What's more current than the weather?

[Happy Monkey]

I left work at 9pm, and got home at midnight.

There were probably several accidents I avoided just because the car in front of me couldn't stop either.

My first choice route to get to my home had a stuck bus at the top of the hill. I backed down (briefly getting stuck within 2 feet of a stopped car, worried that if I let off the brakes, I'd hit them no matter which way the wheels were turning), and tried a couple of other approaches. Each time, it was too slick. Once I slid back down to the bottom of the hill sideways, after losing grip during a U-turn. Once I lightly hit the median curb. Finally, I drove back out of the city, and came in on a different road.

When back in my neighborhood, I parked as far downhill as was available.

[lumberjim]

That sounds like no fun at all, HM. I remember doing a slow motion 360 down a hill in my jeep Cherokee. 4x4 was on, but it was light snow on top of icy crust from a melt, refreeze . It's like a dream memory. Silent.

[Undertoad]

One of the models carries the 2-3 feet of snow into NYC... the other cuts it off sharply and they only get like 8"

One of the models moved the 3-4 feet from NoVa into Central PA.

Very interesting to see how it plays out...!

[Happy Monkey]

It has begun in DC.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Keep as much there as you can, please.

[Griff]

Shush! Send her North!

[busterb]

I guess I'm a whimp. High here today was about 34. I went out to feed the dog and the wind cut thou my jeans & sweatpants. Low tonight about 29 tomorrow nite 21.
Someone told me it had snowed a few times today. Cold in deep in dixie.

[fargon]

Today's high 25F.

[Gravdigr]

High today 30, currently 24.

With ten inches of snow. On top of ¼-½ inch of ice.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by glatt

Fingers crossed for you, Clodfobble.

OMG OMG OMG.

Flight cancelled. But the next one, later in the day, still isn't cancelled? So maybe it's not because of weather, or only indirectly because people are dropping travel plans in general so they didn't have enough to fill the flight anymore?

The point is, we're on the later flight now, and the guy at the reservation desk couldn't give me any kind of information about why the first flight was cancelled, only that the second one was still good, even though the storm is supposed to hit later, not earlier.

Everyone think warm, melty thoughts toward JFK airport, please. I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep tonight...

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

OMG OMG OMG.

So my daughter just came in and asked me how my friend in Texas was doing with going to see Hamilton, because she heard that all Broadway shows today are cancelled.

You ok, Clodfobble?

[Griff]

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by limey

Gusts up to 50? Pshaw! We don't get excited about any gusts under 60 ...

Originally Posted by richlevy

Yes but you're probably thinking in KPH. KPH is to speed what the peso is to money. It sounds like a lot until you figure out what you need to buy a loaf of bread.

It's time to go back to your roots and use Imperial measurements.

Foot = king's foot
League = average distance to nearest soccer stadium

Originally Posted by limey

Nope. In Blighty we measure small things in cm and metres (note spelling!) but bigger things in miles so I was thinking Mph, definitely.
I think it is because we didn't want to go the all the public expense of changing all of the road signs ...

Having learnt both Imperial and Metric systems at school, I suppose that I should be able to move from one to the other without problems.
Unfortunately, I don't. I always estimate distances/dimensions in Imperial terms.
If I need say, a piece of 2" x 2" deal about 2' 6" long, I will go down to the shed and, with a bit of luck, emerge with something the right size having eye balled it.
If I was expected to look for a piece of 50mm x 50mm timber 76cm long I wouldn't know where to start.
OK, I could use the other side of a tape measure but I don't hold with all these high tech gizmos.


Anyway, it was pleasing to read this letter in this morning's Daily Telegraph.

Foot marks in snow

SIR – What a pleasure it has been over the past two or three days to hear US citizens describing the snowfall in feet and inches.

Much appreciated by us dinosaurs still roaming about.

John England
Stroud, Gloucestershire

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's my problem with metric, Carruthers, I learned the numbers and conversions but still continued to think in Imperial, then had to convert. That's a pain in the ass so as soon as I didn't have to, I didn't and now I've lost all that stuff to rust.

[glatt]

Shit. Sorry. It might still work out.