This was the view from my back door sometime in early January:
As you can see, the first faint flakes of snow are visible streaking across the frame.
Here’s the same view as of last Tuesday:
We’ve got as much as two feet more coming tonight and tomorrow according to a true Valentine’s Day gift of a storm bulletin from the National Weather Service:
The result will be an intense nor’easter with heavy snow and blizzard conditions for eastern New England by Sunday morning, with one to two feet of snow likely along with wind gusts in excess of 50 mph! This same storm will usher in a truly arctic airmass behind it, with some of the coldest weather of the season for parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S. by Sunday. High temperatures are expected to be 20 to 35 degrees below normal by February standards, with afternoon readings in the single digits and teens, and 20s extending well into Virginia and North Carolina. The strong winds will combine with these frigid temperatures to produce brutal subzero wind chills.
I console myself with the contemplation of psychokitty Tikka:
I am so not getting that iPad back…
I call this one “At Leest I Haz Mah Diggnahtee!”:
And one last one, where he’s just looking kind of sweet (uncharacteristically so, but then we all have our weak moments):
The Oh God Make It Stop thread is officially open.
Elizabelle
Tikka is thanking his lucky stars that he’s a cat and thus not expected to go outside to answer nature’s call.
Also that he has no chance whatsoever of ever having to read McMegan.
Happy V Day, Tikka and humans.
mb
Mid 60s and sunny here. Sorry.
JPL
@Elizabelle: Being a cat has advantages.
Tom, Your governor proclaimed next week to be Valentine Week. I’m not sure how you plan on celebrating, though.
gogol's wife
I am so sorry for the people in Boston/Providence. We’re expecting 4-10 inches and I can’t take any more
srv
Sunny and will be 71 here. Might just blow everything else off and lay out in the park. Time to put some air in the bike tubes.
Was going to go up to Napa, but pretty oppressive 78 today.
Robert
Ummm. you guys are getting our winter…the Rockies are dry as a bone, at least west of the Divide…Great photos tho…
MobiusKlein
Hey it rained once.
This year so far.
so…
go weather?
JPL
Tom, If you have the opportunity, take another photo early next week. I promise not to mock.
Peale
Yeah. It sucks. But it keeps the reservoirs from drying up. Not that we’d be in any danger for years, since we are blessed with an abundance of water. Sao Paulo, Brazil would like to borrow some of that wasted water.
Tom Levenson
@JPL: I don’t believe you. But hey, I wouldn’t be able to restrain myself either….Will be out w. a camera in the next couple of days, never fear…
West of the Cascades
Please to be mailing some of that snow to Oregon … our snowpack in the Cascades is at 10% of normal. There are places up over 4,000 feet that have never been snowless in February that are snowless this year. Very depressing and ominous for our water supply this summer.
JGabriel
BBC, Breaking News:
So, say you’re an American conservative.
Who do you side with, the shooters or the blasphemers/atheists?
gbear
My 14 year old kitty Halley is going in for her yearly wellness exam today. I wish it could have been yesterday. It was 30 degrees warmer than the +1 we have today.
jimmiraybob
I think that the only conclusion that we can come to is that Obama hates America. Also too, is a Muslim ISIS Warlord.
On another note, clear the roof!
Tenar Darell
There is an icicle that is at least 1.5 high old apartment stories hanging off the eaves of my 2 story apartment. It is starting to gives me the creeps. It’s one thing to strategically park to avoid ordinary 3-6 inch diameter icicles, but this monster…
Frankensteinbeck
@JGabriel:
‘More proof that Islam isn’t a religion, it’s a terrorist organization, and if Europeans were more manly and tough like America these things wouldn’t happen.’ From my considerable experience listening to them, that’s how they interpret this.
debbie
Is Buffalo getting much of this snow or are they lucking out this time?
Pogonip
We have a whiteout here right now–the promised 40 mph winds having arrived–but only expecting an inch or so of actual accumulation. It’s just blowing around a lot.
75 miles away, father and son are watching Batman. Neighbor must have been over and salted my walk without me hearing him , as it has round melted spots. (As I said, except for the cat crowd, which I woyldn’t dream of bracing them about, I love them.) me? I am wallowing in glorious indoor solitude. Geese just honked their way over; if I was outside today, I too might honk in a despairing manner.
Come on spring!
feebog
Going to be 83 in the Valley today. Gave up golf for some yardwork and preliminary prep in the garden. Looking forward to a relaxing weekend.
mdblanche
We didn’t get a white Christmas here, but a white Easter is looking likely. Our dachshunds are going stir crazy. Have you ever seen a pack of dachshunds who outnumber you go stir crazy? It isn’t pretty.
And some seasonally appropriate (NSFW) music.
Gene108
This is how the Sports Gods balance things out. Boston’s won all the major sports championships at least once this century.
I would not blame Obama, but rather Tom Brady for the weather.
No fan base can have it as good as Boston has had it without consequences.
Botsplainer
Preparing to go to gym and his n’ her mani/pedis, followed with attendance at 50 Shades of Poorly Portrayed Light Bondage and Light Love Taps. Am watching Titanic before leaving, which I never can resist. A few observations:
– Rose is a monster. She could have shifted her ass over and given Jack room.
– The only decent people on this boat – that are wort saving – are Molly Brown and the immigrants in steerage. I WANT to like Jack, but he’s such a preening, strutting working class hero, he becomes unlikeable.
– The rich, spoiled guy is just being himself. He was raised to be an asshole and can’t help himself, so he isn’t evil per se.
– Rose’s mother was a pimp.
Pogonip
Notice how when I typed “woyldn’t” and not “wouldn’t,” FY Autocorrect did nothing.
I blame Obama.
MomSense
@Botsplainer:
I hate that movie with a passion. Let’s just say I wouldn’t have given up my seat in the lifeboat for that kid.
WereBear
@Botsplainer: The door couldn’t support both their weight. So she should have taken that place in the lifeboat, he’d get the door, and they could have met up on the docks.
Idiot.
the Conster
@Gene108:
Yup. I may pay tribute to the sports gods by watching the Super Bowl over and over again while I’m trapped inside, and then play my 2004 Red Sox World Series DVDs and re-live the comeback against the Yankees. Malcolm Butler and Dave Roberts will live forever in lore while their stories are passed down from generation to generation.
mdblanche
@JGabriel: CNN now reporting one dead.
Amir Khalid
I’ve been listening to the Chuck Berry classic My Ding-a-ling. It seemed somehow appropriate to Valentine’s Day. Maybe they shoulda put it in the Fifty Shades movie.
MattF
The DC area is getting snow squalls this afternoon and then deep freeze temperatures plus high winds through tomorrow. I’m contemplating staying in bed.
scav
We had a glimmer of actual sunlight with actual shadows this early am in the far upper left. A step up from the continual horizonless fog of yesterday and the general fogginess of the week. Racoonball game with Japanese Fishing floats apparently called last night on account of rain. Daffs blooming.
Botsplainer
@WereBear:
And why did Old Rose be so hateful as to toss the necklace into the sea after all that?
So selfish.
MomSense
@Botsplainer:
So her heart could go on.
Gene108
@Botsplainer:
She had kids and grandkids, who could have used the money. Real dick move to chuck the most monetarily valuable thing in your family into the abyss.
satby
@Pogonip: We’re having that too here in SW MI. But the snow accumulation is supposed to be between 4-8 inches, which normally wouldn’t be a big deal. With the winds making it drift though, the banks behind my neighbors house are already almost 5 feet high just from what was on the ground before today.
The dogs are barely willing to go out at all.
Botsplainer
http://m.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/10/titanic-alternate-ending-rose-is-a-monster
Diana
@WereBear: pretty sure that’s just a classic plot trope. My Internet’s not working very well right now (gee, Time-Warner sucks, who’d have thought it?) or I’d google it … I’ll post it later if TW ever manages to connect again.
gelfling545
@debbie: It’s been snowing all morning & is expected to snow more later & tomorrow. We haven’t had as much as a lot of places but enough to be getting on with. Very, very cold though.
gbear
@Amir Khalid: Please hit stop immediately and proceed to any other Chuck Berry song. It may have been his only #1 single (no accounting for buyer’s tastes) but it is his worst song by a 1,000 miles.
Culture of Truth
@Gene108: Luckily the kids replaced the one Rose kept with a replica years before.
raven
@Amir Khalid: Teenage Wedding
Villago Delenda Est
@JGabriel:
Depends.
Are the shooters brown? Means they’re most likely Muslim, therefore you side with the blasphemists.
Are they white Jeebus freaks? Side with the shooters.
SatanicPanic
@JGabriel: Oh goody let’s have another days long debate over whether the artist deserved it
raven
Try swimming around in the North Atlantic for a half hour or so.
Amir Khalid
@gbear:
I find it an absolutely delightful song. It appeals to my inner six-year-old.
gbear
‘The Great 28’ is a…welll…great collection of Chuck Berry’s early stuff.
Amir Khalid
@gbear:
Which, alas, does not include My Ding-a-ling from 1972.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid: Well, My Ding-a-ling was not early Chuck Berry. It was a 60’s thing.
(On edit) Well, 60’s/early 70’s. It’s said that the 60’s started on November 22, 1963, and ended on August 9th, 1974.
GregB
Collaborated with the neighbors to beat down about 4 feet of snow at the driveway entrance. After almost getting creamed by a pair of young stoners in a Honda.
The weather is really beginning to grind me down. Boston is getting to a breaking point. Was in Manchester earlier this week and it is a debacle. As is downtown Nashua. Strange enough though the very well to do part of Nashua along Concord St. Had topped off snowbanks and clean as a whistle sidewalks. We’re all Wisconsin now.
Randy P
I know people getting snow are tired of it, but I’m jealous. Here in Philly the last “100% chance of a killer blizzard” left not a flake. I don’t know if we’ve had 6 inches total all winter yet. I know I haven’t had to lift a shovel. First time was powder, second time was slush. I cleared by pushing the shovel along the ground like a broom.
I grew up in a snowy place and it kind of permanently brain-damaged me. I like the white stuff. I like driving in it when everyone else is chased off the road. I like walking in it. And I like shoveling it. I am unable to drink that first cup of coffee (liberally laced with chocolate) on a snowy morning until I’ve gone outside and done something to earn it. And then it tastes SOOOO good…
gbear
@Amir Khalid: I guess I can understand liking it as a six year old. I was 17 when it came out and didn’t like it at all. I can remember listening to Elvis Presley’s version of Hound Dog as a little kid and liking it as a novelty song that was funny.
Pogonip
@GregB: I looked at the forecast for Boston and it sounded downright apocalyptic. Good luck to you all; let’s all pray for early spring!
mdblanche
@Randy P: You sound like the kind of person who watches Titanic and gets jealous of the adventure the immigrants in steerage were having.
Pogonip
@Randy P: Careful, the Massholes who read this may form an angry mob.
Then again, the angry mob can’t get to you through all that snow…
Amir Khalid
@raven:
We had a discussion about that yesterday, mostly relating to the Coolerator refrigerator.
BruceFromOhio
First run of the shovels cleared the first five or so inches about an hour ago. It’s coming down at about 3 inches per hour, and now the wind is up. Forecast for tonight is ten below.
We are considering tomorrow as a possible LOTR day. Sure as hell ain’t going anywhere in this shit.
MazeDancer
Arctic all week here, too. Back yard is three feet of snow, now. More falling. But, allegedly, only about another six to eight inches. Which the Weather Channel now calls “light to moderate” snow.” Apparently, it takes at least a foot of white stuff falling to qualify as “heavy” this season.
It’s the many, many days ahead of sub zero temps and Yukon wind chill factor that are the more scary part.
The cats have wisely stayed in bed and have no intention of moving to another location.
Have cranked up the heat, thankful for having it and the drop in oil prices. Knocking wood for continued power.
But every few hours, I have to suit up and go out there and feed the birds. Really seems like fewer birds every day. Hope that’s just my imagination.
Not sure where all the snow is going to go when Spring comes. And reliable sources say the Earth will keep on turning, and one day, a few months from now, we could be complaining about the heat. Which I will try not to do.
Very sorry for all those out West with no Snow Pack. Having been lucky enough to live out there in the mountainous beauty, know how disheartening it is to look up at the peaks, realizing no snow now, no water later.
Ruckus
@raven:
While in the navy, sailing above the Arctic Circle, in winter, someone asked how long they’d last if they fell in. It’s about 30-60 seconds without a survival suit. Which of course we didn’t have.
BruceFromOhio
@Randy P: in a twisted way, I understand this, and may even aspire to it.
Botsplainer
@Randy P:
I always knew someone like you existed, like the monster under my bed, the banshee in the window above me, the vampire behind the shower curtain at night…
Botsplainer
@Ruckus:
Rose and Jack would have been hypothermic in the hallways of the ship.
I’ve dropped into 50-60 degree thermoclines in a 3 mm wetsuit that functions like 5 mm, and found my reactions going sluggish without being able to think real clearly.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Botsplainer: there are at least two of us, but include me out of driving in it. Walking, skiing Alpine and Nordic, snow-showing. I don’t mind shoveling if its not too heavy. Don’t like driving in it at all, and less and less as I get older.
I never got that song till I head Big Mama Thornton do it, then I got it. Still don’t get Elvis’s version, and there are a handful of Elvis songs I really like.
Linnaeus
@West of the Cascades:
Yep, same in Washington. We’re looking at a possible drought in many parts of the state this summer.
Diana
@Botsplainer: yeah, that plus the ending are clearly examples of fridge logic:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeLogic
Ruckus
@Botsplainer:
Yes the body shuts down damn fast trying to keep the brain alive when immersed in 30-35 deg water. In 50-60 deg it is a little slower but not that much.
A 2-3mm suit is a tri suit, meant for active surface swimming in water above 50-60 deg. And at that temp you are still going to be cold. No wonder you had issues at that temp in diving.
satby
@Botsplainer: I like snow too, and go Nordic skiing and snowshoeing. Don’t mind shovelling though I seldom have to do much of it because my neighbor loves his snow blower and does 3 houses with it.
But I hate driving in it; until this year not a problem since I worked from home. Now a huge problem, made worse by cracking up the front end of my car sliding into a curb last Sunday. Tried to drive to my office yesterday, and was all over the road so bad that I turned around and went home 3 miles into the trip.I hope fixing it isn’t going to cost a fortune.
Svensker
@Tenar Darell:
There was a guy killed in a tunnel in Seattle about 30 years ago when an icicle fell off the roof and crashed through his car windshield. Such a horrible, random way to die.
realbtl
@Botsplainer:
I’m with you re: snow. Like driving in it too w/studded snow tires on my Acura. The old timers say that you don’t deserve Montana summers unless you lived through the winters.
buddy h
In my neck of the woods, a cat was found frozen in a snowbank. Frozen stiff. The guy who found him thought he was dead, until he saw him twitch. Then he pried him out of the ice (leaving a mound of fur in the shape of a cat behind) took him to a shelter, and they revived him. He’s doing fine now, and reunited with his family. The vet said if he’d been in the ice another half hour or so, he would have succumbed to hypothermia.
phoebes-in-santa fe
Wonderful pictures of the tuxedo. Brilliant blue sky with nary a cloud and temps in the high 50’s here in Santa Fe.
Tree With Water
@Amir Khalid: Chuck Berry wrote his fair share of classic songs, but My Ding A Ling isn’t one of them.
buddy h
@Tree With Water: Interesting what Paul McCartney did with Chuck Berry’s “Brown Eyed Handsome Man”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nM6atYqh-o
JPL
@buddy h: wow! I wonder how many of it’s nine lives it used up.
buddy h
@JPL: Probably seven or eight. Here’s his story:
http://news10.com/2015/02/12/cat-survives-after-being-found-frozen-on-side-of-the-road/
Pogonip
@BruceFromOhio: What part of Ohio are you in, the lake-effect-snow zone?
I’m alternately mending and surfing, movie day sounds like a good idea too.
Amir Khalid
@Tree With Water:
It’s not an impressive piece of songwriting, true. But I just love the salacious glee that Chuck and his audiences put into performing it.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Big Mama Thornton! Too little known in several of my social circles.
Pogonip
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Big Mama’s version of “Hound Dog” is even better than Elvis’s, and his still gets these aging toes tapping.
Tree With Water
“Ahead of his first major foreign policy speech, former Gov. Jeb Bush declined to weigh in on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during his brother’s time as president, saying “I won’t talk about the past.”
Well then, fuck off! Why are you wasting everyone’s time?
My heart is full of hate for those people today.
zzyzx
@Gene108: Let me point out that since the horrid ending to that game, it’s been in the 60s pretty regularly in the Pac NW. Flowers are blooming and the cherry trees are budding.
Pogonip
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): P.S. a few years ago there was “advice” to aspiring blues singers floating round the Internet. Women were advised to use a stage name that goes well with Big Mama. “Big Mama Debbie” or “Big Mama Courtney,” for example, were not advised.
And now: another pointless Balloon Juice comment from Big Mama Pogonip!
(Maybe Cole should change that pretty pup’s name to Big Mama Lovey; then, when she’s vocalizing some moonlit night, she can be excused because she’s just howlin’ the blues!)
Mike J
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
One thing you can say for Elvis is that he didn’t try to find a popular song and appropriate it. He (started off) playing music of which he was already a fan. Like Eminem would do years later, he was a white kid who grew up in black neighborhoods and didn’t let anybody tell him that it wasn’t his music too.
Pat Boone, on the other hand, was just trying to make money from other people’s work.
Amir Khalid
@Tree With Water:
JEB may be counting on his charismatic personality, rather than his policy chops, to get elected.
buddy h
@Pogonip: None of your comments are pointless.
Amir Khalid
I hope Liverpool hang on to this 2-1 lead and make it into the sixth round of the FA Cup. We’re in injury time now …
Ultraviolet Thunder
It’s 16 degrees in Detroit and dropping. After tonight it will be single digits until probably mid-week. And it’s windy. Not a lot of snow predicted, but there’s already plenty.
We’re holed up for the weekend and I don’t have to go anywhere until Monday.
Canada. Monday I have to go to Canada.
Iowa Old Lady
@Amir Khalid: Hee.
Also JEB may not want to talk about Iraq (aka, Republican foreign policy) but some number of the press will. I hope.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mike J: Hey! I’m not crazy about his version of Hound Dog, but I would never put Elvis in the same category as Pat Boone, even if Boone weren’t batshit fucking nuts. His cover of Tutti Frutti wasn’t even supposed to be funny, was it?
ETA: I mad a google and Boone covered Tutti Frutti in ’57. That surprised me for some reason. A linked video of Boone expounding on “Obama, Islamism and Israel” did not. Not gonna watch.
@Pogonip: I thnk Big Mama Lovey is a thing that should come to pass.
Bob In Portland
Saakashvili, the weapons supplier.
Baud
@Pogonip:
I would buy your album.
Lurker
@Botsplainer: Don’t forget the thing in the closet.
Amir Khalid
Yes! The Reds come from behind to win it 1-2 away! YNWA!
jharp
Good luck. Sounds dreadful.
Here in central Indiana we have missed nearly all of the snow this winter.
Less than 10 inches all winter.
Tree With Water
@Amir Khalid: Well, it worked for former POTUS Pete Wilson.
gbear
Back from the Vet visit with Halley and I’m glad that’s over. She got her wellness exam and her rabies shot. The vet wanted to add another $300 worth of baseline tests (some of which we’d done two years ago) but I could only afford a blood and urine tests (why is it so expensive for a blood pressure check?). Halley was so tense that the vets were having trouble with the urine draw and Halley finally got so upset that she peed on one of the techs.
Apparently they were having a bad day all around with cats. When I was waiting for Halley’s visit, the cat in the next room sounded like it was being stangled. This isn’t a reflection on the vets. They bend over backwards to make animals comfortable.
I’m glad to be home.
The Dangerman
@mb:
Gonna push 90 here today; breaking out sunscreen for first time this spring.
/SoCal jerk
I remind those desiring to move that the housing here is affordable (if you like living in a converted garage), the freeways suck even without the daily car chases, and you might run into the Kardashians.
shelley
@Botsplainer: The one Titanic scenes I always laugh at is Rose is supposed to be so horrified at this stifling life she’s about to go to that she’s willing to commit suicide. But then the scene where Jack ‘s invited to dinner with the first class swells, she gives him a quick lowdown. Who’s having an affair with who, who’s pregnant, the lady who designs naughty underwear. Sounds like an interesting group to me.
Pogonip
@Baud: Not if you’d heard me sing! I can dance just fine but can’t carry a tune.
shelley
Ugh, Tom, I’m so sorry. We’re due to get about 3 inches here in Jersey, which pales in comparison.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@efgoldman:
Geographically yes, but spiritually it’s north. And the farther you get from the Great Lakes, the colder it is.
After waiting 9 months for the Canadian consulate to process my MULTITUDE OF VERY DETAILED FORMS I’m ready to apply for a Work Permit to allow me to enter Canada for work. Now watch, for the next year nothing there will break down and I won’t have to go.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@jharp:
I was in Kokomo all week and was surprised to see bare ground. A nice change. But still: Kokomo.
Kathleen
@BruceFromOhio: Are you in northern Ohio? We’re getting mix of clouds and sun, 45-50 mph wind gusts, and snow squalls but no accumulation in southwestern Ohio. Our temps are predicted to be in the minus zone due to wind chill tonight and tomorrow.
My sympathies to all of you who have borne the brunt of winter storms (New Englanders especially).
ThresherK
@Pogonip: Can’t resist passing along this handy guide.
Without looking, I note the number of three-name blues artists, and the prevalence of “Big” for women along with “Little” for men.
Tree With Water
@shelley: The Titantic is a grade B movie made ridiculous by the scene in which DeCaprio and the girl are being stalked by the jealous boyfriend with a gun- while the ship is sinking! It’s good for a chuckle that that idiot movie won the Oscar for best picture. Even its great cast couldn’t play act their way around that preposterous finale. I remember being happy to see DeCaprio finally drown, because it meant the movie was almost over.
henqiguai
Oh look, it’s snowing…
ET
I am having a few flashback to Snotorious BIG/snowpocalypse in DC few winters ago but sadly this seems/is worse.
opiejeanne
@zzyzx: Yes, my cherry trees are budding and the really big cherry tree is already showing a bit of color. We are worried because a cold snap any time from now on could do a lot of damage and possibly kill some trees.
gogol's wife
@henqiguai:
Yes, what a change of pace.
BillinGlendaleCA
@The Dangerman:
Pretty good chance of that happening around here, or at least one of their close relatives.
What is this snow that you all are talking about? It’s 82 outside and 84 inside the BillCave.
Baud
@Tree With Water:
I liked Titanic and was looking forward to Titanic II, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
It’s slang for cocaine.
wrb
It is 70° (too damn hot) here on the Pacific Coast. I’m going to haul out the fan.
Snow would be nice. We’ve yet to have any this year.
mdblanche
@henqiguai: Driving conditions are starting to deteriorate, which means it’s time for CNN’s news van to start getting in the plows’ way.
@Baud: I always thought a Titanic sequel should be called Lusitania.
Suzanne
It’s 81 degrees outside right now. I have the windows open. I was sweating on my job site visits this week.
Hey, Arizona is full of guns and Mormons and Republicans and Joe Arpaio, but something has to balance it out. I’m not sure if the weather is worth it, but it is hard to deny the awesomeness this time of year. Though July will find me whimpering on the bathroom floor.
Randy P
@efgoldman:
Assuming “antiquities” was an autocorrect for “quantities”?
I would actually. I have very fond memories of shoveling/playing in/jumping off roofs onto deep snow in some very memorable blizzards.
I remember when we lived in the DC area and got one really solid blizzard with high winds, I tried to talk the kids outside to build a snow fort, to show them how building a wall to shelter you from the wind made you feel warm and safe. They humored me for a few minutes but went back inside with their sane Mom while I stayed out playing in it.
Any time we get enough snow to make it work (which is perhaps one storm every other year), I try to pile up the snow in one place as I shovel it out of the driveway. And then I do snow sculpture.
Going to Antarctica is definitely on my bucket list.
As I said: my snowy childhood kind of froze my brain.
Ultraviolet Thunder
Every year I complain that a snow storm in the Northeast pushes any other news item to the back pages until the last remnant of snow is scraped away. Whatever’s happening in the MSM’s own back yard has to be priority #1 for the rest of the country.
But this winter has been different. I’m truly sympathetic toward the northeast states for the clobbering they got from the weather. I mean, it’s bad in Michigan too but Boston is getting creamed.
Baud
@mdblanche:
And Titanic III could be Costa Concordia.
trollhattan
@efgoldman:
Were it WilliamFromNantucketMA it wouldn’t be impossible.
Anyway, we’re looking to matching yesterday’s record of 77 whilst my bro, who’s holed up in Maine had 15 below last night, so between us the median temp seems about right for mid-Feb.
the Conster
Fenway Park’s groundskeeper puts black sand on the snow to help it melt. Wonder where one buys black sand – maybe one has to go to Hawaii to procure it properly and ship it home? Maybe the groundskeeper just pulled that story out of his ass for the ownership, but if so, well played Fenway Park groundskeeper, well played.
Poopyman
@mdblanche:
Followed by Mauritania, because 95% of the movie-going public wouldn’t know the difference.
And at least they wouldn’t be fucking freezing.
Cervantes
@Amir Khalid:
I think I see the problem: you have a sense of humor.
Cervantes
@Tree With Water:
Wasting your time is the least of his evil plans.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tree With Water: I spent much of “Moulin Rouge” wishing for Nicole Kidman’s character to just die already so the movie could finally end.
I hate that movie. Not too fond of “Titanic” either.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
you again.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Not so much again as still.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
fine
Cervantes
@the Conster:
Black sand is available locally; here, for example.
Baud
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the buffet does go on
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
I liked Moulin Rouge. It seemed to me goofy and not too self-serious. I shall ever remember Kylie Minogue’s Absinthe Fairy with fondness. My only beef with Kidman in that movie is that her singing voice is somewhat underpowered.
rikyrah
We got 18 inches two weeks ago. I am done with winter. It’s fast approaching 0 degrees, but I will take that over anymore snow.
trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
My recollection of watching Moulin Rouge: What on earth is supposed to be happening? Dear Lord, Nichole Kidman’s legs are long. What on earth is supposed to be happening? Dear Lord, Nichole Kidman’s legs are long.
And, scene.
Pogonip
@ThresherK: That’s pretty close to the one I read (said Big Mama Pogonip).
Where’s Big Daddy Cole with a pupdate? Tom’s had to carry the site all by himself today.
The sun is out now. Still quite windy. I’m glad our power hardly ever goes out.
In two weeks it will be time to repot houseplants, and to start fertilizing them a week after that. How strange to think that when that happens the poor New Englanders will still be digging and blowing.
Speaking of plants, I have a Christmas cactus that is still blooming up a storm . It was most likely “born” in a greenhouse in Mexico or Florida but it should be used to a more northerly life cycle by now. I will be interested to see what happens this summer. Maybe I was lucky enough to get an everblooming mutation. Last summer it put out the occasional flower like most of them do but it has never had non-blooming periods as it should.
henqiguai
@Ultraviolet Thunder (#119):
Ain’t a native (grew up in DC but lived 6 years in Minneapolis before coming here). I remind even the natives around here (I’m in north central Massachusetts) that this is New England; if we ain’t hip deep in snow in the winter, be concerned. The ocean, the Presidential Mountain and/or Green Mountain Ranges, and the jet stream all coming together to make, especially winter, weather really really interesting. We got *seasons* around here, dammit!, so deal!!!
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Even the lovely Kylie as the Absinthe Fairy was not enough to save that movie for me. OTOH, I believe that you are a bigger fan of musicals than I am.
Anne Laurie
@raven:
My Irish fisherman ancestors never bothered learning to swim, on that grounds it was better to drown quickly than to die of hypothermia slowly.
celiadexter
I haven’t lived in that area in almost 50 years, but this just sucks. We moved from NYC to eastern MA in the ’60s and I recall back then it was milder and less snowy, even though further north. My parents told me this was because the ocean moderated the temperatures. Did something change as part of the New Weather or were mom and pop making stuff up?
Tikka’s quite a handsome fellow. We have the longhaired version — since he’s only 6 months old I wouldn’t call him psycho, but he’s showing major rapscallion potential. He’s fascinated by the snow falling right now, but this is Manhattan and not the real thing.
David Koch
Tom,
Tikka photos >>>>>>> Art photos
MomSense
The storm has been downgraded to 18″.
Yay?
debbie
@Tree With Water:
Even worse, it unleashed Celine Dion on impressionable young girls.