<p>Can’t reach my son and just wondered about the weather. Thanks!</p>
<p>I just got some photos from my friends who live in Arlington (outside Cambridge). It looks pretty bad! She said that there were no streets in their town where 2 cars could pass. Also, Boston mayor declared no school Monday or Tuesday. Hopefully son is out having a snowball fight!</p>
<p>The snow has stopped. Saw some people cross-country skiing on our street. Boston mayor suggested that people stay home on Monday (though H probably will trudge off to work). H and Ss shoveled a path on our sidewalk, but people clearing snow off their cars are dumping it right back onto the sidewalk. It wasn’t too cold out this afternoon, but typically, it gets colder after a snowstorm.</p>
<p>DS says there is a ton of snow about two feet. BU does not have classes tomorrow. He’s hoping that he can get into the college of fine arts building to practice. He could not today…just couldn’t get there.</p>
<p>hahaha, we’ve got 30 inches of snow!!</p>
<p>Why haven’t you been able to reach him? The power’s been on the whole time…:/</p>
<p>His phone’s turned off, he’s talking on it, he’s in a building where it doesn’t work, he’s having too much fun to talk, he’s buried in the snow somewhere, who knows? I didn’t mean to make it sound as if I was worried that I couldn’t reach him. I just wondered if the snow was over his head yet. Thanks for the responses.</p>
<p>The weather channel reports that parts of Boston have up to 36 inches and the governor is urging public school districts to close for two days.</p>
<p>The snow is fun! We’re in the middle of finals here at Harvard but since they pretty much never close school for anything, everyone still has to get up and take tests tomorrow. For the time being though, we’re having a good time. Snowball fight in the Yard in 15 minutes!! :)</p>
<p>We are a few miles north of Boston on the coast and had a total of 38 inches plus drifts up to the roof of my neighbors house! My dog can’t walk in the back yard and he is a large standard poodle! The snow is beautiful but has taken a day to remove from the driveway and the front walk and the streets are narrow and need more clearling. The problem in Boston is always the commuting efforts over the next few days. With no parking and narrow streets, it will likely be a slow and tedious journey through the streets. Mayor Menino was on TV today asking people to stay home from work and also telling people that he was looking for land to dump the snow on - they haven’t done snow removal yet, just plowing! It is also very cold - about 1 degree here tonight! Boots are important given the depth of the snow and the need for walking in it! But, snow is fun for students, as I recall!! Schools are closed here tomorrow and I noticed a number of College/University closings as well. The Mayor doesn’t want people driving around the city tomorrow so schools with many commuters were asked to close.</p>
<p>We’re just one town over from Boston and there’s no school today or tomorrow. It took my H 2.5 hours to clear just the driveway using the snow blower. The snow is so deep that it’s a two-step method of blowing the lower stuff and shovelling down the higher stuff so the blower can reach it. A couple of D’s friends came over yesterday to help with shovelling and built a huge igloo in the backyard–complete with two entrances and skylights. Fortunately, we have electricity and heat, so we ate spaghetti while watching the Patriots beat the Steelers for the AFC championship! Temp this morning is 5 degrees, -15 wind chill. Have seen no squirrel tracks in the backyard, so they’re not moving. No work today due to storm, so may go x-country skiing in a nearby cemetery if I can talk myself into layering my thermal underwear. For pictures of the blizzard and its aftermath, go to <a href=“http://www.boston.com%5B/url%5D”>www.boston.com</a>.</p>
<p>Boston–please send NC at least 3 feet of snow. Thank you.</p>
<p>Bluealien01-</p>
<p>After the fiasco last Wednesday in Raleigh after 1 inch of snow, NO NO NO NO NO!</p>
<p>NO SNOW! I can’t imagine. Took 15 hours to get from RDU up Capital into Northeast Raleigh. NO SNOW here! Don’t even whisper the word snow!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>I know it did–only because some people cannot drive properly. I still want snow. Enough to cancel classes for a few days</p>
<p>i have 20 inches of snow up here pa</p>
<p>Send some south.</p>
<p>Photo of Boston snow made the front page of our Norcal local paper. I have been teasing S but he refuses to take the bait. He figures he’ll deal with it when the time comes. I called the BU admissions office to check on something yesterday and got a recorded message that it was closed, so I knew the snow was pretty bad.</p>
<p>United Airlines is offering $277 fares from Boston to San Francisco.</p>
<p>S called on Sunday from LA. When told about the blizzard, he reported that there was a smog alert and he couldn’t see more than three blocks away. Not quite sure if he was exaggerating or not.</p>
<p>Now we have a winter storm watch for tomorrow–possibility of up to seven more inches of the white stuff! There’s no place to put it when snowblowing/shovelling. Argh!</p>
<p>I just can’t resist posting this column which was in our local paper (Democrat & Chronicle Sunday). Anybody from Upstate New York can certainly relate…</p>
<p>As winter progresses, so do our views of the snow
by Mark Hare </p>
<p>(January 23, 2005) Oh, yeah.</p>
<p>Like most of Rochester, by the start of winter I have forgotten what I know about it.</p>
<p>In July, it seems so far away, so removed from the simple pleasures of gardening, baseball and beaches that you can’t honestly picture winter ever darkening your door again. But, of course, it will. </p>
<p>And it has.</p>
<p>So let me remind you of the four phases of Rochester winter: Romancing the Snow, Challenging the Snow, Cursing the Snow, and Forgetting the Snow. </p>
<p>In the first phase, you hear people say things like, “Isn’t it pretty,” or “The snow just makes everything seem so pure and clean,” or “Gosh, I hope we have a white Christmas.” </p>
<p>Snow is seen as magical during the Romancing phase. You hear people talk about how neat it is to have four distinct seasons. (Later, they will conclude that we really have only two seasons frigid and more frigid.) During this early winter period, people are so smitten by the snow that they forget how to drive in it, hence the first snowfall rash of wrecks. </p>
<p>This phase lasts until Jan.2. Once the holidays are over, no one talks about the joys of a fresh coating of lake effect.</p>
<p>In the second phase (where we are now), we look to the skies masochistically. You hear people say, “If we’re going to have to endure this, we should at least go for a record,” or “I can’t believe they’re complaining about 2 inches in Atlanta. What a bunch of wimps,” or " I can’t believe they’re saying we got 3 inches last night it looks like 10 to me." </p>
<p>In the Challenging the Snow phase, we are obsessed with numbers. We are already way sick and tired of shoveling and waiting at red lights, wondering whether the wind-blown signal above is about to crash through the windshield and kill us. So we want to quantify the misery and get credit for it. </p>
<p>“Ten below! That has to be a record.” On Groundhog Day, we all get a good laugh out of the idea that six more weeks of winter would be the alternative to an early spring. </p>
<p>Remember?</p>
<p>The second phase ends around Valentine’s Day. That’s when the serious grumbling begins. That’s when everybody suddenly realizes that they haven’t seen daylight since before Halloween. It is Cursing the Snow time. </p>
<p>In February, we can’t remember what grass looks like or why it has to be mowed. We have no recollection of lilacs, and we awaken in the middle of the night worrying about ice dams on the roof and water finding its way into our walls and ceilings. </p>
<p>We have noticed that snow is not really white at all, but a dingy gray, that it often has frozen potato chip bags stuck to it.</p>
<p>As March begins, we long for relief, but fear ice storms and multiple episodes of wet, heavy, heart-attack snow. As the vernal equinox approaches, we feel entitled to what the calendar promises. But real spring is weeks away. We spot a crocus popping through the soft wet soil on Tuesday; by Thursday its tiny head is buried under another late winter snow. </p>
<p>“Why us?” we ask no one in particular.</p>
<p>By April Fool’s Day, winter has broken us. We are ready to move on, torn between the urge to start digging in the garden and the reality of frostbite should we try. </p>
<p>And then it happens. Forgetting the Snow has arrived. Before long our memories have been purged and the sound of hedge clippers fills the air. And six months later we’ll be hoping for a white Christmas. </p>
<p>Some people would say we’re nuts.</p>
<p>Snow continues in Boston - Forecast is for another 5-8 inches tomorrow!</p>
<p>Third day of no school in the Boston area.</p>