Dec 20 2009 09:43 AM
Re: It's really comin down out there
The kids think the table on the patio looks like a giant donut -
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It's really comin down out there
| Edgy DC Dec 19 2009 09:05 AM |
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Looking like we're goign to be digging out for days. Years maybe.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 19 2009 09:18 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Weather.com and StormPulse (STORMPULSE!) tell me it's snowing here right now. It ain't.
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| cooby Dec 19 2009 09:36 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Same thing at Accuweather. Are they so intent on making sure we think this is the storm of the century (again) that they are posting fake maps?
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| Frayed Knot Dec 19 2009 09:38 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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It's those East Anglican University scientists screwing with the data again.
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| MFS62 Dec 19 2009 09:46 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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LWFS, Cooby, the satellite maps are correct - it is snowing - at the upper levels of the atmosphere. The local weather guys are telling us that the air is so dry that the moisture is not reaching the ground. Wait a while. It will eventually start snowing at ground level. Later
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| metsmarathon Dec 19 2009 10:05 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Ordinarily I like a good snowstorm, but today, I'm rooting for it to hold off just a little bit longer - at least until we can take mmm (mini metsmarathon, natch!) home
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 19 2009 10:07 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Plus, the storm's movement has apparently slowed. Work is in touch with city/surrounding OEMs: projections for snow amounts seem to be tracking upward.
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| soupcan Dec 19 2009 10:12 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Had to drive from Westport, CT to West Hartford, CT and back this morning. Roughly 120 miles round trip. Was doing 85-90 each way just to make certain I got back before the snow. Nothing like driving unsafely in order to avoid driving unsafely.
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| metirish Dec 19 2009 10:23 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":2su1ucgh]Weather.com and StormPulse (STORMPULSE!) tell me it's snowing here right now. It ain't.[/quote:2su1ucgh] You're not that far from me (I think) , you can come and shovel if you like....I'll have some tea brewing for you
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| themetfairy Dec 19 2009 10:47 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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[quote="metsmarathon":x18m8qpl]Ordinarily I like a good snowstorm, but today, I'm rooting for it to hold off just a little bit longer - at least until we can take mmm (mini metsmarathon, natch!) home[/quote:x18m8qpl] Get that baby home NOW!!!!!!!
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| G-Fafif Dec 19 2009 11:24 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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First flakes hit Fafifville at 1:05 PM. It's twenty minutes later and their friends are showing up in droves...uninvited, I might add.
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| cooby Dec 19 2009 11:37 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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[quote="MFS62":jkwftqk7]LWFS, Cooby, the satellite maps are correct - it is snowing - at the upper levels of the atmosphere. The local weather guys are telling us that the air is so dry that the moisture is not reaching the ground. Wait a while. It will eventually start snowing at ground level. Later[/quote:jkwftqk7] That's what they're saying, huh? wink wink
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| Swan Swan H Dec 19 2009 11:40 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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We just got an e-mail saying that our son's MBA commencement that was scheduled for tomorrow at 11:30 has been pushed back to Monday.
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| metirish Dec 19 2009 11:41 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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[quote="Swan Swan H":1rufozm0]We just got an e-mail saying that our son's MBA commencement that was scheduled for tomorrow at 11:30 has been pushed back to Monday.[/quote:1rufozm0] Did they tell you why?
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| Swan Swan H Dec 19 2009 11:49 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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And I quote:
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| themetfairy Dec 19 2009 11:55 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Congrats to your son on his MBA.
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| Valadius Dec 19 2009 12:08 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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It's pretty bad here in Washington. At least my cat is fascinated by the snow.
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| Swan Swan H Dec 19 2009 12:25 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Thanks, MF. He's really worked hard for this and we're very happy for him, although after seven years of school and one year of internship I'm sure he's even happier to be done with college.
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| Frayed Knot Dec 19 2009 01:41 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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I love it when the weather plays havoc with the NFL schedule - mostly because they're so anal about things and because, being so tied to both TV-friendly slots and the weekend (or surrounding) days, there are so few options for their contingency plans to maneuver. So this week it seems that da Bears didn't get into Baltimore on Friday like they wanted and they can't get in there today - they're looking at maybe 18" or more in eastern Maryland from this storm. So the 1PM game in Bal'mer (outdoors too - heh, heh, heh) has already been rescheduled to 4PM but even that's predicated on Chicago getting in Sunday morning and playing same day so that's no guarantee to come off either - and if it does occur watch the betting line move towards the Ravens. Failing that, it get's pushed back a full day and a half so there'll be a second Monday night game this week, something which will either give ESPN a heart attack or an erection - or maybe both. My own personal dream involves a Super Bowl in Miami getting hit with a tropical storm right at game time (not a deadly one, just messy) or one on the west coast which coincides with one of those days-long drenching storms that they often get out there during the winter months.
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| themetfairy Dec 19 2009 01:44 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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I guess that's because earthquakes have already wreaked their havoc on sports.
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| Kong76 Dec 19 2009 02:01 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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We're not even getting flurries yet in central Westchester.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 19 2009 02:21 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Dusting so far in Brooklyn, been coming down lightly for a few hours.
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| themetfairy Dec 19 2009 02:23 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Been out shoveling a couple of times. I keep telling myself that it's aerobic....
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| cooby Dec 19 2009 02:45 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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I talked to my daughter's future mother in law today; she says they have about 10 inches so far, in Philadelphia
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| Edgy DC Dec 19 2009 02:52 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Youse people are livng on borrowed time. My roof is about to collapse.
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| cooby Dec 19 2009 02:56 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Yipes. Don't you live in an apartment?
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| Edgy DC Dec 19 2009 04:42 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Nope. A house. A very tiny house. Just been out to do the walk and dig out the Tercel. Will have to do it again at 6:00 AM. Our miserable miserable dog, on the other hand, was having the time of his life out there.
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| Kong76 Dec 19 2009 04:50 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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It was supposed to start snowing here seven hours ago. I feel like I'm watching a pot of boiling water that doesn't even have a couple of bubbles.
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| metirish Dec 19 2009 04:52 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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I really hope it stays that way Kase....noting here in the Bronx....but the douchebag on Channel 12 said it wold be coming down hard by 6pm....that was 5:30
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| metirish Dec 19 2009 04:55 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Just started , looks like a dusting right now...
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| cooby Dec 19 2009 05:54 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Doggies + snow = good times. Meanwhile we have a couple of new inches, not a big deal around here. Still coming down though
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| Kong76 Dec 19 2009 05:58 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Finally, the compound is white.
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| cooby Dec 19 2009 06:14 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Snowy nights always remind me of "Two out of Three Ain't Bad"
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| themetfairy Dec 19 2009 06:29 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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I'm not sure I'm ever going to thaw out after this last shoveling session....
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| Valadius Dec 19 2009 08:03 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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It's stopped here in Washington, as far as I can tell.
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| G-Fafif Dec 19 2009 08:25 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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News12 Long Island has a reporter telling drivers on the Southern State to take it very slowly, making me wonder how many of those driving on the Southern State at that very moment are also watching News12.
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| Edgy DC Dec 19 2009 08:31 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Still going where I am. We snuggled up with the Japanese farce Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (lot's of fun, physical comedy, blows to the head... 3.5 stars out of five!), and as the credits rolled, we heard a rumbling sound above. "Here it comes," I thought, "the big one." I prayed to clear my conscience, fully expecting the crackling over us to turn into a cascade of plaster and ice, but no, the snow flew off behind me, taking out a roof gutter. The cutter crumbled into the yard, itself taking down what I think is a phone line. The line lays in the snow in the back yard. My phone works, and obviously my Interweb service also. But I may soon be bidding goodbye for a few days. At least, I hope just for a few days. My world has become a void of white as it is.
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| Kong76 Dec 19 2009 08:35 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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It's still snowing in Washington?
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| Edgy DC Dec 19 2009 08:40 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Well, it's still snowing. And I guess it's still Washington out there, but all I see is a horizon of white.
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| metirish Dec 19 2009 08:48 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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We just watched "Up" , the kid starting crying when it ended but then passes out as soon as he hit hit bed , hopefully some good dreams after that . Not going to shovel until morning
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| themetfairy Dec 19 2009 08:51 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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I remember back in the days of the Cold War that Art Buchwald wrote a column saying that if the Russians wanted to take over the United States all they would have to do was salt the clouds above DC and make it snow. I was actually living in Rockville in 1966 and remember the blizzard that year. It closed down everything in the vicinity.
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| Kong76 Dec 19 2009 08:52 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Hmm, maybe we really will wake up to 12-15" in these parts. Yesterday it was 3-5" because it was gonna miss us. Should we talk about the weather? Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnIkZMg4kbo
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| Valadius Dec 19 2009 08:55 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Have we managed to get YouTube working on this new board yet?
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| Kong76 Dec 19 2009 09:02 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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That link doesn't work for you?
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| Rockin' Doc Dec 19 2009 10:15 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Cold and rainy here in eastern NC. A few flakes yesterday, but not enough to turn ther grass white. My father-in-law reports 10"-12" in Charleston, WV and my mother reports roughly 20"-22" in Waynesboro, VA. Glad to have missed out on this winter storm.
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| Valadius Dec 20 2009 05:45 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Of course the link works. I was wondering about embeds.
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| metirish Dec 20 2009 06:34 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Just finished shoveling out , took about 90 minutes but that was because of the drifts. All in all not as bad as was reported to be.
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| Valadius Dec 20 2009 06:45 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Washington Post says we got 16 inches in the District, with some suburbs getting about 21 inches. This breaks all records for a storm in December.
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| Kong76 Dec 20 2009 08:56 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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So a 130 pulse is pretty normal, right? I think there's some early tequila in my future today.
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| themetfairy Dec 20 2009 09:05 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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The Philly airport had close to two feet of snow, breaking their record for largest December snowfall. D-Dad guesstimates that we had about 14" here.
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| themetfairy Dec 20 2009 09:43 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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The kids think the table on the patio looks like a giant donut -
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| seawolf17 Dec 20 2009 10:56 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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18+ inches here in northeastern Suffolk.
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| MFS62 Dec 20 2009 11:01 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Northwestern CT, dodged the bullet. While the Eastern parts of the State got up to 20 inches, the folks in Litchfield County (the one just North of us) only got about 1- 2 inches. We were in the 6 - 8 inch range. Later
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| Methead Dec 20 2009 11:29 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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[quote="MFS62":2200z3c8] We were in the 6 - 8 inch range. Later[/quote:2200z3c8] We got 8 or 9 here in Fairfield.
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| cooby Dec 20 2009 12:30 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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1-2 inches, I guess. I guess we will all have a white Christmas
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| soupcan Dec 20 2009 05:45 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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[quote="Methead":20vqx8hj]We got 8 or 9 here in Fairfield.[/quote:20vqx8hj] Yup.
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| Edgy DC Dec 20 2009 06:09 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Caught a mouse in one of our live traps today. Can't conscientiously catch it alive and then throw it out there in the snow.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 20 2009 09:46 PM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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So do you board it until the thaw?
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| Edgy DC Dec 21 2009 04:54 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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So far. Yup.
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| Frayed Knot Dec 21 2009 06:25 AM Re: It's really comin down out there |
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Find a friend with a pet snake.
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