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Winter is coming
By adamg on Wed, 09/09/2015 - 10:40pm
The Boston Public Works Department plans to receive a 3,000-ton shipment of salt tomorrow morning at its Frontage Road storage area as it begins to build up its salt stockpiles in preparation for the W word.
Earlier:
Plow blades headed our way.
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Gonna need a bigger glass...
So when does the 3,000 liters of tequila arrive from Mexico?
Units, please
3000 ounces? Tons? Grams? Railroad cars?
Oops
3,000 tons, although 3,000 containers of Morton Salt would be something to see as well ...
Barstow, CA at the East Side
I hope we don't have another
Winter like last year!
I like fall and winter, hate
I like fall and winter, hate the hot weather. I'm sure many of you disagree, and if you do, explain why you live here(WITHOUT mentioning sports).
Why?
You don't have to explain why you like what you like, and other people don't have to explain why they like what they like. It's OK for different people to like different things. The very idea of "disagreeing" with someone else's likes and dislikes doesn't make any sense to me.
Hmm
Besides being born here, my entire social network being here, the schools, hospitals, relative lack of poverty, increased opportunity, diverse cultures, public transit (see: LA) or general ease of mobility, a population that is generally less ignorant than the rest of the country i cant think of one right now. But give me a minute.
Oh
Fairly progressive laws
See: gay marriage
I hate hate hate winter.
I hate hate hate winter.
So I moved somewhere where they actually know how to address it. Living somewhere where there's only a couple bad storms a year, nobody can drive, they don't plow, roads aren't salted or sanded, so the effects of even a milder winter stack up into a much more overall negative than the heavy but handled winter up here (last year notwithstanding).
The only other option would be to move to the deep south, and the reasons not to do that are so obvious and numerous they aren't worth listing out.
This would be a valid
This would be a valid argument if you lived in, say, Burlington, VT. Here in Boston, though, you get both snowy winters and hot, humid summers.
perhaps
In Boston proper, the number of actual snowbound days are few, if averaged over a decade. This summer, well, that seems to be a different matter. It's been as hot in 02215 as in Houston Texas (where I am right this moment) for at least a week. Indeed a few days ago, Boston out-temp'd (new word) Houston.
Here's the horrible truth
I think like you, but we really need these crappy summer days to appreciate winter. Think about it, that first day you step out of the house and you can feel the cold on your cheeks- that's priceless. But if we lived in a place like Newfoundland, where it never really gets warm, winter probably wouldn't be that good.
My guess is that as it warms up in the spring, people start to go from their winter coats to their light jackets to a light sweater to shortsleeves, each time feeling that much better. If they lived in Florida, they wouldn't get that. They'd get warm and humid all year long, and that would be boring (along with yucky.)
I've been slogging through my runs the past month, but I know that when it is in the 40s and 50s, I will be doing great for it. As long as the snow stays manageable, our time is coming. And the rest can be dreaming about 90 degrees with a dew point of 70.
yes!
Not soon enough! Skis are at the ready :)