Yikes

[monkey5s]

Guess it's a good thing I never managed to really try to move to Boston (I wanted to, when I was in my late 20's-early 30's). The expected blizzard that is expected to be bearing down on them could bring up to three FEET of snow Friday/Saturday. The local news weather geek was explaining about the storm that will bring us a brief period of rain with maybe a little wet snow on the back end of the front, will be joining up with a storm moving up the east coast, into a big mess that will affect Philly through Boston, with the brunt of it in Boston. As he said, it will be fascinating to watch as it develops-- from a distance (meaning here in Ohio).

He also noted that it will be nowhere near the record for Boston, which was something like 77 inches of snow. I heard that and my mind went blank, so I don't know when that happened.

Comments

[giglet]

The difference is that Boston is experienced and largely prepared for blizzards like this. (In my decades here, I've shoveled through snowdrifts taller than I am. I was given a ride on a bus while broke, because the driver wouldn't leave me at the bus shelter. I missed a job interview because my car was stuck, and the interviewer accepted that as a reasonable excuse.)

We just go slow, and take it easy, and hope that the power, the phone lines, and the other infrastructure holds up. And prepare to be slightly less comfortable when they go down.

[monkey5s]

I seem to recall those drifts taller than most people occurring not that long ago, too. Glad you're doing OK with it!

[giglet]

To be fair, I have

1) An excellent excuse not to shovel, and housemates to shovel for me;
2) A deep pantry and lots of camping gear that can be turned towards emergency use.

I wouldn't want to ride out this storm alone, with bare cupboards and few resources.