteen years ago)

someone on my facebook took nice nyc pics:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/488125_10151367082744792_14314410_n.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/48129_10151367081904792_258166598_n.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 20:19 (thirteen years ago)

really, it has to go to fucking 12 degrees tonight?

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2013 20:53 (thirteen years ago)

gonna be 2 here

― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:12 (thirteen years ago)

Scott that 2nd pic is like the gauntlet of death by falling branch

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 10 February 2013 00:16 (thirteen years ago)

Internet is back on, giant pot of minestrone is almost done.

― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 10 February 2013 00:20 (thirteen years ago)

I like watching in the middle of the road

― iatee, Sunday, 10 February 2013 00:42 (thirteen years ago)

as man was intended to

― iatee, Sunday, 10 February 2013 00:42 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

fuck, btw

― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:36 (thirteen years ago)

bleh

― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:38 (thirteen years ago)

WTF IS THIS?

― go to party leather (ENBB), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:49 (thirteen years ago)

I have off today and had PLANS but I'm not driving in this stuff. HMPF. NOT HAPPY.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:49 (thirteen years ago)

I don't want to go to work.

― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:35 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/oiD4oKJ.png

what the fuck, man. i think youre making this up

― 乒乓, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:51 (thirteen years ago)

― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2013 17:03 (thirteen years ago)

I quite enjoyed the snow yesterday, as I'm in Boston and there's a couple of guys also over from India who have never experienced snow! Today, though, it is a total pain in the ass, even if their childlike wonder lives on.

― CraigG, Friday, 8 March 2013 18:59 (thirteen years ago)

my mom will probably be without power for a week, she's in central Virginia.

― sleeve, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:18 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

where the snow at?!?

― 뉴 메탈은 나머지 모든 보지 똥, 거기입니다 최고의 음악이다 (Eisbaer), Monday, 26 January 2015 04:56 (eleven years ago)

not looking forward to this.

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 January 2015 05:17 (eleven years ago)

half day today, full snow day tomorrow. Downside: my best friend was supposed to fly in from minnesota tomorrow night for a conference and now that ain't happening.

― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 26 January 2015 15:36 (eleven years ago)

you take the good + the bad = the facts of life

― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 26 January 2015 15:37 (eleven years ago)

will fuck up my chemo-drip sched

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 January 2015 15:42 (eleven years ago)

― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 26 January 2015 15:51 (eleven years ago)

i'm seeing 12-18" for NYC now, ie yesterday's screaming headlines were bullshit bullshit bullshit

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 January 2015 16:36 (eleven years ago)

I am okay with slightly overblown bullshit bullshit bullshit weather freakout if the city is acting on good faith in attempting to protect the citizenry

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 January 2015 16:40 (eleven years ago)

says the underprepared guy who discovered post-sandy how fucking scary weather can be

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 January 2015 16:41 (eleven years ago)

i usually ignore all weather panic from the east coast, because, come on. this looks real tho, godspeed.

― goole, Monday, 26 January 2015 16:56 (eleven years ago)

i know it's first world problems but they cancelled Louis CK's MSG show tomorrow night. I was really looking forward to that. Sadface.
Okay, going into it now.

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:29 (eleven years ago)

BUZZARD!

― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:37 (eleven years ago)

GET THE KALE AND HEMP MILK

http://gothamist.com/2015/01/26/snowpocalypse_supermarket.php

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 January 2015 19:14 (eleven years ago)

where is interpol right now

― mookieproof, Monday, 26 January 2015 20:25 (eleven years ago)

The "!Blizzard" icon for the 10013 zip now only covers the 3-6a.m. hours. I smell a BUST....

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 02:16 (eleven years ago)

I would be very very happy about that! Better to have a fizzled out miss and one fully acknowledged snow day and nobody hurt and life back to normal Wednesday than a week of this.

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 02:17 (eleven years ago)

When they call for an inch and you get 2 feet, people lose jobs. When they call for 2 feet and you get an inch, people just end up with some extra canned goods and go about their business.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 02:55 (eleven years ago)

Finally starting to look like a snowstorm outside my window, not convinced this is a fizzle yet.

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:14 (eleven years ago)

When they call for an inch and you get 2 feet, people lose jobs. When they call for 2 feet and you get an inch, people just end up with some extra canned goods and go about their business.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, January 26, 2015 9:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:17 (eleven years ago)

boston is windy as hell right now and there's def like 6 inches on the ground - but considering that they canceled mail delivery and subway service tomorrow, if I don't wake up to like two feet I will consider this crying wolf

― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:28 (eleven years ago)

the !Blizzard icon for my zip code spans from 6 am to 5 pm, so I'm not going to join the ranks of the Juno truthers just yet

― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:28 (eleven years ago)

(I live about 40 miles NW of Boston, and the forecast for Boston is about the same)

― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:30 (eleven years ago)

yea its supposed to go nuts in about two hours down here. the wind is loouuuuuudddddd outside that's for sure. and hey even if it were somehow overblown I wouldn't exactly be mad.

― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:37 (eleven years ago)

Supposed to start around 7:00 AM hereabouts (central Maine), continue into the early afternoon. They're still telling us to expect a foot or more. Evertything;s calm, clear and COLD atm.

― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:46 (eleven years ago)

Times Square starting to white out:
http://www.msnbc.com/shift/watch/new-york-city-snowfall-389419587924

― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:55 (eleven years ago)

boston has just under a foot of snow and still going strong with heavy winds

― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:49 (eleven years ago)

hearing that New York got hit much less hard than expected?

― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:50 (eleven years ago)

6.3" in Central Park. Meteorology is the biggest scam going.

It is going to be a joy to hear the poking at Cuomo the rest of the week.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 13:33 (eleven years ago)

lots of snow here in boston. my company's servers are all down due to power outages so i get a forced day off i guess

― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 14:39 (eleven years ago)

About 15" in Watertown, but the wind is fierce.

― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 14:44 (eleven years ago)

There was a dud warning or two in the year before Sandy hit, wasn't there?

― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 14:50 (eleven years ago)

When they call for an inch and you get 2 feet, people lose jobs. When they call for 2 feet and you get an inch, people just end up with some extra canned goods and go about their business.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, January 26, 2015 9:55 PM

otm! especially when you consider the shit shows we have had in recent years

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:47 (eleven years ago)

There was Irene the year before Sandy hit. It rained a bunch and some tree branches fell down--but I biked around Canarsie the next day and it was p much just windy.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:49 (eleven years ago)

But I think the worst factor during Sandy was the high tide & storm surge? Because like I've said before, I saw an oceanfront house in the Rockaways with glass windows facing the beach that weren't even broken, but the rising waters had broken the adjacent boardwalk deck loose and hammered it into that house until the support beams broke away from the foundation.

Ahh yes, this house exactly:

http://dailybail.com/storage/sandy-rockaway-beach.JPG?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1351802117834

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:54 (eleven years ago)

Hey guys, I'm trapped inside again. Super awesome funtimes. Hovering around zero degrees outside, and I've got to go shovel the walk and driveway this afternoon. Somehow I've got to lift another two feet of snow onto the six foot banks flanking the pathways.

So for now I'm just sitting on the couch doing a load of work. Movie docket today:

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Frank
The Lunch Box
Nosferatu

― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:37 (eleven years ago)

My board closed all schools today, quite rare. (I'm in a board adjacent to Toronto; Toronto's, for some reason, remained open.)

― clemenza, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:43 (eleven years ago)

haha that's awesome. i had go into work today, it was bullshit

― marcos, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:44 (eleven years ago)

"delayed start, lateness is excused"

the fuck is a "delayed start" gonna do when a foot of snow is falling all day

i did get two days off last week so i guess i can't complain too much though

― marcos, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:45 (eleven years ago)

aaiiagh! woof woof moo! groundhoags days! feet of snow in maine

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:48 (eleven years ago)

My big blue snow shovel just died after a decade of service. Seinfeld crossed my mind as I shoveled away:

"Am I crazy, or is that a lot of snow?"
"That's a lot of snow!"

― clemenza, Monday, 2 February 2015 19:21 (eleven years ago)

Getting near six feet here, with drifts up to eight. We've gotta clear the sidewalk or we face fines from the town. Nowhere to put the snow, though, and I can't fling it higher than six feet. Thought about putting it in the street, but a town workman came by and told me that if I did, I'd face fines. I shoveled an eighteen inch wide pathway in white-out conditions along the ~ 40 feet in front of my house, a cut-out for the car (which kept getting filled in by sadistic plowmen), and a pathway up the front walkway and steps. After an hour I came inside to peel off socks and find blue-black toes. Screw you, Groundhog Day.

― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Monday, 2 February 2015 21:08 (eleven years ago)

so this is what the back of my building (in brighton MA) looks like now, and another purported 8 to 12 inch snowfall just began a few hours ago
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B91oaQjIcAAckzP.jpg

― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 14 February 2015 22:23 (eleven years ago)

damn!

― Evan, Saturday, 14 February 2015 22:46 (eleven years ago)

Ha, funny that you should post that. I took this pic of the back of some buildings on Beacon street in Boston earlier this week. The entire block was like this.

http://i61.tinypic.com/5d9fdu.jpg

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:05 (eleven years ago)

And this is what it looks like outside right now.

http://i60.tinypic.com/2wnbdrq.jpg

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:12 (eleven years ago)

nice photo

― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:28 (eleven years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h38OZUpuhVs/VOStLm81NSI/AAAAAAADSzQ/NT2XS6Dr84c/s1600/p9.jpg

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 23:05 (eleven years ago)

FUCK THIS WINTER

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 23:53 (eleven years ago)

Damn we've really aced this so far

― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 23:56 (eleven years ago)

i was doing okay this winter but went to florida for a week to visit my folks and it made it that much harder to come back, i am so done with this now

― marcos, Thursday, 19 February 2015 16:14 (eleven years ago)

the creator of this tumblr deserves some sort of civic honor http://mbecketta.tumblr.com/

― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 19 February 2015 16:21 (eleven years ago)

particularly sterling example of what to expect
http://41.media.tumblr.com/1297e7eb8950f2f0eb20fbdf63dde17d/tumblr_njz1cf9eBf1uo6pr5o1_1280.jpg

― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 19 February 2015 16:22 (eleven years ago)

that tumblr is brilliant

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 February 2015 20:40 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/nu5lGuv.jpg

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:57 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

NYC forecast for 3-5 inches snow Fri night, but as it's weather.com i hope they're fucked in the head

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:03 (eleven years ago)

with the ground temps significantly higher than they were just a few weeks ago it shouldn't stick.

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:10 (eleven years ago)

it'll stick to the sidewalks in front of the local vacant properties in our booming economy

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:14 (eleven years ago)

Who doesn't love a few inches of snow on the spring equinox

― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:59 (eleven years ago)

LALA LALALALALA LALALA LALAAAAAA

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:11 (eleven years ago)

Fuckity fuck fuck

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 March 2015 00:19 (eleven years ago)

Fuck. Supposed to drive from NYC to Amherst on Friday

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 19 March 2015 00:25 (eleven years ago)

go it early mebbe

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 March 2015 04:44 (eleven years ago)

5-8 inches now lolol

― 龜, Thursday, 19 March 2015 12:56 (eleven years ago)

get with it, spring doesn't come to the northeast until basically may, if we're talking about actually nice weather here

saying this for myself too so i stop getting disappointed when i can't hang out outside in march. i forget this every year but really i need to realize that cold in the northeast is a 6-month thing

― marcos, Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:33 (eleven years ago)

Didn't you grow up in Ohio? Not that different!

― groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:42 (eleven years ago)

oh yea it's not different, i just don't know why every year i think nice weather comes when daylight savings starts, i need to get my expectations to better match the reality of winter in these regions.

so depressing when i look at my phone and see that so many other parts of the country are already in the 60s and 70s

― marcos, Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:53 (eleven years ago)

*brings up Weather app, accidentally swipes left to reveal Cupertino stats*

― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:55 (eleven years ago)

lol

― marcos, Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:56 (eleven years ago)

though the weather story i keep seeing today is that three years ago it was mid-70s in boston this whole week

― marcos, Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:56 (eleven years ago)

that's cruel of the weather crew to do stories like that. they should be doing stories on the ice age, people starving in caves and licking each other's poop to survive and stuff like that

― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:02 (eleven years ago)

i only made it halfway through the boy scout guide but i'm assuming at some point you have to lick poop in order to survive

― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:02 (eleven years ago)

It's in the Scat Got your Tongue chapter.

― bollnality of weevil (brownie), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:47 (eleven years ago)

http://cdn4.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/nicholas-hoult-it-happens.gif

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:48 (eleven years ago)

5-8 inches now lolol

alarmist crap, not seeing this anywhere

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 March 2015 19:50 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/az3MjdA.jpg

― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 March 2015 19:52 (eleven years ago)

weather underground's site is weird, though - it says 5-8in for Friday but the rest of the data/charts/descriptions they have don't use the same figure, as far as I can tell

― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 March 2015 19:52 (eleven years ago)

meh "underground," what poseurs

not lookin good for the NYU home baseball opener on the 28th tho

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 March 2015 19:53 (eleven years ago)

BLIZZARD!!

― 龜, Friday, 20 March 2015 18:11 (eleven years ago)

They've downgraded to 1-3 inches btw

― 龜, Friday, 20 March 2015 18:11 (eleven years ago)

hmm, still says 4 to 6 for my neighborhood (http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=11226)

― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 March 2015 18:13 (eleven years ago)

I've never heard of that place before

― 龜, Friday, 20 March 2015 18:17 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8P7eRickUo

― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 March 2015 18:36 (eleven years ago)

*looks outside at what were once 6 feet snowdrifts that still haven't totally melted 3 weeks later*

1-3 inches? come on y'all it can't be that bad

― slothroprhymes, Friday, 20 March 2015 18:40 (eleven years ago)

fuck this shit forever

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 March 2015 19:44 (eleven years ago)

my only worry is how much snow it takes to paralyze the trains now; guessing 1.5"

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 March 2015 20:03 (eleven years ago)

With Morbs. Unnecessary freaking out over a little snow going on at my work. "oh no I didn't wear boots!" So silly.

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 20 March 2015 21:23 (eleven years ago)

Running out of local delivery food options that I can also pay for by debit card because I'm out of cash and I'd have to leave my neighborhood to get to a bank.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 20 March 2015 21:31 (eleven years ago)

grubhub?

― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 March 2015 21:33 (eleven years ago)

I feel bad about asking anyone to come out here in this tbh! Maybe I'll just pick up some tortilla chips and call nachos good.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 20 March 2015 21:59 (eleven years ago)

yeah, i usually feel kind of bad too, but i throw on the shitty weather bonus funtime tip and call it even. :)

― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 March 2015 22:12 (eleven years ago)

it's actually NOT THAT BAD

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 March 2015 22:28 (eleven years ago)

Yeah it's not really sticking. In Manhattan at least

― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 March 2015 23:12 (eleven years ago)

seven years pass...

Pre-Christmas Bomb Cyclone Great Lakes Blizzard!

I haven't seen people this whipped up about a potential blizzard in Chicago in years. It's insane. I'm guessing largely this is down to the travel disruptions right before the holidays, but there is def a more anxious than usual vibe around.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 21:37 (three years ago)

The Blizzard of (January) ‘79 in Chicago was notable for (among other things) the amount of snow, how the city majorly fucked up the response and — as looks likely on Thursday/Friday — bitterly cold temperatures for days afterward that exacerbated all snow-related problems. So anyone in the Chicago area right now who lived through that is understandably getting nervous.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:37 (three years ago)

hmmm this may be a good time to make sure my snowblower is still working

― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:41 (three years ago)

I'm nervous about the 40-50 mph winds, since a windstorm knocked out power in my apartment last summer. Wouldn't want that to happen with these upcoming windchills. Other than that, looks like none of the snow will melt until next Thursday or so.

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:43 (three years ago)

Also, happy not to be flying/driving this week. I have a few headstrong friends who "just have to do it" to be with parents on Christmas.

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:48 (three years ago)

Here in the ATL, I'm mostly worried about freezing rain. That takes out power lines. In 2000, we were without power for nearly a week.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:58 (three years ago)

Calling a weather event a Cyclone Bomb is a surefire recipe for getting people whipped up in a froth.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 23:04 (three years ago)

That’s its name though, isn’t it? Maybe there is another, slightly more neutral name though, I vaguely seem to recall.

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 23:08 (three years ago)

apparently the term bomb cyclone originated in 1980 and was used among professional meteorologists, but to my recollection it only started to appear in US media reporting very recently.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 23:17 (three years ago)

that's because the atmospheric conditions that create it have accelerated due to climate change, so it is more common now

― sleeve, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 23:19 (three years ago)

The long name is explosive cyclogenesis, kind of a mouthful. I first learned that in its Spanish equivalent which is pretty much exactly the same, when a friend used it as a song title.

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 23:23 (three years ago)

Got a flight at 4pm Friday. Dunno about that.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 01:44 (three years ago)

Something similar

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 01:56 (three years ago)

Pretty risky move, updating the forecast and downgrading (however slightly) the (local) snowpocalypse. No longer calling for much snow, and now the worst is supposed to hit here Thursday night, though the super cold temps and high winds (and attendant ice and whatnot) through Saturday are still expected.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 14:07 (three years ago)

From what I can tell, it's the temps and wind that are the bigger risk with this storm. The snow, not as much.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:56 (three years ago)

The cold front has arrived in Cheyenne and it is already a record-breaker! From 1:05 to 1:35, the temperature plunged from 43 to 3 degrees, a FOURTY-DEGREE drop in just 30 minutes! This shatters our previous 1-hour temp drop record of 37 degrees, and we are still dropping! #wywx pic.twitter.com/twQcNgy9qx
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) December 21, 2022

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 23:17 (three years ago)

wow - that tweet is pretty insane

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 23:30 (three years ago)

That account is a little too excited about that.

― Jeff, Thursday, 22 December 2022 00:15 (three years ago)

well, it is the National Weather Service.. that's kinda their bag

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 22 December 2022 00:20 (three years ago)

There's Nowmageddon like Snowmageddon like Nowmageddon I know...Not quite what you're getting across the upper states, but we're supposed to get 25-30 cm where I am (southwest Ontario) on Friday and another 10 cm (plus a drastic temperature drop that will produce "flash freezing" on roads) on Saturday.

― clemenza, Thursday, 22 December 2022 01:52 (three years ago)

that sounds like the kind of weather that will kill some people

― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 December 2022 04:21 (three years ago)

Our flight Friday was preemptively cancelled. Airline, website, email, twitter, text all say it's cancelled, as well as all of the airline's other flights out of Chicago. Annoyingly, travel booker insists it is not cancelled. We've been either on hold or on calls literally for hours now. High volume, for some reason ...

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 December 2022 14:27 (three years ago)

What airline / airport?

― Jeff, Thursday, 22 December 2022 14:46 (three years ago)

Supposedly my parents are flying in Saturday morning. Status still says on time. American / O’Hare

― Jeff, Thursday, 22 December 2022 14:47 (three years ago)

ANA/Air Nippon Airways.

Good evening! International Bad Weather Alert for DEC 23. Chicago(ORD) : all flights has been canceled .
Latest info: https://t.co/gfUVeWjlbX ✈
— ANA Flight Info (@ANAFlightInfo_e) December 22, 2022

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 December 2022 14:53 (three years ago)

Just got back from a walk to the store for some last minute provisions, since we had intentionally gone through most of the important fridge stuff thinking we'd be gone. It's wild to think it's going to go from as mild as it is (32, snow just barely started, didn't need a hat or gloves, or even to zip up my coat) to, like, -8 overnight. Reminds me of a day decades ago when I parked in a puddle and came back a couple of hours later to find the wheel literally frozen in place.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:15 (three years ago)

It’s so nice out right now, 32 with pretty flurries and no wind.

Crazy that at 12:30 p.m. it was 29 at O’Hare and 11 in DeKalb (with a -3 windchill).

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:35 (three years ago)

And now we’re in it: 10 degrees colder in the past hour, wind up to 16 mph, falling snow still pretty.

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:07 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

In Miami it will be a bone-chilling 43 degrees on Xmas Eve.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 00:19 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

tiny flurries on the afternoon walk in brooklyn

― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 December 2022 23:46 (three years ago)

It is currently 14 degrees Fahrenheit in the ATL.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 23:58 (three years ago)

a bland balmy 60* in Oakland, we're missing out on all the fun

― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:16 (three years ago)

no one asked you, andy

― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:17 (three years ago)

heh.. we see NO SNOW here ever so I guess I'm a little jealous

― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:22 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

two years pass...

https://i.imgur.com/aIRz8OR.png

― circles, Sunday, 5 January 2025 15:36 (one year ago)

Got 5 inches of snow now we are having the rare thunder and lightning with sleet/freezing rain now.

― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Monday, 6 January 2025 00:49 (one year ago)

impressive! weather that tries to kill you several ways at once

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 6 January 2025 00:53 (one year ago)

yeah, there were three really good thunder claps while it was snowing this morning in kansas city. still snowing and very windy, but the snow totals are going to be closer to 10” than the silly totals that some were predicting

― circles, Monday, 6 January 2025 01:23 (one year ago)

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