Polar Vortex 2014

Stupid sexy polar vortex pic.twitter.com/HLOClExSnc

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) January 30, 2019

WLKY looks a little like MILKY if you look fast enough.

MLFY

dashboard temp read -9, bank I passed by read -18.

lmfao

"It's colder in ___ than in Antarctica!" uh yeah it's summer there, that's not so unusual

holy shit, I'm in NYC and this is the fastest and hardest i've ever seen it go from clear to blizzard

like totally clear to total whiteout in less than five minutes

same thing happened here in Baltimore around 1pm, it was insane

xpost It was reportedly colder here than in Siberia and the Arctic. It's not summer there. Also colder than Mt. Everest.

Check this shit out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjKFYlPM0A

My wife gave me a heads up about this storm and I beat it home just in time. Kind of like when the hero outruns an explosion. I’m in Hoboken.

No kidding! The wind, wow.

Temp dropped super fast here last night. The frost quakes I posted about were insane. Lots of people woken up by them.

What’s a frost quake and can I buy one at DQ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q8maZVG6Uw

and now the snow in NYC stopped just as quickly

"or it could be ghosts Larry!

fmfao

lost power for two hours, temp dropped 15 degrees indoors, called comed (electric co) 5x and now i have to deal w the reality of going to work tomorrow morning :-/

what a nightmare to have electric/gas issues during this sorry LL

my nerves were tested
i failed!

oh no is it ok now???

yeah it was off for a few hours and the estimated repair time was wigging me out because who tells the truth about that stuff? but they were telling the truth. acc to the message i listened to 5x there were 1,772 customers affected by this outage and that seems pretty urgent, even under these circs

i'm not sure if my nerves are ok but we have power! that's a step in the right direction!

better in the city than semi-rural where you’re on the grid but service is a longer wait ime

I worked from home all day with no plans to leave the house but was an idiot and left at 4pm to meet coworkers for a drink

stopped at Target on the way home and the open refrigeration cases were empty, the store was cold, and the reserve staff was working — including my favorite target employee! he worked at an older store was closed down when they consolidated cans stopped having smaller lower income neighborhood stores and is a sassy older dude. warm moment on a cold day

glad you have power, LL! mine went out this morning right as i was waking up to go to work, but it was only -2F outside, instead of the crazy temps farther north. it made the decision to go straight to work pretty easy.

2 degrees F in New York this morning

next Tuesday's forecast: 56

Damn LL, that's scary. Glad everything worked out.

anyone else going stir crazy? i feel like i would strike up a conversation with a random pile of dust & hair in the corner if it would communicate back with me. i am not bored and have no shortage of things to entertain me but i am tired of entertaining myself and would like to do something slightly more productive. if i were a reclusive basement musical genius i could make a polar vortex album but i am not, unfortunately.

Making music is a great idea though!

make chili

I wish I was stir crazy, rather than at work

i was fine staying home, except i ran out of coffee because i was too tired and cold to go to the store monday night

today has only gradually been different from yesterday (we're up to -4 now, with a -20 windchill!), so it's funny to be out and to see everyone going around doing the same old things they were not doing yesterday

i helped an old woman with her wheelchair!! i hope santa is paying attention this far out from december 2019

Our power has been out since 9:30 AM

I've been at work, but about to head home into the darkness

*wolf howls in the distance*

geez that sucks

throw a bomb at them Karl

It was remarkable how many more people I saw out today.

omg karl! i hope it's back!! let us know either way if you can!!

so have your jobs been lenient? Sounds like not.

my school cancelled classes and closed tues night through thurs
(following the lead of many institutions of higher ed in the area -- which is a welcome change from pretending that our students are somehow more hardy than everyone else and able to attend classes in a weather emergency)

My wife worked from home both days. Both my kids had school canceled, though, weirdly, in one casenot parent-teacher conferences today.

xp yeah i had two and a half days cancelled but it didn't matter because i wasn't working during them anyway. campus seemed kind of sparse today even though it's more residential than commuter.

Power just came back on! My phone died too so I just went to bed, hungry, like a wicked Victorian child

glad you're charged

it’s now going to be uncharacteristically warm on sunday and I feel like the impending clogged storm sewer slush madness is going to be a dumb follow-up

prepare for the sidewalks to turn into churning rivers/log flumes of dog waste

I think I'll take it. Our cat was so confused the last couple of days, compelled to go outside and then figuratively frozen in confusion at the same time he was probably literally freezing. The other night as far as I can tell he was outside just long enough to throw up before coming back inside.

this morning he asked to go outside, so I let him out for a couple of minutes. when I opened the door for him he ran straight to his emergency litter box and peed.

i am not complaining, simply stating a fact. my littledogs have been going out and doing their business outside throughout this ordeal -- i just know there are several layers of frozen water about to melt that will reveal unknown treasures (dog poops)

i was worried night before last that you were going to have to rely on littledogs as your heat source!

that makes me grateful that there is a relatively low dog/house density in my neighborhood

I know my next door neighbors have probably just been letting their three dogs do their business in the fenced-in back yard for the last week and not picking anything up so the smells by next monday will be a treat