<p>Didn’t know if anyone was coming to Boston this weekend. They are now projecting close to 2 feet of snow beginning Friday morning and continuing through mid-morning on Saturday. If you have any auditions, you might want to fly in tomorrow instead of Friday! </p>
<p>S has a whole a cappella weekend coming up, with competition and workshops, but it looks as though it will be cancelled or postponed.</p>
<p>Continue all the leg-breaking! Auditions are almost over - don’t give up now!!!</p>
<p>Hunker down, Marbleheader, and let us know what happens with both snowstorm and a cappella!</p>
<p>Old Marblehead must be unbearable with snow</p>
<p>Well, the snow is bad enough, but they are saying very high tides. So that is messy!</p>
<p>They just moved the Friday night a cappella competition to Saturday afternoon, and told the groups that they can only do two songs instead of three, so S’s group is voting now on which song to dump. The top 3 groups of the competition will go on to open the Saturday night concert, with two professional a cappella groups. The professional groups are hustling to fly in tomorrow instead of Friday. Nice people!!!</p>
<p>Having grown up in the Boston area, if they do get 24’’ or more, it will shut the city down for more than a day…Just hope it hits late enough to not snarl rush hour on Friday…
Remember the pictures of Rt. 128 from the 1978 blizzard…</p>
<p>^^Wow, that’s a real-life memory for me (not just from pictures). I was on the Connecticut coast for that 1978 storm and the house was surrounded by 1-2 feet of water. We got out after several days, but the roads were closed and the state was shut down. Unbelievably shocking to find out that the Boston area had been hit even harder! This upcoming storm is being touted as “historic,” but 1978 would be hard to top. That said…good luck, Marbleheader!! :)</p>
<p>When Jim Cantore shows up in your neighborhood, you know it’s going to be bad. I was off at college in 1978 but on the South Shore, they got nearly 40 inches…I have shoveled 32 inches here in Philly in other storms but I can’t imagine another 8 inches of snow…</p>
<p>I was in college and living in Cambridge during the great blizzard of '78. The way everything shut down for days was quite something and hard to forget! Take care this weekend Bostonians! We expect a bunch of snow here in VT too.</p>
<p>Blizzard of '78, I was stuck in a dorm at Bridgewater State. The only store in walking distance was a liquor store . . . I remember walking along the snow banks (heading to the aforementioned “packy”) and realizing there were cars under our feet! That’s how high up the snow was.</p>
<p>Well, off to pick up groceries and water!</p>
<p>When I get cranky about 70 degree weather in February (as I am this week…), I remember why I live in the South. Good luck to you all, hope every is somewhere safe and sound!!!</p>
<p>They’ve now cancelled the entire a cappella competition and workshops. I think that is the right move, altho the kids are really disappointed.</p>
<p>Oh well!</p>
<p>I was at college in Boston (Tufts) for that blizzard too! I have awesome memories. But I also remember what the coast looked like in the aftermath. It was basically a nor’easter with snow and there was a lot of damage. Stay safe and warm folks!</p>
<p>Governor just declared a state of emergency in MA. Most schools - including our town - are going to close tomorrow. Poor hubby has to work in the AM, tho. I wish everyone could just be home, so I don’t have to wait for their return.</p>
<p>NYC is expecting to be hammered, too. I have a kid at Juilliard and a kid at Fordham LC. Fordham LC has cancelled classes tomorrow. Jyard is in a holding pattering…</p>
<p>Hope all of you stay warm and dry and very safe. I am so sorry, Marbleheader, maybe your husband’s work will get cancelled…</p>
<p>Wow…stay safe Marbleheader…and warm!! I can’t imagine that kind of snow. We shut down with a bare dusting! LOL!</p>
<p>Thanks everyone - just charging up all our phones/devices. Other than that, I have spaghetti and meatballs for tomorrow - and brownie mix! We need nothing else!</p>
<p>How is it where you are, marbleheader? Hope things are okay!</p>
<p>WOW is all I can say! I am about to try to take the dog out, but there is only really one door I can push open at this point! And just to make you laugh, our dog is half black lab - half basset hound. She’s a big dog, but only about three inches off the ground! With all the drifts, we luckily have a bare spot out in the backyard where I can bring her, but she’ll have to jump through the deep snow first.</p>
<p>But it is absolutely beautiful outside!</p>
<p>The pictures of Boston (and Hartford) have been amazing…I cannot imagine if my son goes to Hartt next year and is faced with a blizzard of this magnitude. My poor southern boy will not know what to make of it! I laugh just thinking of it!!!</p>