Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 1/26/2015 7:16 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> > I am not getting too much info. on this on Facebook. Hope all the
> > folks here are fine and have plenty of food! I wanted to bake
> > bread today but am holding off on that and really any cooking
> > because somebody in the house is on a clear liquids diet so I am
> > trying not to be cruel. It's 63 degrees here. Weird weather all
> > over I guess.
>
> The big snow starts after midnight. Expecting 24", maybe more.

Several times in my life we got more than 24" and they didn't arrest people
for being on the street. This time the Sandinistas declared marshall law
and we got 7".

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On 1/27/2015 11:41 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:

>>
>> The big snow starts after midnight. Expecting 24", maybe more.
>
> Several times in my life we got more than 24" and they didn't arrest people
> for being on the street. This time the Sandinistas declared marshall law
> and we got 7".
>

The state said no driving from 9PM yesterday. Opened it up at 2PM
today. If you got caught, it was a $92 fine.

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 1/27/2015 11:41 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
>
> > >
> > > The big snow starts after midnight. Expecting 24", maybe more.
> >
> > Several times in my life we got more than 24" and they didn't
> > arrest people for being on the street. This time the Sandinistas
> > declared marshall law and we got 7".
> >
>
> The state said no driving from 9PM yesterday. Opened it up at 2PM
> today. If you got caught, it was a $92 fine.

In NY City it was $300. And it's even more ludicrous because the snow was
only a few inches at that time. They wouldn't have pardoned anyone when the
forecast was proven wrong.

We had a blizzard once with almost 3 feet on the day before my brother's
wedding. During the storm we went out to dig out the cars and move them in
preparation for the next morning. These Sandinistas would have had the
wedding party arrested. The basis of their philosophy is that people can't
take care of themselves and make their own decisions.

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On 2015-01-28 9:06 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:

> In NY City it was $300. And it's even more ludicrous because the snow was
> only a few inches at that time. They wouldn't have pardoned anyone when the
> forecast was proven wrong.

As it turned out, there was only a fraction of the amount of snow that
had been forecast. It was a good idea to be proactive.
>
> We had a blizzard once with almost 3 feet on the day before my brother's
> wedding. During the storm we went out to dig out the cars and move them in
> preparation for the next morning. These Sandinistas would have had the
> wedding party arrested. The basis of their philosophy is that people can't
> take care of themselves and make their own decisions.

Some people can't. It takes just a few of those to screw things up for
those who may have had a chance of getting through if the others had not
got stuck and blocked the roads for everyone else. The government has a
responsibility to keep roads clear enough for emergency vehicles to get
through.

Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-01-28 9:06 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
>
> > In NY City it was $300. And it's even more ludicrous because the
> > snow was only a few inches at that time. They wouldn't have
> > pardoned anyone when the forecast was proven wrong.
>
> As it turned out, there was only a fraction of the amount of snow that
> had been forecast. It was a good idea to be proactive.
> >
> > We had a blizzard once with almost 3 feet on the day before my
> > brother's wedding. During the storm we went out to dig out the
> > cars and move them in preparation for the next morning. These
> > Sandinistas would have had the wedding party arrested. The basis
> > of their philosophy is that people can't take care of themselves
> > and make their own decisions.
>
> Some people can't. It takes just a few of those to screw things up for
> those who may have had a chance of getting through if the others had
> not got stuck and blocked the roads for everyone else. The government
> has a responsibility to keep roads clear enough for emergency
> vehicles to get through.

Some people can't make their own decisions, so no one can be permitted to do
so. That's a great campaign slogan. I wish you would run on that, but the
left never explicitely says what they really think in a political campaign.

You don't seem to understand that we've had _actual_ 24-36 inch snow
accumulation without punitive action, when people were less inclined to
tolerate being told that they don't know how to take care of themselves.

The only thing that _actually_ prevented anyone from getting anywhere,
including ambulances, was unions. That was in the storm of 3 or 4 years ago
when the NYC sanitation men were threatening strike and they flexed their
muscles by driving around in their trucks with the plows raised, and
paramedics had to pull stretchers over the snow like sleds.

So eliminating government unions, which even FDR refused to allow and didn't
exist until JFK, would save lives in the world of reality. Outlawing all
unions, as other forms of monopoly already have been, would have increased
our GDP by 60 trillion over the past century, but one thing at a time.

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This is the news we are receiving ...

Massachusetts, Connecticut and Long Island had 3 feet of snow and icy floods

Plenty more he

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...sland-way.html


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On 1/28/2015 1:44 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> This is the news we are receiving ...
>
> Massachusetts, Connecticut and Long Island had 3 feet of snow and icy
> floods
>
> Plenty more he
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...sland-way.html
>
>
>

You got better coverage than our paper here. They mentioned Auburn MA
getting 36". That is about 20 miles north of me, a palce I go to
frequently. We eded up with 26". I got the rest of my driveway and
cars cleared this moening.

I closed our work today too. A few people would not have made it and
the plowing was not completed yet. We have our own pickup with plow and
this was just too much to keep up with.

Ophelia wrote:
> This is the news we are receiving ...
>
> Massachusetts, Connecticut and Long Island had 3 feet of snow and icy
> floods
>
> Plenty more he
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...sland-way.html
>
>

We are inland, so we didn't get floods, although coastal areas did.

I can attest to having A LOT of snow. I was afraid we would not be
capable of shoveling what needed to be cleared, but somehow we did. I
was glad to see that I could shovel for 5+ hours straight and not have a
heart attack. I did vary my approaches whenever I got tired, and that
seemed to work.

Tomorrow, I will hack away at some of the peaks, widen some paths, etc.
because more snow is coming on Friday and again... I don't even want to
think about it.

I will say that at first I was alternating between a walkway and making
a path to my front birdfeeders. (Someone else made the path to the back
ones.) I could see that one of the front feeders was low and knew that
one of the back feeders must be on the verge of emptiness.