Snow, snow, snow
Robert Donovan actually took the above after Thursday's storm, but it's just too nice to pass up.
Roof of Brighton Center Rite-Aid collapses under the weight of all the snow. Lyss reports shoppers who made it to the Chestnut Hill Mall this afternoon were forced outside when the fire alarms went off.
Brian Lewandowski discovered the trains were still running in Beverly:
Rob Colonna was up early and reports that the only thing that seemed to be moving in Newton Highlands was the Green Line:
Mike Mennonno tells people still fuming over Thursday's commutes to chill out - especially people who could've taken public transit but didn't.
Anything that forces people off the streets and indoors is good, in my opinion. More people need to stay indoors more often, I think. Many should stay there all the time. Stay home. That's the route to world peace.
So it is with open arms that I embrace this Nor'easter, as I embrace all extreme weather. Weather teaches humility, patience, and harmony. Those who rage and rail against it--well, weather's not really the problem, is it? ...
Anne gets annoyed at her neighbor's college-age tenants, who can't be bothered to help the 85-year-old guy with four stents in his heart shovel the snow. Ditto for the healthy neighbors on the other side of the old guy. So she helps shovel him out.
Miss von Schtoop can't bring herself to hate the Northeastern students keeping her up at 4 a.m. with a post-finals party because of how they dug out a path and car belonging to a handicapped neighbor.
Kristine Munroe was thrilled to go outside and see some kind, unknown person had shoveled out her sidewalk.
Jen Stewart photographed the egg shelves at a Melrose supermarket (also milk and bread).
Ooh, look what Michael Bradford made:
Ryan Barrett didn't make French toast, but she did make her way to a South End Starbucks (open and plowed out in front) and took photos along the way, including one of a dog just chillin' at a corner:
Jody photographs the snow fort in her front yard.
Brian Christiansen takes photos of the view outside his Medford house.
Jef Taylor photographs ducks and sparrows visiting neighbors' bird feeders - and then finishes off his bottle of Nor'easter Bourbon.
How much does Angela hate cold and wet? Even more than she loves the Patriots, which is why she turned down an offer of tickets to today's game.
Weirdest snowman/greatest beer cooler ever.
Charlie bakes pretzels.
Anali had to decide between baking orange-nutmeg and zucchini muffins as she listened to the soundtrack from the Charlie Brown Christmas special.
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Yeah, right, mike.
While it's agreed that people should've commuted via public transportation instead of driving, I also think that the idea that being forced indoors due to extreme weather is a good thing for world peace, if you're not being snarky, is a bunch of B. S. If the devastation wrought by Katrina on the Gulf Coast is any indication, that's a lie, imo. If you're just being snarky, you're not amusing...at all.
I did what I had to do and took public transportation, but that doesn't mean that I buy into the stupidassed idea that extreme weather keeping people indoors teaches world peace.
Maybe you should go inside
...and stay there until you relocate your lost sense of humor.
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Jen Stewart
Flake off, sweetie.
n/m
Maybe YOU should go to hell, sweetie.
Fuck off!
Jesus H. Christ on a stick
Something wrong you're not telling us about? Please limit the profanity to discussions about obscene things, not replies that disagree with your disagreement about somebody's disagreement with people in cars.
Hey listen...
If someone's being a jerk, I give it back to them.
Oddly enough, I didn't see
Oddly enough, I didn't see anybody being a jerk until the first F-bomb was dropped in this thread...
I think "flake off" is my
I think "flake off" is my new favorite nonsensical epithet.
Hold on there a minute!!
All I did was express my opinion about what I thought of somebody's stupid post and I get a nasty response from somebody who says that I don't have enough sense of humour for her liking. So, I got nasty back to her, which, imo, she had coming.
Basta!
Just because you can hit reply to every single comment doesn't mean you should.
You made your point, then you made it again, only this time more, um, forcefully. Enough already, please.
Here's a question:
How come when people have made snide responses to any of my posts here that you don't tell them to shut up? There's something rather one-sided and hypocritical about your approach there.
I think I need to repeat Jen's advice.
Jen makes a crack.
You reply.
Fine, you made your point, fair fight, everybody's happy to get something off their chests, life goes on.
Except that nine minutes later, you come back and unleash your arsenal of choice curse words.
THAT is what I'm complaining about: You didn't just reply, you replied again, with a, gasp, potty mouth. I believe the phrase is "piling on." Another five minutes in the penalty box for gratuitous use of obscenities.
But enough already. If you want to continue this inane complaining, e-mail me. My address is easy enough to find on this page. Otherwise, further replies to this reply about how I suck, etc., will simply be deleted.
Well, we could all just stay in...
and fling four-letter insults around at each other via computer from our snow forts.
Although I'd like to think the ends of world peace are served by all the shovellers on our dead-end street teaming up and working each driveway in turn. A football game on an 8' screen viewed amidst packs of neighbors and attention seeking canines certainly makes my world a better place.
I'm afraid it doesn't work that way, SwirlyGrrl.
It's the way the world is, and the way human nature is. There's no changing it.
Would that be the human
Would that be the human nature that forces certain people to throw around obscenities for no particular reason, or the human nature that SwirlyGrrl was talking about that lets people work together to assist their fellow humans?
WBZ-TV missed a few details
WBZ-TV missed a few details with that Rite-Aid story, huh?
First, the page title reads "Brooks Pharmacy" -- it's been 6 months since Brooks has been around. Second, the store discussed is in Allston.
I realize that technically, the entirety of Allston was once in the town of Brighton, and that the line between the two neighborhoods is a bit fuzzy... but most would agree that 161 Brighton Ave is an Allston address.
It's worse than that
The store shown and discussed is actually in dead-center Brighton. The store isn't the one at 181 Brighton Ave, it's the one at 399 Market St near Market/Washington/Chestnut Hill Ave.
They're actually going to be closing the road down through tomorrow morning too.
All the corrections and correct info and links to the BPD blog are over at Brighton Centered.
It's not just the cars on the road
I think its wildly inaccurate to just rail against people who either have to drive to work or choose to do so. Just blindly wishing the automobile would disappear is blindly optimistic and patently unrealistic. Its also corny and cliché.
The number of vehicles trying to squeeze through the same places in less than ideal conditions was not the only problem. It was (and is every night) also the ridiculous infrastructure of Boston's roads: 4, 5, 6, 8 lanes squeezing down to 2. Traffic lights that are poorly coordinated and do not allow for an efficient flow of traffic.
Worse than all of these things, however, is the "I'm gonna look out for #1" mentality of too many of the numb skulls behind the wheel. How many people blocked the left lane of Memorial Drive to take the Mass Ave bridge exit, because they couldn't be bothered to wait in the right lane? How many people did I see grid lock an intersection, even though the traffic beyond the intersection was nothing but brake lights? Grid locked intersections meant people couldn't turn left, which meant that traffic couldn't release at multiple choke points.
The only thing redeeming about Thursday's wretched commute was the vast number of good samaritans helping to shove stuck vehicles out of crazy snow drifts and the folks with shovels helping out their neighbors. Just spare me the endzone dancing regarding the EVIL automobile.
You've made some good points, Fornya.
It was just crazy last Thursday, when everything was so gridlocked. I also think that the news media also bears some responsibility for getting so many people into a panic mode by sensationalizing and getting so happy-assed excited about an upcoming snowstorm.
automobiles are necessary, and, furthurmore, people have to go make a living, and do other necessary things, and, moreover, not everyone has the option of walking or taking public transportation to their necessary destinations, either.
No snow emergency on Sunday?
As far as I could tell, Mayor Menino did not declare a snow emergency on Sunday -- despite what appeared to be at least six inches of snowfall.
http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?dept=55
Any idea why there was no snow emergency?
Councilor Flaherty: pick it up and run with it!
No snow emergency in Somerville on Sunday
We didn't have one either. Anyone else?
We had one in Everett.
We had one in Everett.
I wonder if it's because they'd predicted the changeover to rain
I wonder if the no-snow emergency in Somerville was due to the predicted changeover to rain, which happened. My hunch is that it probably was.
Might it have been because
Might it have been because Sunday isn't a work day for a large portion of the workforce? (Serious question; I have no idea. It would have made sense to have a snow emergency, considering the ice issue.)