Got milk (and eggs and bread)?
French Toast Alert Level: Severe. Explanation.
8:15 p.m. UPDATE: Have gone to all Red because Chanel 5 brought Harv in on a Saturday to warn us about this "very very major classic nor'easter."
PM UPDATE: BATTLE STATIONS, PEOPLE! The NWS now warning: "EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP BY SUNDAY EVENING. STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH THE SNOW TO CREATE BLINDING CONDITIONS WITH NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY AT TIMES SUNDAY NIGHT. WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES ARE EXPECTED DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM SUNDAY NIGHT FROM BOTH THE STRONG WINDS KNOCKING DOWN POWER LINES AND THE WEIGHT OF THE HEAVY SNOW."
It's the first orange French Toast alert of the season, what with the conservative National Weather Service putting us under a winter storm watch for tomorrow afternoon and casually mentioning that "NEAR-BLIZZARD CONDITIONS POSSIBLE" in that understated WE'RE GOING TO DIE font of theirs.
Comments
I already bought all the
I already bought all the french supplies in Cambridge and Somerville so you all will have to go somewhere else.
Forget the milk, we're out of seltzer!
OMG, I hope Shaw's has laid in an extra supply at their Hyde Park store.
Thanks to the MIL ...
we gots a selzer machine right here, and it doesn't need electricity, either!
They sell them at TAGS in Porter Square if you get desperate!
Weather geeks can feel it
Joe Joyce at Channel 4 enthuses: What a Christmas present this could become for Snowstorm lovers!
Weather shouldn't be a betting game, 'BZ blog posters
Reading the comments over at the 'BZ blog makes me think some of these amateur weather forecasters have nothing better to do than to obsessively pore over weather models and liquid amounts - all to say "I told you we'd get X inches of snow."
The inverse of their near-orgasmic enthusiasm for a superstorm - not only from amateur weather geeks, but a ratings and circulation obseessed media - is panic that people won't be prepared enough for the storm and be left behind, and as a result will run like mad to the stores to get all the bread, milk and eggs they can carry out, triggering shortages across the city.
These folks banging on their meteorological tympani should have their sticks taken away from them and let the experts determine the path of this storm - and then alert the public in a responsible manner.
"Up to 20 inches of snow possible tomorrow night"
is Boston.com's front-page teaser for this story. That deserves at least an Orange alert.
Been at orange since this morning
We're braced, with plenty of supplies here at French Toast Central.
Now officially an NWS "blizzard warning"
Latest from Boston.com
(when does orange turn to red?)
Blizzard of '78?
Has anybody mentioned it yet? That would do it for me.
I think a conservative
I think a conservative estimate of "15-20" inches of snow from NWS warrants a red. I've already locked my doors and boarded up my windows. This is THE REAL snowpocalypse.
Just went to Red
Because Channel 5 brought Harv in on a Saturday to warn us about this "very very major classic nor'easter," even though he did not mention The Blizzard.
We just got updated to
We just got updated to Thunder Snow Blizzard! That's almost as cool as a Fire Tornado.
Blizzard of 78
There will never be another Blizzard of 78! We may have snow measuring the same or more, but where I lived in Waltham, I acutally got to know my neighbors and people helped eachother. There was a sense of brotherhood that I had never felt before. We took my then six month old daughter (she's 33 now) strapped to a plastic sled, all the way down Moody Street up to 128 to watch the police and fire department helping people get off of 128. Little Peach (now Tedeschis) was rationing food out. Chet and very pregnant Natalie were trapped at Channel 5, looking very weary and uncomfortable but ready with updates for us. We were lucky, we didn't lose power. Our upstairs neighbors had a large van they had converted to a camper. We had a cook-out in our driveway on their propane stove! It was a blast for the first two days. After that, the magic sort of wore off cause we did a WHOLE LOT of shoveling. My husband couldn't go to work because they had called a snow emergency and only emergency vehicles were allowed on the roads. I remember the snow had drifted up and covered our bedroom windows (we lived on the first floor). But everyone on Moody Street in Waltham was out. Some snowmobiling, some skiing, some shoveling and it was something I will NEVER forget. Fond memories of that blizzard.
Non-scientific prediction methods
Cats looking like wookies? Check.
NAO in the right phase? Check.
Booked cheap intercity bus trip to NYC on 27th? Check.
Surfing good this year: Check.
Really good? Oh yeah.
Left hand damage aching: Check
Volcanic Spew from the Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Volcano in Iceland flying around: Check
That does it. We are seeeriously in for it!
flights to BOS
My flight for tomorrow evening's already been cancelled and rebooked for Monday. Sigh.
flights to BOS
My flight for tomorrow evening's already been cancelled and rebooked for Monday. Sigh.
Channel 7 reporter just blew it
He was standing on top of a salt pile during the 11 p.m. news, but didn't crouch down, grab a handful and let it sift through his fingers.
Based on what Harvey's showing at 11
This doesn't look Code Red to me at all (at least here in Rozzie) - "only" about 8-10 or maybe 12 inches. Not bad, but no two feet either.
If I ever have two female dogs ...
I might call them "Uncertainty" and "Karma".
As I recall, we were only supposed to get a foot in December '03 - and I measured 37" in my backyard.
blizzard conditions means
blizzard conditions means powerful winds and drifts; plus the close you get to the coast, the wetter the snow, and the potential for downed lines and trees in those windy conditions.
I'd say Red is warranted for the possibility.
Stop n Shop a Madhouse
Stop n Shop on American Legion was crazycakes this morning at 8 a.m. I thought for sure I'd be there early and could sail through the aisles with my pickings of processed cheese products and chips all to myself.
WRONG!
I'm fairly sure though I got the last of that Hood milk that doesn't expire till February.
Westwood Roche Bros. 7:45 madhouse
Same thing at Roche Brothers in Westwood.
I was tipped off by the line of cars on Washington Street to turn into the supermarket parking lot. When I made it into the parking lot, my usual Christmas shopping tactic of going to the back/side/distant parts of the parking lot failed to gain me a space, I ventured into the main parking area and found someone just pulling out, so I stepped on the gas, just beating an unusually clean SUV.
Despite there being no shopping carriages, I ventured into the store. I could see long queues snaking their way over to the produce section on one side of the store and another reaching over to the store made, home made food section.
I grabbed my gallon of milk, my loaf of bread, some english muffins for breakfast and made my way to the produce section to enter the line. Had a lovely conversation with a women talking about blizzard of 78 stories in our 15 minute wait.
The english muffins were lovely, now I'm off to dig out candles from the cellar.
For those of us who were there...
hopefully the snow won't be so packed in that you will literally be able to walk on snow that is the same height as a car roof. Then again I don't think I'll be on mescaline like I was then either. The dog might be though.
I wasn't on mescaline in
I wasn't on mescaline in 78
Because I was 12.
Thanks for the laugh though.
78 was great. Skid-hopping on buses and oil trucks and jumping off roofs into 10 ft snow banks.
Only a hit of mesc would have made it funnier.
Revere is taking this in stride
Most of the morning shoppers were at Burlington Coat Factory and Avenue looking for clothing sales.
Police are pulling cars off the Boulevard and dropping them at the Stop and Shop parking lot. I'll try to get a camera down to the beach later today. Depending on how Comcast and AT&T hold up.
The one sad thing, don't have my cross country skis or skojring equipment with me, and the storage place was closed. Man Byron and I are going to miss the best snow of the season.
Don't believe the
Don't believe the hype.
Remember, they didn't predict 78.
This will be a bust like all they predicted last winter.
You're being swindled.
Govt had to cover their ass and be nanny or face the Monday morning QB's.
TV is after the ratings.
The snowstorm WILL BE TELEVISED.