Snow

Unlike some of its neighbors, Boston doesn't think tonight's snowstorm warrants an emergency declaration, so just use common sense, clear your sidewalk and remember that, even if you don't live in the South End, you can't just save that parking space you shoveled out. At least, not legally.

Butternugz enjoyed the sunrise this morning from the tip of the Black Falcon Pier before the snow started.

Matt Keeter surveyed the egg shelves at the Somerville Whole Foods around 4 p.m.

It's a three-slice alert.

Celtics1985 wandered around downtown Boston and the Back Bay this morning, snapping scenes in the snow, including the satellite smashed into an Altima on Washington Street and a trash truck coming through an alley: Read more.

Pete Bouchard explains.

The Swellesley Report is filing dispatches from the front lines of a war that's erupted in normally bucolic Wellesley between people who just want to do some sledding and a gardening group that is trying to keep them off a prime hill to protect the tulips and other plantings at the bottom of the hill. Read more.

Bostonians filled the 311 lines with plenty of road snow complaints today, such as this complaint at 7:16 p.m. about Gallivan Boulevard (which, granted, is a state road, not a city responsibility): Read more.

Jeremy Reiner reports it's been 1,019 days since the last time Boston has seen six or more inches of snow in a single day, the fifth longest such streak since 1891.

It's still too early to say for sure, but NWS is at least raising the possibility of snow on Thanksgiving, and so the French Toast Alert gnomes are frantically looking up French Toast recipes again (it's been awhile since they've needed them).