I'm watching the news and they just interviewed a bus rider. She was complaining that she's cold and wet and the stops for the most part don't have shelters. At the time of interview she said "I have to meet someone at my house in 15 minutes. I'm NOT happy." Look, lady: we've been hearing about this storm since probably last Tuesday. Yesterday we had a predicted total on the snowfall inches. If you had a meeting with someone, you could have ordered a cab or called that person you're meeting and cancelled or told them you'd be late. How can you not expect delays? Common sense isn't common anymore. Oh, and I have been checking the bus company's twitter feed and the largest delay at all today has been 30 minutes with no skipped routes, unlike last time.
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I get ass-chapped by weather idiots standing there on tv and blathering on about how horrible the snow in Feb in New England is ...
Dude, what part of *winter* and *New England* do you not understand? I suppose that if we were in Perth Australia they would be horrified at the heat in summer.EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.
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In my corner of New England (just outside Boston), we've had exactly one "snowstorm" to date...which was all of four or five inches, and the weather for the past two weeks has been in the forties and even up into the fifties, so we've essentially melted what little accumulation we received. A nice change of pace from this time last year, when we got two+ feet of snow, just for starters.
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There was more hype here than actual issues, it was a normal (if heavy) Colorado snowstorm. That said, public transit here runs pretty well in bad weather unless the snow is enough to cause significant traffic delays (and even then the trains still run on time).
Still think that lady was full of it though. Not everyone can afford cabs, but you can bundle up and bring an umbrella if the white stuff is falling. Today when I was leaving for work it was 8 degrees F, with a windchill of -2 (-13, -18 C, respectively) and I did fine because I wore proper clothing. I've also planned my route so I can transfer at the warmer stops (ones with more shelters or elevators I can hang out in, while Union Station's bus concourse is actually indoors)."I try to be curious about everything, even things that don't interest me." -Alex Trebek
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Quoth Monterey Jack View PostIn my corner of New England (just outside Boston), we've had exactly one "snowstorm" to date...which was all of four or five inches.
Oh that's right....my town is special and snow doesn't exist"I am quite confident that I do exist."
"Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up." The Doctor
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Here in my area of Colorado, they pretty much closed the entire city. Buses stopped running, the court house was closed. I received my very first ever snow day from work!! We got about 18 inches total-ish. The most I ever remember getting here since the Blizzard of 97. I bet a lot of people got stuck when the buses stopped at 5 the first day, and then cancelled the second day
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Just across the river from Philly we got about 18 inches of snow.
A week and a half's worth of sunny, 40ish days (including today, which was 60) later you can hardly tell we got any.
And it's looking like the next week will be in the 40's. The entire winter has been mostly 40 - 50 degree weather, whereas normally we're in the 20s - 30s.
I'm expecting either a rain of frogs or the moon turning blood red next. Perhaps Leviathan will emerge and eat a Walmart if we're lucky.
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