Northeast hammered by October snowstorm

[Goober McTuber]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/31/us/east-c ... ?hpt=hp_t2


Almost 2 million customers without power. Coincidentally, suckaholic hasn't posted since Saturday.

Rack the snowstorm that hit paydirt.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Coincidentally, suckaholic hasn't posted since Saturday.

Same deal with Toddowen.

Rack the FUCK out of Mother Nature.

[Dinsdale]

Snow in October?

Nice living, dorks.

I've never shovelled rain, and it's barely rained in months.

Wait, I mean...

The NE suits you guys well.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

I thought you Yankees were set up to handle shit like that? :grin:

We are. This thread is about east coasters.

[Mikey]

High 70s here today with no clouds in sight. Nice, but it's starting to look like fire season.

[socal]

Yeah, but Mikey it's getting pretty cool at night. I think it mighta been 49.

[BSmack]

Coincidentally, suckaholic hasn't posted since Saturday. Rack the snowstorm that hit paydirt.

He was in chat when his power bit the dust. His last words were "UPS gives me 15 more minutes. Will need to log off. DAMN YOU POPTART!!!!!"

[Mikey]

Yeah, but Mikey it's getting pretty cool at night. I think it mighta been 49.

Brrrrr...had to wear sweats over my shorts during our morning walk today.

[poptart]

Coincidentally, suckaholic hasn't posted since Saturday. Rack the snowstorm that hit paydirt.

He was in chat when his power bit the dust. His last words were "UPS gives me 15 more minutes. Will need to log off. DAMN YOU POPTART!!!!!"

BODE!





You don't tug on Superman's cape...

[smackaholic]

greetings from the exit 67 mcD's. douchebag, if you are out there, get here quick. the luckystar bus stopps across the street at burger king.

Glad all you fukkers missed me.

Holly mother of fukkk!!!!!!!

This is the most fukked up thing I have ever seen.

6 inches of very wet snow on oak trees that have not shed their leaves is a very.....very.....very...... bad thing.

As you have already heard, CL&P abandoned my ass about 9PM saturday evening. Went to bed hoping that it wouldn't be too bad.

It wasn't. It was fukking worse.

Got up sunday morning, went down stairs and looked out side. Hmmmm, the plow hasn't been through. That's weird.

So, i got dressed and walked out to the street. Looked one way, limbs/power lines in road. Looked the other way, limbs in the road. Limbs in my yard, limbs in the street. Motherfukking oak tree limbs EVERYFUKKINGWHERE!!!!!.

Fortunately, one direction was passable. So those with 4X4 that made it to my house had to turn around in my drive and head back. As soon as a pickup with a plow on it did that I asked if he'd be kind enough to drop his blade on the way out. He did. So, now at least I can go into town and get my caffeine fix.

Yeah, right. Had to turn around a few times as half the fukking roads in town were blocked. No power, nowhere. Went to mom in laws as she never looses power with a substation in her back yard. No power.

Finally got coffee in west hartford ,which is a good 25 miles away.This shit is crazy. certainly will be no shortage of firewood for a few years as about half of the oak tree biomass in northern ct is on the fukking ground.

i figure i will have power by thanksgiving.

fortunately work has power. well, they don't have CL&P supplied power. they got twin bigass caterpillar v-12 turbodiesels. damn those fukkers are nice. they run our entire place, which swallows watts like pickle swallows jizz in an nba locker room. was talking with Roger, our HMFIC today. asked if he was broke from buying diesel yet. he said they actually do pretty well. about 80-85 gallons an hour. sounds like a lot, but we use at least 3.1 jiggawatts/hr. i was surprised they do that well.

well, fukksticks, time to head back into the darkness.

ciao.

[smackaholic]

and todd, no it ain't dannel flipping the breaker on and off. if you don't believe me, drive about 40 miles north and see for yourself.

[smackaholic]

is watching youpron in mcD's considered bad form? just wonderin'.

[Van]

Depends. Are any black folk jumping counters and starting melees as you sit there gettin' some?

[smackaholic]

Depends. Are any black folk jumping counters and starting melees as you sit there gettin' some?

Nope, not yet.

I guess it's cool if I sit in a corner, turn the volume off and refrain from masterbatin'. But what's the point of youpornin' without GYJO?

[smackaholic]

well kids, i'm outta here. and this time i mean it?

L8r.

[Dinsdale]

For the record, I played golf* yesterday.


* -- If you wanna call that mockery "playing golf." I was on a course swinging a club, anyway.

[Terry in Crapchester]

I'm not a huge fan of snow myself, but it won't kill you if you're prepared for it.

OTOH, I've never been in an earthquake, tornado or hurricane. I'm not sure any of the weather pussies can make that claim. And those things can kill you.

This time, I got spared, as the storm tracked to the east of me. Five years ago, I wasn't so lucky. As smackaholic says, six inches of very wet snow on trees that haven't yet shed their leaves is a very bad thing. And snow and lightning at the same time is just plain freaky, especially if it's occurring while you're trying to drive.

[Dinsdale]

I'm not a huge fan of snow myself, but it won't kill you if you're prepared for it.

OTOH, I've never been in an earthquake, tornado or hurricane. I'm not sure any of the weather pussies can make that claim. And those things can kill you.

:facepalm:

Uhm... you realize that snow kills more people than all the other shit you listed combined, right?

Right?

[Van]

And here I thought your :facepalm: would be for his "I'm not a huge fan of snow myself..."

Either you're slipping in your old age or, like a hardcore junkie, your tolerance is such that it takes a much larger hit before you notice anything.

[Dinsdale]

Either you're slipping in your old age...

Nah, it comes and goes.

Like for instance, your use of "your" in the above quote is unnecessary, since "you're" already established me as the subject, rendering the possessive redundant.


But that would just be splitting hairs.

[Van]

Minus the 'your' I'd probably want to reconfigure the sentence to avoid a rather stilted awkwardness.

Either old age sees you slipping...

Either you're slipping due to old age...

Either you're slipping on the results of old-age induced incontinence...

[Python]

Eyes. Bleeding.

[Cuda]

For the record, I played golf* yesterday..

Nixon plays golf

[Mikey]

For the record, I played golf* yesterday..

Nixon plays golf

So you have it on good authority that he did, in fact, make it into Heaven?

[Ana Ng]

My kid was kinda geeked about shoveling snow from the driveway for the first time in his life.

[BSmack]

3.1 jiggawatts/hr

You work in the ghetto?

[Goober McTuber]

My kid was kinda geeked about shoveling snow from the driveway for the first time in his life.

Wow. He's a big fucker. Who's the little guy in the Navy sweatshirt?

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

Wow. He's a big fucker.

I totally want to




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with that guy!

Sin,
KC Scott

[Dinsdale]

You married Jim Harbaugh?

[Cuda]

For the record, I played golf* yesterday..

Nixon plays golf

So you have it on good authority that he did, in fact, make it into Heaven?

an inappropriate response to an easy caddyshack reset earns you a kick in the balls if we ever meet

[Ana Ng]

You married Jim Harbaugh?

Ya.

I'm a lucky gal. He encourages blood on his cheek.

[War Wagon]

I'm a lucky gal. He encourages blood on his cheek.

he wants you to sit on his face while you're on the rag? :?

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

You're a real classy guy, Wags.

[smackaholic]

You married Jim Harbaugh?

Ya.

I'm a lucky gal. He encourages blood on his cheek.

nice family you got there ana. that pic could be from my house, just need to have 3/4 of the limbs in that oak tree behind them on the ground. well, OK, it would need a lawn mower and a few extension cords too.

did the storm do any tree damage up your way?

[smackaholic]

an hour or two short of 6 days. still plenty of folks in the area without it. was down at the subase today. you fukks didn't get a scratch. didn't see my first downed limb on the drive home until i got to lebanon or maybe columbia.

[smackaholic]

you fukks didn't get a scratch.

I don't know about that. A lot of leaves got blown off the trees prematurely. The entire Fall foliage viewing tourist season has been obliterated as a result. The economic losses of that no doubt will be in the multi-millions. Luckily, our governor has sucked Obama off nice enough to secure disaster relief for this terrible disaster.

the foliage was already the shit due to a very rainy summer/fall and recent warm weather. and all those leaves falling didn't knock any wires down unless they were still attached to limbs, which is the way they fell up this way.

[smackaholic]

get home last night.

lights still on.

heat still on.

cable/phone/interwebs connection? not so much!

:x :x

wonder how long i'll have to deal with intermittent stuff, before they finally get everything unfukked?