Massive Winter Storm Stella hits New England

Yah, pretty much.

Here, whenever temps dip below freezing, it’s alllllllll over the news like stink on a monkey. People go into a panic, stoked by the local “news” with all sorts of warnings how not to die in the extreme cold, blah blah blah.

You’d think it’s the arrival of Fimbulvetr the way they’re all carrying on.

Friends in places like Minnesota, they feel compelled to specify whether “temps in the 20s” happens to be above or below 0. +20 in winter is beach weather. –20 is about normal.

Ugh, don’t get me started…

Too late.

Yeah, all the supermarkets end up being packed before storms like this. People fight each other over basics in the dairy aisle like crazed mothers fighting each other over those God-awful Cabbage-Patch Dolls.

And, like, seriously, do you have to wait for the day before a huge storm to go get salt, sand, shovels, etc.? Like, no one bothers to think of any of that for the WEEKS before anything like that hits?

Trust me, in the War With The Machines, the Machines will win. The Ugly Ugly Giant Bags Of Mostly Water are largely too stooopit to walk and chew gum at the same time.

Wanna hear something funny? Just from the pic, before playing it, I thought it was from “The Incredible Shrinking Man”.

General Arctic Altimax (unstudded) for winter wx. Nice ratings, even compared with Michelin X-Ice 3. :smiley:

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=123

Only got ’em for my older car, though. Nice bite in snow, both fresh and packed.

……yeh, i’ve seen both movies scores of times…and agree…yehh….the incredible shrinking man….RoF lmao…. :laughing: I know where ya comin from…hahahahhahahha

Hope everyone is safe and dug out from the storm I got about 22” here in NY I finally got my 2WD truck out I go out and have fun with all the people that can’t drive in this crap. I do donuts around them at stop lights! lol What is even better is I have FL tags on my truck and then I get out of it wearing shorts people look like WTF this dude is nuts. Oh well you only live once.

As it turned out the warm front pushed 20 miles further inland than expected. Therefore, Philadelphia[I heard the same for NY and Boston] and some of its suburbs got a lot less snow and more Ice/sleet.

I live 30 miles NW of Philly. They predicted anywhere from 12” to 18”. We got ~ 5” of snow and 2” of sleet which made the roads worse!

As the gentleman-“Turningbluechips” from the Poconos[Pa Mts.] said,they got 24”. The inland track obviously did NOT affect their accumulation!

P.S. WPVI local Philadelphia weather/news station got RIPPED by people on Facebook!!! lol! WRONG AGAIN!

It seems like the more forecasting tools they have the worse the forecasting gets.

Bob

I think you are right Bob!

Great name you have,mine is also Bob![Robert] :smiley:

Downtown Stittville, New York got a full 36” by my measurement.
All cleaned up this morning by Snow Blowing from 8 until
That did include shoveling the front a rear roofs and digging out Mail Box’s out of the snow bank and driving 2 metal posts into the ground and remounting the box’s

Roads are wet but back to black not the slush or snow covering.

Off to Florida next Tuesday and out of the Winter weather :slight_smile:

All this talk of 13 inches here and 20 inches there, in Hartford we got 2 feet of snow
:smiley:

Now that’s funny.

Bob

[quote=Kindle]

Even the train drivers hate them :open_mouth: .

That had to hurt………a lot

caramba, aye caramba!!

that gif loop is mesmerizing lol

Yep, about the same here. :person_facepalming:
As well as the bread isles & milk coolers at all the grocery stores are totally bare at even the threat of snow. It is downright hilarious…… :wink:

I made that my wallpaper…

Here’s my car when the snow gets heavy

Nice “car”…… :+1: