# New England Dopers Will Soon Get Historic Blizzard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2015, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911 "2015-01-26T07:53:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/121 "2015-02-10T19:51:25Z")
I bought a snowblower last year. It was about $1200, including tax and renting a truck to get it home. Since I bought it, we’ve had 117 inches of snow. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/122 "2015-02-10T19:58:36Z")
> [@Winston\_Smith](#): > > I bought a snowblower last year. It was about $1200, including tax and renting a truck to get it home. > > Since I bought it, we’ve had 117 inches of snow. So it’s your fault, then. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/123 "2015-02-10T20:02:24Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > So it’s your fault, then. No, there’s a local company that rented out our curling club for an event, and they’ve had to reschedule three times because of the weather. I blame them. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/124 "2015-02-10T20:04:27Z")
Last year the Super Bowl was played at the Meadowlands. Imagine if one of these storms had happened on Super Bowl Weekend. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/125 "2015-02-10T22:48:03Z")
> [@Winston\_Smith](#): > > I bought a snowblower last year. It was about $1200, including tax and renting a truck to get it home. > > Since I bought it, we’ve had 117 inches of snow. I keep dropping the hint in my father’s ear that he needs a real heavy-duty snowblower. Especially if for some reason he is incapacitated, since I can’t do all that shovelling he does. “Oh, I don’t want to have to deal with gasoline and maintaining it!” In the meantime he has ordered another of the rinkydink electric ones, the first one of which worked for a while and then gave up, repeat, repeat. I may just get a big one anyway, claiming it’s for me, and maybe he will adopt it. But he says in this bewildered tone “It just keeps snowing?!” Um, you’re in New England. What was it you were expecting when you moved back here? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/126 "2015-02-10T23:09:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > So it’s your fault, then. That’s not the way it works. Usually you spend $1200 on a snow blower and you get a series of record-breaking warm and snowless winters. ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/127 "2015-02-11T03:00:21Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Wow! Smashing records!! I suppose Boston Dopers are excited about this! “Excited” is not the word we have been using. That would be “Snownarok”. Also a lot of other ones that are not fit for print. It’s not that N’winglanders see the snow and think “we’re all gonna die”. Everything out here has been here for (literally, in many cases) a hundred years. Snow is not going to destroy us. It’s that when it hits the point where the T shuts down, we realize that for the next 24-48 hours, we’re going to be unable to fix any of life’s little annoyances. If you look around and realize you’re going to run out of butter or Tylenol or shampoo or something in the next few days, you have to go get it now, or sit there and grumble while you can’t get out of the house. Shutting the T down shuts the city down by default. You know how irritated you get when you’re in the middle of a work project that requires the cooperation of multiple people, and suddenly you’re told that Wayne caught malaria over the weekend and you’re not going to get the data you need for at least two days? That happens to six million people every time the MBTA suspends service. To hell with the snow – it’s the enforced boredom we’re all having kittens over. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/128 "2015-02-11T04:08:21Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > That’s not the way it works. Usually you spend $1200 on a snow blower and you get a series of record-breaking warm and snowless winters. Yep. Remember we got one winter in the past ten years with below average snow totals? Guess which year we bought our nicer snow blower? I’ve lived in New England my whole life but I’m not sure how much more of this white shit I can take. Over six feet of snow in two and a half weeks is not normal, even by New England standards. What’s especially maddening is that the same spots are getting hit over and over again too. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/129 "2015-02-11T04:22:52Z")
> [@Arabella\_Flynn](#): > > To hell with the snow – it’s the enforced boredom we’re all having kittens over. 😃 Well, it’s not _just_ the boredom. My car’s transmission may have packed it in today[sup]\*[/sup] and I think my girlfriend might have dumped me. - After shoveling the driveway, of course. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/130 "2015-02-11T04:25:35Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > My car’s transmission may have packed it in today[sup]\*[/sup] and I think my girlfriend might have dumped me. > > - After shoveling the driveway, of course. I wish I could get my transmission to shovel the driveway for us. I’m sorry to hear about your girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/131 "2015-02-11T04:44:31Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I wish I could get my transmission to shovel the driveway for us. > I’m sorry to hear about your girlfriend. All my transmission does is make me breakfast, lazy transmission… ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/132 "2015-02-12T02:48:10Z")
Seven fucking school snow days, with vacation next week. I love my little one, but kid needs to be in school. I can’t get shit done while in mom-mode and it’s not like we can go out and go for a hike or swimming OR EVEN JUST LITERALLY WALK AROUND THE BLOCK. THERE IS NO BLOCK. I HAVE VAGUE MEMORIES THAT THERE USED TO BE SIDEWALKS BUT THAT WAS SO LONG AGO. And you can’t even hope the snow will melt. We’re going to be in for serious flooding unless it warms up very, very slowly and evenly. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/133 "2015-02-12T02:53:57Z")
I just went to a talk tonight where the speaker expressed her relief at being with adults after SEVEN SNOW DAYS!! ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/134 "2015-02-12T02:59:46Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Wait, what can go wrong? Why can’t you just leave and come back when everything melts? Well, where to start… Ice dams building up and causing roof leaks. My SO has been on the roof multiple times, chopping and putting down ice melt and yet we still had a leak just this afternoon. Power outage- We tend to lose power and with no one to run the generator for the sump pump, hello flooded basement, frozen pipes, etc. Roof collapse. We’ve had seven feet of snow in two weeks. And this pattern isn’t showing signs of changing yet. We have another potential “blizzard” coming Sunday. We have one flat section of roof that has to be cleared. And even the sloped parts at this point need to be shoveled down. So, while I have adult kids that can check the place and deal with some of that, they can’t be here all the time. I would be too nervous to have a good time. It’s just the way it is for me with the way my house is. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/135 "2015-02-12T13:38:23Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Well, it’s not _just_ the boredom. My car’s transmission may have packed it in today[sup]\*[/sup] and I think my girlfriend might have dumped me. > > - After shoveling the driveway, of course. She waited for you to finish the driveway before dumping you? Wow. Hasn’t she heard there’s more snow this weekend? She could have _waited_ a few days or weeks … unless you’re that bad a boyfriend. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/136 "2015-02-12T16:06:36Z")
This outpouring of sympathy warms my heart. > [@gigi](#): > > I wish I could get my transmission to shovel the driveway for us. Yes, fair enough; I should have phrased that a bit differently > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > She waited for you to finish the driveway before dumping you? Wow. Hasn’t she heard there’s more snow this weekend? She could have _waited_ a few days or weeks … unless you’re that bad a boyfriend. 😉 This one I take exception to. You can see where the asterisk is for the footnote. It’s my driveway, not hers, so I was gonna have to shovel it anyway (or just let my upstairs neighbor do it again, which wouldn’t really be fair). The dumping (if such it was) was by e-mail. And she said she had to put dating “on hold”, so I don’t know if that really means on hold, or is just the nice way of getting rid of me. Today I have to call for a tow truck and see if it can get down my one-lane street (thanks to the snow) to take my car to the mechanic. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/137 "2015-02-12T16:11:21Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > This outpouring of sympathy warms my heart. > > Yes, fair enough; I should have phrased that a bit differently > > This one I take exception to. You can see where the asterisk is for the footnote. > > It’s my driveway, not hers, so I was gonna have to shovel it anyway (or just let my upstairs neighbor do it again, which wouldn’t really be fair). The dumping (if such it was) was by e-mail. And she said she had to put dating “on hold”, so I don’t know if that really means on hold, or is just the nice way of getting rid of me. If you can dig my car out, I’m single. Just sayin’. (Just kidding; sorry to hear of the GF issue.) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/138 "2015-02-12T17:12:20Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > Silly New Englanders. A few years ago we got 6+ feet of snow in Maryland and no one panicked… > [@Terr](#): > > Ellicott City, MD. First about 4 ft. Then, a few days later 2 or 3 ft more. > [@](#): > > [Slate Magazine blog](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/02/10/boston_snow_storms_they_keep_coming.html), two days ago: > > The city has recorded its snowiest 30-day stretch in history in just 17 days, breaking the record by more than a foot. A full Gronk of snow (6 feet, 6 inches) is now in sight for Boston, and will likely be exceeded by the end of the week. > > With nowhere left for plows to park the stuff—the city’s “snow farms” are nearly full—Mayor Martin Walsh received permission from the state’s environmental agency to dump excess snow into Boston Harbor. Roof collapses were reported throughout the Boston area on Monday under the weight of a record-setting snowpack. Nearly 50 commuters abandoned a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train after it became stuck due to snow and ice buildup on the third rail on Monday. As of Tuesday, Boston’s public schools have closed eight times already this winter, the most in 20 years. Without canceling scheduled vacation days—including spring break—that means the school year could now stretch into July. Jury selection for the Boston Marathon bombing trial was also postponed due to the snow. Via Boston’s Snow Stats website, the city’s snowplows have now collectively traveled the distance from the Earth to the moon so far this winter. > Unfortunately, this isn’t the worst of it. Weather models are increasingly insistent on two more major storms this week, one on Thursday to Friday and another potentially bigger one on Sunday. > The National Weather Service is saying “all signs point to yes that a likely storm system will impact southern New England” on Thursday. Weather models show the storm will likely remain just a hair too far out to sea to produce widespread impacts beyond Cape Cod. Still, Boston could easily receive an additional 6 to 12 inches of snow. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/139 "2015-02-12T17:37:30Z")
jk, **Robot Arm**. Sorry about the gf. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/140 "2015-02-12T17:42:40Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > :smack: Luckily the Thursday storm has turned into a bust. And next week is school winter break, so no matter how bad the Saturday/Sunday storm is, it won’t affect the schools. ETA: I do find it amusing that you need DEP approval to dump that notorious pollutant, frozen water, into the ocean. Maybe they should arrest some of these storms. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911.md?page=8)