Rant: TV Weather reports

[ZX-12R]

I've got about 12-14" a little northeast of Manchester. Even with all the trees, it's been drifting too. It's still snowing but the winds have died down.

My mother out in the Berkshire's only got 3-4".

[e30addict]

Andover, MA. The intake is at 23" and it was buried under the snow. Added several more inches since that pic was taken as well.

[TheIglu]

MAYBE a foot, but doubt it.

Total effort to plow, snowblow and shovel everything: 1 hour. And that's with using a 6' back blade on a little tractor. It was pushing it all over the place.

The real shitty part is that I gotta put my cat down but the vet is closed.

[Rambunctous]

MAYBE a foot, but doubt it.

Total effort to plow, snowblow and shovel everything: 1 hour. And that's with using a 6' back blade on a little tractor. It was pushing it all over the place.

The real shitty part is that I gotta put my cat down but the vet is closed.

Sorry to hear that.

[Chippertheripper]

That sux Clayton. Best wishes.

[Garandman]

21" legit in Boston, still snowing a bit at 7pm.

[nhbubba]

That sux Clayton. Best wishes.

This.


This storm feels like the energizer bunny of snow storms.

[Falko]

Sorry about your cat.

News is saying we got 33, I believe it. Tough to tell, lots of drifting but everything I hit with the snow blower was over the intake, some drifts well over my waist.

[R7]

Long range hypecast says round 2 a week away, 12+

[ZX-12R]

It continued to snow for a good portion of the night and I ended up with 20" according to the yard stick. 1/4 of the way through snow blowing the driveway, I snapped a drive belt on the snow blower and of course I don't have a spare on hand.

[Garandman]

Boston's official total was 24.9". So this time the TV weather folks got it largely correct.

Interesting factoid. One of the reasons the Blizzard of '78 was so bad was that about 10 days earlier the region received a big storm and was still digging out in Boston (where there is literally no place to put all the snow) when the Feb 6th storm hit. So stay tuned!

[OreoGaborio]

I dunno what's worse, Rosie O'Donnel's personality or some of the condescending, grumpy old man, curmudgeon attitudes in this thread.

FFS... lighten up, Francises.

Glad I didn't visit this thread yesterday when I was stuck in my apt all day. Woulda slit my wrists.

[sandman]

Long range hypecast says round 2 a week away, 12+

lets hope its more than 12

the only thing better than 30" of snow is 60"

let it snow let it snow let it snow

[RandyO]

16"-17" here, power was out about an hour and a half yesterday morning about 6am right when I got up to put wood in the furnace, I had the generator set to go, turn switch to on, set choke, one pull, it was running, released the choke and flipped my 100amp switch, stretched a 100 ft extension cord to the Rinnai and wifi in my office.

[SRTie4k]

Gonna be some good steep and deep out there next week.

[Garandman]

I dunno what's worse, Rosie O'Donnel's personality or some of the condescending, grumpy old man, curmudgeon attitudes in this thread.

FFS... lighten up, Francises.

Glad I didn't visit this thread yesterday when I was stuck in my apt all day. Woulda slit my wrists.

Grumpycat is grumpy.... Dude, it's a RANT thread, what did you expect?

[R7]

Glad I didn't visit this thread yesterday when I was stuck in my apt all day. Woulda slit my wrists.

Bull shit you were stuck in your apartment all day...i saw you out in a lawn chair drinking a beer!

[xrocket21]

[MHenry600]

Only got 10-12" just north of Concord. Went skiing at Gunstock yesterday, not too bad, but the wind swept all of the good stuff away. Well worth the $25.

[Petorius]

^ you win
@xrocket

[mikeb]

got 33 inches in Nashua. fucking sucks

[dontpanic]

About 24 inches in North Andover. Apartment life is nice, but I still spent nearly three hours shoveling cars and helping neighbors.

[SVRACER01]

id say we got at least 2ft. the low spots were 18-20", drifts were 4+ft in spots. then we got another 4-6" overnight

[SVRACER01]

Great. Another "driving ban".


Pretty soon we'll have these every time it snows. Then every time it rains. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

dramatic

A travel ban isn't common sense.

Common sense would be "Don't get the eff out unless you need to. If you get your shit stuck, you have to pay to get your shit out."

just because common sense is free, it doesnt mean everyone has it. getting stuck isnt the only problem.

No, you don't.

BTW, I have to use a vacation day at my work if I don't come in. So much for that. Just enabling companies to reduce the amount of paid time off people actually get to use.

boo hoo, you think youre the only one that has to use PTO? amanda wont even get paid because she IS essential personnel but i told her i didnt want her driving 50 miles to work at the height of the blizzard, risk getting stuck at work if her relief didnt show up and then the kicker was she woke up sick on Wed so even if it wasnt snowing she wouldnt have gone in. but since she didnt go in, she wont get paid at all.

Have any of these travel bans been enforced? I didn't think the one last year was.

Has there been any legal analysis to determine if it is even enforceable?

enforceable? yes. see below for why

Yes it is enforceable. Like it or not, driving is not one of your rights

This is a good example of why I live in NH and not MA. In NH, they issue an advisory -- tell you it's not a good idea to travel, and then leave it to you to make your decision. MA, OTOH, promises to harm you if you don't take their "advice".

I prefer a state that treats people more like adults, to one that treats everyone like children. Now it might be reasonable to set it up like some of the parks do -- you're free to do what you want, but if we have to rescue you, you'll pay the costs. That would be fair and make sense.

Yes, it is. Anything I can do without violating anyone else's rights is one of my rights, regardless of how much the government lies about that.

PhilB

its no lie that driving is not a right.

Similar amounts here. Thankfully, there is a travel ban.

i think your record is broken

It offends me when my government threatens prosecution because it thinks I'm too stupid to take care of myself. Levying rules against the lowest common denominator is a really dumb precedent to set.

if you think its a good idea to go out then you need the government to tell you not to. everyone thinks that they are a great driver. its obvious that we cant all be great drivers because i constantly get stuck behind idiots when it snows

Got a call from my towns emergency manager person last night. Apparently the state wide driving ban wasn't enough. They enacted a town wide driving ban too.

Double super secret probation!

Maybe next time they will enact it by county. People in western ma didn't get a lot.

you should really get that record looked at.

Here's a scenario; No driving ban enacted. Just light fluffy snow falling, nothing that could knock down trees, you're home drinkin brews and watching deflated football recaps. All of a sudden the power goes out, because some ding-dong drove into a pole. Now you gotta drag out the generator in sideways-blowing snow. Are the bans still bad?

lets add or alter that just a little. car spins out and gets stuck. another car or 2 crash into it because visibility is low. now the road is blocked. emergency crews have to drive out to the scene as do tow trucks. traffic starts to slow or stop in that area. takes about an hour for crews to clear the scene and since its snowing at 4-5" an hour and the road hasnt been plowed, now everyone who was waiting for the scene to be cleared is stuck. you know, kinda like what happened in Chicago a few years ago.

16"-17" here, power was out about an hour and a half yesterday morning about 6am right when I got up to put wood in the furnace, I had the generator set to go, turn switch to on, set choke, one pull, it was running, released the choke and flipped my 100amp switch, stretched a 100 ft extension cord to the Rinnai and wifi in my office.

heard that a tree branch fell and took out a feed line. 7000 people lost power. they said they had it back in like an hour or so though


bottom line is, you all want to think that the driving ban is there to protect you from yourself. well, youre only partially right. weve all been stuck behind someone going 10-15 UNDER the limit because SNOW OMG. and weve all said to ourselves or out loud "if youre too scared to drive in this then stay home". those people NEED someone to tell them to stay home. in such poor driving conditions, im sure that fire/police/medical personnel great appreciate the clear roads without having to navigate through a bunch of retards. and lastly plow trucks, its SOOOOO much easier to clean up this kind of mess without any traffic. both streets and private. do you know what a pain in the dick it is to plow a parking lot when there is a constant flow of traffic coming in and out and they are all completely oblivious to the fact that you are trying to move 17 yards of snow across a parking lot? highway plows can run 2-3+ wide to clear the whole roadway without having 1500 aggravated drivers lined up behind them going 35 on the highway.
so get off your "you cant tell me what to do", "save me from myself", "deeeerrr driving ban" high horse. if you NEED to go out then go out FFS, but really why would you need to? unless youre an ill prepared imbecile and even then i dont know WHERE youre gonna go since just about everything is closed. maybe you crave old gas station hot dogs, IDK.

[SRTie4k]

I drove to work, because, ya know, we worked that day. Didn't see a single accident, and there was no driving ban in NH!