<p>^^^ It’s split over two days - 3 to 5 on Tuesday, the rest on Wednesday.</p>
<p>It’s from channel 7 (WHDH) which usually has the highest estimates, it makes for better TV.</p>
<p>Agreed, the weather has been horrible. It only got up to about 60 degrees today and it even rained a little. It isn’t expected to get back into the 70s until later in the week. We will just have do what we can to stay warm until then.</p>
<p>ughhh - 18 more inches on top of the 40+ currently outside in my yard. Even though i love the snow, this is starting to get to me! And it isn’t even Feb yet…</p>
<p>The next one will be coming in Feb. It seems to come on Tuesday evenings when I have to pick my D up 25 miles away from home at 9 in the evening. Every Tuesday has been tense driving.</p>
<p>We are going up to Hartford to see our D in Mass on Thursday. We are hoping the mess will be over-and-done but who knows? At least we aren’t flying <em>in</em> through PHL, though we go home that way.</p>
<p>we’re in store for up to an inch of ice? that makes the problem with snow seem insignificant.</p>
<p>my commute to work is about 1 hour each way–and even though interstate is an option, it is susceptible to ice/drifting since it is such a rural windblown area of the state.</p>
<p>i teach two days a week and haven’t had any weather-related issues for the last couple of years. i will probably sit up all night long losing sleep on whether or not to drive to school or to just cancel class and stay home. two or three times already i’ve gone done to work a day early, spent the night and headed home. however, with this 3 day storm we are supposed to have, i really don’t want to be stuck away from home for the most of the week! yikes!</p>
<p>I live in Baltimore and we had almost 80 inches of snow last year. All but one of the storms has just skirted us this year. I was in Princeton this weekend and it reminded me how dangerous it is when you can’t see around the piles of snow.</p>
<p>Y’all can blame it on my kid in New Haven. Her first year in the NorthEast and y’alls worst early season snows ever. Hmmmm. Coincidence? I think not. 
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<p>She’s sent me several photos of her walk to school with appropriate captions. lol. I think she’s pretty amazed. Until now, real snow was always a vacation event in the mountains, and we always came home.</p>
<p>Hmmm. It might be pretty scary up here for her. I think her dad should fly on up and keep her company for a while. I heard tomorrow and Wednesday will be good flying days.</p>
<p>I mean, why should she (and us other Northeasterners) have all the trauma…I mean, fun, right?</p>
<p>I just read the weather report for tonight through weds. here in joisey. Oy vey. Now a nice ice cherry on top of all these piles of dirty snow. We can’t see around corners; there is nowhere to put the snow; and we also have a hard time deciding whether or not to close our office, due to inclement whether. People around here seem shell shocked. You can’t park properly in many lots because piles of snow have decreased the spaces and when you back out there is alot less room between rows (if that makes any sense.) To me the ice is the worst because it is very dangerous.</p>
<p>At times like these I miss two of my former locales - Manhattan, where I never had to drive, and good old Ithaca, where they cleaned up feet of snow in no time, and I also never had to drive. </p>
<p>We have such a big pile of snow on our property that I don’t think it will melt until april. </p>
<p>Talk about Groundhog Day…</p>
<p>The DPW crews have been out the last several days doing sidewalks and removing snow banks on corners to improve visibility. There are still lots of problem areas but they aren’t taking a break just because it isn’t snow out there right now. I like to use the good days to work on the stuff that I don’t take care of the day of the storm.</p>
<p>Wednesday’s forcast calls for ice here , and I am supposed to have a root canal…what a lovely combination</p>
<p>I think we could start a thread on choosing schools based on climate.–whatever climate has come to mean.</p>
<p>Suddenly I’m realizing why S rejected a wonderful offer from Drew University, in Madison, NJ, in favor of Clark in Worcester MA.<br>
Last February, we drove from Maine to NJ, visiting Accepted Student events at schools in NY and NJ. The snow in NJ was deeper and worse than in Maine. It was a backward weather year. On the Clark Accepted Student day in April, the weather was sunny in Worcester, foggy in Maine.
He chose Clark, where the weather was best on one of the days we visited.</p>
<p>So much for my belief that he made his choice based on sound academic issues. </p>
<p>I do wish he were home to shovel!</p>
<p>Bets were being taken at my school. Some folks don’t think we’ll see each other again until FRIDAY. I sure hope that isn’t the case.</p>
<p>Four to eight inches tomorrow here then 14 to 20 on Wednesday and they are talking about another storm Saturday night into Sunday.Wish I could get the heck out of here tonight!Starting to think a nice drug induced coma for the next month would be nice.</p>
<p>thumper, if I remember correctly you’re in northern ct. Me too. Even S (hs senior) is tired of snow days. Till Friday? Do you really think so? UGGGGHHH.</p>
<p>All I can say, is thank goodness for VPN and the ability to work at home. The good thing is that all these work at home days have proven to my boss (very old-school, prefers “face time” to work at home) that our team can accomplish a lot remotely. Hope he remembers.</p>
<p>steady freezing rain for the last half hour. my oh my. looks like i’m in for a few snow days this week!!</p>
<p>Our blizzard has now been upgraded to ‘may be life-threatening’.</p>
<p>Also, we just got a robotic phone call from our police department telling us about this storm.</p>
<p>Seriously, I’ll bet we get 10" at our house and no more. Yea, it will be a pain, but nothing like the people out east have had it.</p>
<p>Just in case I run out of food and need more calories to handle all the physical exertion needed to shovel/run the snow thrower, I made a batch of Ghiradelli brownies tonight.</p>
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<p>I’ve still got over 2 pounds of bar-b-q pig. I think I’ll be OK even if I am stranded.</p>
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<p>I’ll be baking those if we have a snowday…we have caramel turtle, and double chocolate Ghirardelli…yum.</p>