Oh well

What can you say about the weather? Oh I can think of something. It really sucks! And yet snow is nothing new around here and for the most part you accept it. It's part of living in this area. It's my home. And despite all the things that can drive you mad I wouldn't live any place else, unless of course I hit the lottery. Then I would buy a place somewhere warm or warmish most of the time. By warmish I mean no colder than 40 degrees, and it has to be near the ocean. I would still live here, maybe a bit west of Boston. It still gives relatively good access to Boston, the ocean or the mountains. Not that I've been to the mountains much. Only 3 times. Mt. Washington being the most memorable. 

So what can I say about the weather. I can say that we're going to receive about another foot of snow. Apart from 1978, this only the second time this type of event has occurred in my lifetime. It has happened in the recorded past. Around 100 years ago give or take a decade or so. Normally we get a snow storm 6, 8, 10 inches. It looks pretty for a day or two. Then it starts to get dirty. Then maybe you got another moderate amount and so on through the winter. This time it's a challenge. 

Driving, walking or getting anywhere is quite a challenge. Never mind that, people who use public transportation probably are probably having the worst time. Understandably this is an overwhelming amount of snow in a very short time and it would be very difficult to maintain  top service under these conditions. The public transportation service might like to tout they were the first in the nation but the amount of aging equipment that broke down including track failure, buses breaking down in the middle of streets and an entire subway line shutting down, stranding thousands people.

I have often said that my drive to work is only 5 miles. There are more buses on the road than usual to take the place of the shutdown subway line. Add in the pedestrian traffic, people taking cars instead public transportation and all the snow and it really can be quite annoying. Another strange event is the upcoming Boat Show. Someone towing a 47 foot yacht for the show took the a wrong turn somewhere and ended up on the downtown streets and got stuck in a snow bank trying to make a turn. None of these pictures are mine. The farthest I will travel in the next several days is next door to Arlene's. I'm not insane.

       

So I find myself a bit more relaxed this evening. I worked 3 days. That's all and yet the from the moment I left the house until the moment I pulled onto the driveway it was one high energy/annoying 3 days. For me shoveling more snow is the better alternative to having to go anywhere. Fortunately I am off until next Tuesday and who knows maybe Tuesday as well.

So we all grin and bear it because in a couple of months it will go back to being the pain in the ass to get around place that we all here really love.

I'm outta here.

  

Snowzilla update

What can I say? The photo below is a composite. You thought we had a lot of snow last week. The one on the right is from this passed Sunday. This winter, well actually the last two weeks has been brutal. We have surpassed 1978, which until the last two weeks was legendary. To be sure it was rough, but this is something else. It will snow until early Tuesday and it is cold. There is more snow in the near future. Where I live I am right on the snow line meaning we could receive 16-24 more inches of snow.

 

 



Now more than ever do Arlene and I long for this.

 

Well it will be a few months before we can enjoy this scene. Right now it's 7 a.m. and snow is falling lightly but quite steady and it will continue until tonight. I have more shoveling in my future but not right now.

This is a little video from yesterday. The people next door hired someone to clear the front of their house, dumping the snow in their front yard.

 

This was a few days ago before the latest round of snowfall. I had an errand to run and thought to get it out of the way before the snow began once again. For the most part the roads were in good shape. You will also notice that I called someone and idiot during my drive. Oh well. I had to cut the video in half because it seemed to be too long for blogger. I did not upload it to YouTube. 

 

I don't know if the videos will work or not. I won't know until I publish. Okee dokee I think I'll have another cup of coffee, maybe do some housework and prepare for some more shoveling later this afternoon.

 I'm outta here...but not until later. 

 

 



Live from the arctic circle...

Where do you put all this snow? We've had more snow in one week than we've ever had in a whole year.
Now before I continue I have to mention that I have had computer problems again. While I was in the middle of writing this post or uploading a video, playing a game or just cruising the web the computer just shuts down. I did manage to upload a video (below) and I accidently published a blog instead of saving it. I never finished it. At this point it's late Sunday morning and guess what? It's snowing. By Tuesday we could get another 2 feet of snow. I have yet to go out and shovel. It's not snowing hard. It's not a blizzard like last week but it will continue until Tuesday. I guess it is what it is. At least the Patriots won.   




As you can guess driving around in this stuff is not fun. Until today the roads were in good shape. The big problem for me and I suppose everybody else are the giant piles of snow at the end of streets. You cannot see if anybody is coming on your left or right. Another fun exercise is driving down two way streets. You pray nobody comes in the opposite direction. But despite it all people seem to have taken all this in stride...at least up until now. What can you do? It's nature. Still the thought of having around 5 feet of snow by Tuesday is not real comforting. The city and the state are running out of space to put any snow they have removed. The law prevents them from dumping it into the ocean because of pollution concerns. When I last went to work on Thursday almost half the parking lot was taken by giant piles of snow. I can't imagine what it will look like when I go back on Tuesday.

Ok. I'm getting mighty hungry. I think I'll make a pasta, chicken and vegetable dish then I'm going to have to go outside and clean up the snow that has fallen so far. Ugh!

I'm outta here.