Trader Joe’s opens at 8AM. We arrive at 8:15. The parking lot is already completely full, so we park next door at the bank. It’s a freaking zoo inside, people snatching shit up like it’s the end of the world as we know it …. several items already completely sold out. They have 10 cashiers, there is a line 10-20 deep behind each and every one …. take us 40 minutes just to get through the line.
We go next door to Stop&Shop to get items Trader Joe’s didn’t have. It’s even worse. Must have been 300-400 people there. Fuckit, we leave. Can’t wait until TSHTF for real … that should be fun.
They said accumulation should start around 5PM today. It’s already snowing … sideways. It’s gonna be fun shoveling here and at my parents house the next two days.
Hopefully, Ms Freud remembers to close the car door this time.
We’re supposed to be in NYC on Friday for mom’s scheduled hip surgery. Hopefully, it’s all cleared up by then.
Ms. Freud warned me not to post the above picture, and called me Mr. Snowstorm. Wonder what she means by that?
Why in the world would anyone panic just because their out of bread and milk? A person can do quite nicely without bread and milk. I don’t believe I’ve bought either in over a year and I’m still alive.
Anyone who has to rush to the store when the news tells you you’ll be stuck in your house for three days is a pathetic excuse of a prepper.
They’re not their- yea I know the difference
Winter of 1996, northern Virginia. Dumped 3′ of snow in about 5 minutes. Heh.
Got a call from a lawyer in the neighborhood 2 days later threatening to sue ME because a snowplow had shoved 6′ feet of snow behind his car after he had spent 2 days digging out. I was president of the neighborhood association, He was some kind of pissed,
Never did get sued. The lawyer was an asshole.
Reminds me of Miami before a hurricane.
I always wondered why my two uncles living in upstate New York would put so much time into cutting, splitting, and stacking their own firewood. It wasn’t like they didn’t have gas fired heat. But if the electricity goes out for a week, the fan on the gas furnace stops running.
SSS said “The lawyer was an asshole”.
That statement carries a redundancy.
Fat boy Christie closed all the roads in NJ as of 11:00 pm last night and half the state got less than 3 inches of snow. What a maroon.
Maybe is butt buddy will come to view the damage.
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Just got off the phone with the police station in my parent’s town. Phone call went pretty much like this, verbatim.
“Hi. My parents live in SP and they’re in their 80’s. I would like to shovel out their driveway. Is there still a travel ban?”
“Yes”
“So, if I go over there to help them, I risk getting a ticket?”
“Yes”
“Seriously??”
“Yes”
“OK. How much snow did you guys get?”
“About 6 inches”
“Oh. Are the roads plowed yet?”
“The main roads are clear. We’re getting to the side streets.”
“Thanks. Any idea when the ban will be lifted?”
“No.”
“OK Thanks”
Click.
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WHAT A BUNCH OF FUCKEN PUSSIES!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s 7:50AM. I’m going out to shovel the MASSIVE (sarc) snow in our driveway.
BRB
Don’t have a Myocardial Infarction!
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Unbelievable, no one would help this young lady shovel her snow!!
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I’m back.
That’s right, 30 minutes. 2 car driveway, about 40 feet long, and about 50′ x 4′ of walkways (to front and side doors).
This old human snowplow clears it in 30 fucking minutes …. there’s your snowstorm of the century.
How deep was the snow Stucky? That’s what we wanna know. And please don’t use the same ruler you use to measure your dick, we want an accurate measurement!
They should rename this to DUSTING OF THE CENTURY.
I swear to God there is less than 1 inch of snow in the city of Phila and all public agencies are closed. All schools are closed. It is still illegal to drive anywhere in NJ and they have nothing but wet roads. People are not allowed to drive to work.
I drove to work in record time – 45 minutes. The Schuylkill was like a wet country road with absolutely no traffic.
These worthless government drone politicians all wanted to appear like they were in charge and saving lives. What a bunch of bullshit. They have cost their cities and states millions in lost business and taxes.
One good thing – with no government drones on the job today, they can’t fuck up our lives any more than they already have.
The moron mayor of NYC is the gift that keeps giving. His fear mongering about 3 feet of snow was just slightly off. 3 inches is more like it. This picture isn’t for the faint of heart. Look away if you must.
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There’s a small area beyond the side door where I did not shovel this morning. Just for you … I went and measured ….. just under 5 inches (or 20 inches in Stuckdik terms).
Still can’t drive here. Not one single car has passed our window. I know I’m beating a dead horse here …. but this is just unFUCKINGbelievable … to shut down an entire state over basically nothing. If I was a conspiracy nut I would say something else is going on.
Stucky: “If I was a conspiracy nut I would say something else is going on.”
Gov control…it’s all about control of the people’s emotions, especially fear.
That IS conspiracy, and it’s endless.
Meteorologists never fail to fail.
lmao
That photo should be on all the big covers this morning.
@Stuck: This is a great thread, particularly from the sunny high 60s in Texas today, lol.
This is hilarious, watching the MSM veer from mindless hysteria to inappropriate euphoria for dodging this weather bullet.
And, of course, watching the climate change moonbats be proved wrong again is always satisfying.
All this economic activity that has come to a standstill, the cancelled flights/closed businesses/etc, is really going to make a dent in GDP – if GDP had any connection to economic reality, I guess.
Or, to look at this another way, this is a stunning example of how the entire population of NYC was locked down for this event.
Perhaps THAT was the entire point of it.
“Or, to look at this another way, this is a stunning example of how the entire population of NYC was locked down for this event.”
Scary.
Stucky
Damn old man that’s pretty impressive. Five inches of snow over that square footage in 30 min, not bad, not bad at all. You must be in great shape!
I don’t do that one shovel-full at a time crap.
I do it like a snowplow …. start at the garage end, and push that snow as far as I can without stopping …. today I made it to about 10 feet from the end …. get rid of that pile, and continue. Goes really really fast that way … but you do need some strength and weight to do it that way …. the weight I have.
A media mountain out of a mole hill.
The media and weather channel are so desperate to have a massive storm this winter to replace their frustration of not having any massive hurricanes for the past few years. They spent the day blaming this storm on climate change but can’t explain the lack of hurricanes.
Well Stucky it sounds like you’ve got a handle on the snow removal for now. But If you stay in that cold ass country long enough you’ll have to throw the shovel away and upgrade to a V-plow.
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How come we can’t figure out a way to harvest and store water from snow? Seriously.
—- On average, 13 inches of snow = 1 inch of water
—- One acre = 27,000 gallons of water
—- 1 square mile = 640 acres
—- 1 square mile = 17,300,000 gallons of water
—- Brooklyn alone = 70 square miles of land
—- 13 inches of snow in Brooklyn = 1,200,000,000 gallons of water
Think of all the golf courses that could water in Arizona.
How creative is that snow art? Awesome, absolutely awesome!! Thanks T4C
Forced to watch CNN at the gym last night, I could see their disaster narrative was rapidly collapsing. The BlizzardMobile (I shit you not) was out and about in NYC desperately trying to find some doom, anywhere. Behind an occasional flurry or two the flunky soon to be replaced by a robot was feigning despair: “The snow is coming down! The streets are covered!” Then in the background some old guy slowly walks his toy poodle down the sidewalk. It was like a stock scene from The Simpsons or Family Guy.
I guess CNN has been exposed as the joke it is to its remaining 1,000 viewers. TBP called bullshit on the BlizzTards and the SnowFail of the Century over 24 hours ago. TBP is much more accurate than any national weather fauxcast.
There is something about nasty storms and their ability to draw idiots outside to drive in conditions they shouldn’t be driving in. And all those unprepared people who rush to the store for stuff they should already have in the house.
I am used to the weather people getting over excited and then being wrong.
I was a freshman at the University of Colorado in 1979. We got 36″ of snow in about 24 hours. My roommate and I proceeded to get in my jeep wangoneer and drive from Boulder to Durango over three major mountain passes to get to my aunts house for Thanksgiving. We made it over Red Mountain pass before we finally did a few 360’s and ended up in the snow bank at around 1:00 AM. A dude in a Chevy Blazer came by and pulled us out and we made the final 10 miles to my aunts house. If an 18 year old California boy can drive 10 F-ing hours in the snow what the F is going ON. And if you want to see snow spend one winter in Mammoth Lakes (a wet one). You have never seen it snow like that!!
Well, I learned something from this thread…..Snow and women in bikinis is a great combo.
We’ve had over 30 inches of snow in the last 24 hours in the little town where I live in central Massachusetts. So, it hasn’t fizzled out to nothing everywhere.
yahsure. My absolute favorite phenomenon of piss poor winter driving are the dipshits in 4 wheel drive vehicles who somehow think that they have special braking abilities too. Warms my heart to see ’em calling for a tow on their “smart” phones as they’re climbing out of a ditch.
Just got in from clearing the snow ( 2.5 feet) from my driveway and my neighbor as well as clearing several ends of driveways and front walkways. At 52, 53 next month 8.5 hours behind a snow blower is not as easy as it was at 16. I spent 24 hours in the Blizzard of 1978 in a plow ( yes illegally) plowing for my brother in his 1967 international dump truck, there was no one out there to ask for my license and I was psyched to make $12 an hour. 2.5 feet of snow is no big deal in NE, I know that the people who are glued to the TV believe otherwise but I could have driven to work in the storm this morning if I had to.
I will say the Blizzard of 1978 was historic, just ask anyone who lived in Hull or Scituate, but they did not cry as much as the people from Hurricane Sandy who built home on sand bars and thought the ocean would never do what it always does, take what it wants.
I once stayed in a house in Nantucket that had a map that showed a road that was no longer there. There was a house on the beach largely abandoned because of erosion, and some really rich person had moved this beautiful Victorian home up the street beyond the cliff. Such is the way of nature, it gives and it takes away.
I was thinking as I cleared all this snow, how much I appreciate the internal combustion engine. I cleared more snow in 8.5 hours with an 8 horse power snow blower and 4 gallons of gas the 10 strong men could clear in the same amount of time and I am old. I am always amazed how foolish people are, They will get in their cars and drive to work as is nothing happened not realizing that if all this stuff did not work they would be screwed.
Today I am thankful for what I have, tomorrow I will be sore and bitching about the snow. BTW my very liberal neighbor who I helped with his driveway dropped me off a six pack of home made beer. I will partake and sleep well. Thank you to all and I hop you had a good snow day.
Bob.
Dan;
You should see some of the bikini skiing contests usually held in late winter/ early spring.
A downhill mogul race in bikini’s can be quite a sight.
Bostonbob sounds like a helluva good neighbor!!!!
Speaking of hot chicks in the snow, check out this “Watter’s World” segment from O’Reilly last night on Fox. Some hot babes!
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/index.html#/v/4013916317001
I’m Bostonbob’s age within a week or so. Lived most of my life here in MN. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen 30″ of snow in one storm, including the ’91 Halloween Storm (although that would have come damned close). A couple years ago we got ~90″ in one season, and that was a big deal (we average ~45″). This year we’ve only had 18″ or so, and there’s about an inch on the ground. I can’t even comprehend Ithaca NY or Buffalo where they got EIGHT FEET in 3 days a couple months ago. If it weren’t for the snow guns I wouldn’t have been able to drunk ski the impressive 300′ vertical drop at our local hills a few days ago, looking like Floyd R. Turbo.
Stucky,
Any neighbor that gives you beer is a good neighbor. On the other hand any neighbor that clears your driveway of 2.5 plus feet of snow and asks for nothing in return I hope is looked upon as a good neighbor.
Bob.