You folks have been hit with the snow sledgehammer.

Cities just have nowhere to put the snow, even if they have good snow removal equipment. I feel very fortunate that I have never had to deal with anything like this.

or more.

Who needs a gym membership? I've had enough of this snow shoveling crap! Every muscle shrieks in protest! I am too old for this stuff~!

When I hear the plow coming, I run outside and pretend to shovel at the end of our already-shoveled driveway, because the plows won't plow me in if I'm there. I need to get the equivalent of a scare crow for the driveway so I don't have to run out.

In Italy, they'd get a fist shake and a "BASTARDI!!!!" Here, I just get a workout.

I was living outside Boston briefly in the late 1970s, and remember 1978 very well. There was so much snow, we couldn't get out our front door for weeks, and the only way to get into Boston on the Mass Pike was on skis. I can't even imagine what three time that much snow must mean.

They've done a wikkid awesome job of keeping it clean.

Back then, after the storm, Boss Town was like Juneau-accessible by air and sea, but not by land.

I almost settled in Boston, but life took me elsewhere. Seeing this news report, it's a good thing. I couldn't have handled this, being from SoCal and the Southwest.

I'm a native Angeleno and there's no way in hell....I haven't been in snow in like 30 yrs! That's just a dusting of snow on the San Gabriel's, too.

I'm more worried about surrounding towns like Somerville, for example. They don't have nearly the money that Cambridge has but still got the same amount of snow an disruption to deal with.

Thanks to it also being crazy cold, snow's been very light and puffy. Much easier to shovel for it's volume.

Amazingly, we haven't lost our power throughout it all--yet.

The term "winter wonderland" will undoubtedly trigger feelings of nausea for many of us for years to come.

No leaves on the trees to bring them down on the lines.

I'm starting to plant my garden today.

Just to nitpick a bit!

But the news always ignores us.

Hang in there...

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The rain/sleet on top of the snow pack will add more weight. Roofers have so many people already with collapsed or partially collapsed roofs that there is no help available. My relative managed to sling a rope around his chimney and then tied it to himself in case he fell off the ladder. He is in good shape...but the danger involved if he fell. Their son in nearby Salem who could help can't get out because his car is buried in snow.

They think the latest storm is going to finally collapse part of the roof because the heating coils couldn't do the job and they have two feet of snow..with the rain/ice storm coming..on their roof. Car has been buried because there's no where to put the snow. Luckily they stocked up with food so have been okay with that, at least.

Its really bad up there in the Boston area.

for all going through this.

3 blizzards in that short a time. And most of us have places to put the snow when the clean up begins. Your communities did a good job of warning you regarding what was coming and that may be why so few died. None of this is fun. And it is not over yet.

When we get large amounts of snow there is always another problem - the melting snow runoff. When that stuff melts fast the sewers may easily get too much water to handle and they will begin to overflow - into your basements. We had a bit of that last winter. So before it starts getting warm go into the basement and find a way of getting things you care about up off of the floor onto racks or bring them upstairs etc.

Stay warm and safe.

is rooting for the next storm.

Crazy Bostonians.

One to three inches/28 degrees...

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/boston-ma/02108/weather-forecast/348735

There is going to be a lot of flooding and people are going to need knee high rubber boots to negotiate all those hidden slush puddles, some of which will be a foot or so deep. Storm drains are going to be blocked by snow and ice and the water is just going to sit there.

Somebody had better be working on getting the region declared a disaster area because it is.

I have nothing but sympathy for all the folks I know there, 1978 was bad enough but this is so much worse in terms of total snowfall and potential disaster come the melt.

This is the year I am so glad I moved away. Usually I miss the city so much it hurts.

When our 103 inches melts, we will be bailing out our cellars. New snow falling as I type this, rain changing back to snow tonite.

This is crazy. Can't even drive out of the driveway without fear being hit. No way to see around the 15 foot plowed piles or the drifts.
Going stir-crazy. Good thing I have cat food. Furry beast would not understand...but then, neither do I.

when I was in law school. I can't begin to imagine where they would put so much snow there, or anywhere in Boston for that matter. There is no open space. Ye gods.

to finish up work... should be fun

...for him to have a job interview at MIT and for them to see their adult kids plus his aged parents. My BIL's parents are fortunately tucked away in assisted living, but everybody else has to be out and about. I keep hoping they drive safely.

morning. The house, shed and garage look ok -- the winds blew most of the snow off of them. But the barn, for some reason, ended up with 30"+ of densely packed snow on top, with plenty more to come this month and in March.

It took them 2 hours to clear it. When I left for work, they were shoveling out a path for the horses to get in the barn. There's now a wall of snow right in front of the doorway, so I can't close the door. But at least they can still shelter inside without it falling down on their heads.

BOSTON — The UPS driver looked down Beacon Hill at the midday traffic jam and explained how the city was shrinking.

Four-lane roads have been condensed into two lanes; two-lane roads are squeezed into one. Forget about the narrow streets that give Boston its historic charm. They're impassable. And the cobblestone sidewalks? They're hemmed in so tight from 8-foot snow walls that even a slender person has trouble passing, not to mention risk getting hit by 10-foot-long icicles, hovering overhead from buildings "like death traps," said the driver, Dave Sabbagh.

"Everything's pretty bad," said Sabbagh, 41, weaving his handcart stacked with packages down a sidewalk. "This is absolutely not normal."

Boston is a city that flaunts its ability to tough-out winter with an army of snowplows and salt by the ton. But this week a sense of crisis typically felt elsewhere in the aftermath of a hurricane set in as residents realized it would be at least several more weeks for the city — and their lives — to be fully functioning again.

http://www.courant.com/weather/hc-lat-boston-snow-0222-20150220-story.html