It's stopped snowing here and squirell guirell has gone out driving on errands. The roads are quite clear.

You have me on ignore?

No way does squirrel or even squirell rhyme with girl. Don't even try that shit. NO WAY.

yah.

how does you pronounce girl?

Rhymes with squirrel.

Gurl?

here we go again.... ;)

girl rhymes with hurl and curl and whirl but most definitely not Squirrel which rhymes with Cyril and Quirrel as in Professsor. So there. :p

Right, Jinx. And Gurl rhymes with squrl. Therefore...

cyril squirell? How the fuck do you expect to pass your citizenship test with that glaring shibboleth?

(btw, bitchin' thread drift gang! we rock!)

Rock does not rhyme with squirell or gurl. Just FTR.

More to the point, how do you pronounce Jigna?

I say Jig-nuh and she hasn't corrected me. I doubt it's her real name anyway, they (the extended family that runs the place) tend to reuse name tags and make names up. Jigna has a sister that uses an old tag that either says Sqnall or Sonall, and the patriarch usually uses Bob, but not always. When you ask for Bob they have no idea who you're talking about...

:lol:

I just walked/trudged around for an hour, taking pictures. It seems to be tapering off. Ours isn't heavy. It's more of a powder. But I haven't tried to shovel any yet.

Neighborhood grocery store is looking pretty wiped out. Like looters struck it.

I guess I better go finish shovelling the plow's droppings before beest gets home in 45 minutes.

it had better fucking stop here soon. I dont want to be out there in the dark shoveling this shit. stoopit sideways snow.

also, Fords are shit. how is this weak ass Expedition stuck in my driveway at a 12% grade? crappy ass CAR tires on it's rented ass is how.

wow. You guys are getting the full experience. Blessings on your heads and shovels. damn - you'll be stuck for a while. dam.

Local TV spent all day covering it with roving reporters, and this exchange was notable:

We're live here in Mays Landing, New Jersey. Not many people braving the snow today, but here are some young women walking across the Wawa parking lot. Let's talk to them.

Why are you ladies out in this blizzard today?

"We're walking to the liquor store."

Ah, so not many plans?

"We're gonna get blitzed and fall asleep."

A special snow night for you then.

"No, it's our regular routine."

LOL. Like the guys who drink through hurricanes. Meanwhile, here in South central PA Route 15 is also closed and 581 and no doubt 30. But my driveway is open. Just can't go anywhere!

Ha! made me laugh. Hope everyone is okay. It's pretty nice out here (although overcast right now).

yeah,,funny ....eabod


and screw you, old man winter!

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All the major highways were closed at around 2:00 - I hear it is to last throughout the night so they can reopen for rush hour. Rush hour??? I'll be making a very slow move, at best, to the phone to call out. There will be no rushing.

Oh and even if the main roads are clear, I couldn't get out of my development anyway.

it's STILL coming down!

holy shit Houston. Holy mother of Fuck.
It's piled up above my fence....the fucking yard is 3 1/2 feet deep!

there's a plow truck stuck in the snow across the street. ...and I was hoping he'd get my car out! d'oh!

fuck.... I'm gonna go help him....

Fuck this motherfucking snow - I've had it! I've shoveled my driveway 5 times already and the shit is still coming. I can't reach high enough to pile the crap anywhere anymore and the goddamn plow just came through and buried me again. Fuuuuuhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

Just before it started in earnest last night, some big-assed snow blowers from western PA arrived. The Gov figured since there was nowhere to push it, they might have to throw it. The last time I saw one of them down this way, it broke down by my mailbox, trying to clear the hollow where it had drifted in 10 ft deep.

If this heavy wet snow was as light as the stuff we had last weekend, it'd be at least a foot deeper. We're already over 70 inches for the winter (6 inches more than Buffalo), and more coming Monday or Tuesday. Fuck groundhogs.:p

alert PETA!



...I bet there's porn for that.....

Best I could do on short notice ...
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That's what the groundhog said....

You can have it....

Winter in Savannah, GA this week:

Thursday Partly Cloudy
54° F | 31° F

Friday Chance of Rain 30%
47° F | 31° F

Saturday Partly Cloudy
49° F | 31° F

Sunday Clear
56° F | 34° F

Monday Partly Cloudy
54° F | 31° F

Fuck you, ya little bastard. Ya live a cushy life all fucking year, on the taxpayers dime, and them stick it up our ass? I'll make a hat outta ya. :mad2:

:D

Neighbors down the street had a pot luck last night. It was so good to get out of the house and talk to some people. We were able to find the ingredients to make a quiche, and we showed up with a bottle of wine and jar of peanuts too. Nice party. Storms like this are great for bringing the neighborhood together. It was fun to compare notes.

This morning, a plow woke me up! Arlington is finally figuring out how to deal with this stuff. We got a paper too.

No work for the 4th day in a row.

We've had the kids working on their science fair projects, but feel like we need to get them doing some more work. They are getting more time off from these storms than they got for Christmas break.

Our office out in the deep burbs is open today. But SEPTA warns of hour-long delays on their regional rail trains, none of the buses are running out there, and the cab company I use sometimes instead of the bus is not answering the phone.

So, looks like I'm on Day 2 of working at home. :)

How can I be sure they shoveled out my parking spot at work?
I ain't doing it.
Not my job.
I better wait till tomorrow just to be sure.
I wouldn't want to get the shovel guy in trouble.
Selfless? That's the way I roll. ;)

I would prefer to gtfo, but the gym is closed and I'm all groceried up. Damn.

Paint the house. ;)

We're seriously home schooling today.

Shibboleth (pronounced /ˈʃɪbəlɛθ/ or /ˈʃɪbələθ/) is any distinguishing practice which is indicative of one's social or regional origin. ...


i did not know this

You hush.

Us too. :D
Let me know if you want my Ed Helper password, tons of stuff there...

STFI! Do you not remember the last time you GTFO?

I figure the odds are with me at this point...

Ow, it's hard doing design stuff on a laptop touchpad!

I don't see this working at home thing going on for too much longer. Anyway, I see it's time for lunch...

Rfn.

OH MANNNNNNN

i do NOT want to shovel that tonight at 11pm

hey...in that 2nd picture....is that the guy on the bike with the snow shoes strapped to the back...in front of Gary's?

I think he's casing our street. He's rolled by several times in the last few days.

Fucking ED Helper Rocks!

But now you do.

We just have to get through tomorrow. Our school department put a bunch of ideas for all ages on their website. We had been working on science fair projects due in a week, but these posted ideas were helpful.

We taught our 5th grade daughter how to balance a checkbook, and when she made a mistake, I created a statement from the bank for her to check it against and made her find the mistake and fix it. She reacted exactly the same we I do when I get a bank statement and it doesn't match. But she wasn't happy when she saw the extra fictitious $400 in the account like I would be in real life.

For art, they both made mailboxes that they put on their doors and one on our door. We've been writing letters to each other all day. They love it.

i didn't, either

It was a frozen wall of ice at 10:20 when I got home.

I'm out of here at 1Pm, and that is going to be my workout instead of my usual trip to the Gym. hopefully it will be softened up a bit by then.

More snow might be coming to greater Philly on Monday/Tuesday.

No, that storm has been cancelled. Next one is next weekend.

What, did it double-book or something?

It was having a good time down South and decided to stay there.

I'm sure the weather was better down south.;)

Soooo, snow flies south for the winter?

Thar reminds me. Yesterday, I saw a flock of geese flying south. Aren't they a little late?

I don't think geese actually fly south, unless there's a lake or something a mile or so south.

I should know, I live by the river and about once a week I swear there's a goose convention, every day there's at least a smattering.

HONK HONK HONK (multiply by hundreds)