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A French Toast kind of a storm brewing?
By adamg on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 11:35am
Guarded: Subtle grin appears on Harvey Leonard's face. Check car fuel gauge, memorize quickest route to emergency supermarket should conditions change.
There go our apple-picking plans. In any case, I'm declaring a French Toast Code Blue Alert for now, because a colleague in California IMed me that "you peeps are so [word that's like screwed, only NSFWier]" and then pasted in a weather alert that discusses a massive collision right over our heads of three separate weather systems, including a "disturbed" weather system now over Hispaniola:
As we get into Saturday, the area of disturbed weather north of Hispaniola will affect the region in some form. The track and intensity of this system remains in question with a wide model spread on its intensity and track presented in the models. This will be better defined in the next day or so and this will ultimately determine the level of potential flooding and the possibility of strong winds/wind damage to the region.
So, tonight, let's all tune into Harv's report and see just what sort of grin he has. Until then, it's time to dust off those French Toast recipes.
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Want some Fluff on that French Toast?
At least for now, Somerville's What the Fluff? festival is still scheduled for Saturday afternoon, 4-7 pm.
Impenetrable
Doesn't Fluff repel both water and radiation?
hubpolitics.com /2006/0
http://hubpolitics.com/2006/06/26/barrios-surrende...
Is your French Toast meter connected to the Barrios Fluff O Meter?
Barrios
was invited to the first Fluff festival in 2006, but didn't show. I don't know if they have continued inviting him to subsequent years' events.
Well Im assuming the Fluff
Well Im assuming the Fluff festival was a direct result of his anti-fluff stance. He had a very tough summer lol.
Was Kathy Ann Reinstein invited to the events? She is the one who put in some sort of pro fluff bill in responce to Barrios's
They were both invited
but I don't think either of them attended. If they had both showed up, they would have been placed on opposite sides of the tug-of-war rope.
Also, my understanding is that this festival was already in the works long before Barrios introduced his bill.
Here's a Somerville News article from July 2006 and a Globe article from September 2006.
What the Fluff? postponed to Sunday
But they're going to have it rain or shine, even if some parts have to be moved indoors.
Indoors
Well, it is water soluble.
Mango french toast?
Is this a tropical or snowy alert?
i must say....
seeing the FTAS on the page scared me a lot!
wow.
and i think my comment that i posted just prior to this may have been blocked because i used slightly unsavory language.
suffice to say, youth football will be interesting on saturday.
Wait a minute...
I thought the French Toast Alert System could only be activated when there was a threat of frozen precipitation? I'm not aware that there's even a remote possibility of snizzle being predicted here.
Times like these
Call for decisive action. But you're right, I should suspend this alert immediately for the good of the region.
Oh, man, that joke was really funny eight hours ago and now it's just awful.
Evac Route
I hope one of the toast warning levels encourages residents to take mental note of every Evacuation Route sign they see on their daily business... those things are great. And handy too - they might as well say "Outbound"
Escape is Futile
They could revise them to say "If you were here in an emergency, you'd have no hope now". They might as well say "massive traffic jam route" on any given rush hour, let alone an actual emergency.
I'm juvenile ... or just vile ... enough to be highly amused every time I bike past a massive traffic jam and see one of those signs.
Kyle
It's now a tropical storm churning in the Atlantic as it tears up the East Coast, packing winds of up to 75 m.p.h. But Dickie wasn't smiling (or does he, anymore?), probably because he's expecting Kyle to mostly miss us, although he did wistfully note that the storm's "cone of error" could still bring it ashore, where it could deliver a roundhouse punch to the region.
Too much water in Watertown
Tomorrow's Faire on the Square is cancelled. (hat-tip to h20town)
Kyle takes a cruise
Associated Press reports: Tropical Storm Kyle steams north in the Atlantic.
AP then adds: "Tropical Storm Kyle is rumbling over the open Atlantic south of Bermuda ..."
So it's both steaming and rumbling. When does it commence belching?
Kyle is swirling
According to Agence France-Presse, which also reports it is churning. And, of course, packing sustained winds (imagine the embarrassment at the hurricane hotel when a hurricane shows up forgetting to have packed its sustained winds. Fortunately, I think most hotels have spare sustained winds for just such an event).