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East side, west side ...

The mayor's office has issued a winter weather advisory for tomorrow that, besides urging us to be alert (the city needs more lerts), says that while the eastern side of the city could get 3-6 inches of snow, the western side of the city could get up to 8. Wonder what the dividing line between east and west is? Daniel Guzman theorizes:

Precincts that went for Walsh get 3-6, Connolly voters 6-plus.

Which might not actually be that far from the truth, given that Connolly mostly won the city's westernmost precincts.


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Ninja!

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...will be when we see which neighborhoods get plowed first/best.

Anyone want to start the Parkway Secession Movement or should we hold off until Walsh has done something?

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For the amount of taxes people pay in the Parkway area vs. the services we receive. The Parkway would be better off breaking off from Boston. Maybe 1 in 10 families send their kids to BPS, our community center and rink were both funded by Roche Brother, we have no Community Health Center, we have no city funded youth center/programs.

I Personally think the Parkway would thrive!

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What is the Parkway?

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So named because of all the parkways that go through them (West Roxbury, VFW, Neponset Valley, Truman, etc.). Anybody who lives here has heard the term; I don't know if anybody outside the area ever uses it, though.

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I've always thought it meant West Rox & Roslindale but I could be wrong. I don't know if the part of Rosi beyond Hyde Park Ave counts or not for example.

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"The parkway" means west Roxbury. The begging of the vfw and the west Roxbury pkwy up to the water tower.

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I was told Parkway reference comes from the old phone system when operators connected calls. To call West Roxbury or
Roslindale , you'd tell the operator, "parkway", and then give the number.

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Why not do it again? West Roxbury seceded from the town of Roxbury in the early 1800's for pretty much the same reasons stated here. Dividing line was Seaver Street.

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City frosted by flakes!

General Mills of the National Guard and Captain Crunch of the Boston Police Department call on citizens to remain calm.

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I'm calling for High French Toast Alert status!!!

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Does this mean that my house will get 8" while all my Dot neighbors get 3"-6"? I hope so, my kids want some snow to play in!

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MR. MENINO, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!

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Looking at the different local and national weather sources, it looks like most of the forecast maps draw the line between one arbitrary category of snowfall and the next arbitrary category roughly through Boston. Since getting ward by ward snowfall predictions is a bit unrealistic, the City of Boston probably just uses that data, and rather than average the data for cases like this they just report it as is.

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I want to see an interactive map, linking snowfall, voter turnout, results, and maybe some commentary about Michelle Wu's vote for council president.

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Six inches isn't a storm. My South End friends don't get excited unless it's eight or more.

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The woodpecker thread is over there, buddy.

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... says that 6 inches of snow within 12 hours constitutes a winter storm:

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=MAZ015&warncounty=MAC...

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If you're not from NE. 6 in is a dusting brotha.

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... since you think you know better than they do. It's not MY definition.

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All this talk of dusting a brotha...

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This joke never gets old.

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