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DC Paralyzed By Winter Storm (3") - Boston Sneers
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 1:11 pm
by Ad Orientem
Another piddling snowfall. Another huge shutdown. Another round of merciless mocking.
This is Washington’s winter weather cycle, as predictable as partisanship and twice as bruising.
The Monday night storm, a powderball that delivered two to six inches of snow to the area, shuttered schools, stuttered Metro, halted bus service and brought the federal government to its knees.
Then the eye-rolling began. Nowhere more so than among those with Boston ties.
Read the rest here...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/onc ... story.html
Most of the beltway got around 3" of snow. When I was growing up in the Northeast normally that would not even rate a mention on the local news. The weather report would read "flurries or light snow." My first year of Grad School in Albany we got 111" of snow with no intervening melt off. I couldn't tell where I was a lot of times when driving because the snow banks were so high you could not see the houses on the other side and the street signs were all buried. I would have to pull over and climb a snow bank to get my bearings.
Re: DC Paralyzed By Winter Storm (3") - Boston Sneers
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:20 am
by Libertarian666
Ad Orientem wrote:
Another piddling snowfall. Another huge shutdown. Another round of merciless mocking.
This is Washington’s winter weather cycle, as predictable as partisanship and twice as bruising.
The Monday night storm, a powderball that delivered two to six inches of snow to the area, shuttered schools, stuttered Metro, halted bus service and brought the federal government to its knees.
Then the eye-rolling began. Nowhere more so than among those with Boston ties.
Read the rest here...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/onc ... story.html
Most of the beltway got around 3" of snow. When I was growing up in the Northeast normally that would not even rate a mention on the local news. The weather report would read "flurries or light snow." My first year of Grad School in Albany we got 111" of snow with no intervening melt off. I couldn't tell where I was a lot of times when driving because the snow banks were so high you could not see the houses on the other side and the street signs were all buried. I would have to pull over and climb a snow bank to get my bearings.
These kids today! When
I was a kid I had to walk 10 miles in the snow to get to school. And it was uphill both ways!
Re: DC Paralyzed By Winter Storm (3") - Boston Sneers
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:28 am
by Ad Orientem
Libertarian666 wrote:
Ad Orientem wrote:
Another piddling snowfall. Another huge shutdown. Another round of merciless mocking.
This is Washington’s winter weather cycle, as predictable as partisanship and twice as bruising.
The Monday night storm, a powderball that delivered two to six inches of snow to the area, shuttered schools, stuttered Metro, halted bus service and brought the federal government to its knees.
Then the eye-rolling began. Nowhere more so than among those with Boston ties.
Read the rest here...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/onc ... story.html
Most of the beltway got around 3" of snow. When I was growing up in the Northeast normally that would not even rate a mention on the local news. The weather report would read "flurries or light snow." My first year of Grad School in Albany we got 111" of snow with no intervening melt off. I couldn't tell where I was a lot of times when driving because the snow banks were so high you could not see the houses on the other side and the street signs were all buried. I would have to pull over and climb a snow bank to get my bearings.
These kids today! When
I was a kid I had to walk 10 miles in the snow to get to school. And it was uphill both ways!
Oh wow! You're from upstate New York too?
Re: DC Paralyzed By Winter Storm (3") - Boston Sneers
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:25 am
by Jan Van
HA! I used to live in Clifton Park, Guilderland and Albany. The company I worked for also had offices in DC and Atlanta. Some nice winter day we heard the DC office was closed because of the snowfall. So I was thinking, wow, that must be really bad in DC. But no, that also turned out to be an inch or so. Bstrds! We couldn't stay home for one freaking inch of snow!!!
Re: DC Paralyzed By Winter Storm (3") - Boston Sneers
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:35 am
by l82start
Libertarian666 wrote:
These kids today! When I was a kid I had to walk 10 miles in the snow to get to school. And it was uphill both ways!
Ad Orientem wrote:
Oh wow! You're from upstate New York too?
soft southerner, as a kid in Canada not only did we walk 10 miles uphill both ways in the snow, we had to walk backwards because you were always walking into the wind, and the wind chill was so cold it would freeze your nose and eyes shut...
Re: DC Paralyzed By Winter Storm (3") - Boston Sneers
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:58 am
by Ad Orientem
l82start wrote:
Libertarian666 wrote:
These kids today! When I was a kid I had to walk 10 miles in the snow to get to school. And it was uphill both ways!
Ad Orientem wrote:
Oh wow! You're from upstate New York too?
soft southerner, as a kid in Canada not only did we walk 10 miles uphill both ways in the snow, we had to walk backwards because you were always walking into the wind, and the wind chill was so cold it would freeze your nose and eyes shut...
OK. Now I feel like a candy ass. I should just move to Florida.
Re: DC Paralyzed By Winter Storm (3") - Boston Sneers
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:03 pm
by MachineGhost
Ad Orientem wrote:
OK. Now I feel like a candy ass. I should just move to Florida.
But your underwear will get plastered to your ass there...
Re: DC Paralyzed By Winter Storm (3") - Boston Sneers
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:46 pm
by Libertarian666
Ad Orientem wrote:
Libertarian666 wrote:
Ad Orientem wrote:
Read the rest here...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/onc ... story.html
Most of the beltway got around 3" of snow. When I was growing up in the Northeast normally that would not even rate a mention on the local news. The weather report would read "flurries or light snow." My first year of Grad School in Albany we got 111" of snow with no intervening melt off. I couldn't tell where I was a lot of times when driving because the snow banks were so high you could not see the houses on the other side and the street signs were all buried. I would have to pull over and climb a snow bank to get my bearings.
These kids today! When
I was a kid I had to walk 10 miles in the snow to get to school. And it was uphill both ways!
Oh wow! You're from upstate New York too?
No, the Philadelphia area.
But I did go to school (college) in western Illinois, where the first year I was there it got down to -28F. Not a wind chill, an actual temperature. Brrr!