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?
i live about 30 miles north of boston on the NH line. We are suppose to get 2 feet. Went to the store this morning ( i go almost every day) it was busy but not completely out of control. I am lucky i can stay at work and sleep over tonight. They can clear 2 feet here in a matter of a few hours if they decide too.
Stucky on his way to Trader Joe’s this morning –
Brutal down here, too. Low of 68 (wind chill 65). Gets any worse I might have to break out long sleeves.
I’ll go on the record and say this snowstorm fear is bullshit. The accumulation totals aren’t all that impressive… a small swath of lower New England to see 2-3 feet with everyone else getting half a foot to a foot or so. So the Northeast will shut down for two days or so, big deal. The Northern cities produce nothing of value, in fact, what they produce is Grade A Bullshit in all it’s various forms, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, consulting firms, corporate HQs…
So why are they hyping this thing worse than any alternative site hypes economic collapse. I believe it has to do with the control agenda. It was not too long ago Facebook admitted they could control your emotions through selective feed commentary. This is the same thing, convince tons of people an epic snowstorm is going to cripple the Northeast, have them panic and then you are free to nudge them in any direction you like. You get to play with all your new martial law toys and like a master training a dog train the populace into willingly tuning into the Commisar’s latest orders. Weather has just become another tentacle of control. There’s a reason GE/NBC bought The Weather Channel 10 years ago, and it wasn’t because they were concerned you might need an umbrella.
Minneapolis, Friday, Halloween of 1991. I finish meeting with a client, it’s about 3:00 pm. Somewhere around 55 degrees. I hear from the radio, we’re supposed to get a snow storm that evening. My wife and daughter are visiting back in Pennsylvania. I decided to do some quick grocery shopping, picked up some steaks, chicken, and then hit the liquor store.
I go to bed around 10:00 pm. About 2:00 AM I am woken by a dripping sound. It’s from the kitchen. We have a commercial range and hood. After 10 minutes I figure out that snow has packed around the exhauster – nothing like this has happened before. Turned on the exhauster and it made a thunderous noise – blowing off the snow. Went back to bed.
Next morning, I realize we have had 30″ of snow. Can’t get out the back door. What happened is that we got about a foot of heavy wet snow. On top of that we got another 18″ of colder, drier snow.
I had a 24″ walk behind Wards snowblower – but the combination of the heavy wet snow and the now colder temps the snow froze in the snowblower and auger. Took me three days to clean off the sidewalks and my short driveway.
The storm completely shut down Minneapolis. Some places the streets dept had snow piled 3 stores high. The real bitch was the heavy snow – it froze to the streets, making them like a wash board. You couldn’t travel over 20 mph. It fucked everything up for the entire winter.
Nail to head Dutchman. In Minnesota when it snows +24″ it usually sticks around….until March or LATER! Boston, NYC, etc. will see this shit melt off in a week or two. Big flipping deal.
That Halloween storm was so killer because it was early in the season. Many municipalities didn’t have their trucks ready with the plowing equipment. Most streets were only getting plowed with graders…and that was a day or two after the snow stopped.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Halloween_blizzard
As I sit here in sunny south Florida I remember our blizzard of 1977.
It was cold, real cold. Like near freezing…. I was a junior in high school…
They didn’t close the schools but they did suspend class for about 20 minutes so we could watch…
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/storm-center-blog/sfl-remember-snow-in-south-florida-20120118-story.html#page=1
Tumbleweed, you left out the “global warming” or “climate change” agenda, that has to convince people that the weather is getting more extreme, with more dangerous storms than ever before. Thus the “historic” adjective attached to the news today.
I always chuckle when I hear of people going to the store to pick up stuff just before a storm hits. Having a well-stocked larder that can last for several months has its benefits. No way I would be caught in a grocery store on the day before a storm.
Gonna move this comment over here.
I can’t wait for Admin to post his “Oh Fuck Me” I can’t get to work snow posts.
I’am off tomorrow, it’s gonna be 67 degrees and sunshine. Think I”ll throw on a tee shirt and blue jeans and ride my horse’s.
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You fuckers who live in a warm climate … and rub it in our freezing faces …. are really starting to ANNOY THE SHIT outta me.
The snowman dropped his pants when he heard a snow blower was coming!
When I was a kid we would ‘relocate’ the carrots and coal. Made a fine dick and nuts.
Photos of stores throughout the area:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/01/blizzard_2015_photos_nyc_grocery_stores_northeast_snow_storm.html
The comments are priceless.
For got to say that after the 1991 Minnesota blizzard – it snowed something like 10″ at Thanksgiving. Everything was totally fucked up until Spring.
OK Stucky, in the spirit of solidarity we will all wear a Parka tomorrow!!
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Well I am down in Laredo ,TX today and it’s 80 degrees.I am wearing short pants and shirt. The northeastern states are good at keeping the roads open.May close roads during the storm but they willhave the major roads open tomorrow. Hang in there Stucky!!!!!
When I saw this article, first thing I did was look for Dutchman’s comments. The Minnesota 1991 Halloween storm was one for the annals of history. Or the anals, for our rainbow community. I was delivering pizza that night, making full use of my political science degree. My memory was that it started off even warmer than 55F, but I could be wrong. I remember kids trick or treating and my envying people who had normal jobs and were done working by 6 PM. By 8 PM or so, snow was coming down and by 9 pm it was seriously accumulating as we wondered WTF. Its only Halloween, right? As Dutch said, the city streets were fucked up all winter. Usually the ground gets cold over November so that when your first snow hits around Dec 1, it’s easily dispensed with. A big snowfall on top of warm ground is where you get trouble. In ’91-’92, it was like driving over 4X4’s until April.
Of course, nothing compares with the Armistice Day Storm of 1940, but that was before my time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day_Blizzard#Casualties
I think it was the late 70’s? Yeah… winter of 78 or 79… that was a badassed winter.
Kentucky gets bitch-slapped with bad winters about every 10 years or so…
The reason why that winter stands out in my mind is because the snow started falling and didn’t stop… just did not stop for a couple days…
When we finally poked our heads out, Daddy had to shovel his way through the snow drift that blocked the front door – to the height of about 6 feet… once we got outside, we noticed that the roof had a swale in the the center and was very, very close to collapsing.
We scrambled to save the roof. Didn’t need a ladder, just clambered up the snow drift right onto the roof with snow shovels. Started shoveling snow off the roof. Took us the rest of the day, but we did it. Maybe a day or so later, Daddy had a crew up in the attic putting things right and reinforcing the roof.
The snow from that winter didn’t fully disappear until well into Spring… like, May? Repeatedly shoveling the driveway resulted in a snow pile about 8 feet high. We tunneled into it and made a huge snow cave. It was the one time I can remember my school being cancelled because of snow…
Stucky, just CHILL, honey- pun intended. Don’t be jealous, now.
After all, we can turn snow into drinking water, something increasingly lacking in many warm places here.
But I don’t want to hear any belly-aching about the western drought. You want water? Come get our snow.
Chicago
We have plenty of water in Arkansas. Pull up a map and look at our lakes, and they are brim full!
let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…
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Well the drought continues in N. Calif, but we have had normal rainfall of 12 inches so far this season, but only ,11 inches in Jan. So next Monday I will irrigate the almonds. Son cut the grass yesterday.
Living in a Med. type climate has its advanages, abundant water in not one of them.
I sorta-kinda see the reason people panic to get consumables like milk and bread. Most people are dumb and don’t think too far ahead, if they think at all.
What gets me is the rush to buy snow shovels. If you lived in the NE for a full year, who doesn’t have a friggen snow shovel? And yet every year the big box stores can’t stock them fast enough.
I went to Lowe’s on Sunday to get a faucet repair kit. While I was there, I decided to do a little recon. They were completely sold out of snow throwers and generators. The aisles were crammed with huge cardboard boxes packed with snow shovels, and they were going fast.
No icemelt, no snow brooms, no roof rakes…everything sold out in the last two days, from what a cashier told me.
If sights and stories like this don’t make you think about what these people would do in a real emergency, then I don’t know what will.
But really…..you don’t have a fk’n snow shovel? At the end of January? Jezuz.
Sensetti, Arkansas is not “the west”, it is south central, being right below Missouri. It’s a Mississippi Valley state, a very favorable location. Water should be no problem there. You have moderately cold, wet winters, and torrid, humid summers.
The “West” is anyplace west of the 100th meridian, and life is a lot different out there, except in the amply-watered Pacific Northwest, which is the only place out there that I would consider living.
Sixty degrees today in the great PNW, birds are chirping and the frogs are croaking, there is no snow in the mountains and it feels like June. Shit is fucked up and bullshit here. It should be cold and rainy and we should be making plans to go to Phoenix and watch the super bowl and enjoy the heat whist there. It is hard to leave when it is this nice.
Peaceout
Last evening Ms Freud and I watched a movie (Netflix) “Redwood Highway” …. a very nice little story that one is never too old to take life by the balls …… but, the SCENERY … it was filmed in Oregon and the many panoramic views were STUNNING ….. you lucky sumvabitch!!!!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/redwood_highway/?search=redwood
Here in central Massachusetts, the supermarkets were a little busier than normal this afternoon but nothing crazy.
Lysander- I would guess that one reason people have to buy a new snow shovel is that the one they bought last year was a cheap plastic one that cracked or they wore out.
Aquapura–Sometimes snow goes away in a week or two. Other times it lasts all winter long. The winter of 2010-2011 alternated between extra cold and snow storms. There were streets in the nearby city of Worcester that normally have two wide lanes of traffic with parallel parking on one side and they were down to one travel lane that was just wide enough for one car to pass without sideswiping the parked cars.
Just when you thought CuNNt dumbfuks couldn’t get any dumber …
…. this asshole talking head says “we don’t know where the word ‘blizzard’ comes from, I just looked it up and can’t find it” …… and then moments later says a blizzard is “a hurricane of snow”.
It’s not a youtube vid so I can’t post it ….. here’s the clip —– http://newsfeed.gawker.com/cnn-what-is-a-blizzard-1681841203
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from a couple years ago ….. a prankster gets through CuNNt and calls Ali Veshi a dumbass ….
just before the 50 sec mark
Blizzard of 1978 was worst I’ve seen in my 74 years. In eastern MA at the time. Only necessary personnel were allowed on the streets for 3-5 days. Took over a week to clear the vehicles from Route 128.
Right now it’s 70 on my back patio here in the valley, but there is a potential for a massive 0 .1 inches of rain overnight. Better head to the store and stock up.
I’ve always tried to be more or less “prepared” for the unexpected. In 1989 my wife and I went through hurricane Hugo and we never made any last minute dashes to any store to buy supplies. The one thing we were not prepared for was the need to cook and consume as much as possible from our fridge/freezer before it went bad. Power was out for two weeks. It took that long to clear the roads and highways so that cars could get through. The only thing I recall running short on was gasoline to power chainsaws but since we couldn’t drive vehicles we just siphoned gas tanks. Apart from that we had plenty of food and water.
We’ve never been caught short by a winter storm including a two week stretch with no power in the middle of winter due to an ice storm. No frozen pipes or anything. Regardless of what type of calamity we’ve faced, despite the extra physical work involved, we always seem to be calm and relaxed and I marvel at those losing their minds around us.
You pussies. The New England blizzard of Feb. 6-8 1978 will take some beating. Providence got 40 inches in 24 hours. This current forecasted blizzard will have to get a move on to catch up with that.
Dartmouth got dumped on something fierce, and almost all (note I said almost all) classes were canceled. Some unlucky fucks actually had to take exams. That was reputed to be the first time in 200+ years that classes were canceled at Dartmouth because of snow.
For 200 years Dartmouth allowed no pussies (nor females, either). Interesting that only after women began to show up (around early 1970’s) were any classes ever canceled. Coincidence? I think not.
You dumbfucks that choose to live up there get what you get. Tough titty. No one is making you live there. Stop your whining and get to shovelling.
Llpoh
Indians do it better in the snow. IMO
Stucky – You and Mrs. Freud need to put that trip to the west coast on your bucket list. Fly to San Francisco rent a fun car to drive and take a road trip north up highway one from San Francisco all the way to where highway 1 ties into highway 101 at Leggett. CA and then follow 101 all the way up the coast to Cannon Beach, Oregon then head inland to Portland, drop the car at the airport and fly home from there. Take your time and take it all in, the rugged coastline and miles of sandy beaches, the redwoods and coastal range, the seafood and free spirits, the lighthouses and wonders of nature you won’t see any place else. Find a place you like and stay awhile and bring plenty of SD cards for your camera you will need them. Fall, winter, spring or summer doesn’t matter, the ocean in a storm is sometimes cooler than when the weather is nice. Get out of the car and hike down a bluff to the beach or wander trails amongst the giant redwoods. If you take that trip you will not regret it and you will be talking about it for the rest of your life.
Tumbleweed wonders why all the hype. It’s the nanny state at work! They want everyone to be afraid of everything so they can control you. I grew up in MA and when it snowed it was time to make money. As a kid I shovelled many of the neighbors’ driveways for a few bucks.
Today many parents would be afraid to let their kids get out in the snow. We’re becoming a nation of pussies!
Funny, the “storm of the century in New York is pretty much just another day in January in Idaho.
Peaceout – that is a nice trip, for sure.
As for me, I prefer the old Route 6 route. Start Around Oklahoma City and make your way west to Flagstaff, see the Grand Canyon there, veer over to Las Vegas for the lights and a buffet, and fly home.
Some of the world’s best landscape on that trip. Can catch the Painted Desert, Salt River Canyon, numerous Indian rezs, Santa Fe, etc.
My favorite landscape on earth is the high desert as seen along Route 66, followed by the type of scenery Peaceout mentions above. Mountains and sea vistas are certainly majestic, but there is something about high desert that grabs my soul.
I grew up next to a road where there was a gentle bend, but the road was not sloped correctly. Whenever there was ice, which was often through the winter, cars would one after another gently spin out off the road and end up in a snow bank as a result of the incorrect slope. Sometimes there would be a half dozen of them in the bank, waiting to be towed out. Interestingly, I never knew of any two cars colliding – they just gently spun out and ended up side by side. The tow truck drivers did very well out of that curve.
I made a nice few bucks selling the drivers/passengers hot coffee and hot chocolate while they waited to be towed. I have always been a capitalist! 🙂
Saw a “live cam” of 5th Avenue… reminds me a bit of a huge snowstorm we got when I lived in NYC. Had to be between 93-97, but I can’t remember which year. I worked in 2WTC and had to be at work that day… subways were running, so no big deal. But when I got up to the 63rd floor and looked north, all you could see were white, empty streets. No traffic.
One of my best days in NYC and a sight to behold.
Preppers should be in good shape.
Let it snow!
Llpoh,
Dutchman didn’t like the weather in PA, so he moved here… to Minnesota. It’s relatively tropical now. We have about an inch of snow cover (or less) and the rinks are all ponds.
LOL, Iska.
Had to look up the big snowstorm I mentioned earlier… it was dubbed “the storm of the century” at the time.
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The philly weather bimbos are so disappointed.
The storm of the century is going to dump a whole 3 inches on the city. The idiot mayor just announced all public agencies would be closed for 3 fucking inches of snow.
I’ll call my boss and give him this message.
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The horror
UPenn is pussified.
We got 2 fast inches around 9AM this Monday morning. Nothing since. Nada. It’s almost 11PM and not a single snowflake falling from the skies.
It must be really embarrassing to be a weatherman. Motherfuckers can’t even do an accurate 24 hour forecast, but, yeah … they’re so goddamned sure global warming is coming. What a shit “profession”.
Stucky, the world is coming to an end. Tune in CNN.
NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m goin’ to bed. #fuckthisshit
Stucky says: You fuckers who live in a warm climate … and rub it in our freezing faces …. are really starting to ANNOY THE SHIT outta me.
My sympathy, Stuck. I’m sure you will feel bad when we get the inevitable wildfires, mudslides, quakes and freeway shootings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=hC-T0rC6m7I&x-yt-cl=84503534
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