Waiting For The Snow

My wife is unlikely to be wearing anything​ less than six layers of clothing until it thaws. I'm good.

After baffling about it for a day, our local woodpigeon has shown some ability to problem-solve: by standing athwart the water tray it can access the seed dispenser, and is going heartily to town. The goldfinches, previously a shimmer of revelry, have retreated nervously to the trees.

What our plump friend doesn't know is that the evil socialist government is going to curtail its free enterprise and move the water tray about three inches lower

keep remembering 'sorry about the snake universe' and lolling to myself

anybody see that "winter of '63" doc on BBC4 last night? that brought the realness

Is that the ‘winter 1963, felt like the world would freeze’ reference in Life In A Northern Town?

presumably, altho it looks like the southwest took the worst of it

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 am now stranded in London with no way to get home as punishment for my over-enthusiasm.

hoist with your own blizzard

(｀∀´)

Been getting off lightly here. Didn't snow at all yesterday despite forecasts, and today was supposed to be non-stop snow for 12 hours 10am-10pm and it's barely snowed at all so far. Trains are still all fucked up of course.

yeah the snow's in disappointing retreat here but the wind is making up for it

only had a paltry one hour off work this week. so horrible outside though, run to work this morning was like crossing the tundra, old snow now frozen into fields of ice and the cows looking so absolutely pissed off with it all

The combination of wind and freezing rain looks like it's snapped the external water pipe of our neighbour, and it pours out over into my yard whenever they use their water.

So taking out the garbage is sorta russian roulette for me right now.

It is rain-snowing in nyc

The company is paying for a hotel so i'm back to being charmed by the winter wonderland again.

a taxi to Kent would only set them back, what, eighty quid?

I guess I don't know taxi fares tbh

My car got stuck twice and the second time I had to get a tow truck.

I think a police officer telling you to turn around and go home is a good excuse not to go to work.

Uber was quoting me £165 and I couldn’t ask anyone to drive in this weather in good conscience but I appreciate the strangeness of being stranded a 40 minute train ride from home.

don't forget folks, if your boiler has stopped working, make sure the condenser pipe isn't frozen (which can be sorted by pouring some tepid to warm water on it), before you end up paying a grand to that Pimlico Plumbing scrote.

Another foot of snow Wednesday

did you hear the thundersnow in NYC?

It has returned! (Powys) - we got off very lightly last week

according to bbc weather this is supposed to be sleet, It's looking 10cm + of sleet atm.

so conveniently on the very Saturday I'm supposed to be getting a settee delivered to replace the broken one and a home relegation 6 pointer against Palace is supposed to be happening, the bastard white stuff is back with a vengeance.

NYC forecast for tom'w now 15"

fuck this shit

^_^

yay another snow day, there is no way the NJ crew is gonna be able to make it to the office tomorrow.

family coming in from CT tomorrow to see... Frozen

about that plan, they may have to... letitgo

11-year-old princess will not let that happen

morning commutes look doable, return not so much

Eh, unless they get in before 5am that's going to be difficult...

If MetroNorth shuts down by dawn, we must be looking at different forecasts. (but in the long run idgaf)

School will make us come in and then fight our way home, they don't gaf either.

The Disney people are allowing exchanges, so the Broadway outing is off. And we were going to eat at Sardi's.

NYC public schools are closed on Wednesday https://t.co/ZGk6yf2Grx

— NY1 Weather (@NY1weather) March 20, 2018

My work announced that their decision would be pegged to public schools’ decision, so that’s that. Second Wednesday snow day in the last three weeks

still waiting on OPM to call it, but DCPS have already said tomorrow's off

I'm going to be so far behind

First snow storm of the fall in Toronto. It's really not that bad, but I'm here at school for interview night until 8:30--one no-show after another--it's a parking lot in both directions in front of the school, there are road closures close by, and I fully expect to get home around 11:00 tonight.

snowed over here too. we are pleased

It sipple out deh

Generic post about how a little bit of snow and this country goes to shit

Generic riposte about how it's not that surprising given that our temperate climate means it snows (comparatively) rarely and irregularly.

~~~snow squall~~~

Yuck

Yeah that was something. And then it was gone

Second time in a week my whole school board has been shut down. (Today for freezing rain.) And there was a preemptive no-bus day mixed in, in anticipation of expected afternoon snow--which did come, so that was a good call. I think that's some kind of a record in the 20 years I've been doing this.

This winter is a bit ridiculous. It's seems like it's always either 20 below zero or freezing rain.

Another school-board closure today--third in two weeks. Before that, we probably had four or five complete closures in the previous 20 years. (I might be the only teacher in the whole board who prefers a no-bus day to a closure. No buses means no students, so I go in and get a ton of stuff done. Closure means I get nothing done.)

this is insane. the entire weekend my driveway was solid ice, this morning about 12 inches dumped on it in a matter of like two hours. spend 90 minutes shoveling my way out only to almost immediately drive into someone's lawn because I couldn't see where the road was. can't remember another winter like this