THERE IS A STORM

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that banana is so scared

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BNW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

some kind of lord, obviously

(and now, I will offer my paraphrasing of this one part in Twister, having not watched it since the late 90s)

Helen Hunt sits at a desk, sulking, ignoring the others who are jolly. They might finally see a crazy storm tomorrow and get that miracle pepsi can science contraption up in the air, this is a time for celebration, for hope! what is she so dang mad at?!

"Helen Hunt has more of a right to sulk over the thought of a twista than all of us combined. remember the great hellstorm of 1973? well, Helen Hunt was IN that storm, It was a category 7 - the highest on the scale. Winds up to 140 mph, the finger of an angry god scraping trails over this wretched landscape. It killed her pa, and two of her brothers, along with 42 other people. nearly swept her up as well. Ever since that she's been chasing these storms...hard to say why...maybe to understand why god fingered her...with his wretched, violent finger in 1973 when she was just a child. She is a legend."

(Paul Reiser and Bill Paxton knifefight in the background)

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Weather Warning

Issued at 11 November 2010 - 06:15
Severe weather warning
Stormy conditions will become widespread over Ireland later this morning and during the afternoon. Stormy conditions will continue this evening but will moderate from the west overnight. Gale force westerly winds will gust between 100 and 120 km/hr generally, but gusts of up to 140 km/hr are expected in exposed parts of Connacht and Ulster. These winds are likely to lead to some structural damage and will be accompanied by high seas on Atlantic coasts.
Valid 0900hrs Thursday 11/11/10 to 0300 hrs
Friday 12/11/10

Gale Warning

Southwest to west gale to storm force winds today and for a time tonight on all Irish coastal waters and on the Irish Sea, with winds occasionally reaching violent storm force on coasts from Slyne Head to Erris Head to Malin Head.
Issued at 12:00 on 11-Nov-2010

THERE IS A STORM

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/warnings.asp

it's really windy tonight

eh, in a crosspost with the insomnia thread, i don't suppose i'd be sleeping even if there weren't 60mph gusts doing deafening misdeeds to the wooded area behind my house.

hmmph i'm not really expected to get up now am i

Glasgow had Hurricane Bawbag back at the start of December, while ILX was offline. Today it is again rather windy up here, but I still went for a run this morning.

GOOD OMEN

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tropical-storm-amanda-forms-1st-named-storm-eastern-23843283

Wanna blow down all the trees
and flood all the creeks
Amanda

Holy crap nyc right now

Not so bad in my neighborhood right now. Where you at?

Wmsbrg

The sky just turned evil really rapidly. Just your average spring storm I suppose

This tropical storm is a doozy, that's what I hear.

OK, hearing the sound of thunder now.

upgraded to major hurricane
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congratulations! :)

my what a pretty eye u have

Wanna tape up all the windows
And head to higher land
Amanda

weird how there's calm in your eye IMO

Thought it was kinda weird too, but this is a major hurricane

...AMANDA RAPIDLY WEAKENS TO A CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE...

Uh oh

hey Southeast

NYC gettin wet for holiday

in NY terms i am seeing a huge non-event

Wanna tape up all the windows
And head to higher land
Amanda

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lol

winds for the ages out there tonight i might hop out the door and float into town for a look

remember to hook a fishing line around the refrigerator and let it spool out in the way, so you can easily reel yourself back home!

wisdom comes dropping slow in our house but ill remember for again

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good thing that image was captioned or it would be very hard to appreciate what you're looking at

Damn storm blew the hay loft door off my barn

Wow:

The roads in the St. Louis-region are BAD. Here’s a view from Imperial, MO this morning courtesy of Joe Lawson. #stlwx pic.twitter.com/dksFOpfE0p

— Brian Munoz (@brianmmunoz) January 22, 2024

@RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @iamRafeWilliams @lernvsradio this is a fire truck here in Arnold imperial area,, this morning rock community pic.twitter.com/virQbw5sLS

— Dusty (@digglerjuice) January 22, 2024

HERE IT COMES

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Got my LL Bean boots oiled up and ready for this shit, bring it on

Are all the NE & SE Ilxors ready for this shit? It looks pretty gnarly

I'm nervous. We did do a successful grocery run this morning though. Just don't want a repeat of the 1994 ice storm.

i’ll believe it when I see it

my mom in VA is going over to stay with my sister so she doesn't get snowed in, so yeah they are ready at least.

20" projected for Charlottesville

yeah I saw a 17* high for Little Rock

gonna go to the store soon, hopefully the shelves aren't bare. then it's just a matter of staying inside for a couple days, i'm a pro at that

My husband is still ill from the cold snap on Tuesday.

Current GFS model run is dropping 23.9" of snow here in Central KY, which is more than I've seen on the ground here in my lifetime. Even our most alarmist local meteorologist is hoping that's an outlier...

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It's wild to have some giant weather system hit basically everywhere *but* Chicago. Or maybe we are just distracted by the (checks phone) currently -8 temperature. My daughter had her classes cancelled *in Wisconsin*, where it is currently -18 (but "feels like -32"!).

my school refused to cancel classes but told us to "feel free" to have zoom class. i chose to have regular class and it honestly wasn't all that terrible. it's sunny, not windy, and there is no precipitation. put on some extra clothes and deal with it, folks.

Sent a long email to my union rep last on Wednesday, when 1) all busses were cancelled across the board, 2) schools remained open, 3) the school I was at--a country school in the middle of nowhere--decided to go ahead with their meetings, so my job wasn't cancelled. Turned out to be one of the three or four scariest drives of my life, two hours for what would normally be 50 minutes. There were, as I full well knew there would be, about 30 students in the whole school. Have finally learned to just cancel out of my job on such days and not worry about it.

Around here, availability of busses is often what determines a school day or not. That is, if for whatever reason the busses can't run or run safely, then no in-person school, since it's not fair to the kids that depend on the busses to find some other way there. Similarly if it's too cold they'll often move school to home learning, too, since they don't want kids out standing at the bus stop when it is sub zero.

There was a brief move here after COVID to send everyone online in a bad storm, but only some boards adopted it, and it seems to have fizzled away. So the drill here is: 1) make sure students are safe by cancelling busses; 2) leave schools open to get funding, and for parents who need them open; 3) try to make in if you're full-time (you probably live reasonably close anyway); and 4) supply teachers, good luck.

Bussing is the only reason for snow days, surely? I find it weird that in NYC the buses aren't owned by the DOE but are privately owned contractors or whatever the technical term is.

Anyway I think I have all the ingredients to make bolognese so that's what I'm going tomorrow probably.

x-post I heard something about NYC keeping schools open on snow days because of the number of children who are eligible for and get free meals at school. Don't know if other jurisdictions account for this in their snow policies.

As for contractors operating school buses, I assume lobbyists per$uaded the higher-ups to contract out these services.

usually I hope for warmth but its better to have cold and snow than ice storm and warm

LIES!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201rqBgQCk

Looks like we’re in the southern fringe of it — some “wintry mix” and maybe a little snow. That’s down from “up to 20 inches of snow” earlier this week lol. Our grocery stores are all totally cleared out regardless. The only real worry is ice, which is just very unpredictable.

not excited about driving to Houston on Sunday in this

f. hazel, be careful if you drive on Sunday. The Houston weather team i follow (Space City Weather) are sober minded and generally hype free but they are advising to travel with caution since they can’t predict rain fall on Saturday night and if there will be freezing on roadways

HISD is cancelling school on Monday

So far so good...but yesterday our forecast showed a brief window today from about 9am to 1pm with no rain and slightly above freezing temps before the plunge, where power lines and trees could drip-dry a bit. That window is gone this morning, with rain and freezing rain continuing a little into the temp drop.

We got some icing last night, but turned into rain and it looks like that's what we get for the rest of the day. Pretty much a nothing here, just cold and wet. Even though schools are already closed tomorrow out of caution, which is probably good because with the temperature drop tonight I guess we could still get ice on the roads.

Very respectable snowstorm here - a manageable amount that has made things look pretty and inspired pretty much everyone to stay inside in their jammies with cocoa and Netflix. It's Sunday morning and we have known this was coming for a week.

No one has been able to talk about anything other than the appropriate amount of grocery shopping to have done. Which is understandable because the news is uniformly horrible so the weather is what we talk about.

I have discovered an amazing coincidence: everyone I talk to knows how to calibrate their pre-storm shopping appropriately. It is truly amazing: going by self-reported data, everyone's approach was precisely measured and correct. Anyone who bought more than them is clearly insane, and anyone less prepared is foolish.

Another finding from self-reported data: each of these people drives the exactly correct speed on highways.

I should add that the lovely snow is now changing to sleet the consistency of a Slurpee. All the shovelin' dads out there are congratulating themselves for timing it exactly right (shoveling before it got too heavy).

it’s times like these I thank god i live in a condo

xpost Shoveling before the sleet is a bad idea.

Trust me, the shovelin' dads considered every angle and concluded that their approach was best, considering all the factors.

Are you questioning the wisdom of the shovelin' dads?

When a post in your FB feed about the storm begins "Here in Nashville..." Peter Frampton is not the first person you expect to see as the poster.

Hated to do it, but cancelled a job today because of the weather. I've started following a "Perth Country Road Reporting" FB group that covers all the schools I go to (should have done that a while ago), and while you'll get conflicting reports depending upon time and who's posting, one of the two routes I could have taken to the job, a 10 km stretch of country road, had 15 cars in the ditch.

You know the weather is bad when it's been single digits here for a week and we just got five+ inches of snow dumped on us over the weekend and that's not enough to move the news needle. It felt like it was coming down for 24 hours here a couple of days ago, and I don't even recall the forecast that day calling for anything more than cold temps and "light" snow.

Peter Frampton is not the first person you expect to see as the poster

perhaps he can show you the way

I remember the devil may care feeling of living in an apartment and a storm is coming

seems like the biggest winter storm of the year on the east coast? was it a sleeper or something?

us east coasters busy digging themselves out today i guess.

i know losing power during a winter storm isn't exactly uncommon but i don't know what i'd do tbh, seems like a nightmare.

seems worse than losing power in the heat after a hurricane

lots of Northeastern homes have fireplaces or like my Connecticut home, a wood-burning stove installed during the energy crisis

Idk about the rest of New England but it got a lot worse for NYC like 1-2 days before than it had looked from further out. Weather Und said 3-5" and then suddenly it said 13-17". I charged everything up but lowing power isn't really the danger in NYC. The fun part will be having to go to work tomorrow.

My wife remotely checked the parking lot camera for her workplace to see if anyone had plowed and the plow guy was standing in front of the camera peeing into the snow.

lmao

but I hear Mamdani cleared the sidewalks! (seriously, for real)

mamdani has not cleared the sidewalks, but DSNY has absolutely cleared the bike lanes in my neighborhood, which is a handy way to avoid those places that haven't (as required by law) cleared their sidewalks

also mamdani is literally paying randos 30 bucks/hour to go around shoveling sidewalks tomorrow

yah that's what I saw!

southern mass/rhode island got absolutely nuked today; 30+ inches down there

yeah all time record for Providence I heard

my sister in narragansett got 32” on top of an already existing foot

jesus

Reportedly lots of places in Massachusetts got three feet! Boston Globe was unable to publish and deliver its print edition for the first time ever, iirc.

lots of places is relative, the 30+ totals were in a specific area of a very small state (i'm like 45 minutes from that area and we got about a foot). but yeah we were nowhere near melted from the last storm, so the sides of my driveway are 4-foot snow embankments right now

The only upside to this storm has been covering up the nasty dirty leftovers from a month ago

it's so pretty tho

(for now)

omg please post pics

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whoa

cool!

Interesting that there is a whole language around storms like this - rope cloud, sting jet, wraparound moisture, air parcels.

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Gift link

37.9 inches in Rhode Island. Still haven't seen a plow on my street; apparently the town's equipment isn't big enough and they're contracting out for bigger trucks. Lost power, but only for 6 hours. Considering myself lucky.