A little snow in New England

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by RightHand, Feb 9, 2013.


  1. kellory

    kellory An unemployed Jester, is nobody's fool. Banned

    If so, i apologize.:oops:
     
  2. VisuTrac

    VisuTrac Ваша мать носит военные ботинки Site Supporter+++

    apology accepted.
     
  3. RightHand

    RightHand Been There, Done That RIP 4/15/21 Moderator Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

    With the bar feeders, we can keep them running for long periods of time but our technology requires manual feeding when the loader is done
     
  4. Seacowboys

    Seacowboys Senior Member Founding Member

    I'd point the dog sled that way but every time I yell "Mush" the lead weinerdog heads for his food bowl.
     
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  5. Tracy

    Tracy Insatiably Curious Moderator Founding Member

    Stay safe and warm RH!
     
  6. BTPost

    BTPost Stumpy Old Fart,Deadman Walking, Snow Monkey Moderator

    You need to find Old Mort to pull your sled.... Mooses work good for that....
     
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  7. CATO

    CATO Monkey+++

    A pic from CT (dog impressed, but, really needs to go):

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  8. cdnboy66

    cdnboy66 Monkey++

    Tha's a good brace of snow. Hang in there RH, stay warm. prep for the runoff when it thaws
     
  9. RightHand

    RightHand Been There, Done That RIP 4/15/21 Moderator Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

    We have a prediction of icy rain and more snow in the next few days. There WILL be flooding
     
  10. RightHand

    RightHand Been There, Done That RIP 4/15/21 Moderator Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

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  11. tacmotusn

    tacmotusn RIP 1/13/21

    I am soooooooooooooo glad to be in Florida.
     
  12. RightHand

    RightHand Been There, Done That RIP 4/15/21 Moderator Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

    But it was an absolutely beautiful day today as you can see from the deep blue sku and sunshine. It was so warm that after the bull dozer cam through, the plow truck cleared the driveway and the residue melted so you can see black top. Of course, all that melted snow has left a skating rink
     
  13. CATO

    CATO Monkey+++

    A good point is made here: sheeple don't learn

    What Did the Northeast Learn From Sandy? Apparently, Not Much

    What Did the Northeast Learn From Sandy? Apparently, Not Much
    Posted By Contributing Author On February 8, 2013 @ 2:21 pm In Emergency Preparedness | 272 Comments
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    Just over 3 months ago, the Northeast was paralyzed after Superstorm Sandy pummeled the East Coast. Within a matter of days, despite a week of warnings about the impending storm, people in New York City were dumpster diving and begging FEMA to help them. They were pleading with the cameras for food and water because they were starving. Some people still have not recovered – there are still nearly 2000 homes in which people are crouching in the dark [2], without heat, electricity or running water.
    Fast forward to the current nor’easter bearing down on the region, Nemo.
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    The Northeastern US is bracing itself for snow measured in feet, not inches. Nemo is predicted to be one of the top ten worst blizzards in history. Blizzard warnings are in effect for New Jersey, and New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine.
    Does anything sound familiar about that list of states? Oh yeah – many of them were among the hardest hit back in October, when the last “storm of the century” hit.
    One might think that people would have learned a lesson from Sandy and prepared ahead of time for the possibility of an ice- induced power outage and the likelihood of being snowed in for a few days.
    Apparently not.
    Residents of the Northeast are storming the grocery stores like a horde of locusts, grabbing anything and everything, filling their carts in a panic, even as the first snowflakes were drifting to the ground.
    These aren’t well-thought-out shopping trips – they are laying siege to the stores like Huns pillaging a village in Eastern Europe, leaving only destruction and barren shelves in their wake.
    Photographs speak a thousand words. Store shelves have been emptied by those who don’t already have enough of a stockpile to get their families through a blizzard.
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    The last multi-state power outage, just about 100 days ago, is clearly a vague memory. It was an event that somehow, did not make enough of an impression on people. For most, it seems that the fervent vows of being better prepared disappeared with the darkness as soon as the lights came back on.
    Here are some of the preparedness measures being undertaken across the region.
    In Maine [3]…
    Bryan McDonald pushed a shopping cart heaped with goods while his wife pushed a baby carriage. They have a 7-week-old child to consider. They don’t want to be left unprepared when the storm named Nemo comes to do its thing.
    “Water, canned goods, and snacks in case we lose power,” Bryan said. “Those are the main things.”​
    In Massachusetts [4]…
    Judy Nielsen of Sturbridge was buying for herself and her husband — both are on a vegan diet. Ms. Nielsen stocked up on vegetables, fruits and water.
    “You don’t buy much when you’re eating a lot of vegetables and fruits,” she said. “I don’t buy them for a week, two weeks at a time. I buy them for a couple days at a time, just enough to get through the weekend.”​
    Really?
    While people are to be commended for at least going to the store before the storm hits this time, why on earth do they need to, so soon after Sandy? Why do they feel that one trip to the grocery store equals preparedness?
    One common statement among the prepping community after Hurricane Sandy was that hopefully, people would begin to see the light and understand the need for preparedness. As a group, many of us expressed the fact that the aftermath of the storm should prove, once and for all, that you truly are on your own after such an event.
    We read reports [5] of people standing in line for up to 5 hours for a single MRE and a bottle of water. We heard about apartment dwellers defecating in the hallways. There were photos of people eating from dumpsters. We felt sympathy for the elderly, trapped cold, thirsty and alone at the top of highrises.
    Through it all, many had hope that this would be a turning point for the preparedness movement, while others were skeptical that people would accept the event as anything other than an unpleasant blip on their radar of football games, American Idol and weekly manicures.
    Judging by the look of the grocery stores in the Northeast, the skeptics were right. The psychological inability to accept that bad things happen, the battle of cognitive dissonance against thinking about a change of reality, and the cultural bias against perceived negativity, have overruled common sense and learning from experience, once again.
    Once again, preppers are left, shaking our heads, asking what it will take to wake people up.
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  14. RightHand

    RightHand Been There, Done That RIP 4/15/21 Moderator Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

    I went into the market today and the 1 gallon jugs of water that were sold out last Friday at their regular price of .99 ea were plentiful today at 1.50.
     
  15. BTPost

    BTPost Stumpy Old Fart,Deadman Walking, Snow Monkey Moderator

    Can you just imagine what things would be like if the Grocery Trucks stopped running for three weeks? Dumb is as Dumb does......
     
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