Waiting For The Snow

store owners that put down rock salt in front before the first flake falls, WTF?

btw I am NOT very excited bcz just before I left work, we all got a robo-call from Head Office saying "We are monitoring the storm, and we will be open tomorrow."

LOL at people who have to work. I cancelled my Pilates class

I fucking hate the rock salt though. All it does is discolor your shoes

They haven't called off yet at my job. Cmon guys ugh.

Haha wait they just called it right after I posted that.

I always find it funny to read the news how schools/workplaces/etc in the US are closed because of some snowfall... That never happens in here, and I'm sure even here in Southern Finland we get 50 times as much snow as NYC. Don't people there have snowplows?

There's a pretty big population difference

So? Presumably that results in more tax money/bigger budgets for the city or whoever would be responsible for the plowing?

LOL at yr ruined shoes Josefa

also at Tuomas' understanding of US municipal budgets

let me summarize my walk to the Q train:

cocksuck

• there are three million more people in nyc than in all of finland
• there are indeed snowplows, although perhaps not as many as there would be in places where such storms happen more frequently, and the subway still runs
• because such storms are relatively infrequent, having places close isn't a huge deal
• america is a v. litigious society, alas, and businesses etc. want to avoid liability for people falling down or getting snow in their shoes or whatever

I bought Girl Scout Cookies today so I'm all set for Tuesday.

Old Man Winter, die like a bastard

da bread and milk upgrade for NYC

http://gothamist.com/2017/03/13/blizzard_nyc_snow.php

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6z5FLhXAAE78ma.jpg:small

Bread, milk, and toilet paper! BREAD MILK AND TOILET PAPER!!!

...Sorry, I grew up in the DC area, and have been conditioned to respond this way to snow forecasts.

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

Huh, had no idea that snow => milk n bread was a thing until the thread revival

My work just called tmrw off

Local news predicting 15-25 inches with 30 inches possible in some areas. Great!

"Working from home" on what usta be a workfree snow day. Fuck our dumb century yet again.

maybe your internet will mysteriously go out

I hope I haven't lost all my shovelin' muscles now that I finally own property with front steps and shit

You'll know soon enough.

our foreign adversaries will no doubt have already begun engaging in extra-dastardly shenaniganeering now that all the NSA headquarters school systems have announced cloture

http://wtop.com/closings-and-delays/#closings-MD

GEEZ YALL EVER HEARDA OPSEC

I hope I haven't lost all my shovelin' muscles

time for babby to earn her keep

I have to call into a meeting (where i will -- wait for it -- learn and contribute absolute zero) at 9 a.m. I will be watching baseball on mute simultaneously.

blizzard cancelled in NYC as usual

http://gothamist.com/2017/03/14/march_blizzard_falls_short.php

All your blizzard are belong to us, apparently. Like an impenetrable wall of white this morning.

can confirm that it is not fucking around out there

frightful

ffs, I'm having to cancel a very important hospital appointment with the orthotics dept for the head protection Alex desperately needs. I have been badgering his paediatrician's office for the last 6 months to get this and it just happens to be a total whiteout today of all days. Time to tell Snow to fuck off.

pretty angry that we're open today tbh

I thought conditions would be much worse on the East Side tbh, all the schools are closed here.

it's not impossible but it's bitter, windy af and transport must be bad and it'll last for what, a couple of days? let us hibernate ffs

lets end up dying in a road accident just to keep some semblance of "carrying on" for the sake of it, eh?

two sides of the same coin - moaning that this country isn't set up for cold snowy weather or trying to macho thru it pointlessly just to prove that business must go on

Lead partner had the foresight to make us take our laptops home so I am currently "working", when in fact watching Aguirre, The Wrath of God wrapped up in bed.

that's the spirit

I just came to work because I love snow, tbh.

If I could work from home when the temperature was above zero and just come in when it’s like this, I’d be perfectly happy.

i like snow, i just don't like work

I was filming the kid using a beach float as a sledge on what is locally known as the mountains yesterday. He can barely get any speed going but keeps trudging back up the hill in blizzard conditions. It doesn't seem much fun at all, if he wasn't pissing himself laughing most of the time you'd think it was some grim cut from a Bela Tarr joint.

Fingers crossed we'll get sent home early today.

that's beautiful xp

time to tell snow to fuck off

Working from home, heating up full whack, all the food I need for maybe two or three days and some wine in. Fully prepared to not go out again until it works.

We've a good view over the park and I keep stopping to watch random dogs going mental in the snow, quite enjoying it tbh, but I'm really glad I have nothing urgent or pressing to be getting done that requires being out of the house.

Oh which park? I might come and wrote a rude message in the snow

My own response has been to put out a bird feeding station first gotten as a gift over a year ago and hitherto unused. Still awaiting a first customer. Might move it nearer the trees

When I was putting some bread and seed out earlier I could feel the waft a blackbird flying right past my ear. When birds are in a life and death struggle they are not half as shy of humans.