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Monday, January 26. 2015

"Northeast Residents Preparing For ‘Crippling’ Blizzard"

What? It's winter, and it's snowing. Why the hysteria? Of course it's inconvenient but it is lovely and great fun for kids.

Drudge juxtaposes:

'Snowiest decade' on record...

FLASHBACK NYT: 'The end of snow?'

Hey - stock up on terlet paper and canned goods! NYC grocery stores cleaned out. Sheesh. Where do these weenies come from? If you run low on caviar, go to a restaurant.

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Having been hearing the forecasts and the hysteria. Hope all is well at the farm. Looks like a good old-fashioned New England winter.

#1 Frances on 2015-01-26 15:52 (Reply)

Canned toilet paper?

#2 chuck on 2015-01-26 16:23 (Reply)

In the early 60's I was a kid in Portland when the Columbus day storm hit the pacific northwest. It was a grand adventure for our family. My dad and I drove around to see the trees down and other wind damage. The power was out for awhile and my mom cooked on a small wood stove in the basement. Our house escaped any major damage but there were trees and lines down on our street. And shingles and debris everywhere.

I now live in the N California foothills and we get some good snow and power outages from time to time. So I have candles, lanterns, canned goods, instant coffee, bottled water, and a propane camp stove. These have all been put to good use. A few years ago I bought a small Honda generator to keep a few things going during three or four day outages. I still think of it as a grand adventure. I'm a 65 year old kid.

#3 Bodie on 2015-01-26 16:46 (Reply)

Well, if'n it ain't "the worst storm ever", what's the point of telling us and trying to scare the bejezus out of us?

#4 Sam L. on 2015-01-26 16:48 (Reply)

It keeps you watching the TV so they can sell you crap

#4.1 Bird Dog on 2015-01-26 16:51 (Reply)

My wife says Canadians are probably laughing at us.

Considering the number of 'storms of the century' I've seen, I must be pretty old.

#5 jay on 2015-01-26 18:32 (Reply)

Here Frank Sinatra sings Let it Snow, with pictures of snow. Here is a video of Deah Martin singing Let It Snow, with good snow videos.

#6 Gringo on 2015-01-26 20:35 (Reply)

We had an ice storm in NW Fl last winter. Many were appalled and miserable with the weather. We had great fun watching the granddaughter slide down the driveway on a cookie sheet and playing in the sleet and ice. I also got some great, well good, photos with the relatively new DSLR. Weather is what you make of it.

#7 Mark on 2015-01-26 20:50 (Reply)

We had four or five of these storms in Chicago last year, it did get old after a while.

#8 Talnik on 2015-01-26 21:19 (Reply)

Whenever one of these "storm of the century" comes around there is a massive run on bread, milk, and eggs.

Which makes me wonder if most folks here in the Northeast just stay home all day making French toast.

#9 charles on 2015-01-26 23:09 (Reply)

It's not so much fun when the power goes out; and it's worse when the power company doesn't acknowledge you power is out because you're in the "all clear" zone. Hit that last September. At first thought we were part of an area outage, but had feedback from offsprings who assured us that "the power was on". Except it wasn't. Husband finally - at 4 am - got a proper phone number to complain and we took turns calling it every couple of hours until - some 36 hours into blackout - they came by and fixed the transformer that had blown (two blocks only, but seriously not on the power company's radar).

Dumbest question I got (when finally got through to one number) was to the effect of "can't you go somewhere"? Apart from the undesirability of abandoning our house during the blackout, the honest answer was "no: all the family homes are full and it costs to rent a motel". Noticed that next blackout - downtown - our mayor was really quick to offer city funds to shelter downtown residents. Will remember that next time.

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