Some of us are just as glad this whole “holiday spirit” thing is near its endpoint…
From commentor Cat Hair Everywhere:
Jasper and Mayzie sat this way without me posing them, but they didn’t feel like they had to look happy about it.
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And while we’re talking about “piling on”, who’s digging out from how much snow today?
Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century)
looks like a scene from “lady and the tramp“
PurpleGirl
Well, I don’t how much has fallen in NYC but it’s still snowing and the wind is fierce (34-40 mph, with gusts to 50). I can hear it even through the new widows. The wind has pushed most of the snow on the terrace to one side. Checking NY1’s web site, they say 22″ has fallen on Queens.
PeakVT
There was only a dusting of new snow to greet me this morning, but it’s definitely windy. WC values are forecast to be around zero all day.
Phyllis
Nothing left on the ground here where we are in SC. But it’s mighty cold and windy. Which will make moving furniture to the new place so much fun.
Geoduck
Just wet and cold here in the Seattle area.
demkat620
I think we got about 6 inches or so. I am about 15 miles outside Philly but it is horribly windy and cold here.
They closed my office today which figures because I had taken a vacation day.
Just glad I don’t have to leave the house.
stuckinred
Unfuckingbelievable, Morning Joe has a taped interview with Clinton. How could Bill submit to that that way that scumbag ridicules him?
MikeJ
@Geoduck: 40 isn’t that cold.
Went to see True Grit yesterday and realized I need to reapply Rain-X. Got home and checked BBC for news and the lede was “Travel Chaos as Blizzard Hits US.” I’m happy to have the rain.
bob h
20″ in Northern NJ so far. How do you get dogs to go out in this to do their business when they want no part of it?
pablo
I dug out from 1/8 inch in Atlanta yesterday, but my wife sent me this pic from NYC.
Southern Beale
@MikeJ:
What is Rain-X?
burnspbesq
@pablo:
How unlucky for you to be stuck in ATL. The best time to be in New York is during and immediately after a major snowfall. A hush comes over the place, and there is unexpected beauty in all kinds of places.
Of course, that’s easy to say when you’re sitting in SoCal and don’t have to shovel.
Steeplejack
Very cold and windy here in NoVa this morning–28° with a wind chill of 13°. Wind about 30 mph and gusting higher. The one thing we don’t have is all the snow that we were warned about. According to Weather.com, I’ve gotten only about half an inch here, little more than a light dusting on the grass. We were supposed to have 3-4 inches by now. Go figure.
The conundrum this morning is whether to open the blinds on the man-cave’s two big windows, which lets in the southern light but also the cold, or leave them closed, which keeps things a little warmer but leaves me feeling like I’m in a, um, cave. I will make a cup of coffee and ponder this.
MikeJ
@Southern Beale: Windshield treatment. Makes water bead up and roll off, which is nice if it’s only drizzling and not really raining hard.
It rarely really rains near Rainier, but the drizzle does drop dew from October to May.
JCT
We’ve got about 2 feet here – just got pics of the dogs jumping through the snow to get to the semi-plowed street. Poor little beagle especially, it was way over her head!
The wind is terrible still, we had lightning and thunder last night.
Getting my teenaged son to shovel all of this will not be a treat.
Mornings like this make me think hard about that Southwest job offer I’m thinking about.
aimai
Its still snowing here–we are already up to about a foot and if it keeps this up all day? Wow. And I’m going to be doing the digging out for fear of Mr. Aimai’s back going. We have a snowblower, though. It usually works.
aimai
Capri
No new snow in Indiana, although there is about 3-4 inches on the ground. My mother visited over the holidays. When she arrived at the Indianapolis airport her flight to Philadelphia was listed as On Time. Over the course of 4 hours it went from delayed, to delayed more, to cancelled. She now has a flight booked to get back to Philly on Tuesday.
There’s always the Indy 500 museum and the Circle City Mall…
Montysano
4″-6″ fell here in north Alabama on Christmas day, another inch or so yesterday, and it’s still on the ground. The roads are clear, so sadly there is nothing to stop me from going back to work.
funluvn
We received 10″ of the white fluffy stuff here in the Raleigh, NC area. We shoveled the driveway yesterday afternoon when it slowed down, so that work is done. Working from home today because NO way in hell I’m getting on icy roads with southern drivers.
cathyx
Today, I am so glad I moved from the east coast to the west coast. But I may not feel that way if the rain doesn’t quit and we get flooding.
Ronbo
Sunny, bright and warm in Kansas City. And yes, John, we Democrats have accomplished so very much in the past two years we are bragging that 98% of the Bush Agenda has been maintained. Only now…
Unemployment has been controlled.
We are not at war with Afghanistan.
We are not at war with Iraq.
We are not at war with Pakistan.
We are not targeting Americans for assisination.
We have maintained the illegalities of being LGBT (except to support the war)
We have food inflation at record heights.
We have reduced taxes on the wealthiest Americans, again.
Our elections AND media are fully controlled by the wealthy.
Our national debt is escalating at a higher rate.
The divide between the rich and poor is getting wider.
The FED has give out over $7 trillion to banks (thanks wikileaks).
The US government is prosecuting whistleblowers – not those whistled upon.
Yes, John. Fools should celebrate the number of laws passed, certainly not the quality or success of the laws passed. This kind of thinking is like the little girl in class who took supurlative pride in finishing her test first (even though she got a D.) Passing a quantity of worthless legislation and putting fancy names on it – isn’t what most people want. They want change – not a trojan-horse or false-flag politics.
Soon we’ll be forced to spend money we no longer have to purchase for-profit insurance so that the wealthy can get wealthier and the poor can be cheated out of quality health care. Perhaps you have not noticed; but, health insurance as it exists now is not for-health. It is for-profit. With my $10,000 deductable and my 20% co-pay and my excluded services and my no-prescription drug clause, I’m paying for health insurance, just not getting anything paid for. Whoopie!
bkny
well, here’s a horror story for you:
Some 500 weary and frustrated straphangers have been stuck on a disabled A train in Queens for six hours after the blizzard sapped power to the third rail.
“This train is completely dead,” the conductor announced at one point.
The Manhattan-bound subway, filled with passengers from Kennedy Airport who already had waited hours for flights that were ultimately canceled, came to an abrupt halt between the Aqueduct and Rockaway Blvd. stations. The train has since been moved to Aqueduct station, but the passengers have not been let out despite the desperate need for bathrooms, water and food.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/12/27/2010-12-27_christmas_blizzard_of_2010_passengers_trapped_for_hours_on_atrain_disabled_in_re.html#ixzz19K2fn4TB
Linda Featheringill
Northern Ohio missed out on the bad storms this time. We have maybe an inch of new snow. The stuff underneath has been around for a couple of weeks. Wind is not too bad. 25 degrees, wind chill 12 degrees.
Chyron HR
@Ronbo:
I’d suggest that you meant to reply to the post prior to this one… except that one wasn’t posted by John Cole either. So I guess you’re just some kind of internet bag lady, ranting at random people?
jeffreyw
Morning, all yas. In Glorious Southern Illinois we have about 3″ on the ground that fell mostly xmas eve and xmas day. Weather peeps swear it will warm to the 60s this week.
In other news, the sourdough olive garlic black pepper baguettes were a smashing success!
JPL
The roads are clear in Roswell and there’s about an inch of snow on the yard. Yesterday the pup would not go out willingly in the snow but today she has adjusted. Decades ago, I would shovel a path on the lawn in CT to accommodate the dog.
Joey Maloney
Just heard on NPR – The EEOC is warning companies not to make hiring decisions of blacks or Latinos contingent on a good credit report or a clean criminal record. Because minorities are disproportionately affected by these, the commission says companies may be sued for discrimination if they do so.
In fact, last week they apparently sued – wait for it – Kaplan, yes that Kaplan, for exactly this. (I didn’t hear whether it was Kaplan Test Prep, Kaplan Educational, or Kaplan Fishwrap.)
The only bad thing about this is it’s apparently still fine to decide not to hire a white person if their credit report is crap, or they have a rapsheet.
Cat Lady
@bkny:
Daughter has spent the night at JFK after flight to Istanbul was cancelled at 9:00. Obviously not happy about spending the night at the airport, but I’ll let her know that things can ALWAYS be worse.
HRA
We have a few minor inches of new snow since yesterday to make the piles of old snow clean. It’s 0 degrees here in WNY-Buffalo area this am and hardly any wind. Thankfully I can stay in today.
Very nice photo of two loveable posers.
J.
I got over 12 inches last night. And not in a good way.
Josie
@jeffreyw: Those are beautiful, Jeffrey, and I can imagine how good they taste. Now I want one of those bread thingys. Did you rise the bread in it or just cook with it?
jeffreyw
@Josie: First rise in a bowl, second rise in the pan thingy.
GregB
Close to a foot on the ground here in south central NH. Still coming down apace with a pretty strong howling wind.
Power is still on and there are no plans to eat the relatives yet.
Svensker
About 20 inches outside and howling wind. Getting ready to start the first shovel expedition. We need to burrow our way out so we can fly from snowy NJ to sunny and dry Toronto….
Scuffletuffle
Puppehs are too effing cute for words!
Joey Maloney
@me: Kaplan Education.
Mustang Bobby
No snow here in Miami, but it is 47 F and windy, so we have a wind-chill warning. That may seem like nothing up north — I spent many years in northern Michigan were six inches of snow was considered to be a “heavy frost” — but down here it’s no joke for the fruits and vegetables they grow down here. Also, a furnace here consists of a heating element stuck in the air handler unit of the A/C.
I’ve got enough layers on that I’m like a tiramisu with feet.
Svensker
@Mustang Bobby:
LOL
Navigator
11+” in Rocky Mount, NC, just off I-95.
System just parked over that corridor yesterday evening and dropped it for over 12 hours.
It’s Xbox time!
Hogan
Here in Philly we have about twelve inches lying about, deep and crisp and even. At least it would be if we didn’t have 25 mph winds with 40 mph gusts.
Last week some families on my block chipped in to buy a snow blower. I have a feeling a few more families will be chipping in this week. Collective action boo yah.
CatHairEverywhere
@Scuffletuffle: Thank you! We think so, too. They are the sweetest, most affectionate doggies a person could ask for, even if the one on the left is a little dim sometimes.
asiangrrlMN
Puppies, they are so cute and sweet. Awwww!
No new snow here. Drats. Anyone doesn’t want theirs, send it my way. kthxbai.
@CatHairEverywhere: They are just too adorable for words.