Northeast Braces For Historic Blizzard
Widespread power outages and travel disruptions are expected from a massive nor’easter that is projected to bring up to two feet of snow in Boston and nearly a foot of snow in New York City starting tomorrow. What do you think?
“As a 12-year-old, should I have lived through this many storms of the century by now?”
Hal Von Beltz –
Unemployed
“Oh, no! I hope Aerosmith will be okay.”
Raymond De Luna –
Orchard Owner
“No lobster roll for me tomorrow, I guess.”
Valerie Palmisano –
Book Critic
Eddie says:
Don’t worry about prepping. The government will take care of you.
Must not be anything to that golbal warming thing, since it’s a snowstorm, right?
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8th February 2013 at 10:00 am
Administrator says:
The MSM idiots now name blizzards. This one is called NEMO. We are a dumbfuck nation of nitwits and dullards.
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8th February 2013 at 10:05 am
Zarathustra says:
I looked it up at weather.com. You are projected to get a pathetic 3-6″ in Philly.
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8th February 2013 at 10:12 am
Eddie says:
Kitties are so cute. Wait until they all go feral.
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8th February 2013 at 10:13 am
Hollow man says:
Sandy hook,s uperstorm sandy, now this. Wow, kinda crazy what next an earth quake?
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8th February 2013 at 10:13 am
Administrator says:
I’m 30 miles north of Philly. I’m getting 5 to 9 inches. It should hit around rush hour. With 2 inches of snow two weeks ago it took me 2 hours and 10 minutes to get home. I should be able to work up a good rage by the time I get home tonight.
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8th February 2013 at 10:18 am
AKAnon says:
Northeast TBPers-Good luck. Maybe you’ll get a snow day.
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8th February 2013 at 10:23 am
sangell says:
I was watching the WeatherChannel last to hoping to here that the snow would be hundreds of inches deep and that millions would perish but they were able to report that some Northeastern supermarkets had to hire ‘bouncers’ to control the crazed shoppers who believe two feet of snow will end civilization as we know it.
While I realize some people live paycheck to paycheck it is hard for me to imagine someone whose home is so threadbare of food and supplies as to not be able to endure for 2 or 3 days without resupply. This isn’t a hurricane which forces people out of their homes. This is a snowstorm that forces people to stay in their homes. Kids used to celebrate heavy snowfalls. It meant no school, bringout the sleds and having snowball fights. Moms made beef stew or something warm to eat and the Dads got to show their manliness by actually building a fire in the fireplace.
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8th February 2013 at 10:36 am
Eddie says:
Damn it Jim. Just leave early like everyone else.
I remember the last big snowstorm we had…1982.
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8th February 2013 at 10:43 am
Kill Bill says:
We are a dumbfuck nation of nitwits and dullards. -admin
Nice to meet you to. =)
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8th February 2013 at 11:04 am
Gubmint cheese says:
Snow in PA causes people to lose their minds, drive like shit and the children to go uneducated.
Get your bread, milk and toilet paper now before its too late!!!
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8th February 2013 at 11:06 am
Bostonbob says:
Admin,
I am in the 30+” zone out nere where 495 crosses 95. This should be fun. Today is a “work from home day” so I will keep you posted, the snow started about an hour ago. I went to the local Shaw’s Supermarket this morning to get a few ingedients for cooking this weekend. I am always have a well stocked fridge, freezer and pantry, so it was only a small trip. The shelves were stripped of bread, water, milk and snack food. I could only laugh as I left cars were pouring in. Last night on the way home driving past the Burlington Market Basket it was absolutely grid locked. Getting diesel for the Jetta at Rojo Gas on RT 1 was a mad house, fortunately the diesel is a seperate pump, I was out of that zoo quickly. This will not end well for some.
Thank you,
Bob.
P.S The last significant snow storm that I had to commute home in it was a six hour drive to go 32 miles.
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8th February 2013 at 11:12 am
Kill Bill says:
“Why would someone do this?” asked the 53-year-old Dorothy Koch Bush referring to her hacked emails.
Is the sky in your world purple?
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8th February 2013 at 11:13 am
Kill Bill says:
Snow in PA causes people to lose their minds, drive like shit and the children to go uneducated. -gc
Bah, correlation is not causation though I can understand your error.
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8th February 2013 at 11:15 am
AWD says:
Admin and Bob after the blizzard
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8th February 2013 at 11:22 am
sangell says:
Looking across the Hudson River at the Manhattan Skyline Saturday , February 9, 2013
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8th February 2013 at 11:26 am
Stucky says:
Sandy already brought down all the crap tree limbs … destroying our fence and part of the deck.
We have a working generator.
I have 15 gallons of fuel.
The fridge is full.
I have TBP.
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Bring it on Bitchezz !!!!
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8th February 2013 at 11:36 am
AWD says:
Snow Haters….
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8th February 2013 at 11:46 am
sensetti says:
This storm is fully erect and going to drop its load somewhere between New York and Boston
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8th February 2013 at 12:17 pm
Welshman says:
Take care NE’ers. Got a warm and fuzzy letter from Laura Bush for a donation for George’s Library. I was so moved that I sent some funds to Ron Paul causes.
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8th February 2013 at 12:25 pm
Outtahere says:
My heart goes out to all of those unfortunate people who have already been slammed by Sandy. This is really going to make things exponentially worse for them. I guess by now they’ve figured out that no one is coming to their rescue either, other than the charity of the American people who are still willing to help in times like these.
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8th February 2013 at 12:33 pm
AWD says:
Stare at this picture until you feel warm
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8th February 2013 at 12:36 pm
Stucky says:
If you are a male, do NOT stare at AWD’s picture!!! Doing so will make you Choke The Chicken, which will make you take a nap afterwards, which will keep you from prepping, which will lead to starvation and possible death.
Instead, stare at this picture.
Now get off your ass and prepare!!
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Hot debate. What do you think?
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8th February 2013 at 1:13 pm
Maddie's Mom says:
@sangell,
I heard a weather guy on cbs last evening telling people to get ready to “shelter in place”.
After I picked myself up from the floor, I wondered how many people even knew what he meant.
Good luck to all affected.
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8th February 2013 at 1:39 pm
Maddie's Mom says:
” I should be able to work up a good rage by the time I get home tonight.”
I’ll be here…and on the edge of my seat!
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8th February 2013 at 1:42 pm
Bostonbob says:
Only a couple if inches here near Boston, but they declared all vehicles off the road by 4:00 pm or you could be arrested. Pretty steady snow, I’m thinking I should have gotten more beer.
Thank you,
Bob.
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8th February 2013 at 2:04 pm
Bostonbob says:
AWD,
Thanks for the picture.
Bob.
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8th February 2013 at 2:05 pm
AWD says:
Quit thanking me all the time. Return the favor sometime…
Thinking about being at the beach can make you warm…
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8th February 2013 at 2:25 pm
Administrator says:
SSS said NO CAMEL TOE!!!!
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8th February 2013 at 2:27 pm
AWD says:
Stuck,
You gotta get a girl to choke the chicken for you…
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8th February 2013 at 2:28 pm
Bostonbob says:
AWD,
I will need a refresher on how to post pictures.
Bob.
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8th February 2013 at 2:34 pm
sensetti says:
Hey Doc here ya go.
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8th February 2013 at 2:57 pm
AWD says:
Step one: google a word or phrase (choke the chicken)
Step two: click on images to get the pictures
Step three: find one and click on it
Step four: Right click on the picture, go down to “copy image location” and hit it.
Step five: when you’re done with a comment, notice the “you can add images to your comment by clicking here, well, click on the blue part.
Step 6: when the box opens, click paste, then hit “submit comment”. The picture should come up, but not always. If at first you don’t succeed, just give up.
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8th February 2013 at 3:00 pm
AWD says:
Oh, and the unofficial TBP rules clearly state:
No exposed nipples (wet t-shirt is fine), no exposed crotches (camel toes ARE FINE), and for God sake, and the love of all that is good and pure, NO balls, cocks, or any combo male genitalia.
But AWD in his undies is fine
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8th February 2013 at 3:05 pm
Bostonbob says:
AWD all I get is undefined in the box.
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8th February 2013 at 3:15 pm
sensetti says:
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8th February 2013 at 3:19 pm
Stucky says:
AWD’s method doesn’t work for me at all. I do NOT get “copy image location” when I right click on the picture. Maybe it’s my version of IE.
Anyway, here is a detailed step-by-step process. This only SEEMS like a pain in the ass. Go through the steps once or twice and you’ll see how easy it really is. Once I find a picture it takes me about 5 seconds.
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1)- Go to google.com, and click on the “images” tab
2)- Do a search. In this example I searched for “camel toe”
3)- Select a picture. I selected the 3rd one on the top row,
4)- Place your mouse over the picture.
5)- Intentionally left blank.
6)- You will see the picture size. In this case 1038 x 904. This is IMPORTANT; the first number is the WIDTH of the picture. 1038 is much too large. The maximum size should be 500. (The second number, 904, is the length, and you can ignore it.)
7)- Click on the picture.
8)- You will see the picture on the left, and a Picture Information on the right.
8a)- IF the picture is greater than 500 wide – and it is in this example — then click on the light grey words “more sizes”. You will be shown all the available sizes. Click on any picture where the first number is 500 or less.
9) Right click on the picture and select “properties”. It’s the bottom most selection.
10) The properties screen pops up.
11) You will see a label “Address (URL)”. Highlight it. Then hold down the ctrl and then the c key at the same time. That’s a shortcut for copy.
12) Go back to TBP.
13) Under the Submit Comment label you’ll see “You can add images to your comment by clicking here.” Click on the blue underlined “click here”.
14) A box pops up. The word “undefined” is highlighted in blue. Get rid of it. Just hit the ‘del’ key or backspace key. Then hold down the ctrl then the v key at the same time. This is a shortcut for paste. It will paste the url you copied in step 11.
15) Click on the OK button. You’re done. Here’s your picture.
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8th February 2013 at 3:34 pm
Eddie says:
Anybody got a tutorial for Mac?
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8th February 2013 at 3:40 pm
Eddie says:
Are you guys sure that camel toe is okay? I keep thinking about that poor eight year old girl with the porn addiction.
What kind of porn does an eight year old girl go for, anyway? I’m guessing there is more to this story than a failure to impose parental internet controls.
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8th February 2013 at 3:45 pm
Stucky says:
“Massachusetts, governor Deval Patrick ordered all vehicles off the roads by 4 p.m., under penalty of a $500 fine and up to ONE YEAR IN PRISON.”
Jeebus Fucking Christ. Putting people in prison for driving in the snow. Utterly and completely destroying a person’s life. Jesus Fucking Christ. Fucking shithole Prison State. Welcome to the land of the free. You illegals are fucking nuts to want to be part of this pile of shit.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2013/0208/Blizzard-2013-Live-blog-Looks-like-it-ll-be-bigger-than-we-thought-video
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8th February 2013 at 4:00 pm
AWD says:
If you haven’t already, quit using internet explorer for chissakes. They teach kindergarteners how to hack IE. It’s the most dangerous browser imaginable.
Use firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
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8th February 2013 at 4:12 pm
Stucky says:
Cool picture I found while googling “giant penis”
Lapland, Finland
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8th February 2013 at 4:37 pm
sensetti says:
Cool pic Stucky but what are they frozen termite mounds from before time?
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8th February 2013 at 4:43 pm
AWD says:
Googling “giant penis”?
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8th February 2013 at 4:53 pm
SSS says:
“5)- Intentionally left blank”
—-Stucky in presenting his tutorial on posting pictures
I’m probably the only person on this site who got that, Stucky. I’m still laughing.
P.S. It’s an inside joke between Stucky and me, folks, and goes back a couple of years.
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8th February 2013 at 5:26 pm
Kill Bill says:
Dear Jeebus, Holy Goat and Camel toe.
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Use Firefox Stucco.
Even better use the TOR browser which is Firefox, and allows you nitwits n dullards access to a proxy server.
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8th February 2013 at 5:54 pm
Kill Bill says:
Anybody got a tutorial for Mac?
Im using, at this time, Ubuntu, which is Linux derivative as is Mac
The Mac mouse, is stupid, you can buy a cheap USB mouse with TWO buttons to click.
I suggest that. Then it works like a windows mouse,
So yeh, left click on the image then click copy image location. [which is the URL address of that image which you can then paste into the add images popup. =)
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8th February 2013 at 6:01 pm
Kill Bill says:
Cool picture I found while googling “giant penis” -Stucco
And surprisingly you didnt get an image of Stucky or Smokey
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8th February 2013 at 6:04 pm
Bostonbob says:
Stucky,
Thanks I will try that. Yes, our pissant, lame duck governor known as mini-me, has basically declared marshall law. The same governor who has proposed to increase the income tax on the people who work and lower the taxes on the people who don’t actually pay much in taxes i.e. the sales tax. He is out to rival former Governor Dukakis in the incompetency for a future run for the presidency. This state has no shortage of idiots, fools, and thier spawn. On the good side we are in full Nor’easter mode and we expect to get thunder snow storms, which if you have not seen lightening in a blizzard at night it is a sight to behold. The winds have only gusted to 55 MPH.
Thunder/lightening snowstorm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5eQZMLdzUgU
Have fun all I am going out to run the snowblower. I will work on my picture posting for idiots after a few beers.
Thank you,
Bob.
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8th February 2013 at 7:15 pm
Administrator says:
The perfect storm
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8th February 2013 at 7:18 pm
SSS says:
In the meantime, here in the Southwest, it hit 70 today. It’s a good day to be in southern Arizona.
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8th February 2013 at 7:33 pm
Zarathustra says:
SSS, What the fuck is this shit? Your assignment is to go check it out and report back.
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/alien-eggs.html
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8th February 2013 at 7:43 pm
crazyivan says:
test
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8th February 2013 at 9:04 pm
crazyivan says:
Holy Shit!
I am unstoppable now.
Thanks a million Stucky.
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8th February 2013 at 9:06 pm
SSS says:
crazyivan
Just don’t go batshit posting pictures. It took 2 years for Muck About to figure it out, and his initial totally gross pic posts of human organs, etc. made everyone want to toss their cookies. He took so much heat over it, I don’t think he’s posted a pic since.
Tastefully clad and shapely females are perfectly acceptable. Here are the rules.
1. No nudity!!!!
2. See Rule Number One.
Sensetti and AWD are constantly testing the boundaries to these complex rules. We sincerely hope you will strive to not offend. Thank you.
SSS
Chairman, TBP Rules Committee
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8th February 2013 at 10:03 pm
Bostonbob says:
I’m a scared now crazyivan can post pictures. Next he will be landing a crop duster at the I Hop on Rt 1 in Norwood next to the Norwood airfield. I just got in from about 2 hours of clearing snow, and it is not getting any better. My favorite part is clearing nearly a foot of snow, almost two feet at the end of the driveway and as soon as i was done the plow came by. Sorry I have to leave my 16 year old daughter has challenged me to a snowball fight. I told her she throws like a girl and has no chance. The wind is gust over 50 MPH, this should be fun.
Thank you,
Bob.
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8th February 2013 at 10:07 pm
AKAnon says:
CI-I you “bend” the rules a little, I will not complain. In good taste, of course.
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8th February 2013 at 10:09 pm
SSS says:
Zara
I know about the strange purple, squishy balls found in the desert. But I’m too bummed out right now to check it out. I just lost Fred.
Fred was a hummingbird who frequented my backyard for the past year. I started to gain his confidence by approaching him and getting closer ever so slowly, and in the past month he would fly up to me, right in my face, several times a day and say hello, then buzz over to the hummingbird feeder. I just knew it would be a matter of days or weeks until I could get Fred to either perch on my shoulder or drink some sugar water from the palm of my hand.
Alas, it was not to be. We have a large, 6-foot picture window which into the backyard and desert beyond. Because of the reflection thrown by the window, birds occassionly fly into it. Yesterday, I found Fred dead at the base of the window. He got a quiet burial in our herb garden.
ACTUAL PICTURE OF FRED. RIP, MY LITTLE FEATHERED FRIEND.
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8th February 2013 at 10:36 pm
SSS says:
Fuck. Another nuclear photo. One more try for Fred’s sake.
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8th February 2013 at 10:40 pm
Zarathustra says:
Ahh, so sorry, SSS.. I had the same reaction when a baby robin that I had found as a kid died, I think because I fed it too many worms.
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8th February 2013 at 10:42 pm
crazyivan says:
Oh- I will be good. BWAH!
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8th February 2013 at 10:44 pm
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SSS says:
“Fuck. Another nuclear photo. One more try for Fred’s sake.”
I just use el stucko’s control +- trick to view, no need to do everything for the reader. next they’ll want you to wipe their drool.
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8th February 2013 at 11:31 pm
anonymous says:
posting a huge image like 3,888px × 2,592px has been an internet faux pas for more than a decade
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8th February 2013 at 3:04 am
Zarathustra says:
We tolerate death, create it and celebrate it, sometimes turning our heads away from it because it suits us, or our leaders and makes us (those who have a conscience), uncomfortable or serves their purposes, often cruelly obtained. Then we mourn the loss of life of a harmless innocent. Humans are strange. Is our morality superior now than what it was t 30,000 years? I wonder…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcAwlnhRn2g
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8th February 2013 at 3:37 am
Zarathustra says:
Full video, just found it. It’s much better in 3D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0zS7chqP78
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8th February 2013 at 3:50 am
KaD says:
The nuclear plant in Massacheusettes has shut down due to losing power from the blizzard: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/09/pilgram-nuclear-power-plant_n_2650690.html
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8th February 2013 at 11:10 am