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Hatterasguy · #46 02-08-2013, 10:34 AM

All the municipalities are trying to dump their salt and sand before spring. Have to use it up this year if you want to keep it in the budget next!

JB3 · #47 02-08-2013, 10:36 AM

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They call every storm that's coming the worst one since year wxyz. It's even believable the first few times around. When you hear "Storm of the Century" a few years in a row, it becomes merely humorous.

78 was pretty bad.

Completely paralyzed at least this area. Roads blocked, highways stopped, lumps of snow covering cars in the fast lane, you name it.

The GFs mother told me she hiked about 3 miles and it took her almost all day through the chaos, had to spend the night at her job at a bank.

couple pics of the highways during 78 in providence and boston-

SwampYankee · #48 02-08-2013, 10:39 AM

So while I was in Boston yesterday, my brother decided we should close today due to the impending storm. As of right now, we have a dusting.

1/2 day would of sufficed.

Off to the package store for supplies!

SwampYankee · #49 02-08-2013, 10:46 AM

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All the municipalities are trying to dump their salt and sand before spring. Have to use it up this year if you want to keep it in the budget next!

That just boggles the mind. Every late-June we get a steady stream of town and state trucks coming in to spend every last penny they have in their budget for that very reason. Rather than reward the departments for coming in under budget, the opposite happens and they get punished for saving taxpayer money. It's the complete lack of common sense in government.

JB3 · #50 02-08-2013, 11:37 AM

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its getting ridiculous, like every year when the media milks it for all its worth. I have a scheduled home inspection with 5 people that took me something like 2 weeks to organize with all these guys calling with all kinds of commitments, cancelling, ect.

2pm tomorrow, and all of them are texting, "should we cancel?" Most irritating situation, will take another two weeks to get them to agree on a reinspection date.
Its happening tomorrow if I have to gather all of them from their homes and zip them up in their hats and booties myself.

incredible. Less than an inch of accumulation at this point in Providence, and the inspection I had set up, the inspector himself cancelled the inspection that was to happen in 2 hours.
Everybody swallowed all the media hype, and business is done for the day I guess.
Im going to go home, drink, eat eggplant parm, and watch king kong.

Mike D · #51 02-08-2013, 11:39 AM

Gonna be a rough one here. I hope we have enough supplies to last it out.

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spdrun · #52 02-08-2013, 11:43 AM

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Gonna be a rough one here. I hope we have enough supplies to last it out.

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Better Tucson than Poenis, I guess. *shrug*

dynalow · #53 02-08-2013, 12:20 PM

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incredible. Less than an inch of accumulation at this point in Providence, and the inspection I had set up, the inspector himself cancelled the inspection that was to happen in 2 hours.
Everybody swallowed all the media hype, and business is done for the day I guess.
Im going to go home, drink, eat eggplant parm, and watch king kong.

Patience is a virtue. Takes practice at times.
What I'm getting in rain, you'll see as snow later today/tonight. And it's been raining here hard now for hours. Be safe.

NOAA National Weather Service

JB3 · #54 02-08-2013, 12:25 PM

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Patience is a virtue. Takes practice at times.
What I'm getting in rain, you'll see as snow later today/tonight. And it's been raining here hard now for hours. Be safe.

NOAA National Weather Service

lol, my impatience was with everything being cancelled before there are any issues to contend with.

A result of endless media hype. right now locally there are flurries, and forecasted flurries through the end of the work day, big snow starts in earnest later, yet every place in the area is already closed up.

SwampYankee · #55 02-08-2013, 12:32 PM

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lol, my impatience was with everything being cancelled before there are any issues to contend with.

A result of endless media hype. right now locally there are flurries, and forecasted flurries through the end of the work day, big snow starts in earnest later, yet every place in the area is already closed up.

Yup. No school today, still don't have an inch and roads are completely clear. I still can't believe my bro told our employees yesterday that we were closing today. S-O-F-T.

His wife must have had a project for him.

cmbdiesel · #56 02-08-2013, 01:04 PM

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Ever been in NYC with 12" of snow down, nothing driving, everything beautiful and white? Ever been x-c skiing through Central Park or out in the Watchung Reservation in NJ? You just need the right frame of mind to appreciate.

FWIW, I've heard that property taxes and charges for services are quite high in TX.

Absolutely. NYC during and after a big snow event is a magical place.

Just get out of the way when the teams of garbage trucks start plowing the Avenues...

cmbdiesel · #57 02-08-2013, 01:07 PM

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incredible. Less than an inch of accumulation at this point in Providence, and the inspection I had set up, the inspector himself cancelled the inspection that was to happen in 2 hours.
Everybody swallowed all the media hype, and business is done for the day I guess.
Im going to go home, drink, eat eggplant parm, and watch king kong.

I'm still at work, just me and half a dozen other people in my department who saw no need to blow a vacation day on a maybe....

Loaded up another half cord of wood to the house, and a half ton of pellets.
Got close to 30 gallons of beer and food for a week.
Skidsteer is fully fueled and pointed at the driveway.
Now I just need to get home in the SD and enjoy the next couple days.

SwampYankee · #58 02-08-2013, 06:30 PM

Let the estimate hedging begin!

barry12345 · #59 02-08-2013, 10:39 PM

Twelve inches to sixteen inches due starting late tonite in our region of Nova Scotia. Winds expected from the north east of about 50mph could make a fair mess of it though.

Compared to what used to fall in this region years ago it is almost nothing. This will probably represent the largest single snowstorm locally this whole winter. Between the sun getting higher and milder weather to follow it should not last long on the ground.

Hatterasguy · #60 02-09-2013, 10:23 AM

Looks like we got just under 30in! Also I'm out of beer!

Hope they plow my road or I'm going to have to send an SOS out!