<p>I feel sorry for the kids that are visiting the east coast this week for admit days. The storm is a biggie, and not typical this late in the year. Have any of you changed your plans due to the weather. Airports are backed up - even the Boston Marathon is in danger of being cancelled. Not good! :(</p>
<p>They have it made in the shade. Imagine the poor Tulane students (and Loyola, Xavier, Dillard, and UNO kids) who had move-in day in the morning and evacuate for Katrina day in the afternoon!</p>
<p>Ah the weather. Everybody talks about it but nobody does anything about it except Al Gore and everywhere he goes to talk about global warming it snows!! We may be having the coldest April in history, the gods must hate him.</p>
<p>We just endured two visits in really crummy weather – but, hey, at least I know son hasn’t been wowed! by a pretty campus. (But, on second thought, maybe any wowing would be useful at this point…lol)</p>
<p>“endured” </p>
<p>Weenie - where do they put everyone when it’s raining cats and dogs?</p>
<p>Ahh… We are headed to Providence early Tuesday morning - flying through Newark. I keep watching the weather hoping for some assurance that the storm will have passed by then. Coming from Florida, we really don’t have appropriate clothes for this weather - assuming we actually get there.</p>
<p>MUM keep an eye on your flight status - there have been flights cancelled already up this a-way 
- but the worst of it is supposed to be done by monday afternoon - so you just may be in luck - but bring a raincoat anyways :)</p>
<p>The weather just LOVES us - LOL - for my guy - move in day - in the eye of a hurricane - his wedding - during a hurricane - his honeymoon during another one - hey they made the best of it and had a great wedding and honeymoon :)</p>
<p>For my gal - college tour with the hook out on a hurricane that seems to follow us the whole way - evacuated a week after school started - BOY it was really FUN!! :D</p>
<p>Thanks JeepMOM - unfortunately, I don’t own a raincoat - too hot for one here and the rain doesn’t usually last that long (but I will bring an umbrella). I’m not going to complain after reading your weather related incidents. Glad to hear your family takes it all in stride. Hope this storm is kind to you.</p>
<p>MUM - you may want to pick up a poncho - cheap - keep handy :)</p>
<p>LOL if we didn’t take it in stride - we would never have gotten either to college - or my son married LOL… but gives us great stories to tell :D</p>
<p>Good Luck on your trip up this way - and enjoy New England - it gets better :)</p>
<p>AGHHHHHHHH! This weather! We are supposed to be flying OUT of NE on Tuesday morning…I do expect the worst of this to be over, but we specifically chose to do this trip in April, rather than February, thinking that the weather would be better. Um…not really! And it keeps changing…I am watching the forecast and it seems to be changing by the hour!</p>
<p>JeepMOM - thanks again for the advice. I think I might have an old poncho (still in the original package) that was given to me at some conference years ago - now I have to go see if I can actually find it!</p>
<p>We’re driving from DC to Hanover on Wednesday. I’m sure that’ll be interesting. :eek:</p>
<p>CAMELIASINENSIS - things will be fine by then - tho may still have some rain in the general area - Enjoy Hanover tho - pretty place</p>
<p>^I’m glad to hear that – I was starting to worry. It’s always unsettling to turn on the TV in the morning and see “BREAKING NEWS!!!” about the weather.</p>
<p>CAM - if ya like to cook/bake - make sure to visit the King Arthur FLour store - a very short ways from campus - thru town (with Dartmouth green on your right) - cross bridge - take a left - down a short ways on the left - yummmy place LOL</p>
<p>MUM - while in Providence - go to the Cheesecake Factory - yummy</p>
<p>The weather was the final deciding argument that kept us from flying up to Albany yesterday… D was already 95% sure that she wasn’t heading to Williams for the fall, but the weather predictions were enough to convince me to stop telling her that we should still go. She didn’t feel well, the weather report sucked, and I finally gave up. Another college decision made in the hallway (standing over our packed bags) at 6:00 a.m. !!! (jk, decision has been made over months of excruciating study and debate, and not without LOTS of spreadsheets, books, pro/con lists and disagreement). I think the planets just aligned and caused this nor’easter to remove all doubt.</p>
<p>I hope everyone on the NE coast is safe, this looks like a nasty storm. Here’s some good wishes from hurricane country.</p>
<p>I, too hope everyone back east stays safe. It is unfortunate that pre-frosh admitted student visits are this week but there is a bright side. At least your children will see real weather. Ours has yet to. She is finishing her freshman year in Boston and has yet to experience really ugly Boston weather. She still thinks Boston is nirvana. While I want her to have a wonderful 4 year college experience, I want her to want to move back to So Cal when it is all over! 68 degrees, clear and beautiful here today. (apologies to those of you back east).</p>
<p>Wait - I’m just trying to picture living someplace where it’s too hot for a raincoat. (post #8) 
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<p>Must be nice.</p>