It’s a three dog night for many of you, but here’s one to get you started. She radiates warmth and excels at snoring.
I’m about to catch up on “Downton Abbey,” which I zoned out and missed last night. What are you up to?
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khead
Wishing we had more snow. Storm was a total bust in Elkton MD. A dusting. Barely.
JPL
Betty.. save your post for later. The picture is priceless and I think our northern friends are going to need such a calm, sweet face.
Mike J
@khead: Darn near 60 in Seattle.
Patricia Kayden
Yours is an older version of my Boxer pooch. So cute!!
Violet
Love your snoozy puppy.
khead
@Mike J:
I rather have the 60’s instead of the dusting.
shelley
Checking the flashlights and the candles. Power’s been popping off and on in my town like a pin ball machine, and the major part of the storm hasn’t even started yet.
FlyingToaster (tablet)
Did my storm prep this afternoon when the flurries started. Had a horrendous commute fetching WarriorGirl, who had walked out of Karate class. I’m going to watch Midsomer Murders then go place the 5gallon pot out on the table (away from the snowblower aim). We aim on making a couple batches of snow ice cream tomorrow.
Violet
@shelley: Stay safe!
Abo gato
It was like 74 here in San Antonio today. I would like to have some cooler weather.
Iowa Old Lady
@shelley: Take care. The loss of power is just the worst. It gets cold and dark mighty fast.
Elizabelle
I don’t know that we got anything in NoVa. Nothing going on out there. I’ve been watching my Sundance Law & Order Monday night marathon.
Someone in previous thread complained about the manic weather coverage (I guess MSNBC is particularly panicked).
I’ve noticed the network evening news is going weather armageddon any time they can. Weather’s the lead story a lot. I don’t think it used to be like that.
Weather fearmongering is thrilling and cheap programming. Our first amendment pals at their finest.
Elizabelle
Is that the boxer with the injured-waiver tail?
Is she recovered now?
Violet
@Elizabelle: That was me. I think you’re right that the weather fearmongering has increased in the last decade or so. I mean, no one used to name winter storms and then in the last couple of years the Weather Channel decided to give them names. MSNBC is really nuts with the weather thing.
For those of us who live outside of the affected area–and there are a lot of people who do–it’s kind of ridiculous. I get covering it, but the best storm coverage is always the local news. The know local conditions best and can give local people the news they really need. A national news channel covering it to this extent is ridiculous.
shelley
Just glad at least I have a gas stove. And water’s not a problem. I really feel for the people who rely on electricly pumped well water.
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Love the boxer. Doesn’t it seem, the older our dogs get, the snore-ier the get.
Elizabelle
Good luck to all in the path of the blizzard.
@efgoldman and shelley: Y’all stay warm and safe. Purple Girl too.
khead
@Elizabelle:
I was kinda hoping for a big storm to close the PTO. I mean, it was a count Monday today.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Violet: TWC is giving the storms names because Twitter.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Why are so many people still driving in RI? MSNBC is showing their hyper coverage and dozens of cars are still on the road. Are fast food places and grocery stores staying open til the ban goes into place?
Elizabelle
@efgoldman: Ah, Gin & Tonic’s a Rhode Islander too.
Rooting for you all.
seaboogie
@shelley: I have a 19 year old kitty who has the loveliest, most femine snores that I have ever heard. One big dog thing that I really miss is the sighs….they were so eloquently multi-syllabic.
Violet
@efgoldman: I hear you and understand that in your area it’s a huge deal. I don’t have any problem with it being covered in the news. I do think for a national “news channel,” covering the storm exclusively is wrong. There is other stuff going on in the country and in the world. I think your local channels should cover it almost exclusively and they are the best resource for locals in terms of what’s happening in their area. What people in Boston need will be somewhat different from people in NYC and from people in Connecticut. Shelters will be different. States and cities will have different road closure rules. Local news can relay that info best.
I went through a major hurricane several years ago. It devastated our area and I personally was without power for two weeks. Because it happened about the same time as some news that affected the rest of the country and particularly people in NYC, it got very little national news coverage. Our national news is very New York and East Cost -centric. They are not the center of the world or even the country.
I hope you guys stay safe and warm and come through the storm without too much trouble. Wishing you the best.
Snarkworth
I’m in the boonies outside Philadelphia. Not too much snow yet, but lots scheduled for tomorrow. Any power outage means no heat, light, or water.
gogol's wife
@efgoldman:
I hope you and your wife will be safe. I can’t even look at the weather reports any more. We’re supposed to get “15 to 30 inches,” which is a spread so big as to be meaningless.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Yup. Upstairs tub is for flushing the toilets, two five-gallon round coolers in the kitchen for drinking. We were going to get the generator bypass switch put in the electrical panel this summer, but other issues took priority.Funny, one of those issues was replacement of the pump in the well (they last about 20 years.)
raven
@Violet: Finished Happy People a Year-in-the-Taiga and it’s really good. Dogs, gardens, fishing but, be warned, it’s about sable trappers and there is not much attention paid to the women.
Josie
@Violet: That was my middle son’s first year in law school at U of H. His electricity was out for three weeks and it was so difficult for him. Luckily some truly wonderful parents of a friend of his took him (and his pug) into their home until his electricity came back on. All that time, the national news just forgot about Houston, when it should have been a big deal. I coudn’t believe he was able to keep up with school and even do well during that time.
the Conster
Close in suburb of Boston here, and right now it’s just pretty, and blowing. All of the things are cancelled, and when you don’t lose power, it’s all about the TV. I’m binge watching The Affair, with McNulty from The Wire as the lead and Maura Tierney who’s a Boston girl. Fiona Apple does the opening credits song – like the opening song from True Blood and True Detective and The Wire and Six Feet Under, it gets under your skin..
raven
@the Conster: Guy on MSNBC just said it won’t be as bad as they first thought in the Apple.
Tired of stupid ass coverage of the same thing over and over?
Violet
@raven: OMG, so they’re going to throw a low level guy under the bus. How typical.
Corner Stone
@Josie:
No doubt. We got crushed. And then dumped.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
If you have a top loading washing machine, fill that with cold water too as an extra reservoir
raven
@NotMax: There are front loading washers?
NotMax
@raven
Yup, they’ve made a big comeback (we had one in the 1950s and they all but disappeared except for commercial use not long after). Walk through a department store today that carries large appliances and bet they’ll outnumber the top loaders. Cost beaucoups bucks too.
raven
@NotMax: “Gravity of the Situation”
Betty Cracker
@Elizabelle: No, that’s the other dog. The one pictured above doesn’t have much of a tail at all.
JPL
@raven: and the guy who intercepted the pass during the colt/pats game, reported the deflation. just saying…
khead
@Violet:
It was the cousin of a brother of a father of a dog walker of one of parking lot attendants who hung out with the ball boy.
You can be sure of that.
raven
@JPL: not true
“Indianapolis Colts linebacker D’Qwell Jackson says he didn’t notice anything wrong with the football he intercepted during Sunday’s AFC championship game as New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady denied accusations that the team used under-inflated balls in the game.
Jackson said he only wanted the ball as a souvenir and gave it to the Colts’ equipment manager but hasn’t seen it since, reports ESPN.
“If anybody recognized anything, it definitely wouldn’t come from me,” said Jackson.”
JPL
@raven: duh.. There has been a lot of reporting that turned out to be bogus. I think it was espn who reported the interception story.. btw.. that was the point of my comment. They might throw someone under the bus.. but I don’t know that at this time.
PurpleGirl
@Elizabelle: Thank you for the thoughts. I went food shopping early this morning and I’m set with what I need. My Co-Op complex has its own power plant, so I don’t anticipate any power problems or problems with having water. (Back during the 2011 blackout I was still able to get to my apartment on the 17th floor.)
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
Three of my co-workers — two native Californians and a native Arizonan — were saying today that it would be nice to be snowed in. I tried to disabuse them of the notion. They were thinking more that it would be nice to have an excuse to sit and read all day and didn’t give much thought to the “freezing temperatures and no heat, water or electricity” part.
Stay safe and warm, East Coasters.
gian
@Violet: it is hitting new york to MSNBC that appears to be like London, Tokyo and Moscow were all in a simultaneous earthquake of biblical proportions.
Snow. In winter. Three hour exclusive coverage with people driving in it.
I remember the ice storm of 77 taking the Hartford civic center roof down
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne (iPad Mini): It can be nice if you’re sure of having power, heat and food. But otherwise it is very hard to cope. The market in my complex received a lot of food deliveries today. If they open tomorrow, they will have food.
Amir Khalid
Hmm. FYWP seems to have eated my comment.
Amir Khalid
Thar’s strange. FYWP’s eaten yet again my reply to Mnemosyne (iPad Mini). Was it because I mentioned the word “musical” too many times?
yodecat
Betty,
How do I love thee,l let me I count the ways.
Amir Khalid
Ah. I think I know now what caused it.
@Mnemosyne (iPad Mini):
I see that the Giant Evil Corp is making a live-action movie musical based on the stage musical based on its animated musical version of the 18th century French tale La Belle et la Bête. It is to star the actress who played Hermione Granger, and whose surname is haram in the eyes of FYWP. But can she sing?
JR in WV
@Amir Khalid:
Amir, you can misspelllll the name to fool FUWP ;-) and that way I have a clue to guess who you’re talking about… not a film/TV buff here, that would be the Mrs J.