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13480. Ronski - 1/22/2005 5:21:31 PM After predicting that the snow might stay to the south, or be heaviest in eastern Long Island, they are now saying it will be heaviest NW of the city across into Conn. (in other words including us), 18-22 inches, 35 mph wind, gusts to 50 or 60, and lightning and thunder. We were at zero all night on the thermometer right outside a glass door, which usually runs a bit warm because of heat from the house. The weather report said it was 2 below; 20 below at my brother's in Vermont.
Of course, none of this is really surprising, except in the context of the strings of mild winters we had a various points in the last two decades.
Last night I bought stew meat, which felt appropriate as we sit through the storm tonight with the fire roaring.
(I just hope we don't lose power!) 13481. PsychProf - 1/22/2005 8:30:15 PM Ronski...the map of accumulation I just viewed(TV) indicated south and east as heaviest. Perhaps you will catch a break. 13482. angel-five - 1/22/2005 10:09:16 PM Well, I don't know about up there, but down here these fucksticks can't figure out what the hell the weather is going to do. Just last hour they were saying the heavy snow would start at Andrews around 3 PM for about four hours. Now? The radar shows the snow leaving the area right about then.
I mean, I'm talking about an hour ago. How do you miss that?
I know meteorology is a very difficult field but still. They were saying 8 to 10 inches. Now they're saying less than three. In an hour they'll be saying eight to ten again and it will have stopped snowing. This town is completely paralyzed whenever it starts to snow at all. We were going to go get some sushi and they just closed the place because of the weather report, which is of course, as the astute reader will gather, why I am pissed.
As Woden often says, "If I were the boss, things would change around here." 13483. angel-five - 1/22/2005 10:09:59 PM Personally I think weathermen should be forced to wear shock collars. 13484. wonkers2 - 1/22/2005 11:04:03 PM I agree. I wonder which one invented the "wind chill index."
The great plains would never have been settled if the populace had been subjected to modern weather forecasts. "Snow days" are another relatively recent innovation that we could easily do without. 13485. PelleNilsson - 1/22/2005 11:04:36 PM On the other hand real men don't eat sushi. 13486. wonkers2 - 1/22/2005 11:05:45 PM Snow days teach the kids the wrong lesson--when it snows, roll over and go back to sleep. That message translates to absenteeism in the workplace. 13487. wonkers2 - 1/22/2005 11:08:40 PM In Michigan they seem to close the schools, calling snow days at the drop of a hat. As far as I'm concerned the schools should be kept open for any teachers and students who can get there. 13488. angel-five - 1/22/2005 11:32:42 PM What, real men catch it, then dehydrate it, then soak it in lye, then smear it with mustard and then eat it? Please.
BTW, still chuckling about your Danes riposte. Too bad Sto isn't about. 13489. arkymalarky - 1/23/2005 12:10:26 AM Wonk,
To attempt to go to school during snow here (which is mostly ice) is deadly. Our roads are unsafe when icy (ask Judith and Keoni how they are under normal conditions) and we're unequipped to make them safe. Safety concerns trump everything, and the assertion that they teach kids anything about absenteeism doesn't fly. Students must attend a set number of days per year, even if they end up going year round. If they get a snow day in February, they make it up in March. Just like when employees take vacation days. Teachers have to work a set number of days, as well, so they make up every day missed from snow or any other reason besides provided sick leave. 13490. arkymalarky - 1/23/2005 12:12:01 AM Back in times before buses there were one-room schoolhouses available for most kids within walking distance. Kids took out to farm or take care of family business regularly and school was not as long then, either. Once they shut down those schools and began busing there was no way they could continue school when roads became treacherous due to weather. 13491. Magoseph - 1/23/2005 12:40:38 AM Now the snowmobilers are crisscrossing the streets from the river to the lake and up the hilltop. Apparently, they are having quite a time of it. I think they have gone to the bars before coming here. I expect the police to be here soon because they come from a neighboring subdivision and some of our residents will not put up with this nonsense too much longer. 13492. wonkers2 - 1/23/2005 12:48:04 AM Well, the schools close regularly here when everything else stays open. In the case of elementary schools all the kids are withing walking distance. The high schools draw from a bigger area and some of the kids are bussed and others walk or drive. I still say that closing the schools due to a little snow conveys the wrong message. 13493. Ronski - 1/23/2005 1:02:59 AM Psych,
Could be of course, but that is the first storm; the second storm, the actual noreaster that will produce the blizzard (wind) conditions, is only starting to form off the Delmarva coast. That one will kick back a lot of new moisture.
Me, I frankly want as much snow as possible. Our local ski areas have been hurting due to little natural snow and sharp fluctuations in temperatures. 13494. Ronski - 1/23/2005 1:03:21 AM (If Marj were around, he'd say something right now.) 13495. arkymalarky - 1/23/2005 1:37:42 AM In AR supts determine whether the schools should stay open or close by driving part of the main bus routes at about 5:00 AM and checking the roads out themselves. It's totally up to them whether or not their particular district has school. 13496. angel-five - 1/23/2005 3:05:33 AM In my district growing up in Ohio there were like three or four people who could call it off. It might have changed, now, but it hadn't as of a few years ago. 13497. wonkers2 - 1/23/2005 3:07:36 AM Between skipping classes and snow days, many of the kids have a rude awakening when they get a job after graduation. 13498. PelleNilsson - 1/23/2005 7:06:21 PM Now, Angel, first we had the ice machine, now we learn about the sushi. Your path will inevitably lead to the eyebrow plucking, the nail manicure, the colour analysis, the exquisite skin treatment and the night crème. You will then have become the flagship and prime symbol of your tribe's ascension from rugged sheep herders to the modern pinnacle of maleness: the metrosexual. 13499. Macnas - 1/24/2005 10:31:55 AM Ah now Pelle, I'm sure it's just a few rough edges being smoothed by Woden, that's all.
I myself, for example, in the years before I was married, never used cutlery, had a deep distrust of shampoo, and was not aware that meat did not have to be still kicking and trying to get away while I was eating it.
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