You should have bought those Caps tickets at the discount prices, CountingDown. You’d be able to turn them in for tickets to a game on a non-blizzard night. 
You know, @romanigypsyeyes , it’s interesting; I spent a lot of time in Michigan when i was young, and they definitely had a lot more snow overall than I was used to in the Northeast, but it never came in the blizzard, Snowmegeddon form that it seems we get every few years in the East. It seemed just like, oh, it’s snowing, again, and still, and always. Not, oh no, huge, life-pausing monster storm. I wonder if that was just an anomaly of that time. Just musing right now. It did seem different, though.
I grew up in Mass , but on the Cape . We didn’t have the same snow as Boston and our central and western neighbors did , but we did have some pretty big snowstorms and blizzards. I recall a few particularly harsh winters when there was snow on the ground for three solid months
Growing up north of Philadelphia, we had lots of blizzards, lots of snow days. The snow would pile up in the driveway and we’d build tunnels, hang out in them. The power would go out, we’d sleep in front of the fireplace, heat food there, too.
@garland the last few years have been very, very strange years. I have experienced four snow days during my college years but prior to that, MSU and U of M hadn’t had snowdays since the 70s. We’ve broken several snow records in the last 5 years (and don’t even get me started on the whole polar vortex!).
Then again, it also depends significantly on where you live. My parents in the Traverse area are used to many several feet of snow and when my best friend lived in the UP (Michigan Tech), it wasn’t uncommon to have snow piles as high as their house. We’re spoiled in the metro Detroit region because we’re usually pretty insulated from the snow (too far for lake effect, etc).
My dad grew up in metro Detroit and he has the same memories you do- snow wasn’t that bad when he was growing up around here.
ETA: Now I had to look up snow totals by year to see how anomalous these last few years have been. Found this instead: http://www.weather.com/storms/winter/news/detroit-record-snow-season-20140415
This year we’ve had about 3 storms (and I happened to be traveling up from Ohio during two of them!) but the snow has otherwise been pretty much non-existent. My birthday was this week and it was the first time in my memory that there wasn’t any snow on the ground during it.
Got a text from my son–he has a 47 mile commute from Fredericksburg to Gainesville, so after work Harris Teeter put him up in a hotel for the night. I can’t believe they’re expecting him to work 8 - 8 on Saturday! Who’s going to do grocery shopping in the middle of a blizzard?
Two types of people:
- Those who truly have some sort of urgent need -- baby formula or diapers, perhaps.
- Stupid people.
Just stupid people. If you didn’t realize your are out of baby formula or diapers until the storm hits, you are in the stupid people camp.
I woke up this morning and the storm went from oh look at how pretty the snow looks, to oh crap how will we get out of here? High winds, still snowing, and I can’t tell how much it is out there because of the drifts. My hot tub on my back porch is about half buried. We still have power thank goodness, I don’t get why we can keep power now but other times in far less weather conditions we lose power for days.
I would not want to be the people plowing us out. My neighborhood has not been touched yet and I’m wondering what is going on with the main roads.
Watching the news this morning and seeing reports of 35 mile backup in Kentucky and 15 mile backup on the PA turnpike, what were these people thinking? Have they not been paying attention to the news all.week.long? Lots of stupid people who should have listened to warnings that they should have stayed at home.
Yes, but there are always people who think the rules don’t apply to them.
Our truck bed is full, my patio seating walls are buried, yet I can see part of my neighbors sidewalk. I have no idea how to even measure. My neighbor has plowed the street and most of our driveways several times. I think he’s waiting until the worst is over around noon before doing more. We are close to whiteout conditions and it’s very windy. There was some sleet earlier.
A person on our community FB group was asking if anyone has Fritos! She was serious.
North of NYC, they upped our snow total from 3-5 to 10-15. I feel terrible for all the kids who had prepped for the SAT’s today. Everything around here has been cancelled.
The TV tells us we have about 15", looks closer to 2 ft on my patio. Just dug a path to the street so I can walk the dog. Thankfully the wind isn’t blowing hard here west of DC. The snow is of the dry and fluffy nature, not heavy.
I was thinking last night, passing a supermarket on my way back to work. (The snow didn’t start here till much later.)
Big storms like this are kind of like Christmas Eve.
You have plenty of warning. You have exactly as much time to prepare as everyone else.
And, emergencies aside, how prepared you are is totally up to you. No explanations, no excuses. Either you’re ready or you’re not.
They’ve upped our projections on Long Island-- up to 12-24 inches.
I may even get a snow day Monday out of this 
How cool. My daughter has missed a lot of school because of illness. We can prep for her math exam and do the favors for her upcoming Sweet 16. We have lots of hot chocolate (for her) and wine ( for me.)
I would prefer not to lose power, but we have flashlights… and my neighbor has a fireplace.
As long as my 85 year old mom keeps power, we’ll be OK. And if she doesn’t, my sister lives less than a mile away-- and has a fireplace.
Nobody seems to agree on what we’ll get in central CT, so I’ll just have to wait to see what happens. It’s not snowing yet.
S2 made it home last night, walking 2.5 miles in the snow in DC, since he apparently missed the last bus. He said it wasn’t bad. DC only had 3-4" when he was out. Now I see they have around 14". S1 (28yo) couldn’t understand why I was concerned about his brother (25yo) making it home OK. I told him he’d understand once he becomes a parent.
Here in suburbs of NYC we have about 6 inches so far - supposedly we’ll get up to 18". No robotics competition today, no SAT tests, everything basically closed, Maybe studying for mid-terms will happen! kids still sleeping - dog is happy in the snow!
Coastal CT here. I’ve been up for three hours and haven’t heard or seen a single car. Somehow, though, our NYT was delivered, and I graciously went out to get it before it became buried for three months.
Okay, I’ve had all the fun, now it’s time to stop. I’m east of dc on a county on the Bay and it is windy beyond belief.