Friday, February 8, 2013
Hoth Base to Ice Station Zebra, We Need Your Sitrep ASAP: Any Field Reports to Share from Nemo the Great Blizzard of 2013?
I missed the Great Chicago Blizzard of 2011. I am also not going to be present in Connecticut for Blizzard Nemo. I love the snow, the hoarding, buying extra Chinese food and Popeye's chicken, the drinking of Sapporo, the intimate times as you play sexy Eskimo with your partner, and the anxiety afterwards as you wait to see if you hit the baby lottery from all the drunken, unprotected, mid-storm coitus.
Do not be afraid as riding space mountain during a weekend snowstorm is an experience full of variety and invention. I assure you it's extremely pleasurable.
We have readers and friends of WARN all of the country, and quite a few in the Northeast. Any stories to report? Is their mayhem afoot? Are your elderly relatives in panic mode? Cool pictures to send along to be featured in this thread? Are the kids upset that the storm fell on a weekend?
Be safe and stay warm. And let's also keep our homeless brothers and sisters in our thoughts and prayers. Let us also send forth some good energy--and if possible offer some aid and shelter--to our animal friends who may be without a home and the loving protection of a good family.
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Just another winter day where I am.
Here in upstate NY we're expecting about a foot or so of snow, nothing special, but the wind is picking up. I hope we avoid a power outage. Our cat is safe and warm. She's watching the snowflakes fall.
I was in Boston in 1978; I remember no vehicles were allowed on any roads; it was wonderful being a pedestrian with all the other pedestrians, on the streets with no traffic.
Isn't it peaceful and beautiful?
One day of many?
It's been snowing steady since the afternoon here in Newark. I was lucky enough to get my train out of Penn Station just before the delays and crowds started piling up. Right now, according to Weather Underground, it's actually above freezing out there, but the snow is still coming. This is one of the strangest blizzards I've ever seen. Didn't see a homeless man I normally see on my walk home from the train, I hope that means he's got a warm place to stay tonight.
I've got some bourbon with my name on it right now, and stuff to make a skillet for breakfast tomorrow. My dog loved walking in the snow, with her snowflake-dusted look she did a pretty good impersonation of Chewbacca hunting a probe droid.
enjoy the family and the bourbon. give your doggie friend a kiss and a treat for me.
Some winters there are many. Others there isn't even one (it isn't winter without at least one!). But because it is the norm, everyone knows how to handle it.
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