Tag: Blizzard

Storm’s a Comin’

Is everyone ready? New England is going to get meteorologically bitch slapped tomorrow. Well, starting sometime tonight, I think. The National Weather Service is saying my area is going to get 18-24″ of snow. WCVB TV (our local ABC affiliate) says we’re in for 24″+. I don’t like the sound of either of those. Also, the words “bomb cyclone” have been written. I don’t know what that means, but it doesn’t sound good, right?

It’s supposed to start overnight tonight and carry through until Sunday morning. Here’s hoping we can book a plow to come and at least slice off the snow bank at the end of the driveway. Now I know I have been working out for four whole days and should be able to easily move a mountain of snow (#sarcasm) but I just don’t want to. Fingers crossed on the plow. We won’t be able to book anything until tomorrow, but we’re hoping to get one for Sunday morning sometime.

In New England it is common for citizens to make a run on the grocery stores in the day prior to a forecast storm. Unfortunately for us, today is the day that we would be getting groceries even without the storm, so we’re likely going to get shut out. We’re still in Covid mode as far as shopping is concerned and we’ve been using instacart, but they aren’t guaranteeing delivery times for today. Oh well. We’ll survive.

The planned rewiring of the dining room light switches might be paused until the driveway is clear. Just in case, you know? The Paramedics are going to have enough trouble hauling my electrocuted ass out that we shouldn’t make it worse for them by asking them to carry me through snow too.

Duck and cover, boys and girls. The Bomb Cyclone is a comin’.

Two Years Ago Today

I was thinking about how it was a crappy day even before 9:00 am today. Then Google Photos sent me a notification suggesting I relive this day in my photographic history.

Two years ago today, this happened:


The Blizzard of 2015. Never forget, friends. Never forget and hope that it never happens again.

…and Again

Yet another snow storm. Will it ever end?

This one was probably a little less than a foot. Not bad on its own, but when it follows the six feet of snow we’ve already had… it adds up.

These are the before shots of the driveway. The wind is screaming out there right now. Every time I throw a shovel foot of snow the wind throws it back at me.

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Last night Mike the Bass Player posted a picture on Facebook of him cooking dinner on his grill as the snow was hitting its peak. This is my response to that picture. We will not be cooking on our grill any time soon.

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The Blizzard of 2015: Clean Up Edition

It’s 10:00pm and it’s still snowing. It’s not bad now though. It’s barely sticking at all. After work tonight we had dinner and then at about 6:00pm I went outside to tackle the drive way.

The kids had actually played around on the driveway a little bit and brushed off part of the cars. That was about six hours before this was taken.
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Here is a good representation of the snow bank the plows had left us at the end of the driveway. We have the shovel and the back of the Nissan to give a frame of reference.
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And here is a good representation of how bad it was at the edge of the street. I look at this and ask, where is it? I can’t see it…
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Oh there it is!
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Full disclosure, just after I started digging the hydrant our next door neighbor came over with his snow blower and did almost all of it. He is once again a hero to our household.

I hate snow.

The Blizzard of 2015

I poked my head out of the front and back doors at about 7:45 this morning. I figured I’d snap a few pics in the morning, and then a few in the afternoon, and then a few before bed so that we can all have fun (sarcasm) comparing the size of the drifts and such.

Out the front of the house we see this freshly fallen frozen hell.
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I didn’t actually go outside. For this pic I had to lean around the open door. Hence the tilt. I’ll try harder next time.
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Out of the back door, the first two don’t have any frame of reference. They are just nice wintery pics.
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The gas grill gives us a little perspective on the whole awful mess.
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More pictures this afternoon. Assuming we don’t lose power.

Can’t Sleep: Snowpocalypse

I went to bed around 11:00pm and went right to sleep. I woke up a couple of hours later and haven’t slept a wink since. It’s now 4:15 am. Yippee.

It’s snowing heavily out there. The plows have been hitting our little side street sporadically all night. It doesn’t look as bad as I’d expected, but there is quite a bit of snow on the ground, and the forecast calls for nearly 24 more hours of storm. Yippee.

The Governor enacted a travel ban for the state that went int effect about six hours ago. That means I don’t have to drive to work in the snow on two hours of sleep. At least I gots that going for me, right? Yippee.

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How Exciting

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I am so excited about the prospect of going to the super market tonight!  WOOHOO!  I did some grocery shopping on Friday instead of my usual Saturday or Sunday so our cupboard is a littler barer than it usually is on a Monday.  So the plan is for me to go to Market Basket and get something for dinner for the next few days.

While that is exciting enough, low and behold we are about to get decked by a blizzard of historic proportions!  (according to the national weather service, of course)  That means I can expect a glorious evening of cramming my way through the overcrowded super market. dodging people buying mass quantities of break and milk while I try and get some supper for the wife and kids.  It will be like an olympic level obstacle course.  I can’t wait!

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I plan on ducking my head down and just plowing my cart through the panicking throngs.  I don’t need to buy four gallons of milk or seven loaves of bread*.  I just need some chicken and maybe a jar of peanuts.  We already have plenty of quinoa.

Happy Blizzard Eve!

*The four gallons of milk and seven loaves of bread were not chosen randomly.  I have seen reports on Facebook today of people seeing other shoppers stock up on exactly those quantities of those items.

Snowmageddon 2013

This is becoming a trend for me.  Pictures of the street lights during snow storms.  Granted I haven’t taken any pictures of a storm of this magnitude yet.

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Snowpocalypse 2013

Stay warm and dry out there folks. Better yet, don’t leave the house!