Tag: Weather

Oh Happy Day!

Today is the day! It has finally arrived!

Today is the first day of Spring! Hooray! Winter’s seemingly endless oppression is finally over!

Of course the temperature is only just above freezing and it’s going to rain all day, so it’s not really a glorious first day of Spring.

I’ll take it!

Happy Spring, everyone! Screw you, Winter!

Another Day of Snow Sucking Up the Place

I took the kids to their Dad’s house this morning so that they could catch their rides to school.  I was a little surprised by the state of some of the roads.  The snow ended yesterday morning, but it still was a little sloppy here and there.  Route 93 North seemed to be much icier than I had expected.

I’m working from home today, so I didn’t have to deal with my long commute.  My wife, however, has to go to a training in Boston today.  She left the house at 6:30am.  She called me at 8:00 and she’d only made it about half way, if that.  As of 8:15 she still wasn’t even remotely close.

Why?

Is this a case of the state dropping the ball on cleaning up the highways, or is it just an example of a phenomenon that occurs each year where most drivers react to the first snowfall of the year by completely forgetting how to drive in the snow.  I would guess that it’s a combination, but frankly the snow fell yesterday and both things should have been cleared up by today.

Hang in there, my love.  Be safe.  I love you!

Winter Commutes

We got some snow in the Boston area yesterday. Just a dusting really. Not enough to mobilize the snow removal forces for most cites and towns. That means yesterday’s snow turned into this morning’s ice. The drive in was a touch on the slow side (44 miles in 86 minutes) but it could have been worse.

The evening commute, however, is going to be worse. We have more snow in the forecast. It’s another dusting, but it’s coming this afternoon. Just in time for the evening commute.

I want to warn Eastern Massachusetts that they had best stay the hell out of my way. My step daughter has a school event tonight and I am going to get there on time and I don’t care how bloody the path behind me gets in the process.

Pull over, I’ve got a Christmas show to see!

It’s Raining

We interrupt your regularly scheduled dumb blog post to pose a question:

What’s up with all this rain?

New England has been getting oceans of rain dumped on it for the past week.  I can honestly say that it is not the cause of the really crappy week I’ve been having, but it is certainly not helping things.  The kids and I needed to build a raft to sail down the driveway to the car this morning.  It’s really quite the downer.  Let’s hope this is all over and done with by the time Summer officially starts next week, m’kay?

Thank You, Rain

I would like to extend my warmest thanks to the rain that was supposed to come to us this morning.  Why?  Because it didn’t come.  I was able to finish mowing the lawn.  Oh happy, happy day!

Until like a week from now when it needs to be mowed again.

21st century home owner problems, ya know?  Really!

Screw You, Mother Nature – Continued

Today is March 21, 2013.  The first day or Spring was yesterday.

It is snowing.

Screw you, Mother Nature!

We had snow in the Fall.  We had snow in the Winter.  We have snow in the Spring.  Suddenly the old joke about having two season, Winter and July, doesn’t seem so funny.

I WANT SPRING!