QUOTE(Beta Link @ Feb 9 2010, 12:11 AM)
I heard we're supposed to get as much as 18 inches here on Wednesday... And just a few days ago it flurried a bit.
Ditto to the T. I'm a few miles to the west of this awesome guy 'ere, and I think from what I saw on the Radar map, I may be situated in the epicenter of the storm. The southwestern coast of Long Island, New York, will be hit quite hard.
I was working in the hardware store today, and I literally couldn't unpack shovels fast enough. People were buying them at an incredible rate.
But something crosses my mind... we didn't get snow that long ago. Whatever happened to the shovels they had used
then?I'll tell you what they did with them. They
sold them! Good lord, we've had people trying to return snow shovels
that still had snow on them. Actual snow. Unmelted. Creating a puddle beneath the register desk. Their excuse? "The snow is too heavy," or "It's too cold out to shovel in this weather, so I'm going to shovel when it's warmer." Hilarious, because it's colder during the date of transaction than it was during the storm. You win a something.
QUOTE(Fefe)
Around here, that's like nothing! That's not even close to closing a school.
A location would be awesome, but I agree with you there. In New York, people here hare hardcore. We will barely close
anything unless there's over two and a half feet of snow on the ground,
unplowed. I've had to walk to school before in subzero weather and stepped in a snowdrift I thought was the sidewalk but turned out to be ... well, an honest to gosh snowdrift. Fell right in. Was fun.
Luckily, my college has canceled all classes tomorrow. So yay. Going back to work.