It's back to battle stations here at the French Toast bunker. Pete Bouchard just tweeted:
Look, it's my job to say this (but it doesn't make it any easier): foot or so of snow possible Friday. No foolin'! #noreaster
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By adamg - 3/29/11 - 3:38 pm
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By adamg - 3/29/11 - 7:54 am
Because every time I do, we get something like what the National Weather Service is forecasting for Thursday: The possibility of more snow. Not April Fool's Blizzard amounts, but still.
The best April Fool's Blizzard video ever:
By adamg - 3/6/11 - 9:48 am
Charlie Hatton spent part of yesterday trying to get the volleyball set he'd stashed in his trunk a few months ago out so he could enjoy the nice day. But he's forced to conclude the laws of physics have changed in the months since he first stowed it there, since he couldn't get the thing out:
By adamg - 3/2/11 - 6:40 am
Tom Champion once got a technomix. Now, Jackie Rossetti, his replacement on emergency call duty, gets a poem:
Like an anxious lover
I wait for her call
her passionless voice
at the break of dawn:
"This is Jackie Rossetti from the City of Somerville...
we are still on..."
By adamg - 2/28/11 - 9:07 am
Eoin tweets Rte. 128 was a skating rink in the morning commute and that he stopped counting spinouts when he got to 34.
By adamg - 2/24/11 - 4:01 pm
National Weather Service capitalizes on our impending mega-wet weather. Oh, and don't think that umbrella will protect you - they've also issued a high-wind watch.
By lex.galloway - 2/9/11 - 10:23 am
Boston has more than 13,000 fire hydrants, and this winter it's been a struggle to keep them clear for firefighters.
Although the Boston Water and Sewer Commission and the Boston Fire Department are responsible for making sure hydrants actually work, there's no law regulating who has to keep them clear after snowstorms, Boston Fire spokesman Steve MacDonald said.
By adamg - 2/8/11 - 12:31 pm
Inspecting the remains of the garage. Photo by Courtney Sacco.
A garage came down this morning at 27 Clive St. Officials report no injuries.
Photo copyright Courtney Sacco. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 2/7/11 - 2:12 pm
Channel 4 reports two cars in Charlestown were crushed by massive amounts of snow that slid off buildings over the weekend.
By adamg - 2/7/11 - 1:33 pm
AlertNewEngland reports a 1200x200 commercial building at 1400 Boston Providence Highway, behind the IHOP, collapsed this afternoon. Firefighters were inside at the time, but all got out safely.
By adamg - 2/6/11 - 11:10 pm
Courtney Sacco photographed Rene Fielding of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management helping to clear hydrants in Charlestown today. Troublewithtribbles photographed a road by Mass. General that is still so clogged with snow cars and trucks were parking in the travel lane.
Photos copyright Courtney Sacco and Troublewithtribbles respectively. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 2/5/11 - 6:22 pm
The city Community Emergency Response Team is looking for volunteers to help dig out hydrants in Charlestown between 9 a.m. and noon and then again between noon and 3 p.m. Volunteers should report to the Charlestown Community Center, 255 Medford St. Call the mayor's hotline, 617-635-4500, to arrange to have a shovel ready for you.
By adamg - 2/5/11 - 6:08 pm
Cynicallife reports she parked on Comm. Ave. in Packard's Corner Thursday, fed the meter and then when she came out, found a $100 ticket for parking in front of a hydrant. Can you find Waldo, um, the hydrant, in the photo above? Obviously, it was clear as day to a passing meter maid. Here's the view from the sidewalk:
She's not a happy camper:
Good job, city of Boston. Why bother digging out a hydrant or even attaching a flag to make it visible to, ohidon'tknow, firefighters ~ much less regular folks like me ~ when you can leave them buried and ticket people for not seeing them instead?
Photos posted under this Creative Comments license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 2/5/11 - 5:49 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports the Skating Club of Boston on Soldiers Field Road was evacuated this afternoon after a fire official noticed snow sliding off a flat roof there.
The snow was coming off a 30x100 building that houses the club's Zamboni machine, ice-making equipment and lockers, not the bowed Quonset hut that houses the skating rink, the department says, adding inspectors will look at the roof after the club removes snow from it.
By adamg - 2/5/11 - 2:38 pm
Johnmcboston photographed this buried hydrant outside the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in the South End, named for the man who convinced Philadelphia to start a fire department after telling civic leaders there how well prepared for fires Bostonians were.
Copyright Johnmcboston. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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