BLIZZARD!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

snowpizza

NYC weather looks completely manageable til 8pm btw

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

Imma go find a conference room window, hold on.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

picked out my blizzard soundtrack.

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

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

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

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

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

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

so close yet so far

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

Andrew Sullivan-style view from your window.

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

how many decimetres have you got there

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

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.

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)

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

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.

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

Potatoes
Zucchini

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

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

live remote!

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

- 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

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

harbl

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

it is so snowy outside. windy too. drifty.

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

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...

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.

I am in connecticut rite now

it's pretty bleak

also there is a snowstorm