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Clearly, a replacement for the French Toast Alert System is needed this week
By adamg on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:53am
But what's the proper metaphor?
In honor of Passover, I was thinking a system from one piece of dry matzoh straight from the box for sunny, dry days, all the way up to a giant, soggy matzoh ball for a day like today, but who rushes out to buy matzoh meal just because it's raining? Boots, maybe? Sump pumps? Other ideas?
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cereal? pancakes?
Both turn pretty mushy and gross after a while, though in different ways
Matzo Brie could be used for
Matzo Brie could be used for soggy matzo.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Matzo-Brei/Detail.aspx
Delicious!
Days like these ...
Make me want a pint of Guiness and a good book to curl up with.
Maybe the pint gets more full the more dark and dreary the day?
Boston themes?
1) Number of ducks on the pond at the Public Garden
2) Or per your post about Mr. and Mrs Mallard last week something about how full the pond is
3) Or the classic, rated on number of wet sewer rats
4) Red Hancock beacons
5) Submerged T Stations
6) Other submerged local points of interest - with a 5 being a Noreaster of biblical proportions where the only thing left above water would be the State House (probably any day now) - is there a connection between sewer rats and what frequently goes on under the gold dome? Now that would be good.
Could go all "silver lining"
And use daffodils. 1 daffodil for a light shower, 4 daffodils for aquageddon-like rain. The idea that showers bring flowers...
Of course, in weather like this, I find myself drinking more (hot!) sake. Maybe little sake bottles instead? :)
Donuts and coffee. A Munchkin
Donuts and coffee. A Munchkin for a bright, sunshiny day, powdered donut for overcast, coffee for rain, dunked donut for aquageddon.
ShamWows
ShamWows
bosu pump
One of those little plastic pumps you get with a new exer-ball or bosu. Imagine pumping out your basement with one of those. I may try it soon.
Alternatively an earthen berm, which my wife told me to build after I suggested a stone-lined water-diverting canal in the back yard.
Maybe a piece of moldy plywood?
How tall are the...
Sandbags are in T's Riverway tunnel at Fenway station.
Or how many inches of water in the new Kenmore station. (knock on wood...)
Pairs of Animals
Pairs of animals. It could be open ended that way, and reflect number of days as well as quantity.
i like it
start with anteater, next baboon, then cow...
plus, they're edible.
Busted umbrella count
There seems to be an increase of busted umbrellas stuffed in trash barrels during
these storms. Of course it sort of implies heavy wind.
Perfect! This is exactly how
Perfect! This is exactly how I assess how bad a storm was when I'm walking around afterwards.
Bucket-and-Bilge-Pump
Snow Days on Passover
I wish I could remember the exact year, but sometime in the late 1990s I was teaching at a school and taking off the first two days of Passover. I reminded the head of the school that if we had a snow day for one of those days, then I shouldn't get docked the personal day. She laughed, but sure enough, the second day of Passover ended up being a snow day.
1997?
The year of the infamous April Fool's blizzard?
UNLEASH THE DUCK BOATS
How's about Duck Boat Deployment Status
Or a scale of 1 through 5 Quack-Quacks, i dunno.
"Got a five Quack-Quack alert. I'd avoid driving through Winchester; it looks shallow but my car almost went full Kennedy"
Modification
The duck boat could change through the 5 colors of the terror alert index.
Names!
I'm loving the Duck Boat concept. Each of the boats have names, don't they? Coordinate the names and colors, and I think we have ourselves a warning scheme!
We have a winner
Duck boat colors - haven't checked the website yet - but they might have the colors and names of all the boats. I think there's a rainbow one too - we can have that when the sun finally comes out!
Yeah, was just going to say...
When it stops raining altogether, bring out the gay duck boat!
...or the Swan Boat Aquagedon Alert Scale
Yep...
There's Tub of the Hub(bright red), Back Bay Bertha(orange), Kenmore Karla(yellow), Waterfront Wanda(blue), and Charlie River(green)--and for when it finally stops raining, South End Sara, white with a rainbow stripe.
YES!!! to Duck Boats...
That's perfect. Seriously perfect.
They already closed the riverside road (Watertown, Pleasant Street, between Myrtle and Howard) this morning in order to shore up the ongoing construction; hopefully it won't flood like two weeks ago (yeah, right). And I'm sure the sandbags are stockpiled at Riverside Lofts.
Marketability.
I understand that you're looking for cutesy and marketable, but think that Swirly's first post on a drink and a book is the best fit. Have been listening to the rain under the glass roof all day and am about ready to pitch myself out the window. Am totally looking forward curling up with a glass of red and the current book.
UHub 2.0
Duck boats? Check. Color-coded threat alert gradient? Roger. Adam just crowd-sourced the concept, and we seem to have a winner. Somebody get a joint marketing agreement drawn up.