I'm in the Boston area waiting for a blizzard--

[candy]

Anyone else have snow yet in the Northeast?

The supermarket parking lot in my area was jammed earlier this afternoon----you'd think it was the end of the world as we know it.Hysterical!

[DODI]

1. Hartford reporting in -- just started!

I have "Snowblind" by Styx ready to go on the turntable and plenty of munchies! I love this stuff!

[candy]

37. Still not a flake here,but I'm tucked in for the night---Enjoy!

[jonnyblitz]

2. just starting here in southeastern CT. n/t

[DODI]

6. You guys are supposed to get hit harder than us Central CT

people -- good luck! I sent my kids to southeaster CT just so they could experience it!

[jonnyblitz]

29. it's amazing how much harder it is snowing since I last posted

I went down to the mailbox by the road (we are on a hill surrounded by trees)and yikes! :scared:

[ET Awful]

31. Didn't you read your Laura Ingalls Wilder as a kid?

If there's a blizzard, you're supposed to tie a rope between your destination and the house so you can follow the rope back. Laura's Paw had a rope between the house and the barn so he could tend to the livestock :)

[Coyul]

3. If you get the one that...

...is still coming through Detroit, look for about a foot or more of snow, drifts three foot high, and blowing and drifting. Visibility is about 10 feet, and it's 11 degrees. I hope you don't get this one.

C

[bigwillq]

5. Congrats on 800 posts!

:toast:

[candy]

9. Sounds bad out there---I hope it won't snow that much

here but the way our local weathermen jump around in frenzied glee everytime a flake falls you just can't be sure.

Think spring!

[welshTerrier2]

12. eastern Mass forecast is for 20 - 30 inches ...

the storm is supposed to greatly intensify ones it reaches the coast ...

for us snow lovers, the more the merrier ... bring it on ...

[candy]

17. Guess the weather guys were right for a change---

my 13 year old dog loves it,though----she turns into a puppy again

[welshTerrier2]

32. my pup too ...

she plants her snoot in the snow ... stays there for maybe 30 seconds, picks up her head and bolts to another spot, sticks her snoot down again and repeats the process over and over and over ...

i've noticed that the really cold temps are bothering her paws though ... we're thinking of buying her little puppy booties ...

[candy]

33. Yeah,mine holds up 1 leg at a time in the really freezing

weather but she's getting so feeble I don't leave her out long anyway.

Watching her age has been very tough on me.

[welshTerrier2]

42. all you can do ...

is love them and make their lives as easy as you can ...

[bigwillq]

4. It's been snowing for about a half hour here in CT

by New Haven. It's not too bad yet.

[tigereye]

11. well we were supposed to get 4-8 inches today

and there are about 5 out there in Pittsburgh. You'd think it was a much bigger deal than it is, the way the newsfolks are talking. So we just shoveled out the garage and baked some scones. :)

[Glenda]

21. You can keep all the snow there...

I don't think we really need any in Boston

:toast:

[cal04]

7. Long Island started

getting snow this afternoon about 12 o'clock

[Warren Stupidity]

8. it is traditional

for all the mother hens of suburbia to run off to the stupormarket when THE BLIZZARD IS COMING. It is a ritual. Heck if you were around in '78 you probably were sitting pretty if you had gotten the extra milk before the storm. Lord knows the whole family would surely die if the milk ran out. :-)

[candy]

13. I was one of the mother hens in '78---had 5 teens and pre-

teens to feed.

That was quite a blizzard and oddly enough I have very pleasant memories of it,but we didn't lose our power so that may have a lot to do with it.

[welshTerrier2]

10. gotta love that food panic

i envision some guy living in a remote cabin way up near the Arctic Circle ... this will be the last chance for the "supply plane" to land until mid-May ... gotta get all the provisions you'll need to hold you through the winter ...

of course, by tomorrow afternoon, maybe only 18 hours later, the snow will have ended, the roads will be clear, and many will have enough food to host a Boy Scout jamboree ...

absurd, isn't it ??

[candy]

14. Absurd is right---the packies are probably jammed also. n't

[DS1]

15. Very. Maddeningly so. nt

[Quakerfriend]

18. LOL! I was one of those at the foodstore by 6am today!

We've got about 5 inches on the ground in Philly and snowing heavily at the moment.

All hunkered in for the game tomorrow. GO EAGLES!
(And, I hope those nasty fans behave themselves!)}(

[Amaya]

16. Just started here in the northwestern hills of CT

I waited in line for an hour at Blockbuster to get some movies. Ugh!
Time for a nap.

[DS1]

19. Click this link, and watch the storm slowly crawl its way East

It's kinda like "The Fog", arguably one of Carpenter's best, only much colder and hopefully not full of pissed-off ghost pirates.

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/01702?from=LAPmaps&name=index_large_animated&day=1

[jonnyblitz]

27. I loved that movie, "the Fog".

:thumbsup:

[Midlodemocrat]

20. Sunny Richmond is experiencing freezing rain

or sleet, or whatever they call it. The roads are completely iced over here. Doesn't bode well, considering it just started and it is supposed to last for a few hours.

[Soopercali]

22. Philly area has about six inches...

And about 18 inches expected.

[Longgrain]

23. Another Masshole here...

Near the NH/ VT border, and we just started getting our first flakes an hour ago...so glad I don't have to work tomorrow in case it's as bad as everyones been saying...

[Cobalt Violet]

24. Same parking lot experience here.

I was at the Natick Stop and Shop. Huge line inside too. But I had to have that ginger root, a lemon, and tomatoes for the lentil soup that's on my stove right now.:9 :9 :9 :9

[DS1]

34. You should've stopped by BJs and picked up one of those gallon

sized cartons of goldfish. Mmmm, sweet cheesy goldfish.

[CatholicEdHead]

25. 10inches last night

with wind today out of this system. Enjoy the snow!

[BrklynLiberal]

26. Brooklyn Reporting In: Started snowing at 11AM. We now have about 3 in on

the ground outside my door. Very heavy, windy, cold. They are predicting 14-20 inches.
My friend who lives in Manhattan told me that people were lined up for 1/2 block to get into a Whole Foods Market!!! DUH! By tomorrow afternoon the streets and sidewalks in Manhattan will be walkable. These people will be "stuck" in their apartments for all of one night, and they are standing outside in the snow to shop!
I just don't get it.

[candy]

41. Thanks Brooklyn----my son works there and like any good Mom

I hope he's got his boots and scarf! LOL

[Bluebear]

28. All of New Hampshire is making bread pudding

Bread and milk, the food of the Blizzard gods. People feel compelled to clear the shelves of it!

[ET Awful]

30. I'm out in Lowell, just got back from Nashua a while ago, had to go to

Costco (they have some damned good frozen popcorn chicken that I was craving).

Got home in time to hole up for the storm.

I plan on sitting inside with the heat cranked to 75 (hell maybe I'll get wasteful and go to 80) and sip frosty milkshakes during a blizzard. I always wanted to drink a milkshake during a blizzard :) Plus, I bought a new blender while I was at Costco, so I'm all set.

I'll sit here in my loft, open my big as window and watch the whiteout :)

[candy]

Aw,come on---a New Englander with the heat up to 80 degrees?

Enjoy the storm(and the milkshake)----I plan on enjoying the evening myself.

[ET Awful]

39. Well, the 80 is to counteract the milkshake :)

If not more the milkshake, I'd leave the temp in the 60's :)

[rockedthevoteinMA]

35. It's snowing on the Northeast Coast of MA - it has been

on and off all day. The sun was out at 11 AM, and it was snowing at the same time... it was strange.

[candy]

38. I'll be darned--none here in Newton and I thought the storm was

coming from the south----maybe you are having ocean effect snow!

[rockedthevoteinMA]

43. I think it is ocean effect - it's like on the 26th of December,

I woke up and it was snowing hard outside. Turned on the weather, and there was nothing about it. They later chalked it up to ocean effect, and brushed it off as if it were just a dusting, but it was a bunch.

[Donailin]

36. six inches so far here in DC

and another four expected. Fireplace going, cappucino steaming and a cigarette. Quite nice. And now that I've said that I expect the kids to call and tell me to come pick them up from their friends house now.

phone ringing. . . knew it.

[DrZeeLit]

40. We (vt) heard the snow was going to miss Boston and hit us?

Prepared and hunkered down.
My first blizzard!

[WindRavenX]

44. I'm up on Chestnut Hill- it JUST started to snow

Doesn't look that windy- yet. We're supposed to get gusts of 50 MPH tonight! :scared:

[Taverner]

45. Here ya go!

[welshTerrier2]

46. snowing like hell just west of boston ...

started here around 4 pm ...

[cruadin]

47. I'm in southern RI---started snowing around 3:00 and...

we've already picked up 3".
Looks like the forecasters may be right about this one, it's REALLY coming down out there.

[koneko]

48. near Wrentham outlets

I'm a couple of miles southeast of the outlets & we started at 3:20. We've picked up about 3/4 inch so far. There have been several huge pockets of snow, but it's mildly steady now.

We shall see what happens. I went to BJ's cos Stop & Flop parking lot was PACKED. Got the last bottle of hurricane lamp fuel at Benny's, too! (I love burning my lamps, regardless of whether or not there are power outages.)

I LOVE snowstorms, but only on weekends like this, when I don't have to shovel out for work in the morning!

[Bluebear]

49. Newburyport to Boston - locally 30" forecasted

The heavy forecast keeps creeping north!

[kwassa]

50. Maryland stopped after four inches, ten were predicted

I think we are done

[curse10]

51. We have accumulation in Boston

it's coming down pretty hard.

And I stopped by the market to pick up some soda and people were nutso!

[Bluebear]

52. Weather said this isn't even the storm system yet!

It's coming down with no wind here in NH...just ocean effect snow. Yikes!

[GalleryGod]

53. Hey, Kirsten! We're Getting Killed in Jersey for the past 7 hours!

:hangover: Great Website! Keep your Face Offa-Duh Pavement!

Your Man snowed out of the Faculty Lounge:donut: ,
GG:smoke: