A SNOW-LESS Winter in Bahstin...

You poor babes in Boston, I feel your pain!

Amtrak service between NYC and Bahstin is suspended until further notice:



I may be in LI another day.

One of the trains caught on fire on the NY to Chicago run. Trains were stalled for about 3 hours.

Lower back feeling sore this morning?
That's my pain and you're welcome to it.

schools will be closed tomorrow and a paahking ban goes into effect at 9pm tonight,
in anticipation of an "up to 8" storm due to hit by morning...

we got ~6" of the light n' fluffy variety.
easy pickin's...

So, what do you do when you have a parking ban. You can't put a car in the living room, fer cryin' out loud, and the entire city is busy looking for a legal parking spot.

around here it only applies to the major thorough-fares, not the one-way side streets.

our street, for example, is a snow emergency route.
no one parks on it when the rule is in effect.

R(thank gawd we have a driveway)P

Just use one of these to save your spot..

The storm cleared up in the early afternoon and then we had a beautiful (visually anyway) evening.

they're tentatively forecasting another doozy for next wednesday.

littlek, you may be getting another snow day...

stinks - I have the day off to chaperone the Geography Bee - if it snows this moves to Friday - actually it might be better to have Friday off.

did I see that you guys are having -30 to -50 wind chills?

brrrrrrrrr.

penguin weather...

currently 37 F in albaturkey, glad i don't live in chi-town.

Mt. Washington hit a wind chill of 85 below today.

it's currently a balmy 12°F in downtown Bahstin...

the heat in our building at work was not working well, the whole building was a big ice popsicle.

7am - U-Lock frozen solid
7:02 - coffee spilled on dashboard frozen solid
7:05 - coffee steam used to try to unfreeze U-Lock
7:06 - coffee colored frost coats outside of U-Lock locking mechanism
7:08 - steam from coffee frosting INSIDE of windsheild
7:15 - defrost kicks in
7:18 - finally able to unlock U-Lock and start my commute

7:50 - 64 degrees in classroom
9:30 - 59 degrees in classroom
10:30 - principal announces the boiler is fixed

5:30 - find rock start parking outside house
5:31 - attempt a parallel park on ice-packed street
5:31:10 - car is resting on hump of ice, rear right wheel is off the ground
5:33 - give up trying to rock the car out of or into the spot
5:34 - start trying to shovel UNDER the car, snarky comment from landlady
6:45 - brother and friend arrive to push car 3 feet forward into spot

7:00 - pizza'n'beer

wow, quite the 12-hour ordeal...
happy ending!