On 2015-01-26 20:37, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> The big snow starts after midnight. Expecting 24", maybe more.


I was at the dog park today and we were expressing our sympathy for the
people in NY getting the horrible storm we were hearing about. Then I
watch the news and heard about the horrible road conditions, and they
showed them..... slush on the streets. We had worse here and thought
it was just normal.

If they were so upset about it then I don't know what they are going to
be like when the storm actually hits.

On 1/26/2015 10:20 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-01-26 20:37, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> The big snow starts after midnight. Expecting 24", maybe more.
>
>
> I was at the dog park today and we were expressing our sympathy for the
> people in NY getting the horrible storm we were hearing about. Then I
> watch the news and heard about the horrible road conditions, and they
> showed them..... slush on the streets. We had worse here and thought
> it was just normal.
>
> If they were so upset about it then I don't know what they are going to
> be like when the storm actually hits.

You've never seen more disappointed people as all the news and
weather people out of NY realizing they have to fill the show with
covering this little snow. Oh how hopeful they sound when they
say it's not over yet!

nancy

On 1/27/2015 9:04 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 1/26/2015 10:20 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2015-01-26 20:37, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>>> The big snow starts after midnight. Expecting 24", maybe more.
>>
>>
>> I was at the dog park today and we were expressing our sympathy for the
>> people in NY getting the horrible storm we were hearing about. Then I
>> watch the news and heard about the horrible road conditions, and they
>> showed them..... slush on the streets. We had worse here and thought
>> it was just normal.
>>
>> If they were so upset about it then I don't know what they are going to
>> be like when the storm actually hits.
>
> You've never seen more disappointed people as all the news and
> weather people out of NY realizing they have to fill the show with
> covering this little snow. Oh how hopeful they sound when they
> say it's not over yet!
>
> nancy
>
Did everyone stock up on "white food"?

Jill

jmcquown wrote:
> Did everyone stock up on "white food"?
>
> Jill

We always have that "white food". I did my normal shopping for people
food, but did get a few more bars "just in case". However, the range in
my daughter's area is gas and can be lit even if the electricity is off,
so bars weren't even necessary. I baked a bit last night and plan to
bake banana-something (dunno what LC "starch" approach I will take) and
corn (or "corn") bread today, the latter to go with chili. Chili, of
course, is a perfect dish for a day like today.

(LC possibilities are hazelnut, almond, or pecan bread, or a combination
thereof.)

On 2015-01-27 9:04 AM, Nancy Young wrote:

>> If they were so upset about it then I don't know what they are going to
>> be like when the storm actually hits.
>
> You've never seen more disappointed people as all the news and
> weather people out of NY realizing they have to fill the show with
> covering this little snow. Oh how hopeful they sound when they
> say it's not over yet!


On a related note..... I am pretty disappointed with CNN these days. Are
they suffering from some sort of budgetary cuts that they can only
handle one news story at a time. Last month it was the Air Malaysia
crash. They had almost non stop coverage for two weeks until the Charlie
Hebdo killings and the manhunt for the shooters. Then the snowmageddon
..... nonstop all last night.

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:04:15 -0500, Nancy Young
> wrote:
>
> You've never seen more disappointed people as all the news and
> weather people out of NY realizing they have to fill the show with
> covering this little snow. Oh how hopeful they sound when they
> say it's not over yet!
>
It seemed like it was 24/7 gloom and doom is on the way type coverage.
Wasn't there any other news (besides Charlie Hebdo, of course)?

Then according to what I heard on the car radio last night, the
European weather model had put the storm farther out at sea, so they
predicted the East coast wouldn't be as walloped as our weather model
thought. That news was coupled with the news of a huge upgrade in
American weather predicting computers, so oopsies like this one will
be less likely to happen again.


--
A kitchen without a cook is just a room

On 2015-01-27 8:36 AM, wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:20:49 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2015-01-26 20:37, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>>> The big snow starts after midnight. Expecting 24", maybe more.
>>
>>
>> I was at the dog park today and we were expressing our sympathy for the
>> people in NY getting the horrible storm we were hearing about. Then I
>> watch the news and heard about the horrible road conditions, and they
>> showed them..... slush on the streets. We had worse here and thought
>> it was just normal.
>>
>> If they were so upset about it then I don't know what they are going to
>> be like when the storm actually hits.
>
> I just remarked the same to a friend and reminded her about when
> Lastman said he was calling out the military Toranna's never lived
> that one down.


I do not live in Toronto but didn't see a problem with calling in the
military to help out with a natural disaster. It wasn't like they called
them in to use the streets. They needed them and their all terrain
vehicles that went on emergency calls in areas ambulances could not get
too. We spend a lot of money on the military, buying the equipment and
training them to use it. It makes perfect sense to put them to use, to
give them a chance to get some practical experience and make use of
their logistical skills.

I don't understand why people try to make such an issue of Toronto
asking for assistance from the military in that situation but not about
them being called in to help with the ice storm damage in eastern
Ontario and Quebec. There were only 400 troops called in to help in
Toronto. There were 16,000 sent to deal with the ice storm.


The only issue I had about the ice storm was guys like a couple of
reservists I worked with how wouldn't go when their unit was sent. They
whined about work commitments. Those two were always talking about their
reserve work and all the neat equipment they, their winter camping
experiences etc. I expressed my feelings about the rest of us paying
taxes to buy their equipment and paying them while they were trained,
and how they had let us all down, that they should have been kicked out
and replaced by someone useful.

On 2015-01-27 11:36 AM, wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:13:39 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I do not live in Toronto but didn't see a problem with calling in the
>> military to help out with a natural disaster. It wasn't like they called
>> them in to use the streets.
>
> The problem was that it was a very minor storm

It wasn't exactly minor. They had had a series of storms and over a
period of two weeks they had 114 cm of snow... about 3 feet. That is
not minor in a city. In a rural area you can plow it over to the
shoulders, but you can''t do that on narrow city streets. The city was
struggling to keep major routes cleared but there lots of smaller
streets that they were unable to get to. They used the military and its
Bisons to provide emergency services when other vehicles could not get
to them.


>
>> I don't understand why people try to make such an issue of Toronto
>> asking for assistance from the military in that situation but not about
>> them being called in to help with the ice storm damage in eastern
>> Ontario and Quebec. There were only 400 troops called in to help in
>> Toronto. There were 16,000 sent to deal with the ice storm.
>
> The ice storm blanketed four provinces, nobody had power, it was
> urgent urgent to get round the houses and get elderly people out
> before they died of cold. That was just the beginning of the urgency.
> I know in Halifax apart from all the ice there were so many old, huge
> trees brought down, across roads or worse yet through houses. The
> whole thing was a terrible mess. Many died here one way and another.

Toronto is not entitled to 400 troops in an emergency situation, but a
smaller number of people over a larger area are entitled to 40 times
that number? I think that the millions of taxpayers in Toronto are
entitled to something for their money.




> Anyway, so far so good here. They were correct the winds are just
> beginning to really zoom, snow is flying horizontally past my window.
> Now what it is going to be like up in Cheticamp, I can't imagine
> They reckoned their gusts would run 120+.

Ouch. I would imagine that Cheticamp would be desolate enough at any
time in the winter, never mind a blizzard.
>

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 10:36:53 AM UTC-6, wrote:
>
>
> When things were back to normal I saw the story of a Quebec small town
> that was heart breaking. I sent a cheque to the mayor and I guess
> many others did too. I had a lovely letter many months later saying
> how touched they were to find non-Quebeckers would try to help.

I had never seen Quebeckers spelled with a "k" before, so I looked it up,
and it seems that is perfectly proper when referring to English speakers.
Somehow I had gotten it into my head that these days it was politically
correct to call all Quebecers, "Quebecois," which in Midwestern vernacular
would be pronounced Kuh-beck'-ees (I know it's keh-beck-kwah').

St. Louis has French roots, being named after King Louis IX, and there is
a large creek near here called the Courtois Creek. It is pronounced,
coat'-away. It's funny, the corruptions of names. There is Rolla, MO,
named after Raleigh, NC. Some settlers were from Raleigh, and they
pronounced the name, roll'-uh, so...

Cabool, MO is named after Kabul, Afghanistan, and is pronounced, kuh-bool',
and Cairo, IL is pronounced like the corn syrup, care'-oh.

--Bryan

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 6:20:08 PM UTC-6, wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:01:16 -0800 (PST), Bryan-TGWWW
> > wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 10:36:53 AM UTC-6, wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> When things were back to normal I saw the story of a Quebec small town
> >> that was heart breaking. I sent a cheque to the mayor and I guess
> >> many others did too. I had a lovely letter many months later saying
> >> how touched they were to find non-Quebeckers would try to help.
> >
> >I had never seen Quebeckers spelled with a "k" before, so I looked it up,
> >and it seems that is perfectly proper when referring to English speakers.
> >Somehow I had gotten it into my head that these days it was politically
> >correct to call all Quebecers, "Quebecois," which in Midwestern vernacular
> >would be pronounced Kuh-beck'-ees (I know it's keh-beck-kwah').
> >
> >St. Louis has French roots, being named after King Louis IX, and there is
> >a large creek near here called the Courtois Creek. It is pronounced,
> >coat'-away. It's funny, the corruptions of names. There is Rolla, MO,
> >named after Raleigh, NC. Some settlers were from Raleigh, and they
> >pronounced the name, roll'-uh, so...
> >
> >Cabool, MO is named after Kabul, Afghanistan, and is pronounced, kuh-bool',
> >and Cairo, IL is pronounced like the corn syrup, care'-oh.
> >
> >--Bryan
>
> My French is Parisian French, so I don't have a lot in common with
> Quebec French, which IMO is more a patois.
>
> The one that really got to me when we first came here was people, in
> referring driving to the USA, would suggest crossing at Callus.
> Finally after combing the map I realised they meant Calais.

If they were being totally honest, I think even most Mainers themselves
would agree that they talk funny.

--Bryan