(Tony Auth via Gocomics.com)
I believe the Boston area will break into the “top ten snowiest winters” with this storm, and that’s before The Snowpocalypse predicted tomorrow.
Go ahead and gloat, westcoasters.
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(Tony Auth via Gocomics.com)
I believe the Boston area will break into the “top ten snowiest winters” with this storm, and that’s before The Snowpocalypse predicted tomorrow.
Go ahead and gloat, westcoasters.
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schrodinger's cat
Anne Laurie @top
This kitteh agrees with you.
dmsilev
The official blizzard warning here in Chicago kicks in in about 5 or so minutes. Which, by odd coincidence, is about when I leave work and head home. The fun we have…
dms
Angry Black Lady
I’m wearing a short-sleeve dress with no tights.
nyah nyah.
Mnemosyne
I would gloat more except that G and I are getting on a plane and heading to Chicago on Saturday, so I’m flying right into the snowpocalypse. But snow is much more fun when you don’t have to drive to work in it, so it still won’t be as bad.
(It’s quite chilly in Los Angeles today — it only hit 60 degrees.)
burnspbesq
I was supposed to have a meeting in Chicago tomorrow. Now I have to ride out the storm in New York.
Poor, poor, pitiful me.
Ash Can
@Angry Black Lady: Had to say it TWICE, huh? ::blows raspberry::
ETA: I see you fixed the double-post, but my raspberry stands.
MikeJ
Pretty chilly here, only about 42f. Tomorrow it should be back up in the 50s though.
I’m not normally one to gloat about weather, but since we were told we had to, I thought I’d join in.
trollhattan
Stay bundled, snowcountry folks. In the meantime, enjoy a mobster yarn.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/nyregion/02mob.html?pagewanted=1&hp
paradox
Officially gloating, I’m off to the store and its gorgeous in San Jose, CA.
aimai
@Angry Black Lady: Wait, is this a “what am I wearing thread?”
aimai
JPL
Mubarak is speaking now by taped message.
People are violating constitution…
toujoursdan
In Brooklyn, the snowdrifts are taller than I am, and I’m no shorty. My evening plans tonight and tomorrow are cancelled. Everything is hunkering down.
Butch
The storm left only about an inch of snow here in Pine, Colorado, but it’s minus 12 right now. I’m 3 months from becoming an official Yooper (resident of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula) and I guess it’s good practice.
Maude
In NJ, not sure if it will be sleet, snow, rain or ice. The ice would be the worst. Heat goes out if power off.
aimai
On the plus side, for me at least now that I’ve gathered my youngest from school and shoveled the walk and the driveway–we are going to have an official day off from school tomorrow for both kids. This means that I don’t have to wait on tenterhooks for an “early closing” or try to drive over snow filled roads to get them. Instead, we will stay cosy with our visiting one year old, make scones, and drink hot chocolate all made legitimate by the immense amounts of shoveling I’m doing. So, there’s that. You never get “heat prostration days” in summer that feel so nice.
aimai
Judy in SD
Just picked five golden daffodils for the house, sure warms up our chilly 66 degree afternoon to see their yellow faces. After last week’s 70 degree weather this cold snap needed a pick me up. (you asked for it)
Catsy
Gloat? I’d be okay with you sending some of that to the Seattle area. We get pathetic winters.
freelancer
This storm is making everyone in New England exactly like Hosni Mubarek, overwhelmed by a concentration of a precipitous chill that grinds everything to a halt.
Svensker
@Maude:
I hear ya. Very nervous about mom still in NJ. I’d much rather have the snow we’re supposed to get here in Toronto than all the heavy heavy ice. Actually, I’d rather be lying on a beach trying to decide whether I’m more in the mood for a fresh pina colada or a planter’s punch, but that’s not an option at the mo.
stuckinred
Mubarek live
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
stuckinred
he ain’t goin nowhere
trollhattan
Oh right, forgot to openly gloat. 60, sunny and clear enough to see Mt. Hamilton about a hundred miles distant. Yeah, it’s hard out here for a
pimpdrone.Linkmeister
It’s a gorgeous sunny day in Honolulu and the Waianae Mountains are clearly visible in the distance. The only downer to the day is the miserable leaf-blower somebody’s using two houses down.
Comrade Mary
That fucker isn’t leaving. Maybe he’s hoping for the kind of angry reaction from the crowd that will justify mass murder.
Christ, I hate people sometimes.
thomas Levenson
@Angry Black Lady: You do know that you have just added many moons to your time in Purgatory, don’t you?
Or perhaps just beaucoup coal in your stocking at winter solstice time….
Bnut
@aimai: My favorite movie of all time “Bringing Up Baby” was viewed as a 10 year old on such an occasion. You don’t learn everything in the world in a brick building called a school.
Turgidson
OK I’ll gloat.
http://www.weather.com/weather/5-day/94111:4:US
That’s the forecast in my neck of the woods.
4tehlulz
Shorter Mubarak: Want me to go? How far are you willing to go? Cuz I think you won’t do shit.
trollhattan
@Linkmeister:
Can’t Hawaii ban leaf blowers? What if they escape and establish a feral population, like cats, rats and mongoose(s)? Nobody will sleep again.
realbtl
Here in NW Montana it’s up to 2 from 12 below this AM but beautiful sunshine and no wind. Not bad at all.
schrodinger's cat
@Linkmeister: I has a jealous.
Svensker
@Comrade Mary:
I can’t believe this is the deal Obama’s people negotiated. Pretty clueless.
LABiker
We could use some snow out here. I want to go snowboarding this weekend.
Comrade Mary
Huh? I didn’t see any full fledged deal: I heard reports that he was advised not to run in the next election and that he shouldn’t be part of a transition government.
4tehlulz
“I did not intend to run for the coming presidency”
“I never sought power or influence. The people are aware of the harsh conditions where I shouldered responsibility.”
Cool story, bro.
Anne Laurie
@Butch:
Got your instructional materials yet?
Mnemosyne
At this point, it doesn’t matter what Mubarek says. Now that the army has said they refuse to fire on the protesters, he’s done. A dictator can’t dictate without the force of arms behind him.
They’re going to come up with some kind of face-saving way for him to resign within a week (at his age, I’m guessing an urgent health problem that just has to be dealt with in England) and he’ll be gone.
Maude
@Svensker:
Tell your mom that if there is ice, do not go out at all. There was some ice on the sidewalks this morning. It was better when I came back from the store, but even with tread on the boots, I didn’t like it. The curb cuts were slipery, isn’t that ironic?
The bus picks up seniors from the senior apartments. No one went out today.
The Dangerman
No gloating from this West Coaster; we pay a ridiculous amount for our rents or mortgages for the pleasure of being warm (and catching the occasional wave).
Evolved Deep Southerner
Yo, I’m hoping someone here can help me.
Some time back, we were talking about some kind of Deep-South stupid something and someone went on a really righteous rant about how the South’s fucked-up reality was completely at odds with its redneck rhetoric. It just went through a list of things – the high teen pregnancy rate, the low test scores, the amount of money it receives from the federal government compared to what it pays, the number of people in prison, etc., etc.
Anybody remember what I’m talking about here? More importantly, can anyone point me back to the right thread, at least?
Gozer
I might zip over to Wegman’s for some sushi after I pick up my lovely wifey from a long day of perfesserin’. Then we’ll probably veg out on the couch watching netflix tonight and tomorrow.
But egads! I’m tired of shoveling.
Martin
Ok. Forecast is sunny and 72 all weekend. I’m barbecuing for dinner tonight, after a bike ride most likely.
Wayne
Southeast coasters are gloating too.
Linkmeister
@trollhattan: Don’t talk to me about rats and mongoose. Biological warfare Fail. (One’s nocturnal, the other’s diurnal. The experts didn’t realize that when they imported mongoose as rat predators. OTOH, I see the little Rikki-Tikki-Tavi wannabes in my yard every once in a while.)
donnah
Here in SW Ohio we have avoided the blizzard, but have gotten an annoying coat of ice. Everything is covered and right now there’s a slight bump up in the temps, which means it’s raining. So on top of the half inch of ice, we will have rain for just long enough to slick it up. Then it all changes back over to ice this evening and then snow tomorrow.
yippie.
JPL
@Wayne: Although I am not whining..I live north of Atlanta and it’s 42 with light rain.
schrodinger's cat
Something to cheer snow bound folks, a brief history of the lolcats, its topical too, there are references to Egypt as the home of the first lolcat.
New Yorker
Don’t know if this got posted here earlier, but I just saw it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKqr230U9M
I have to say, I’ve long had Rich Lowry-style starbursts for Barbara Bush. She certainly seems a lot more mature, intelligent, and sophisticated than her father (and light-years ahead of Palin).
dmsilev
There are some moments in life which require a tall mug of hot chocolate.
Such as walking two miles in near-blizzard conditions (uphill! both ways!) just to get home.
If I had a functional fireplace, that would be roaring right now as well.
dms
Michael Carpet
One of my friends here in California told his daughter that while she was digging her car out in Brooklyn, he was digging his out of 5 feet of sunshine. It is 68 here today, clear blue sky. That is one reason why there are 38 million of us.
chopper
@The Dangerman:
here in NYC we pay a ridiculous amount for our rents and mortgages and our weather blows karl rove’s wrinkly prunelike balls. trust me, you’ve got it better.
Butch
@Anne Laurie: I already have some Yoopers CDs!
My first job out of college was near where I’m moving in the UP. I love Colorado but it’s gotten crowded and expensive and I want space – actually paid cash for the farmhouse that is my destination. There are some challenges; I had to call five telephone companies before I could find one that provides service to my area.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Time for us westies to gloat? k…
I’m wiping the Mustang down and pulling the T-tops off because I have some running around town to do and want to enjoy this sunny, 70+ degree day here on the south Oregon coast. Later this evening the wife and I are riding the motorcycle up to Cape Sebastian to watch the sun set.
We’re suffering over here, just sufferin’ I tells ya!
schrodinger's cat
@dmsilev:
Were you barefoot too? Actually I feel your pain, I have a long sloping drive way and walking out of the driveway to the street in about a foot of snow took me more than 10 minutes.
CaliMatt
just out here mindin’ my own business and gloating with the ABL…
Wayne
@JPL:
Miami and 75. I went to school in Atlanta and married an Atlanta girl. Nice place.
R-Jud
It was sunny and 50 here on Airstrip One today. A conference call I had been preparing for since the 18th was due to happen tomorrow, but since some of the major players are in Chicago, it’s postponed until next week. On the one hand, free afternoon off. On the other, I just want this thing to be over with already.
Linkmeister
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Wave at the haystacks for me!
That’s gorgeous country up there, folks. Go visit that Manatee guy. Take US 101.
Jon H
I’m upset. Every Monday I anxiously check the cafeteria menu at work to see if they’re serving duck any day during the week. I looooove the duck.
This week, the menu wasn’t posted until today. I check, and duck is on the menu. For tomorrow. Which is going to be a *&^*&^ snow day.
YARRRRGH.
dmsilev
@schrodinger’s cat: No, at least I had decent walking shoes.
There is a bus line along the route, but as I walked up to the stop, I saw about one bus-load of people waiting at just that stop. If I’d had to wait 20 minutes to get on a bus, walking becomes the faster option.
dms
scav
California born and half-my-life resident and now I’m just enjoying some seriously whipping snow outside the window (peace be upon my co-residents: I’m a non-driver). I also managed some Beijing duck on Friday and have the remnants in my fridge. Gloating comes in all, often contradictory, forms.
Cris
The comic is missing the obligatory “so much for global warming!” caption.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Linkmeister:
If you want to get here you HAVE to take US 101! There are forest service roads that come in the back way but you have to be a real nut to use them. Makes for quick police chases as there are only two avenues of escape; north and south.
The other evening I came back home from a motorcycle ride up 101 at sunset and I told the wife that I saw two Dodge Challengers racing southbound. The one in the lead was a fair distance ahead of the other car but I knew the guy behind would win the race.
Having a rack of pretty red and blue lights on top of your Hemi Challenger pretty much guarantees a win. The cop hit his lights as I passed him and it was clear who his target was…lol!
Better him than me.
Ash Can
Chicago Public School kids have their first snow day in 12 years tomorrow. Woo hoo! I don’t have to haul Bottle Rocket through the blizzard to school tomorrow!
Mnemosyne
@schrodinger’s cat:
Lies. All lies. All right-thinking people know that the lolcats were created by Aloysius “Gorilla” Koford.
For shame, sir (or madam, I can’t remember which).
schrodinger's cat
@Mnemosyne: Surely the Egyptian lolcat predates the comic strip. BTW I is a girl.
goblue72
Us folks out here in the Yay Area don’t need an East Coast Snowpocalypse in order to get our gloat on. We already know that we live in the best place in the known universe.
But if it helps, its 66 degrees today and with some sunshine. I’ll probably BBQ this weekend.
goblue72
@LABiker: No kidding – dumping all that fresh powder on metro Boston & NYC is a complete waste of good pow. Meanwhile, Tahoe has been DYING for fresh snow.
Nellcote
CA northcoast mid-60s and sunny. The grape hyacinths are up and the daffodils are starting to pop. Spring fever is starting!
Linnaeus
Look at it this way, Anne: you can gloat in the short term in the summer when the west coasters have water shortages and in the long term when climate change will turn much of the west (esp. the Southwest) into a scorching wasteland.
Well, maybe not gloat about the the long term…
zuzu (not that one, the other one)
I reluctantly left NYC four months ago to take my new job in California and I am counting the days when I can start applying for jobs back home, but I must say, it really doesn’t suck that I can ride my bike to work in winter and it’s 62 right now.
Linkmeister
@Odie Hugh Manatee: I remember a couple of vacations all along that road, from SFO to SeaTac.
HRA
All the schools in every direction from Buffalo are closed tomorrow. My U sent me a text to tell me they are closed tomorrow, too. This is only the 2nd time they have closed since I have been on campus as a student and now as staff.
Our weather starts at 10 pm tonight till 10 pm tomorrow nad it’s 21 degrees here.
BTW I get more than enough gloat from my daughter on SoCal.
I can handle it. Bring it on.
shortstop
Chicago now officially reigns as TOP BITCH STORM CENTER, rendering the rest of the country weather pikers. How do I know? TWC has sent ham weatherfool Jim Cantore to cover Chitown. Suck it, other states!
Phyllis
Polishing off a piece of tempura cheesecake in a fabulous Thai place at Channelside in Tampa. It was 74 & a bit breezy here today. Head back to SC Thursday, where I think it’s supposed tobe mild this weekend.
joe from Lowell
The snow is making me go a little ga-ga.
Last week, I was flipping through the channels, and I stopped on a fishing show. Just because the weather looked so nice there.
Last night, I had a dream that I was transplanting daffodil bulbs.
I don’t think I can handle much more of this. In between snow storms, I have to move my snow banks to make room for the next snow banks. Shovel by shovel.
joe from Lowell
@Judy in SD:
So you’re not from South Dakota?
Gus
@zuzu (not that one, the other one): You can bike to work in the winter anywhere. I know because I see these maniacs doing so in sub-zero Minneapolis weather every day.