Snowpocalypse to Hit America's Northeast Coast TODAY!

Everyone, stay calm. It's only snow. Way to whip the listening audience into a frenzied PANIC!

Happy shoveling :)

that remind me the winter 2007 when we received somewhere around 24 inches of snow during valentine day (in a town in the Quebec province).

It turn out that for French language school administrator, it was business as usual and they didn't bother to close any school while both local universities, colleges and English school, they closed for the day.

The end result was that the busses who used to bring the child back home got badly stuck in various part of the city; the parent worried and set out to find their child causing a massive jam in the traffic.

A group of walker including me helped push the cars around and we heavily recommended the people to park their cars in nearby parking lot to clear up the road so that the snow removal crew could get down to business.

In conclusion, some parent found their child during the night and the French school board apologized during the next few days.

eh, it's not that bad- I have about 2 feet already with drifts of about 3 to 4 (and it's still snowing that kind of really small but sticky flake that attaches itself laterally to anything like balls of polystyrene)...

got the sunflower seeds out into my hanging feeders in time yesterday so my yard has been raided by a flock of Grackles and unlike temperate days, the Blue-jays and Cardinals aren't letting them bully them away... Mourning Doves, Slate-colored Juncos and their groupies, the White-throated Sparrows, are happy with the spillover...

Note to self: weather panic trend now at self-parody stage.

Further parodization from outside weatherperson community now officially "insufferably lame."

Funny about the school buses in Quebec. They know how to deal with snow.

We should know it here in Providence, RI too but a couple years back things got very fouled up by a storm that dropped six inches on us. Kids were on school buses for six to ten hours. Mostly it was the traffic snarls that screwed everything up.

So far in NYC its just flurries.

Tony: That's why a lot of places do shut schools down, even where they can handle a bit of snow. I'm in New Hampshire (today's weather: sunny), where in principle people know how to deal with snow and anybody who doesn't learns quickly (having grown up in Florida, I had never driven in snow before moving to this state). We had an incident a few years ago where a school bus, forced to swerve to avoid an oncoming car in the lane where the bus should have been (this on a road which by local standards is a major highway), skidded off the road with kids aboard.

Actually, 14-22 inches would be a bit much for us, let alone a city like Baltimore where any snow that falls usually melts before the next storm. But for the weatherman to freak out like that is uncalled for.

dogs and cats fornicating!

Nothing 40 to 60mg of Valium won't fix...

Eric Lund--

I'm in the same town you are; we had another incident a few years ago where we lost one of our University colleagues, a first year prof fresh from California, on a day that should have been a snow day (and, if memory serves, eventually was).

Uh... 24 inches of flurries and it's STILL snowing hard. Got to go soup's ready. Haven't seen this much of the fam in years.

There was been an increasing tendency in recent years for media weather reporters to conflate the "Northeast" with the "Mid-Atlantic" states.

This particular storm is not affecting the Northeast at all, that is, CT, MA, VT, NH, and ME.

We're up here in Maine enjoying sunny weather, perfect for the Toboggan Nationals taking place in Camden, ME, while getting anxious calls from friends and relatives nationwide asking how we are surviving the huge buzzard hitting the "Northeast."

Let's all help the media learn the correct terminology.

Of course, I would mess up and leave out RI. Sorry, RI!

bwe is right, of course. I've been yelling at the TV things like, "Oh, 'northeast', my fat, pink backside! Not a flake of snow here in eastern Massachusetts!"

I lived in Florida until about two years ago, and it IS funny to watch the weathercritters up here display the same level of nuttiness that their southeastern counterparts had for hurricanes. A high point in weather broadcasting was the time the 95-lb reporter was blown over by a wind gust.

But this guy is way up there! I wonder if the news station now has video of him doing "dangerous" things in the snow?

Well, here we ago again, another "mid-Atlantic" snow storm... forgot how many feet that makes it now but after the last one I lost power for 4 days, got it back yesterday only to have it start again- 6" last night and another 12" called for- snow is almost horizontal this morning but I have been able to get out sunflower seeds every day...

a mixed flock of Slate-colored Juncos and White-throated Sparrows starts foraging at about 6am and continues througout the day no matter the conditions, punctuated by quick visits from a couple of Carolina Chickadees (no Black-capped this week- hmmm, is fair-weather behavior a "field mark" differentiating them?), a couple of pairs of Cardinals and a couple of pairs of House Finches, the odd visit by several Tufted Titmice, Red-bellied and Downy Woodpeckers, a family of Blue Jays, Mourning Doves, two very aggressive White-breasted Nuthatches, a small flock of [definitley fair-weather only] American Goldfinches (the males already "golding up"), and twice-a-day raids by a flock of about 40 Rusty Blackbirds with a few Red-winged joining the gang (can't tell the difference between Rusty and Brewer's except for range)...

the inter- and intra-species power dynamics have been an interesting little study