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Ominousness descends on Boston
By adamg on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 3:57pm
The view from a safe location off Beech Street in Roslindale around 3:30 p.m.
UPDATE, 4:25 p.m. National Weather Service calls BLIZZARD WARNING for coastal Massachusetts, including all of Boston, effective 2 a.m. It's a blizzard, Auntie Em! Boston has declared a snow emergency, which goes into effect at 9 p.m. Know your snow.
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If it's going to be a real blizzard
is it time to go to Red Alert?
Let's see how frantically weatherfolks move their arms
I'll turn on the 5 p.m. newscasts. If they start windmilling around like a cleanup hitter, yeah, I'll go to Red.
I've gone to blue
Meaning that if I have to drag my butt through that stuff tomorrow, I'm sure as heck wearing my bluejeans into the office!
(Yeah! That's the way to fight The Man! Or...something...)
Harv was pretty calm
So I think I'll stick to orange for now (of course, later will be too late for Extreme Panic Mode, but this just isn't sounding as bad as last month's storm).
You Said Ominous?
The line for the registers at the Boylston Street Trader Joe's is snaking all the way around the store to the front end of the produce section — where the cereal is, at 6:30 tonight. It's twice as long as any line there I've ever seen there.... I returned my package of goat cheese and sundried tomato ravioli to the case and left.
Ominous!
The Whole Foods on Cambridge Street was mobbed, too. Props to them, though for opening every register and having a manager direct customers to keep the lines moving.
Oh, brother
Diane Sawyer on ABC News just called the storm "A Goliath", then another reporter guy called it, "A Weather Bomb."
Somebody needs to slip Diane some Prozac
Or help her with her scripts or something. I saw that, too, and it was like she'd just landed from the equator and had never heard of snow before.
The reporter dude was trying to describe a meteorological phenomenon without actually using its name, which is too bad, because "bombogenesis" is just a really cool word to say. It's basically when you get a cold air mass smushing into a warm-air mass to form a big winter storm in which the barometric pressure drops really quickly in a short period of time - which is what's supposed to happen with this storm.
Then again, he was taking to Diane Sawyer, who later in the broadcast couldn't stop giggling over the fact that she didn't know what it meant to "tether" a cell phone to a computer. It's OK to not understand the technology behind a story you just introduced, Diane, but it's not really a knee slapper.
I see our next hashtag in the offing
Forget #bostonsnow, #bombogenesis makes for a much cooler hashtag.
Someone is still paying Diane Sawyer to do stuff? In public? Really?
not bad at Star Market
I was actually at both the Star market at MIT/ Central and the TJ's on Mem drive. Both were a tick up from normal, but in no way crowded or crazed. Plenty of eggs, bread AND milk.
I think maybe people got the craziness out of their system last time.
No panic at the Village Market in Roslindale
Very sedate at 8:15 p.m. when we bought milk, eggs, habanera cheddar and Touch of Lime Tostitos.
;~}
Quiet at Pemberton Farms in Cambridge
when I walked in at 8:45 to buy some soymilk. They said it had been busy earlier in the day, and that they expect to be open as usual tomorrow.
Red?
I don't think Red alert is in order yet; however I'm watching Harvey right now and there's no glee but he's using the term "jackpot area of snow"...
Harvey
I saw that too. Harvey's a good egg. This is his Superbowl. You know he's sleeping at the station and loving it.