BLIZZARD!

not looking forward to this.

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.

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

will fuck up my chemo-drip sched

:(

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

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

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

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

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.

BUZZARD!

GET THE KALE AND HEMP MILK

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

where is interpol right now

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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!"

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.

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

damn!

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

And this is what it looks like outside right now.

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

nice photo

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

FUCK THIS WINTER

Damn we've really aced this so far

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

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