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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
snowpizza
― dell (del), Friday, 8 February 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
NYC weather looks completely manageable til 8pm btw
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Oh shit it's on! At west 10th ave anyway.
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Starrett-Lehigh building 'urges you to leave by 5 pm'
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
picked out my blizzard soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxXf8x2WfE
― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
[iatee approval goes here]
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
anyone caught driving past 4 will be put in deval's secret snow jail indefinitely.
― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
According to his Tweet, he's only banning cars "on the road".
― Aimless, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
so close yet so far
― iatee, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/VYSSN26.jpg
― ω (carne asada), Friday, 8 February 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
Andrew Sullivan-style view from your window.
http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/snow_zpse5ceb37c.jpg
― clemenza, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
how many decimetres have you got there
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
its not supposed to stop here until late saturday? something like that.
― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Things I got the last of at the Key Foods just now:
PotatoesZucchini
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
i made a ton of beef stew. gonna go have some.
― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
live remote!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgU9c8K50qM
― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
- 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 (eleven years ago) link
It's horrible outside here in Boston. I am bored.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
harbl
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Bcdncx3.jpg
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
it is so snowy outside. windy too. drifty.
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
I am in connecticut rite now
― iatee, Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
it's pretty bleak