Snow!

[Ardent]

The metric system is only for Jesus-hating Nazi Darwinists.

We call them scientists.

Exactly my point!

Stop hating God and America ... or else.

[Strazos]

To get back onto the topic of Snow(!), south Jersey/Delaware Valley area is supposed to get dumped on this weekend, just in time for the NFC Championship game...This should make my drive to work/school on monday tons o' fun.

And by fun, I mean something like a deathwish, a clear and present danger, etc etc.

[Righ]

And by fun, I mean something like a deathwish, a clear and present danger, etc etc.

RT 1?

Fortunately my commute is around 220 seconds long since we moved.

[Strazos]

And by fun, I mean something like a deathwish, a clear and present danger, etc etc.

RT 1?

No, Mustang GT

[Signe]

Hey!  We  have a Mustang GT, too!  And we're getting the same 12-15 inches of snow you are!   What a horrible coinsidence for all of us.

[Strazos]

Hey!  We  have a Mustang GT, too!  And we're getting the same 12-15 inches of snow you are!   What a horrible coinsidence for all of us.

Haha, nice.

You know it's fun (or do I mean bad?) when, just to get around a corner, I have to pull a very Outrun2-esque slide turn.

I'm sure NJ auto insurers are thrilled.

[Soukyan]

I wonder if we'll see more of those giant Snow Lord guys popping up... oh wait a minute... wrong game... we're talking Real Life here, eh?

The weather man finally settled on 7-8 inches for western PA. It's supposed to start around 5 am. Perhaps I'll wait up to see if they're right on time.

[Shannow]

Im always on the line between the highest and next highest totals. All last year I got the lower totals...Im hoping the same this year...not that 12 inches as opposed to 15inches is much different.


'I still call Australia..

I still call Australia..

I still call Australia home....'

*weeps*

[CmdrSlack]

It's been snowing for at least 12 hours here, probably more.

I think (by looking out the window and guaging based on the shit on my neighbor's garage roof) we have about 8" on the ground, and from what weatherbug tells me, a ton more to come.

Hurrah for the lake effect.

[Soukyan]

Well, it's been snowing for about 7 hours here. It looks like it finally let up for a bit. About 4" on the ground so far. Supposedly more on the way though. It doesn't help that I've got cabin fever. Must. Get. Out.

[Hanzii]

Yesterday it snowed.
It was gone before it hit the ground. But everything was really soggy and everyone was cold and miserable. Today I caught a glimpse of the sun.

[schild]

We have at least 5-6 inches of snow on the ground. My car is 5-6 inches off the ground. I have no food in the house.

Weather likes this makes baby jesus laugh at us jews.

[Soukyan]

We have at least 5-6 inches of snow on the ground. My car is 5-6 inches off the ground. I have no food in the house.

Weather likes this makes baby jesus laugh at us jews.

Funny that. I have a friend who is converting to Judaism. And how exactly does your car get that far off the ground? Did you actually try to drive somewhere? Sucks about the food. I'm going to make some soup, myself. ;)

[schild]

I meant the space between my car and the ground. I drive an RSX Type-S. It rides low.

[Strazos]

Well now, any chance of me going anywhere for the next few days is officially fucked. I just hope my school cancels classes, or else i'll be fucked if I miss days this upcoming week, plus 2 days from all my classes when I take my week off in Vermont, heh.

Speaking of which, I hope Vermont is getting raped. Closed trails = teh ghey

[CmdrSlack]

I believe we are, in meterological terms, getting pwned out here in Chicago.

It took me almost 30 minutes to drive the 6 blocks from my house to my girlfriend's house to pick her up, and then back.  We stopped in at a 7-11 for supplies (beer) and the car had to be cleaned off again when we came out.

People are guarding their parking spaces with chairs, etc.  I've seen one fistfight over someone moving space savers already.

Bunch of savages in this town.

[LordDax]

For those of you with cabin fever could just be like me and my roommate. Wake up before 8(the horror!), take the PATH into NYC, go to an event, stay at the event when they announce that it is "really snowing now", walk out the door at 5 and into 4-6inches(plowed-unplowed) of snow. And then walk 3 blocks to the next station stop. Then walk back across a campus with 6 inches of snow, thats still piling up as we speak. An easy fix to cabin fever ain't it? :P

[Soukyan]

For those of you with cabin fever could just be like me and my roommate. Wake up before 8(the horror!), take the PATH into NYC, go to an event, stay at the event when they announce that it is "really snowing now", walk out the door at 5 and into 4-6inches(plowed-unplowed) of snow. And then walk 3 blocks to the next station stop. Then walk back across a campus with 6 inches of snow, thats still piling up as we speak. An easy fix to cabin fever ain't it? :P

Heh. No. ;)

I went outside and shoveled the driveway snow. Even went so far as to shovel a couple neighbors driveways just so I could be outside. The temperature was a balmy 30 degrees today so I had to enjoy it before it drops back down to 9 tonight and we get ridiculous wind chills. I didn't get to go anywhere exciting today, although it appears as though the roads were clear enough by mid-afternoon. It's probably better as I'm secure in my driving skills - it's the other people on the road that scare me (read: soccer moms in SUVs).

[schmoo]

Right now, there's about 8 inches of snow on the ground outside my house, it's 0 degrees, and the wind-chill is -20F, which is about 20-20 mph wind.  I live on top of a hill out in the country.  My closest neighbor is a guy with a beard living in an old camper-like object (I won't dignify it by calling it an actual camper), who is no doubt burning shitloads of his pine trees tonight in several venerable and ancient woodstoves, because he doesn't have electricity or, in fact, any money.

My wife's cousin and her husband and 4 kids who recently bought an old farmhouse down the road a piece from us, and chose this very day to start moving into it.  They drove about 20 miles from their current home this afternoon, in blizzard-like conditions.  The house has heat, but only on the first floor, and no insulation in the roof.

People are fucking crazy here.

[Polysorbate80]

I meant the space between my car and the ground. I drive an RSX Type-S. It rides low.

Buy something a little higher off the ground then:



I can't recommend the red ones, though.  Cop magnets.  They never give me a ticket, they just pull me over to hassle me :P

[grebo]

(read: soccer moms in SUVs).

This  made me smile.

Supposed to get up to 30 inches tonight... whee.

[NiX]

They estimate we just got 15 or so inches dumped on us and it could reach up to 30. HURRAY! And I drive a freaking neon.

Edit: News  says over 200 accidents by mid afternoon today but I'm sure it's not the worst of it.[/url]

[Strazos]

(read: soccer moms in SUVs).

This  made me smile.

Supposed to get up to 30 inches tonight... whee.

heh, I only personally know one person who drives an SUV, and he actually uses it  for what it's meant for - holding his crapload of music gear, surfboard , or snowboard gear. Other than him, I don't know of anyone who owns an SUV who Shouldn't be shot in the foot for their stupidity.

[Polysorbate80]

I find SUVs pretty pointless--everything I haul around is either way too big to fit inside an SUV's cargo area, or would destroy the interior.

Pretty much anything else that's not part of those two categories would ride just as easily inside (or on top of) a van or station wagon.

[Strazos]

I find SUVs pretty pointless--everything I haul around is either way too big to fit inside an SUV's cargo area, or would destroy the interior.

Pretty much anything else that's not part of those two categories would ride just as easily inside (or on top of) a van or station wagon.

Both of which are pretty useless in deep sand/snow.

Plus, interior storage is infinetly more desirable than rooftop.

[Shannow]

16" down...another 4-8 to go.

[Boogaleeboo]

So I figured I'd chance a trip down to the Dunkin Donuts for the paper and coffee now, as it's not even supposed to let up [not stop mind you, let up. It's expected to snow here into Monday at least.] until about 6. After forcing, forcing, my front door open I push my way down the steps only to find the snow had piled up the level of my shoulders. I am about 6'2, and the snow was up to my shoulders. And it is expected to continue to fall at this present pace for another 9 hours.

So yeah, I think they were downright fucking restrained in their snowfall estimate.

[Calantus]

So I figured I'd chance a trip down to the Dunkin Donuts for the paper and coffee now, as it's not even supposed to let up [not stop mind you, let up. It's expected to snow here into Monday at least.] until about 6. After forcing, forcing, my front door open I push my way down the steps only to find the snow had piled up the level of my shoulders. I am about 6'2, and the snow was up to my shoulders. And it is expected to continue to fall at this present pace for another 9 hours.

So yeah, I think they were downright fucking restrained in their snowfall estimate.

Wow. What kind of fallout does that amount of snow have on your gardens, cars, rivers, etc. when it melts?

[Righ]

Wow. What kind of fallout does that amount of snow have on your gardens, cars, rivers, etc. when it melts?

When you have that much snow, it melts over a long time, but it can cause some flooding.

They say 15 inches fell in Trenton. We're not too far north of there in the Princeton area, but it looks like around 18 inches. The drifts are pretty deep in places, over three feet up to the back window. There are no signs that the apartment complex management are going to do anything soon.

[Boogaleeboo]

I flat out can not go out my backdoor. I mean maybe with 2 people pushing could I even get the thing open. I am not snowed in in the conventional "it's cold and I don't want to go out" sense. I am snowed in in the "the snow has prevented me from leaving the building short of jumping off my 3rd floor balcony, which in 3 hours will be ground level to the snow" sense.

This snow, when it finally stops snowing sometime Monday maybe, could very easily take weeks to get rid of. You don't get a lot of massive problems with the melting because it takes such a long time to go or doesn't have a chance to build up at all. It's why you can have light snow falls that last for hours but don't even cover the street. If it's slow enough, the natural heat of a city just melts it away before it has a chance. When it gets cold enough and falls fast for a long time though? It sticks around.

Thanks to the internet I hear a lot of people saying things like "Yeah, it was pretty bad but not as bad as they said" in pretty much a 360 geographical circle around me. Which leads me to believe the snow got bored and decided to blow all it's load in the greater Boston area.

And yet I still can not think of living in an area where winter doesn't mean old people dying because it takes an hour for a 911 call to dispatch someone to them.

[Righ]

That does indeed sound impressive.

And yet I still can not think of living in an area where winter doesn't mean old people dying because it takes an hour for a 911 call to dispatch someone to them.

That happens in Nigeria all year round, and they don't get snow.

[Boogaleeboo]

Nature is more deadly than most amounts of AKs.

For instance, there is one exception to the melting issue. Generally it melts slowly enough not to cause major problems for a city, but coastal areas?

Get floods and structural damage. The National Guard has already been put on call in case it needs to get people to safety.

[grebo]

So I figured I'd chance a trip down to the Dunkin Donuts for the paper and coffee now, as it's not even supposed to let up [not stop mind you, let up. It's expected to snow here into Monday at least.] until about 6. After forcing, forcing, my front door open I push my way down the steps only to find the snow had piled up the level of my shoulders. I am about 6'2, and the snow was up to my shoulders. And it is expected to continue to fall at this present pace for another 9 hours.

So yeah, I think they were downright fucking restrained in their snowfall estimate.

Boog, I'm on the south shore, we supposedly got buried more than Boston and the street plow snow was barely that high... you musta hit the drift jackpot.

I had to climb out a window to get to shoveling, but you still win.

[Shannow]

Where you at Boogs? Im in Chelmsford and got a little under 30 inches, but with the drifts they were like 4 feet high (good for jumping in with 4 year old son). Salem got 38!!!! inches. Damn I love New England..:P~

[Boogaleeboo]

I'm in Everett, and I don't know what the fuck we got, I just know that at best the snow on the street was piled as high as my waist and in the worst parts forward movement involved using arms AND legs. Salem hit like -35 for a bit there with windchill. That's like the shit that makes polar bears move south.

I know a few other people that were just flat out snowed into their homes. It's good stuff.