NYC didn't get the four inches predicted?
Yeah. He's my hero.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Jan 14, 2008 4:06:04 am PST #2937 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jessica - Jan 14, 2008 4:08:14 am PST #2938 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nope, we just got rain. The snow completely missed us.
Theodosia - Jan 14, 2008 4:23:03 am PST #2939 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Aw, foo!
It's very pretty snow, too -- the kind that sticks to all the twigs, so the world is sugar-frosted for a while. With any luck it will be light and fluffy and not hard to shovel off....
Sue - Jan 14, 2008 4:23:21 am PST #2940 of 10001
hip deep in pie
The snow is heading our way, but unless we get a metre of snow, there will be no snow day for me. t /works for the snow day grinch
Theodosia - Jan 14, 2008 4:30:38 am PST #2941 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Friends of mine in Colebrook NH (just down the road from Quebec) point out that you can tell how "North" a place is by whether it has Snow Days at all. Once you get far enough into the snow belt, you would have to shut down all winter, after all.
They say that in the 15-odd years of having children in school up there, they had only one winter-weather-closure, and that was because a maintenance guy made a mistake in what kind of diesel to put into the school buses, and the fuel gelled up so they couldn't start on a -20F day.
Jesse - Jan 14, 2008 4:32:13 am PST #2942 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I would like some snow. Although, I'm just as glad last night we only got rain and not slush and yuck. I hope my parents' plumber can still work, though!
Sue - Jan 14, 2008 4:35:44 am PST #2943 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Schools get closed often enough around her for weather. (They fear the liability of a school bus accident on a stormy day more than anything.) but my employer are the last to tell their employees to stay home because of weather because they are extremely cheap. If they tell us to stay home, they have to pay us. If the don't tell us to stay home, anyone who doesn't make it in has to use a vacation day to cover the time lost. Total grinches.
Laura - Jan 14, 2008 4:39:13 am PST #2944 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
ok snow bound people, don't forget the pretty pictures!
Sophia Brooks - Jan 14, 2008 4:39:37 am PST #2945 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Snow passed us too!
Also, I hab a code! I am thinking about going home from work because I feel like warmed over ass with a drippy nose.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 14, 2008 4:52:05 am PST #2946 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
With any luck it will be light and fluffy and not hard to shovel off....
For wet, sticky snow, it's not that bad. Even the plow castoff wasn't too bad.
Of course, that's just round one, but I feel like I made a dent (and it does seem to be coming down a little less dramatically), and I did clear away the layer that fell on top of the rain, which should be a help. I highly recommend shovelling in shifts. You probably end up spending more total time shovelling, but the final clear is nowhere near as arduous, and you've already blazed a trail (there's nothing worse then stepping out into a half foot to foot or more of unbroken snow with your shovel and having to get it all out of the way). Plus less chance of doing something to your back.