Tag: Snow

The Blizzard of ’13

Today has a high potential of a tremendous amount of sucking from a meteorological perspective.

The forecasts are calling for one to two feet of snow today into tomorrow.  Some are even saying it could be more than two feet.  The initial estimates were for the crap to start falling from the sky this morning and continue all night.  Now they are saying it won’t start until the afternoon.  The local media hype is on super ultra mega overload.  Supermarkets have been picked clean.  Panic is everywhere.

Every year New England seems to go through this at least once.  A storm is predicted and the news networks blow it up into some sort of world ending event, everyone freaks out, and then the storm fizzles.  I’m not saying the storm today is going to fizzle, but it’s a blizzard.  It’s going to suck.  All of this is true, but it’s not worth the panic people are displaying.

Jen and I are both working from home today, and the kids had school canceled.  All of this before a single flake fell.  Again, I’m not saying the preparations are unnecessary, and I for one am going to be seriously thankful come 5:30 tonight when I don’t have to drive home.

I guess what I’m trying to say is… This is New England.  We get snow.  We get blizzards.  Every single one of us has been through this a million times before.  Get a grip, people.  Stop acting like rookies and man up.

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Sunrise Over Canobie Lake

The one upside to taking the kids to their father’s house before school in the morning is that sometimes we get a brief glimpse at the sun rising over Canobie Lake.  This morning on the way there it was just barely above the trees and it looked spectacular, with the lake all covered in yesterday’s snow and all.  After dropping the kids off I stopped for a photo op.  It wasn’t as awesome as it had been five minutes before, but it was still an excellent view.

I tried getting a sunrise picture last week using my iPhone.  This time I was better prepared and took my Nikon.

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I will probably wait for Spring to try this one again, although the timing of the sunrise with the pre-school drive will be all out of whack.  Maybe on a vacation day.  Who knows.  These would be better if the lake was actually water.

It is Snowing

It is snowing here tonight.  I just took my camera outside for 2.5 seconds to document the occasion.

First we have the nice looking no-flash pic that magically does not suck.
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We follow that with two pics that used the flash in an attempt at showing just how heavily the white crap is falling on us.
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Tomorrow I expect I’ll have to spark up the snow blower for the first time in two years. I hope it still works. I hope I remember how to use it.