Comments | filkertom: Yet Another Big Ass Storm To Hit Northeast

filkertom

Yet Another Big Ass Storm To Hit Northeast

Feb 07, 2013 16:48

It's supposed to dump a few inches on me (enough that I am not going to CapriCon this weekend, sorry), and then meet up with another system and drop one to two feet of snow on NY and New England.

Weather Underground has a live blog (pay no attention to the idiocy of their Weather Channel ownership that's trying to foist snowstorm names down our ( Read more... )

nature's fury

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peteralway February 7 2013, 22:53:55 UTC

At least it's not a Big Ass Spider!

filkertom February 8 2013, 11:55:15 UTC

Love it! The next BirdDemic!

hms42 February 8 2013, 01:18:08 UTC

Its going to be fun getting home from NYC tomorrow...

Hopefully I will be at the new Queens location and 20 minutes closer than normal.

alverant February 8 2013, 02:06:13 UTC

Sorry you won't make it to CapriCon. I don't know why they have it in the middle of winter.* I got cold snow and slush in Wheaton. It wasn't bad but it got in my shoes and soaked my feet. Plus I had to visit the supermarket (where I got overcharged by a very slow check out person) to get stuff for the game this weekend. The good news is that once the storm passes tonight things will be clear and sunny for the weekend (so plenty of time for the streets to be plowed before the game I'm hosting). Right now my big concern for myself is tomorrow morning when some of that slush freezes and I have to walk to the train station ( ... )

teddywolf February 8 2013, 11:58:06 UTC

I can't speak for CapriCon, but here in MA we have a couple of big fan-run conventions in the winter. A prime reason for the winter timeframe out here is the lower hotel cost; it might be the same for CapriCon.

alverant February 8 2013, 14:47:48 UTC

True that. OTOH I understand that Hollywood releases their movies which they don't think will do well this time of year on the logic that 1) people are trying to spend less after Christmas 2) the weather is too crappy to go out to movies 3) none of them are Oscar-worthy anyway so why bother trying to have people remember them for next year's contest. (I submit as further evidence how my favorite movie theater had a free-tickets contest but only for a Wed or Thurs for two weeks in January.)

The first two can also apply to conventions plus how people may not have the PTO to spare for one (many people I know take a half or full day off work for a convention).

I'm not sure how much hotel costs factor into going to a con since I only go to cons close enough for me to drive home each night in a reasonable amount of time and Cap is a bit too far for that even in good weather. It was also (a small) part of the reason I quit DucKon.

msminlr February 8 2013, 15:15:20 UTC

I think teddywolf was talking about the concom's hotel cost: the price of the function space.

But yeah; the likelihood of weather like this is why I've never been able to consider Capricon as long as I was working. Now that I'm retired, and it won't burn Annual Leave if I have to hole-up with a fannish friend until the roads are clear enough for even a Southern driver to traverse, maybe I can get to one some year.

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jannyblue February 8 2013, 03:36:18 UTC

It's too warm to snow here, though we may get more rain (again) which could cause floods in my neighborhood (again). I'm on the 5th floor, so I'll be fine.

However, when/where those two storms converge, it's going to get iiiiiinteresting...

You can watch the radar (without any silly storm names) here: http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php

vettecat February 8 2013, 21:18:33 UTC

So far, snowing but not overwhelmingly so... supposed to ramp up for the next few hours and be strongest overnight. Should be a different picture when we wake up in the morning. Mainly hoping we don't lose power.