It was supposed to rain in Boston!
Weather
Daniel Guzman is at Fenway Park, where Frozen Fenway has turned into Soggy Fenway and he has now experienced that oddest of things: a hockey game postponed on account of lightning.
He adds the PA started playing "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"
Dragomir Bozhkov watched the fog caused by warm temperatures and lingering snow and ice this morning.
If by "moors," you mean a path at the Arnold Arboretum this morning, that is, as Adam Shutes illustrates.
Nearby, at the Forest Hills commuter-rail stop, Chris reports visibility was down to 20 feet:
A wary citizen complains about snow piled up on a ledge at the top of 40 Beach St. in Chinatown:
A wall of maybe a bankers box sized chunk of snow fell onto The street and almost onto a young woman with a baby carriage. Another almost fell on to me. There is more snow up there and I can see from the look of people that have been more falling snow. But the very least, there should be a barrier around the area where the snow was falling so that you don't walk under it anymore. At best, it should be taken off the ledge.
From downtown office towers to apartments across the city, Boston firefighters were kept busy tonight dealing with sprinkler systems failing under the onslaught of cold temperatures.
Firefighters went floor to floor in the 33-story 44 Federal St. tonight, ordering all unnecessary workers out of the building after they shut the entire building's sprinkler system due to a leak.
Around the same time, firefighters responded to the Vault Restaurant, on the appropriately named Water Street, for a burst pipe feeding sprinklers in that building.
The Globe reports MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott will urge her board this week to hire a French company, Keolis, to run commuter rail, rather than re-upping with MBCR, the company that now runs the trains.
Charlene McBride asks:
I wonder if a French company running the commuter rail could bring us the bar car?
R.S.Y. Buchanan photographed the Old Cambridge Burying Ground yesterday.
Copyright R.S.Y. Buchanan. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Today, #SnowCrew dug out 24 elderly and disabled neighbors but 32 others still need help digging out after the storm.
Here are the top 5 things you can do to help them get dug out:
1) Dig them out yourself - go to http://neighborsforneighbors.org/page/snowcrew to find who lives near you that still needs help. Requests are located from Foxboro to East Boston to Holbrook MA.
2) Blog about this on your own blog.
3) Tweet this post out. Kindly reference #SnowCrew and or @Neighbortweet
4) Share this on facebook.
Cold-weary Bostonians seeking a little diversion at the Loews found themselves back out on a frigid Tremont Street late this afternoon when a pipe burst and the megaplex was evacuated.
Earlier, the Prudential Center mall developed an impromptu waterfall when a pipe burst. Chico's was ruined, Julie Loncich reports.
NorthendWaterfront.com posts photos of flooding along the waterfront today, including Long Wharf (above) and Columbus Park.
The sea level rise from Boston Harbor appeared worse than that seen during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 despite significantly less wave action. For example, today’s high tide showed a record level of water intrusion on the harborwalk at Christopher Columbus Park. Sea level rise and Boston’s rising tides have also been recently reflected in the recently proposed FEMA flood maps.
Compare this Long Wharf photo to this photo, taken at the height of Sandy.
Photo posted under this Creative Commons license and tagged as universalhub on Flickr.
The November Project is a group for people who want to exercise in the winter months - outside. Around 6 a.m., members congregated on Summit Avenue and shoveled random people's walks and driveways - then ran down the park at the top of the hill that gives the street its name.
Wicked Local Brookline has more.
H/t Brilliant Geeks.
Per the mayor's office. And you know what that means: 48 hours of space-saving frenzy (and then it all stops, right?).
Ed. note: Video NSFchairs at the end.
H/t JR Strauss.
That's Jim Correale of East Boston on the left discussing our supertempesta live on Italy's RAI network today.
The Duxbury Fire Department posted this photo of a National Guard vehicle going upstream on Gurnet Road this morning.
So how cold is it? It's so cold even the birds are flocking inside to stay warm, as Eric Maki discovered in the Harvard Square CVS.
State officials urged people to stay home this morning, and it seems like a lot of people heeded that.
Paul Villanova put on his warm clothes this morning to take photos of an empty Summer Street in Fort Point (above) and an equally empty and windswept Dewey Square:
Katie Painter had baked French toast and turkey bacon for breakfast this morning.
"Breakfast of champions," she notes.
Shane Buker got ready for breakfast last night - he made a brioche for his French toast this morning:
As Rich Davey predicted yesterday, the T has been having problems with the cold this morning. Red Line trains kept dying south of the city, leading to massive delays and eventually bustitution.
Several commuter-rail lines had weather-related delays as well, although, ironically, the Needham Line ran on time.