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Feb 12, 2006 12:12

As most people have noticed by now, (Unless of course you have been under a rock for the last week.)the northeast coast has been dealing with a major snowstorm for the last several hours. It seems the storm has slowed down and we are getting more snow than originally anticipated. The original prediction was 8 to 10 inches here in the Boston area ( Read more... )

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bikergeek February 12 2006, 17:24:40 UTC
I did absolutely zilch, other than put the windshield wipers up on my car so they wouldn't freeze to the glass. This is New England. It snows. If you don't have a couple days' worth of food in the house so you can survive without going to the supermarket, you're either exceedingly poor, or exceedingly dumb.

That said, you and I both live in an urban area. It's not like we live at the end of some dirt road in NH that won't get clear until the end of April. Maybe you can't get to the store for a day or two, taht's as bad as it gets. I see no need for what I call the "French toast and dysentery" shoppers who stock up like it's the Apocalypse on milk, bread, eggs, and toilet paper every time there's the threat of a few flakes hitting the ground.

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tamidon February 12 2006, 17:26:15 UTC
I do get milk as the rodents kids go thru so much, it's really something I buy every 2-3 days. I have a compulsive need to get out of the house when a storm is imminent, kind of a cabin fever preventative. I make sure I have the goods for making a cooked breakfast for feste_sylvain which he gets if he does shoveling(ok, on weekends he gets one if he wants no matter what he's done, but it's part ritual for shoveling).

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sweetmmeblue February 12 2006, 17:27:36 UTC
Lets see, we put both cars in the driveway so there wuld be less to shovel, brought the kid's toys up off the lawn (making sure to find their shovels), put up the blades on the cars, and I went to Trader Joe's last night because I knew I'd not get out to do it today. It wasn't to get anything special for the storm it's just that Sunday is one of my two shopping days and we were out of the kids' lunch things (chicken nuggets). However TJ's was out of chicken nuggets so the kids will have to suffer with something else. Only other thing I did was make sure there was a shovel by the back door to shovel the back deck.

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The sky is falling! Stay tuned! Watch our commercials! Buy more stuff! marmota February 12 2006, 17:39:59 UTC
I'm one of those people that really doesn't see what the fuss is about. I figure the road crews mostly keep up with it and the T keeps running. This wasn't what I think of as a *storm*, it's just weather. But then, I get my information by reading weather reports and/or looking out a window not from TV hype, I own camping gear such as a portable stove and lantern, and my pantry is stocked with a couple weeks worth of dry goods (I wouldn't eat well, but I wouldn't starve either). So even if it was four feet in six hours or something as absurd, I'd still just deal.

I mean, really. It's snow. It's water you can drink, and cold storage for perishables. As potential weather disasters go, it has it's useful side too.

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Re: The sky is falling! Stay tuned! Watch our commercials! Buy more stuff! donnad February 12 2006, 19:30:35 UTC
Me too, It drives me nuts that people getso worried about being stuck again. At least living here in the city we never get stuck, we rarely lose power. Our streets are perfectly passable right now and the buses are running.

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gosling February 12 2006, 17:40:16 UTC
We didn't really do anything (although our friend who was going to put her car in our driveway later this week while she was out of the country decided, wisely, to just put it there last night and not deal with snow emergency parking).

We do need to get a small generator, I think, because if we lose power for a significant amount of time I will lose my frozen milk supply, which could be a huge problem. (Of course we say this every storm, and we have not yet gotten a generator.)

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gosling February 12 2006, 17:42:23 UTC
What we *should* have done was made sure there was enough birdseed in the feeder, although I guess I would have had to go out there anyway to unbury it periodically. (The flock of chickadees that showed up early this morning had nothing to eat, although I did put a lot of seed out there immediately afterwards. As far as I can tell they did not return later, however.)

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flyingwolf February 12 2006, 23:39:20 UTC
I had a lot of chickadees this morning too. The bird activity in my yard made my trees the ones to loose the snow first in my whole neighborhood. :) (I've got a bigger feeder that I put just sunflower seeds in and a smaller tube one for cheaper seeds. Even though I filled it Friday night it was empty this morning so I just tossed a couple cups of the stuff onto the snow. It was quite busy out there and my kitty is exhausted from bird watching all day. :)

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marmota February 12 2006, 20:10:48 UTC
*blink* You're worried about keeping something cold in the event of your house being surrounded by piles of frozen water?

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