Okay, not really. The snow, I assume, had nothing to do with our host server having–by the owner’s own account–“strangled itself” last night around 1 AM. After laboring mightily, they’ve obviously managed to get things repaired, although anything posted in the previous 24 hours is no longer.
We’re getting hit fairly badly out here, but a lot of people have it worse. How’s everybody on the East Coast holding up?
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This has been one of the lowest snowfall winters I can remember here in Halifax Nova Scotia.
I have sisters in Maryland and Pennsylvania and I would be lying if I said my sympathy for their plight wasn’t tinged with some schadenfreude.
The snowshoe is on the other foot this year.
Obviously not on the east coat, but here in southeastern Michigan the snow stopped around noon. We are all clear except for the high winds coming that will create massive drifts. We got 10-12 inches.
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I went out to shovel last night before bedtime so I wouldn’t have so much to do this morning. 30 minutes after I finished, a snow plow came through and covered most of what I had already shoveled.
Thank you for the update on what happened to the site.
I have a big front yard separating my house from the sidewalk, which includes a sizable hill that leads down from the front gate and an open, two-car driveway, as well as an alley on the side of my house that leads to the downstairs tenants’ apartment.
I went outside to shovel around 1pm today, knowing that I would have to be back later. 1010 WINS said at that point that it was only a third over. I then went out again at 6pm to lift the snow that had accumulated on the path I shoveled prior. I’ll have to do so again, presumably tomorrow.
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Not as bad here as it was over the weekend actually. Of course, my perspective may be a bit skewed by the fact that they wanted vehicle use minimized and I spent all Saturday night walking my patrol in the snow storm.
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While we got hit kinda hard this morning, it stopped fairly early and the roads aren’t the ice arenas they were in the prior snowfalls. So, yeah, this storm seems a lot better to me.
Only about 3 inches near Worcester, Mass. The Snow is maybe a flurry at present. I really expected this area to get buried.
I live near DC, and I’ll be happy when the Snowmageddon gets itself over with. We haven’t had mail delivery since Friday, I cannot use the Metro, and I will have to dig my car out (again) tomorrow.
But that said, we’ve been fortunate in that the power only went out on Saturday; some people have been in the dark for days.
I’m in the DC area, too, and am glad Snowmageddon is finally over. After the initial 29 inches on Saturday, we got plowed on Monday. After 6 or so more inches Tuesday and yesterday, we got plowed today.
There are snow mountains all over the place and I have to dig a 40″-wide path from my back door around 5 other townhouses, and up to the street. My washing machine literally started falling apart and died on Saturday, and my task is providing “a clear path” for delivery of the new one, which was delayed until Tuesday.
Oh, and more snow may fall on Monday. Oy.
I’m in the middle of Nassau County, Long Island, so we probably got about the same snow here as PAD did. It was bad — but relatively speaking. I was off from work (though since I walk instead of drive — it’s only 3 miles — the weather wouldn’t have been that bad), but I did wind up walking about 2 miles to various places. I shoveled twice, and the driveway and front walk look like I never shoveled at all. Bleh.
BTW, what was the name and/or website with the Beeker Muppet Video, showing what would happen if it was posted today? That seems to be this site’s main casualty, and I couldn’t get the right combo of keywords to find it on YouTube. Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAtBki0PsC0
There ya go.
Look up Muppet Studios to find them in Youtube.
Have you seen this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
Thanks greatly!
Central Jersey, I think at 18 inches, maybe even two feet. I just had gall bladder surgery 3 weeks ago and am not supposed to do any heavy lifting for at least another week. At the moment I have no idea how I will shovel my self out tomorrow, I’m hoping for a hungry hard working teenager to come my way or a really nice neighbor with a snow blower. Also hoping my employer does what it did today and allow folks to work from home. On the plus side, power and cable still up. Roof holding.
It rained in Arizona.
(Trust me, they freaked out just as much.)
So that’s what happened 🙂
Seriously, thanks for working hard to fix teh problem so this little community can continue exchanging ideas.
For once, all three of us off on the same day!! Right now, looking out at balcony rail, there’s about two feet going around it. Cloneboy’s school’s already cancelled. We spent the last several hours since I was told not to come into work playing Lego Indy and Lego Star Wars on the Wii and eating Mexican. Power blinked a few times, which caused the kid to panic about running out of food and freezing to death. He gets his imagination from me.
I was wondering what happened. I’ve been trying to get on here since last night. I was starting to worry that I might be having computer problems again.
No blizzard here, although it was below freezing all day. We had snow about a week and a half ago.
Hey, Alan Coil! I’m right across the border from you in Windsor, Ontario. We’ve got a foot of snow here, and even though my son’s school was not cancelled, I let him skip JK today and we made snow forts in the backyard.
Sorry to hear about the heavy snowfall in your area, PAD.
Also, wasn’t able to get to my LCS to get the latest Dark Tower comic. Will try tomorrow.
Here in NJ we got dumped on, but I’m starting to get used to shoveling a foot of snow now. Just stayed in watching a bunch of Sesame St with my daughter. I went out at about 11:30 in the morning to shovel during a lull in the storm and the snow was extremely wet and heavy. Tomorrow it’ll be time to teach my 13-year-old son to shovel as we’ll not only have to clean up here, but we’ll have to dig out my dad and my mom, too (they’re divorced so it’s 2 locations). My niece is at college just north of me and they had no power or heat earlier but they did have domino’s pizza, which I’m not sure makes it better or worse. She said she’d text me if she has a ‘Shining’ moment.
Here in New Hampshire, we had a bit of an early thaw. Not much snow left, unpaved areas turned to mud, and I had to break out the shades for driving.
…wasn’t it like that everywhere else?
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We’re doing fine in NJ. About 13-14 inches, and snow day #2. Off to shovel shortly.
Here in central Ohio, it averages 18 inches on the ground – – weird thing is, the northern half of the county has 24 and the southern half of the county has 12. It’s a nuisance, but we’ve had worse. Try to convince the local news media of that, though. They’re all “My God, it’s the white death! Prepare to meet your maker!” Probably wouldn’t have anything to do with the February sweeps.
good point about the sweeps
My girlfriend moved here (Columbus, OH) from TN last year. Her daughter is all freaked out about the snow.
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I told her last night that this was one of the mild years. I expect much worse this time next year.
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Theno
I’m in Central PA. The snow’s melting today, but there’s still about a foot to a foot and a half on the ground, and not all of the streets are paved. I sort of slid sideways into my parking spot.
What I’d give to live on the nice, temperature-controlled Christa. 😉
Well, let’s see…shoveled for three and a half hours over three separate sessions on Saturday. Shoveled for over seven hours on Sunday, including a group effort with neighbors to make our street navigable since we didn’t know when or if we’d see a plow (a 4×4 got stuck about a hundred feet beyond the point where we started). Went to work on Monday when pretty much any road not maintained by the state was in terrible condition. Took Tuesday off and spent two hours digging out car #2 and clearing most of the snow off the car in the driveway because it was riding low under the weight of the weekend’s snow and I was concerned about what we’d get Wednesday.
Worked from home on Wednesday and then shoveled for an hour and a half while it was still snowing and windy. Was astonished to see TWO county plows come through in the morning, one pushing to the right, the other to the left.
Got word that the office would open at noon today. Spent two hours shoveling and clearing off the cars at the curb. Neighbor with a 4×4 confirmed that our snow-covered (but not so much that a car couldn’t get through it) street was the worst he’d seen when he went out. I got out and got to work without any issues.
So, for those keeping score, that’s about sixteen hours spent shoveling snow since Saturday.
It’s sunny and in the 60s today in Los Angeles. February here is just too weird for this long-time Chicagoan.
So, R, you’re not in an area affected by the mudslides?
Nah… I’m in L.A. proper… not in the hills.
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Great news! Two more storms hitting us this weekend!
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Someone call Cold Miser and tell him that Virginia says “uncle” already.
It’s a couple months late, but—
Yes, Virginia, there IS a Cold Miser!
here in North Carolina we are sipping mint juleps and fanning ourselves like characters from a Tennessee Williams play.
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There are times I wish we could post picture here. Until then…
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*** Makes Obscene Gesture Towards Mulligan says:)***
Actually they are predicting an inch of snow tonight or, in North Carolina-speak, “a blizzard of biblical proportions, the likes of which have not been seen since woolly mastodons trod the earth.”
Would that be the anti-social alcoholic characters or the shattered southern belle characters?
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PAD
Shattered Southern belles. “Ah dew declare….it’s powerful hot today.”
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See, I always pictured Mulligan as more of an anti-social shattered alcoholic southern belle. And he really looks the part when he’s walking around NC in his ‘Little Bo Peep’ summer wear.
Sorry to open up an old topic, but is there any chance the RSS and Atom feeds for the website will be fixed?
This is the last post that appears for people who get updates from the site through the RSS, so I presume it has something to do with the server crash.