ice

Icy enough for ya?

adamg — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:07:54 +0000

Eoin tweets Rte. 128 was a skating rink in the morning commute and that he stopped counting spinouts when he got to 34.

Ice fall sends house speaker to hospital

adamg — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:18:19 +0000

Bob DeLeo slipped on ice this morning, Channel 25 reports.

Flash frozen at the peak of perfection

adamg — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:45:16 +0000

Sean Roche photographed the flooding on the VFW Parkway in West Roxbury this afternoon, not long before temperatures went below freezing again.

Ice fishing the day after it hit 60

adamg — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:39:18 +0000

Chuck Tanowitz marvels at the people ice fishing today at Auburndale Park.

Earlier:
Walking on water in Natick.

Local man finds benefit to ice-glazed sidewalks

adamg — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:28:41 +0000

Jovianconsensus reports how easy it was getting trash cans to the curb this morning:

... I just picked them up, then stood perfectly motionless while I slid back down the driveway.

Walking on water in Natick

adamg — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:03:13 +0000

On Saturday, the kidlet and I went out for a drive. We wound up at the boat ramp at Cochituate State Park and were surprised to see a bunch of people out on the lake, including what looked like two families just having a grand old time out in the middle of the lake skating and ice fishing and just sitting around the grill (of course they had a grill).

Seems the Charles is all it's cracked up to be

adamg — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:54:37 +0000

RDA photographed the path of an icebreaker through the Charles River basin the other day.

Used under this Creative Commons license.

This guy obviously doesn't own a home-furnishings store on Tremont Street

adamg — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:01:19 +0000

Unlike Vessel, some guy who lives on Marlborough Street between Mass. Ave. and Hereford Street goes way beyond the snow-removal call of duty, by ensuring a clear, ice-free path all the way to the street, Penny Cherubino reports:

... It was deeply appreciated this week when icy sidewalks made walking in the street safer than slip-sliding your way in front of buildings that did not keep up with de-icing. ...

It would be a shame if somebody tripped on their ice and sued them

adamg — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:09:11 +0000

The Web site for Vessel on Tremont Street in the South End exhorts:

This winter, consider Vessel your source for beautiful, practical items that speak volumes for your good design sense.

These photos by the Missus of the ice-covered sidewalk in front of the store may not be beautiful, but they speak volumes for the store's lack of concern for pedestrians.

Fire and ice in the Public Garden

adamg — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:21:38 +0000

Saul Blumenthal captured an ice-encased Public Garden last night.

Copyright Saul Blumenthal.

A salty tip

adamg — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:05:36 +0000

Tammy Donroe provides a handy tip for finding salt when all the stores are sold out: Go to Home Depot and pick up some salt in the plumbing department (think water softeners).

Slipslidin' away in Wellesley

adamg — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:40:22 +0000

Wellesley Police have a spiffy new Web site (but where's the police log?). They've posted this video of some of the excitement in town during yesterday's storm:

Via The Swellesley Report.

For the next time we get real snow

adamg — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:55:23 +0000

As opposed to the ice that now covers everything (if I may interject: Ice sucks). Kristina Kharlova has put together a list of good sledding hills in the Boston area.

Giant icicles hanging from the gutters

adamg — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:12:18 +0000

Note to self: Next time you open your bedroom window and use a loose bedpost to knock down some of the two-to-four-foot-long icicles hanging from your front gutter because you and the kidlet think that might be cool, you might want to let the wife, sitting downstairs watching TV, know first so she doesn't think the house is under attack or something. But at least I proved to the kidlet that just because I'm going to do something stupid (i.e., use a loose bedpost to knock down giant icicles), it doesn't mean I'm going to do something really stupid (i.e. lose my grip on the loose bedpost and then have to go outside and navigate the three feet of snow in the front yard to retrieve it or, even better, listen to it bounce off one of the shrubs and crash into a living-room window).

Fire and ice

adamg — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:06:18 +0000

Kalim Saliba braved the elements for this shot of the sun going down over the Charles.