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Good thing we've been too busy shoveling snow to unbatten our hatches
By adamg on Sat, 01/31/2015 - 3:59pm
The National Weather Service is just out with a full-fledged WINTER STORM WARNING between 9 p.m. Sunday and 1 a.m., Tuesday.
ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 8 TO 14 INCHES EXPECTED ... SNOW WILL FALL HEAVY AT TIMES MONDAY MORNING AT 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR...IMPACTING THE MORNING RUSH HOUR.
And so, yes, of course, the French Toast Alert level is at high.
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My favorite part, though from
My favorite part, though from the area forecast discussion, not the winter storm watch:
Why do we all still live in the Northeast?
Why don't we all live in Miami or New Orleans? Seriously, I understand that Boston and New York are ports and all, but the people who have money don't want to move everything down there? We can't put Wall Street in Miami? We can't put the government in New Orleans?
Hurricanes.
Hurricanes.
Also bugs the size of dinner plates
And alligators.
And...
Old people. Lots of em.
And southeners.
And southeners.
Southerners
are some of the most genuinely nice and decent people you'll ever meet. And this coming from someone born and raised in NYC and Boston.
Oh I agree
And they are more then welcome to come visit here in Boston.
As someone that grew up in the south
They were only nice to your face, once the doors were closed they would rip everyone apart. I prefer genuine assholes, then the fake kindness of the south.
Nice people, just slow as
Nice people, just slow as molasses.
Exactly
Last winter I was in Gulf Shores for a conference in January and thinking how nice it was to be out of the snow and able to walk barefoot on the beach in the middle of winter. Then we had to end a round of golf early because animal control was trying to lure an alligator out of a water hazard and I was ready to go home and put on my boots.
Why the New England over the South?
Katrina Floods, No Non-Chain Restaurants, Bad Hospitals, No Italian Groceries, No direct flights to Shannon, The Klan, Bad Hospitals, No real baseball teams, Wrestlin', Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Semitism, NASCAR, Mike Huckabee and Saxby Chambliss as some of your political leaders, Mass Poverty, Anti-Union, Anti-LGBT....
Thanks, I'll shovel.
Can we trade for Danica
Can we trade for Danica though?
I mean we couldn't take over?
If enough of us moved down there, we could have all those things, right?
The South.
n/t
You're right Will
Best of luck in your new home! Be sure to send us many pics!
We have to be close to the
We have to be close to the Guinness .....
Other natural disasters
And earthquakes. And tornadoes.
New Orleans?
I love the city, but I always leave it knowing that, if I stayed, I'd be a 500lb alcoholic in no time.
I may yet un-patriate to the Northwest. Go #12!
And sweaty.
The last time I was there in April it was 90 degrees and intensely humid. It was like an August day in Boston--kind of a nice novelty but no way could I deal with that for six months a year. I'll take snow any day. Yeah, even ten f'ing inches on top of the 25 we already have.
PS--though yes, the food...
and drink...it is pretty amazing.
Summer in the South
I was at a conference in Columbia, SC in late August. I walked from my hotel at 7:30 am for a breakfast meeting and it was already 90F and raining.
I now understand what is meant by the phrase "climate like the inside of your mouth".
Swirls, i might take a
Swirls, i might take a collection up to jump start your un Patriotic journey,
''I may yet un-patriate to the Northwest. Go #12! '' , just stop it ! They were invented by expansion for crying out loud!
Confused yet?
Me too!
My dear Swirls, mea culpa,
My dear Swirls, mea culpa, mea culpa , mea maxima culpa, thought you meant this 12 ,
Well, of course
I'm thinking of making a "#12 Seafood Pie" with dungeness crab and lobster.
Any help you might need Will
in moving to those places where your evolved social outlook is more in line with the locals, I'll be glad to kick in a few bucks.
Because those places will be entirely under water in 45 yrs.
Have you seen this month's National Geographic? My favorite quote was from a Miami-area mayor - "I tell people buy high, sell low."
I knew this was reality, but if you have any familiarity with South Florida, and have a look at those maps (and even the photos of a recent "King Tide") it's a real eye-opener. Or at least should be. On a different note, it struck me how many people owned up to having short term outlooks for short term gain - the hell with everyone thereafter.
P.S.: I want federal legislation right now that says that if these people in Miami, etc. want to keep building condos in areas that we know will be underwater before the end of their mortgages, the rest of us aren't paying for that shit when the inevitable happens. I can understand some support for existing structures, but the new construction in these areas has to be stopped.
interesting article
interesting article, thanks for sharing...
but same could be applied to Boston. Remember most of the backbay and the sound end is all landfill and below sea level. We keep building on the South Boston Waterfront but we forget that a 1' sea level raise would put most of that (and a good portion of boston) underwater.
I've been saying that since it started
these fools who think that because we've been lucky so far, it won't happen. All one has to do is remember what they said if Sandy had hit us at high tide, the Back Bay would have looked like Venice.
Innovate your way out of that.
What if I want waterfront property?
I just have to wait for the water to top the Earhart Dam.
Of course, my property will be water access only at that point.
North Carolina is the new
North Carolina is the new Florida, just put a rebel flag plate on when you cross the Mason Dixon line , you will be all right.
Sea level rise + storm surge = we're screwed
Interesting presentation by a local firm that looks at the consequences of sea level rise and storm surges on Greater Boston, and proposes some ideas for urban planning and architecture going forward: http://www.slideshare.net/SasakiAssociates/sea-change-boston-detailed-ov...
I left.
After 40+ years of living in Boston, I finally left (New England). Just couldn't take it anymore. The winters are long, cold, snowy, stormy, and icy and people are aggressive and abrasive. It takes a toll on your quality of life. Also, the summers are so quick and most of it is hot and muggy.
<eye roll> Just sayin'...you sure don't act like you did
Aggressive and abrasive? Sort of describes your inevitably negative comments here. Also, you seem to talk a hell of a lot about the current state of the city for someone who's claims to be gone (10+ years by some of your own previous accounts).
Btw...just where did you move that is so boring that you need to hang out on this hyperlocal site all the time pissing in the cheerios? Please consider sharing your sunny brilliance with your current neighbors instead.
In anticipation of the storm,
In anticipation of the storm, maybe all the complainers around here can spend today filling web comment boards with complaints about how cities/towns/everyone else in the region is terrible about plowing and shoveling, how schools are terrible for canceling, or not canceling, school, etc., so that tomorrow we don't have to deal with all their whining. People are still kvetching about last week's storm to a degree that you'd assume they never saw snow before!