BLIZZARD!

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/

particularly sterling example of what to expect
http://41.media.tumblr.com/1297e7eb8950f2f0eb20fbdf63dde17d/tumblr_njz1cf9eBf1uo6pr5o1_1280.jpg

that tumblr is brilliant

http://i.imgur.com/nu5lGuv.jpg

NYC forecast for 3-5 inches snow Fri night, but as it's weather.com i hope they're fucked in the head

with the ground temps significantly higher than they were just a few weeks ago it shouldn't stick.

it'll stick to the sidewalks in front of the local vacant properties in our booming economy

Who doesn't love a few inches of snow on the spring equinox

LALA LALALALALA LALALA LALAAAAAA

Fuckity fuck fuck

Fuck. Supposed to drive from NYC to Amherst on Friday

go it early mebbe

5-8 inches now lolol

get with it, spring doesn't come to the northeast until basically may, if we're talking about actually nice weather here

saying this for myself too so i stop getting disappointed when i can't hang out outside in march. i forget this every year but really i need to realize that cold in the northeast is a 6-month thing

Didn't you grow up in Ohio? Not that different!

oh yea it's not different, i just don't know why every year i think nice weather comes when daylight savings starts, i need to get my expectations to better match the reality of winter in these regions.

so depressing when i look at my phone and see that so many other parts of the country are already in the 60s and 70s

*brings up Weather app, accidentally swipes left to reveal Cupertino stats*

lol

though the weather story i keep seeing today is that three years ago it was mid-70s in boston this whole week

that's cruel of the weather crew to do stories like that. they should be doing stories on the ice age, people starving in caves and licking each other's poop to survive and stuff like that

i only made it halfway through the boy scout guide but i'm assuming at some point you have to lick poop in order to survive

It's in the Scat Got your Tongue chapter.

http://cdn4.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/nicholas-hoult-it-happens.gif

5-8 inches now lolol

alarmist crap, not seeing this anywhere

http://i.imgur.com/az3MjdA.jpg

weather underground's site is weird, though - it says 5-8in for Friday but the rest of the data/charts/descriptions they have don't use the same figure, as far as I can tell

meh "underground," what poseurs

not lookin good for the NYU home baseball opener on the 28th tho