Snowed heavy all day, then stopped. STILL waiting for it to come down again. I'm skeptical, it was supposed to be A blizzard by now already. We'll see what it looks like in the morning.
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Snowmageddon: Northeast Blizzard of 2015!
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Around here, that'd mark the end of civilization as we know it until it melts.
Storm's a hiccup here on the Long Island shoreline. It's essentially a dusting. Again, the benefits are to food stores, snow shovel sales, the 24 hour news outlets, and the public sector overtime earnings.
So far it looks like the storm here in Boston (I'm in a tiny town next to Boston), is what people expected. I'm hearing the wind whip around, the snow has piled up fairly high over night and its continuing.
My kids are off today and tomorrow, the wife is off at least for today, though my company I have to work. Funny, the subway is shut down, there's a travel ban in Massachusetts but my CIO said we have to work from home or take a vacation day. Nice.
My kids are off today and tomorrow, the wife is off at least for today, though my company I have to work. Funny, the subway is shut down, there's a travel ban in Massachusetts but my CIO said we have to work from home or take a vacation day. Nice.
Don't worry. Mother Nature will drop it all on us in May.
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If the family is home, what's the trouble? Take the vacation day.
At least you had a large cup to use if you needed it.
Believe me, if I could have pulled over somewhere, I would have.
20-30 inches of snow at one time isn't insignificant anywhere in the U.S. (then add to that the drifts from the wind). But the rush at the stores always amused me. Do people really run their cupboards, refrigerators, and freezers that low they can't survive a couple days without groceries?
Why should I waste my vacation day when the entire state is shut down. I'd rather sign in to work, and have little to nothing to do, because the other offices that I support are closed. I work too hard for that time to piss it away because the CIO makes some foolish edict. Am I upset (not at you), yes, its ludicrous, yet I will live by the letter of the law (so to speak) and sign in and be available for support, that will never come since no one else is there.
t doesnt sound like your CIO is doing anything any different than most places. Its the same story here in the two shops Ive worked in the Midwest. Its the perils of being an exempt employee. The obvious upside is your fortunate to be able to remote in and not burn a vacation day to be with your family like the non-exempt employees.
Did you have high winds and low visibility? Look up the meteorological definition of blizzard and you'll see it's composed of high winds and low visibility due to blowing snow, NOT a significant snowfall.
Here (near Albany) it just started snowing about 2 hours ago and after all the hype, the storm was a major bust.
Yeah, I don't get that either. I LOVE the rush on shovels for the first snow (or even a mid-winter one). Umm, you live in the Northeast, what did you do with your shovel from last year, throw it out when it hit 80? I've had the same shovel for 7 years (as long as I've needed my own).
I don't get the run on bottled water, especially with a winter storm that has a low likelihood of flooding a water filtration plant. You have a tap, the filtration plants have generators so they can filter if the power is out. Tap water won't kill you, I grew up on it! I don't EVER recall a storm in my area where we didn't have running water, we still had it when the whole Northeast lost power on a clear day in the early 2000's.
I'm in a large metropolitan neighborhood with well water, so no power means no water for cooking, drinking, washing, or flushing toilets.
I agree with you about the snow shovel conundrum. I don't get that at all, they're not like disposable shavers. Maybe they end up in the same black hole as lost socks.
Looks like we have about 24" of snow (its hard to say exactly due to the blowing/drifting). I shoveled as best as I could during my lunch hour. I'll try to get out there again later on. Right now our road is not really plowed so I'll have to wait until they plow it, otherwise all the work I do will be undone by the plow.
Nope, just a lot of snow here in the city, and it's been much, much more in the past. Nowdays every storm becomes this ridiculous major media hype, driven by the The Weather Channel with their ridiculous naming of storms (that was an idea that their marketing deparment came up with) which drives more viewers to them. They even approached NOAA asking them to start doing this and NOAA said NO, so TWC started doing it on their own.
I hope everyone in Suffolk County NY and MA and all points North are okay.
I lucked out with about 15" if that; they were predicting a lot more for my area, nothing really.
I lucked out with about 15" if that; they were predicting a lot more for my area, nothing really.
My wife tried to go to work this morning, but the street was not really plowed (the plows went through yesterday around 2:00pm and nothing since then.).
Her car couldn't get out of the driveway, I had to back it back in and she trudged to the bus stop.
Her car couldn't get out of the driveway, I had to back it back in and she trudged to the bus stop.
Not for us in the Boston area
I'm looking at snow drifts greater then 4 feet, snow was non-stop yesterday as they predicted.
We had anywhere between 16 and 18". It was that bad at all. I only wish a couple of my neighbors would get their own snowblowers.