whirlcool
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I know we have a lot of members in the NE part of the U.S. How are you all doing today? Are you able to stay warm?
How Is Everyone Doing After The Storm?
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Im 100 miles NW of NYC. Not as bad as was predicted for our area. Had 5" of white s**t (not a fan of winter). 10 degrees this morning. Plowed the driveway. No problem getting to work. Roads are bare for the most part. Clear skies with bright sunshine. Winds are picking up and temps are supposed to drop thru the day. Forecast is calling for 10 below tonight. [this post was last edited: 1/3/2014-12:08]
firedome
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Used the snowblower...
twice yesterday and once again this morning! It is REALLY cold out there.
twice yesterday and once again this morning! It is REALLY cold out there.
Snowfall was all over the map here. From less than a foot to 2 ft depending on where you were. 1 to 2 ft within the 95 beltway and up to 15 inches between 495 and 95.
I think I got about 1 foot of snow. It was light and fluffy but still had to be moved. took me about 2 hours to clean up everything.
I think I got about 1 foot of snow. It was light and fluffy but still had to be moved. took me about 2 hours to clean up everything.
toploader55
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Still waiting for the Plow Guy
The driveway is about 250 feet from the road.
The Cape in spots got 18 inches. I'd say there is about 12 inches here at the house.
It's down to 19 degrees and expected on Cape to hit 2 above. I'm driving to Boston tonight to pick up friends comung in from Naples Florida. Boston is suppose to hit 4 below.
Do I want to drive to Boston tonight ??? Not really.
The driveway is about 250 feet from the road.
The Cape in spots got 18 inches. I'd say there is about 12 inches here at the house.
It's down to 19 degrees and expected on Cape to hit 2 above. I'm driving to Boston tonight to pick up friends comung in from Naples Florida. Boston is suppose to hit 4 below.
Do I want to drive to Boston tonight ??? Not really.
toploader55
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Hi Ken
When the roads are clear and dry. a good tail wind, and no Speed Traps, it's about an hour and twenty minutes.
As long as I'm by myself, I'll try to set a New Land Speed record. Once passengers are in the truck, I behave. LOL.
Tonight's trip, I'll leave about 2 hours before the flight is due in. I think Logan Airport will be a Train Wreck tonight and the Cell Phone lot will be overflowing. Their flight is due in around 12:30 AM.
When the roads are clear and dry. a good tail wind, and no Speed Traps, it's about an hour and twenty minutes.
As long as I'm by myself, I'll try to set a New Land Speed record. Once passengers are in the truck, I behave. LOL.
Tonight's trip, I'll leave about 2 hours before the flight is due in. I think Logan Airport will be a Train Wreck tonight and the Cell Phone lot will be overflowing. Their flight is due in around 12:30 AM.
It is brutally cold here now. -11 air temp and windchills of -25 to-35. We got about 8 inches of snow overnight that the snowblower cleared up quickly. My niece is in Portland and she got somewhere between 12-18 inches of snow, but was hard to measure due to the drifting. Now they are saying we are going to be in the mid 40's Monday and heavy rain, just what we dont need with all the ice everywhere, especially covering all the roofs.
whirlcool
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If your guests are flying into BOS you may want to track the progress of their flight. Use the link.
BOS has had lots of delays and cancellations today. Just supply the airline and flight number.
http://www.flightaware.com
BOS has had lots of delays and cancellations today. Just supply the airline and flight number.
http://www.flightaware.com
toploader55
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Thanks Allen
I've had that ap on my phone for a few years now.
It really is great as this time of year I've not too much to do, so I will pick up and drop off friends at Logan.
It's great to see if they are on time or running late
I've had that ap on my phone for a few years now.
It really is great as this time of year I've not too much to do, so I will pick up and drop off friends at Logan.
It's great to see if they are on time or running late
andyelectrolux
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Stuck here in Eastham...18" on the ground and the drifts come up above my knees. Seeing as how the plow hasnt plowed the little country dirt road I live on, and probably wont anytime soon, I probably wont get out of the house til Sun or Mon
angus
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Where I live in Fairfield, we had around 6 inches, but strong wind so there are some drifts. I think we dodged a major snow bullet but the temps are dropping and it is expected to be below zero tonight. My friends just 5 miles north in Trumbull got around 10 inches and my cousin in Princeton, NJ reports 12 inches.
Strangely enough my firm closed most of its Northeast area offices today:
- New York City (really surprising)
- Melville, Long Island
- Stamford, CT
- Hartford, CT
- Newark/Short Hills, New Jersey
- Boston
That isn't something we normally do, but maybe since this was a really short work week they might have figured closing one day of a two day week would't be too much of an impact on revenue.
Plows came through this morning but cold enough so there is no melting at all. However, the snow was very light and fluffy so it wasn't too bad to shovel out.
All my local chums are retired school teachers who winter in Fort Lauderdale/Naples so they are all feeling pretty smug right about now...
Strangely enough my firm closed most of its Northeast area offices today:
- New York City (really surprising)
- Melville, Long Island
- Stamford, CT
- Hartford, CT
- Newark/Short Hills, New Jersey
- Boston
That isn't something we normally do, but maybe since this was a really short work week they might have figured closing one day of a two day week would't be too much of an impact on revenue.
Plows came through this morning but cold enough so there is no melting at all. However, the snow was very light and fluffy so it wasn't too bad to shovel out.
All my local chums are retired school teachers who winter in Fort Lauderdale/Naples so they are all feeling pretty smug right about now...
That isn't something we normally do
Thats because the media hyped this very cold, but average, winter storm into one of their typical "end of the world" stories.
The usual suspects were more than happy to go along, declaring state of emergencies before the flakes even hit the ground.
Thats because the media hyped this very cold, but average, winter storm into one of their typical "end of the world" stories.
The usual suspects were more than happy to go along, declaring state of emergencies before the flakes even hit the ground.
jerrod6
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I am In downtown philadelphia. The official snow Total is 9 inches. There was a lot of blowing. In 1996 we had 32 inches at once, so this really is not too bad as far as snow amount and travel conditions, although I was not able to get out of my driveway today and buses were running less frequently. Underground trains were fine.
The wind chill today was another story. Strong winds, windows rattling, the sidewalk you cleared was covered over in less than ten minutes.
Tonight much better, although the temp is forecast to go to 3 in the city and -4 outside.
We've had it before,..we'll have it again....Like next tuesday....and then in future years. All a part of living in this area.
Thanks for the concern!
Everyone can always depend on that from members on this site. This is what makes it special.
The wind chill today was another story. Strong winds, windows rattling, the sidewalk you cleared was covered over in less than ten minutes.
Tonight much better, although the temp is forecast to go to 3 in the city and -4 outside.
We've had it before,..we'll have it again....Like next tuesday....and then in future years. All a part of living in this area.
Thanks for the concern!
Everyone can always depend on that from members on this site. This is what makes it special.
perc-o-prince
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the media hyped this very cold, but average, winter storm...
As they always do!
4-5" here with maybe 8" drifts. The usual 1.5 hrs with the snowblower to clear the driveway and parking area. Nothing unusual. Yeah, colder, but it's New England, not Florida!
Chuck
As they always do!
4-5" here with maybe 8" drifts. The usual 1.5 hrs with the snowblower to clear the driveway and parking area. Nothing unusual. Yeah, colder, but it's New England, not Florida!
Chuck
I cant stand news media. I dont watch the news as they basically say the same thing over and over and sensationalize everything. It really gets on my nerves.
In the summer they make a story out of it being hot. In the winter they make a story out of it being cold. Until mankind finds a way to control the weather we will have hot and cold with rain and snow. We'll have to take what comes and deal with it.
Like Mark Twain said everyone complains about the weather but no one does anything about it.
In the summer they make a story out of it being hot. In the winter they make a story out of it being cold. Until mankind finds a way to control the weather we will have hot and cold with rain and snow. We'll have to take what comes and deal with it.
Like Mark Twain said everyone complains about the weather but no one does anything about it.
"I cant stand news media...
...It really gets on my nerves."
Same here. We've got summer and for a change its actually warm to hot almost all over the country, but apparently 2013 was the hottest year on record EVER. I just don't know what they mean by EVER. We've only been measuring temps for the past 150 years and for most of that time only in a few locations. Central parts of the nation can get as hot as 120 or more in the shade and some towns did get close to that over the last couple of days. But, my oh my, the drama, the tragedy, the hot air. Clearly the people who find this summer weather catastrophic live in perpetual airconditioning. So when they are confronted by natural summer temperatures on the outside, they break out in a sweat, their mascara begins to run and its clearly the end of the world.
...It really gets on my nerves."
Same here. We've got summer and for a change its actually warm to hot almost all over the country, but apparently 2013 was the hottest year on record EVER. I just don't know what they mean by EVER. We've only been measuring temps for the past 150 years and for most of that time only in a few locations. Central parts of the nation can get as hot as 120 or more in the shade and some towns did get close to that over the last couple of days. But, my oh my, the drama, the tragedy, the hot air. Clearly the people who find this summer weather catastrophic live in perpetual airconditioning. So when they are confronted by natural summer temperatures on the outside, they break out in a sweat, their mascara begins to run and its clearly the end of the world.
As a member of the media ....
"I cant stand news media. I dont watch the news as they basically say the same thing over and over and sensationalize everything. It really gets on my nerves."
Trust me, it's no picnic BEING the media, and being forced to sensationalize *snow* in *January* in the *Northeast*.
I don't know when exactly it happened, either, that any snow accumulation whatsoever had to be referred to as a "storm" (local media is the worst with this -- even if it's just your average, run of the mill 1-3 inch prediction).
I also don't know when exactly the NYC subway system became so f-ing FRAGILE, either. I've been here 20 years, and even that crazy 38" snowfall in January '96 didn't stop the subways (there were even actually FIVE FOOT TALL drifts on the subway platforms underground!!!!). Now, however, a moderately heavy rain is enough to shut the damn system down completely (as a "precaution"). And shutting down the subway is absolutely paralyzing to a city where 93% of its inhabitants depend upon it exclusively to get around. And usually, if the weather is bad enough to shut down the subway, that means surface transportation is utterly out of the question, as well; either the weather really is so bad that the roads are impassable, or the action of shutting down the subway has now SO overtaxed our bus system (a fraction of New Yorkers take buses -- they're really relegated mostly to the elderly who can no longer navigate the subway steps) that it's impossible to even find a bus that isn't now bursting at its seams. And regardless of how much money you have, forget about even trying to find a cab.
It was an absolute nightmare in the days after Hurricane Sandy, when the subways were still flooded, but the storm was over and the half of the city still with electricity was trying to get back to business. Imagine 8.6 million people trying to chase down the city's 8,000 cabs. And when they finally got the BUSES moving, it was an absolute joke: I was waiting in a crowd of TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE at one bus stop for a bus -- ANY bus -- going Uptown. And every bus that passed by was so absurdly overcrowded, the bus drivers couldn't even control the crowds; it was like clowns in a Volkswagen. There were actually people hanging on for dear life on the OUSIDE of the bus.
Anyway, 8 inches of snow in New York City is a lot, but it's certainly not "Snowmageddon", as the weather boys and girls like to call it. It was, however, enough to cancel my Mason meeting tonight, as it's still a problem for the bridge-and-tunnel crowd getting into and out of the city; when a governor declares a "state of emergency" (as Cuomo and Christie both did), a litany of unpleasantries kicks in, regardless of how bad the "emergency" really is, including, apparently, the automatic shutdown of New Jersey Transit into and out of New York City.
It's frightening, though, how we in the media can not only whip governors into a panic, but also everyone else. New Yorkers who've lived through much worse who are normally savvy and level-headed are now creating chaotic scenes one usually only sees at Walmarts in Flyover Country; emptying grocery store and bodega shelves of food and essentials. What's really scary about living on an island in a city of 8.6 million people is realizing how fragile our system of civilized society really is; even with 42,000 active duty NYPD officers, that's barely a drop in the bucket to hold back any kind of true city-wide panic that could easily turn into a riot. I also understand that even despite the city's 17,000 restaurants and some 10,000 grocery and convenience stores, at any given time the city really only has, at best, FIVE DAYS worth of food and other critical supplies. It really makes one realize that maybe those "preppers" are onto something.
But I find it's better not to think about things like that.
"I cant stand news media. I dont watch the news as they basically say the same thing over and over and sensationalize everything. It really gets on my nerves."
Trust me, it's no picnic BEING the media, and being forced to sensationalize *snow* in *January* in the *Northeast*.
I don't know when exactly it happened, either, that any snow accumulation whatsoever had to be referred to as a "storm" (local media is the worst with this -- even if it's just your average, run of the mill 1-3 inch prediction).
I also don't know when exactly the NYC subway system became so f-ing FRAGILE, either. I've been here 20 years, and even that crazy 38" snowfall in January '96 didn't stop the subways (there were even actually FIVE FOOT TALL drifts on the subway platforms underground!!!!). Now, however, a moderately heavy rain is enough to shut the damn system down completely (as a "precaution"). And shutting down the subway is absolutely paralyzing to a city where 93% of its inhabitants depend upon it exclusively to get around. And usually, if the weather is bad enough to shut down the subway, that means surface transportation is utterly out of the question, as well; either the weather really is so bad that the roads are impassable, or the action of shutting down the subway has now SO overtaxed our bus system (a fraction of New Yorkers take buses -- they're really relegated mostly to the elderly who can no longer navigate the subway steps) that it's impossible to even find a bus that isn't now bursting at its seams. And regardless of how much money you have, forget about even trying to find a cab.
It was an absolute nightmare in the days after Hurricane Sandy, when the subways were still flooded, but the storm was over and the half of the city still with electricity was trying to get back to business. Imagine 8.6 million people trying to chase down the city's 8,000 cabs. And when they finally got the BUSES moving, it was an absolute joke: I was waiting in a crowd of TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE at one bus stop for a bus -- ANY bus -- going Uptown. And every bus that passed by was so absurdly overcrowded, the bus drivers couldn't even control the crowds; it was like clowns in a Volkswagen. There were actually people hanging on for dear life on the OUSIDE of the bus.
Anyway, 8 inches of snow in New York City is a lot, but it's certainly not "Snowmageddon", as the weather boys and girls like to call it. It was, however, enough to cancel my Mason meeting tonight, as it's still a problem for the bridge-and-tunnel crowd getting into and out of the city; when a governor declares a "state of emergency" (as Cuomo and Christie both did), a litany of unpleasantries kicks in, regardless of how bad the "emergency" really is, including, apparently, the automatic shutdown of New Jersey Transit into and out of New York City.
It's frightening, though, how we in the media can not only whip governors into a panic, but also everyone else. New Yorkers who've lived through much worse who are normally savvy and level-headed are now creating chaotic scenes one usually only sees at Walmarts in Flyover Country; emptying grocery store and bodega shelves of food and essentials. What's really scary about living on an island in a city of 8.6 million people is realizing how fragile our system of civilized society really is; even with 42,000 active duty NYPD officers, that's barely a drop in the bucket to hold back any kind of true city-wide panic that could easily turn into a riot. I also understand that even despite the city's 17,000 restaurants and some 10,000 grocery and convenience stores, at any given time the city really only has, at best, FIVE DAYS worth of food and other critical supplies. It really makes one realize that maybe those "preppers" are onto something.
But I find it's better not to think about things like that.
