The severe weather alert is calling for 2-3" of snow per hour, with 50mph winds. Travel will be "impossible." This will be interesting...I guess I'll be bringing in firewood and stocking up on groceries today.

Someone tell me why I moved to Connecticut?!

I've never surfed up here, it's too cold. But Rhode Island has pretty good waves. I just hate wearing a wetsuit, although I have no problem wearing 10 layers of clothes to slide down a mountain in 5 degree weather. Go figure.

and Sebastian Inlet. I actually once traveled from Tampa to Cocoa Beach on a Greyhound bus with my board stored next to me in the aisle. Another time my friend and I caught a ride there. We met two girls on the beach who kept us distracted (they encouraged us to swim with them) while their boyfriends dug our wallets up, leaving us without any money. And our ride back was not due to pick us up for three days.

Another time during Spring Break, we were sleeping on the beach with our boards. About 2AM a couple guys woke us up and said they were leaving early and we could have their room. We left our boards outside the door. When we finally got up the boards had been stolen. They were lousy boards so it wasn't a big loss. When we tried to find out who had been staying in the room where we slept, the manager said that room had not been rented. Apparently the culprits broke in, offered us the room, then made off with our boards.


Our favorite binge place to eat was at the old Howard Johnson's on the beach. On Friday nights they had all-you-can-eat fried clam night. We never failed to get at least twice our monies worth?

Ah, the old days. I later lived in Northern California for 25 years and never surfed because of the cold water. I'm now landlocked in Ohio.

Stay safe neighbor.

^^^ My friend James' response to every report of a snowstorm. He's a snowboarder. I'm not.

This looks to be a big one indeed.

Ironically, we had to cancel a snowboarding trip because of snow. Hopefully we'll make it up Sunday.

The weather authorities are failing meteorology 101 here...

Of course, the history hasn't even happened yet. But in our area (Eastern CT) they're even saying thunder and lightning and now up to 70 mph winds. This could be "epic."

I was hoping for Killstorm Category IV or Shovel-Palooza...

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Flakes Of Hell.

You're All Gonna DIE!

It's getting to that point. I have to make the dreaded trip to the grocery story to buy three weeks worth of milk and eggs for some reason. That's what we're conditioned to do.

for the french toast binge.

That's why I figure everyone stocks up on milk, bread and eggs for storms

Anywho, I already stocked up on my critical storm necessities: chocolate (actually baker's cocoa so I can make fudgey chocolate) and grape juice to go with the medicinal vodka

Although, according to Lance at my post office, all you really need are the "3 Bs"...bacon, beer and bread

Back in the Blizzard of 78 when the supermarkets finally reopened they quickly ran out of bread and milk here in MA. There were fist fights over loaves of wonder bread! Since then, everytime there is a storm predicted..... people freak out and make sure they get bread and milk. People who can't remember the storm, remember that mom and dad always bought bread and milk before a storm. Therefore they do too.

Personally, since I have a gas stove, I stocked up on canned soup, instant oatmeal, cocoa, tea, etc.

Oh yes.... and have a freezer full of vodka complements of my son

This snow will cause zombies to raise from the ground and destroy us all. Weather channel report on this at 2pm.

We may looking at higher numbers then 78.

Last night I saw 3 feet predictions for the north shore.

Snowing here already. I think this is really gonna suck. Stay safe.

They have fireplaces and a wood burning stove.

We have gas heat so at least we'll have that if the power goes out. Not much else though. I just keep thinking about the storm a few years ago when we were without power for over a week. And that wasnt even nearly as big a storm. I'll be shocked if any of us are on here this time tomorrow. What are we gonna do with ourselves?!

Apparently that's what the weather channel is calling it, according to Dr. Jeff Master's wunderblog.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2344

This does look like it may be pretty crazy though.

eta: link

I was in college that year at Emerson, living in Brookline. Everything shut down- subways, streetcars, etc. People in a panic lined up outside the supermarkets waiting for them to open up and when they did- there were fights over loves of Wonder Bread and over cartons of milk. It was quite the spectacle. Mike Dukakis came on the tv wearing big sweaters telling everyone to stay calm. Cannot believe it was 35 years ago. Wow.

Anyway, happy to have escaped those Boston winters in 1990 when I moved to Florida. Finally got tired of shoveling out my car, walking and driving on "black ice" where you never know if you will fall and break something or drive into an oil covered patch of ice. I miss living there for many reasons but weather-wise, only in the fall.

For those of you up there- be sure you have plenty of supplies (as we do when it's hurricane season)- most especially wine and vodka of course, and comfort foods. Think about making a nice pot of soup or stew and bunker down. Sounds like a whopper of a storm is heading your way!

I lived in Norwood at the time, worked at the Dedham Inn on 128. None of the management made it in, just us grunts (I was 18). All the people from the stuck cars on the highway came in looking for a place to stay, but there was no senior staff...it was awesome! Total chaos. We found the keys to the lounge and made ourselves cocktails and cooked food for everyone, all on the house (the manager called in and said to keep everyone happy). We were stuck there for two days. I literally could not find my car when it was all over, the snow was so deep. It was an amazing experience.

Hi there Neighbor!

I have fond memories of the Blizzard of 78... of course I was 7 so for me it was fun fun fun.

I remember my mom and the other ladies in the neighborhood cross country skiing towing sleds to the supermarket. The houses with gas stoves took in the houses without. We had a wood stove.

The snow went up to the roof in places and we spend a week sledding and tobogganing down the middle of the road before they got to plowing us out, with thermoses of cocoa and pretty sure the adults has their own special beverages

except I will have to shovel it. Unless they cancel work ( which I doubt) I will be getting home at 9:30pm friday. My driveway gets plowed, however I have to do my walkway and outside stairs ( second floor). That's a lot of shoveling! Saturday I have to work at 11am. I am getting to old for this kind of backbreaking labor.

It's hot dogs roasted on the fireplace and hot cocoa made with melted snow time

to have small things like...hurricanes...
It's in the 70's today...

I'm in the 2-3 foot prediction range.

Fun, fun, fun!

I'll be sure to post pictures.

Wow!

That's good at least.

Here's hoping for nothing too terrible.

The missing CT/NY zones are shown in my post just a little lower.

Appreciate the info.

Northeast Braces for a Major Snowstorm.

The dusting will most likely be the first taste of what could be a major storm, forecasters said on Thursday, and local authorites from New York City to Maine were already bracing for what could be the largest winter storm in recent years.

At some point Friday night, the arctic jet stream will drop down from Canada and intersect with the polar jet stream, which usually travels through the lower 48 states.

“They will cross somewhere between New Jersey and Nantucket,” said Tim Morrin, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service. “That is where the center of the storm will deepen and explosively develop.”

While the forecast is still subject to change, the current indication is that while New England will bear the brunt of the storm’s severity — with more than two feet of snow and blizzardlike conditions currently forecast in the Boston area – New York City and the surrounding area are also in for a significant hit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/nyregion/northeast-could-be-hit-with-major-snowstorm.html?hp&_r=0

I'm only a little nervous for my son. He has to go from the Navy base in Newport, RI to the AF base on Cape Cod during the height of the storm. He is a civilian contractor and an AF Nat guardsman. I'm trying to to worry to much. This sort of storm is what he trains for.

Bring it!

yup

to come back home to Northern New York. Talk about good luck! The weather was perfect for driving.

Schools are already closed and our manager told us to work from home tomorrow - although my boss told me to take it easy and relax. She's on vacation tomorrow anyway. I will probably work at least a half day. It depends upon whether we lose power or not. I may have to go back out and get some more supplies before it gets too bad and everything shuts down tomorrow. I don't have a car and could only carry so much on my way home from work tonight.

But it appears that Boston and NH will be in a bit more trouble. I hope nobody gets hurt.

Having been waiting for months for this trip. Maybe JFK will be shoveled out by then.

I've had really nasty snow storms in late March. They're over and melt quickly but flights still get cancelled.

When I watched the local news/weather this morning, they were already running all the closings at the bottom of the screen. Nothing yet when I took my dog out a minute ago, but it's supposed to be the worst from Friday night into Saturday and that would be over his head!

It is supposed to really get going at about noon. I have Season 3 of Downton Abbey on DVD so I am quite happy as long as the power does not go out. If it does, I have plenty of good books to read by candlelight. BTW, I am in Boston.