Gods damn! Last night we received another gift of snow from Ullr, Norse God of Snow: 4-6 inches of nasty white crap, which had to be shovelled away from our cars. Of course, it was still snowing when we were done, and we had about another inch or two of the foul precipitation when I checked around dinner time.
Will the torment never end?
Tonight’s weather report, courtesy of The Weather Channel:
Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service
… BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST SUNDAY…
TWENTY TO 30 INCHES OF SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INCLUDING THE CAPE AND ISLANDS AS WELL AS ALL OF RHODE ISLAND BY LATE SUNDAY… MAKING IT HIGHLY PROBABLE THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE FIFTH WORST SNOWSTORMS IN RECORDED HISTORY FOR BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE.
DRIFTS OF AT LEAST 6 FEET ARE EXPECTED IN PARTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND WITH WIND GUSTS AFTER MIDNIGHT ALONG THE COAST REACHING 55 TO 65 MPH… EXCEPT POSSIBLY TO 75 MPH ON NANTUCKET AND CAPE COD SUNDAY MORNING.
THE STRONG WINDS WILL CAUSE SEVERE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WITH WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES. THE WINDS LIKELY WILL ALSO TRIGGER AT LEAST SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES NEAR THE COAST… AND TO A LESSER EXTENT INLAND.
OVER CAPE COD… NANTUCKET AND MARTHAS VINEYARD… THE SNOW WILL LIKELY BE OF A SOMEWHAT WETTER CONSISTENCY… AND THUS CREATE THE RISK FOR WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES SUNDAY MORNING.
SNOW WILL TAPER TO SNOW SHOWERS LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON OR EVENING. CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL PERSIST INTO LATE SUNDAY EVENING ACROSS EXPOSED AREAS.
AMOUNTS AS HIGH AS 3 FEET POSSIBLE. THE MOST VULNERABLE LOCATIONS FOR 30 INCHES OR MORE OF SNOW ARE ESSEX… PLYMOUTH… NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE COUNTIES IN MASSACHUSETTS AND PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND.
ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL MAY CONTINUE ON THE CAPE AND ISLANDS INTO SUNDAY NIGHT.
And the best part of all:
ANY TRAVEL IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED UNTIL LATE SUNDAY OR SUNDAY NIGHT. IF YOU LEAVE THE SAFETY OF BEING INDOORS YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR LIFE AT RISK.
Well, I signed the lease for our new apartment this morning. So it’s official.
I also dropped off our air mattress and my sleeping bag. No more hotels for me!
Of course, this also means that I’ll not have a phone until Comcast can set up our combined cable internet and phone connection. Oddly enough, we won’t be getting any cable television service from them…
These days all our photos are stored on Flickr. Pretty much just like everyone else. Our old photos are also still available.
