Blizzard on the East Coast
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Originally Posted by Obladi 
19.8" here.
Been out probably five times and have gotten down to pavement on about 30% of what I need to cover (or uncover, as it were).
My daughter informed me an hour ago that her friend with a big truck was going to drive her to work - 15 miles away! This made me extremely unhappy. She came trudging back a half hour later saying, "His truck didn't even make it a foot." Thank God for nature overruling the folly of youth.
Been out probably five times and have gotten down to pavement on about 30% of what I need to cover (or uncover, as it were).
My daughter informed me an hour ago that her friend with a big truck was going to drive her to work - 15 miles away! This made me extremely unhappy. She came trudging back a half hour later saying, "His truck didn't even make it a foot." Thank God for nature overruling the folly of youth.
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I remember my boss calling me at home on a snow morning. We were predicted to have a lot of snow and I lived 20 miles from work. He told me we had to come in. I told him I wasn't coming in. It was not a job that was worth getting injured or getting in an accident. Heck, no job is worth that. It was an office job - not even a particularly interesting company and definitely not one that was hindered significantly by a couple days' closure. I wasn't even in sales.
In a different job, we had an emergency power generator at work and four feet of snow (Lake Tahoe hotel.) I opted to stay there and not try to get home. Casino snow party.
In a different job, we had an emergency power generator at work and four feet of snow (Lake Tahoe hotel.) I opted to stay there and not try to get home. Casino snow party.
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I don't listen to the news, so while obviously I knew that visibility is about 20 feet, I had no idea that they were closing all the streets in NYC at 3 p.m.
So I went out at 2:30 to buy groceries (we basically had no food in the house but 1/2 & 1/2 and a loaf of rye bread) and the groceries were closed, the shopkeepers needing to go home! Nor was I the only hapless person pounding on the doors of stores pleading with the poor workers inside (who mostly live in the outer boroughs and have a long way to travel in this mess) to unlock for me.
Finally I found an open bodega, with a long line but food on the shelves.
My communistical son tells me that the store employees should be blasting this:
So I went out at 2:30 to buy groceries (we basically had no food in the house but 1/2 & 1/2 and a loaf of rye bread) and the groceries were closed, the shopkeepers needing to go home! Nor was I the only hapless person pounding on the doors of stores pleading with the poor workers inside (who mostly live in the outer boroughs and have a long way to travel in this mess) to unlock for me.
Finally I found an open bodega, with a long line but food on the shelves.
My communistical son tells me that the store employees should be blasting this:
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Originally Posted by courage2
I don't listen to the news, so while obviously I knew that visibility is about 20 feet, I had no idea that they were closing all the streets in NYC at 3 p.m.
So I went out at 2:30 to buy groceries (we basically had no food in the house but 1/2 & 1/2 and a loaf of rye bread) and the groceries were closed, the shopkeepers needing to go home! Nor was I the only hapless person pounding on the doors of stores pleading with the poor workers inside (who mostly live in the outer boroughs and have a long way to travel in this mess) to unlock for me.
Finally I found an open bodega, with a long line but food on the shelves.
My communistical son tells me that the store employees should be blasting this:
So I went out at 2:30 to buy groceries (we basically had no food in the house but 1/2 & 1/2 and a loaf of rye bread) and the groceries were closed, the shopkeepers needing to go home! Nor was I the only hapless person pounding on the doors of stores pleading with the poor workers inside (who mostly live in the outer boroughs and have a long way to travel in this mess) to unlock for me.
Finally I found an open bodega, with a long line but food on the shelves.
My communistical son tells me that the store employees should be blasting this:
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In case you're wondering what your official snowfall is.
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We have not seen a plow since last night and at this point I don't anticipate one coming through until tomorrow at the soonest. That's alright - the longer we wait, the longer it will give me the opportunity to employ my "avoid the snowplow dump" shoveling strategy.
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We have not seen a plow since last night and at this point I don't anticipate one coming through until tomorrow at the soonest. That's alright - the longer we wait, the longer it will give me the opportunity to employ my "avoid the snowplow dump" shoveling strategy.
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It looks like Delaware & Baltimore are getting hit hard too -- & poor poor West Virginia.
We're stranded on Manhattan island. Roads closed to all but emergency vehicles. Bridges & tunnels closed. Drivers can be arrested. I've lived here for 4 other record-breaking snowfalls but this is the blizzardy-est I recall.
Of course, I was drinking then.
We're stranded on Manhattan island. Roads closed to all but emergency vehicles. Bridges & tunnels closed. Drivers can be arrested. I've lived here for 4 other record-breaking snowfalls but this is the blizzardy-est I recall.
Of course, I was drinking then.
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Originally Posted by courage2
It looks like Delaware & Baltimore are getting hit hard too -- & poor poor West Virginia.
We're stranded on Manhattan island. Roads closed to all but emergency vehicles. Bridges & tunnels closed. Drivers can be arrested. I've lived here for 4 other record-breaking snowfalls but this is the blizzardy-est I recall.
Of course, I was drinking then.
We're stranded on Manhattan island. Roads closed to all but emergency vehicles. Bridges & tunnels closed. Drivers can be arrested. I've lived here for 4 other record-breaking snowfalls but this is the blizzardy-est I recall.
Of course, I was drinking then.
We're still getting hammered; forecasters say another couple of hours.
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bim, I'm in Manhattan. My apartment building -- everyone's -- we're all like little tiny islands blinking at each other through the snowfog. I can see some of the hospitals from where I live -- I suppose hospital workers are just sleeping in shifts? They can't go anywhere.... It's silent. Sometimes you hear a siren.
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