Snow tales

Joe Driscoll discovers nobody was enjoying ice cream outdoors at JP Licks in Jamaica Plain today.

ChezNiki posts a flurry of snow questions, including:

Why was this guy holding up traffic in front of my shuttle bus this morning, jogging down the middle of the street in .25/ mile visibility? Ay Yo! Buy a treadmill!!!

Brian and daughter enjoy the day off, although he has to go shovel snow:

... If I post tomorrow, you'll know I didn't die of a heart attack clearing out my driveway. Think warm thoughts.

Jason Butler is going through the ice melt like nobody's business - 40 pounds on the driveway last night:

We haven't been able to come up with a name for the impending baby yet; I'm going to nominate Calcium Chloride Butler.

Mrs. Chicky posts a riddle:

Question - What's more fun than trying to stuff an excited toddler into full snow gear? (Besides a root canal or trying to bathe a cat.) Answer - Watching a pregnant woman trying to stuff her spreading ass and growing belly into her pre-pregnancy snow pants.

BostonPRMom's power went out around 7 a.m.:

... And when the power goes out, you know what doesn't work? Everything! The furnace, the microwave, the internet, the phone... everything. I do not envy Laura Ingalls. ...

Channel 4: A 15-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital Monday after sliding head first into a metal pole while sledding in Wilmington.

Lorianne DiSabato posts
snow photos. Lyss posts
as well.

.Muppetboy thanks Northeastern for the call at 5:50 a.m. about cancelled classes even though he neither attends nor works at Northeastern:

I mean, I was already up getting ready to go to work early, but I'd be pretty pissed if I was sleeping like I normally am at 6 a.m.

Punkinpixie reports her mother in New Jersey even got a call from Northeastern about the cancelled classes.

Leslie Turek reports two kids trying to make some money actually offered to shovel her walk.

Jennifer Lord had a slightly different experience:

... Our little neighbor waved at me through the window. "Miss Jenn!" he squealed excitedly. "Open door!" Stupidly, I fell for that ... and he threw a snowball at me as my kids laughed. I'm beginning to think they might be the bad influences in the neighborhood. ...

Christine reports it took her 20 minutes to get to the end of her street and then another 20 minutes to get back home when she realized she'd be insane trying to drive into work.

Kelly grew weary of her Sisyphean struggle to clear the snow the plows kept depositing at the end of her driveway.

Jkirlin photographs, videos a snowy murder of crows.

Jim Walker photographs a car crushed by a tree in Newton.

Dog in the snow.

Mr. Goat says we're a region of wusses:

... Oh no! There's white stuff coming out of the sky in the winter--whatever can it be?! Lawsy, lawsy...Cancel school! Shut the roads! Load up on supplies and hide the children! The sky is falling! Snow in January--whatever shall we do?!

The Outraged Liberal agrees, calling this the Chicken Little Storm:

... With an admittedly city bias I can only ask: why did the world stop for this? In terms of intensity, snowfall totals and slushy inconvenience this one wouldn't make my top 50. ...

Jason reminds WBZ 1030 that this is the 21st century and that they can refer listeners to a Web page instead of trying to read a list of school cancellations:

... When you announce that "the list of school cancellations is over 500 long," (and that you're about to read that full list....) you're not exactly enticing me to want to stick around for my traffic on the 3's.