The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[MySmallWorldof4]

and with that I got sent next week's weather in an email

Talk about hate mail.

 

[Figgy1]

My work is closed tomorrow...urgghhh why! Normally I would be happy but we don't receive pay when Mother Nature calls for a day off. (I don't have vacation time). Dumb @$$ work doesn't know how to plow. No city and commercial plows are allowed.

Sympathy like

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

My work is closed tomorrow...urgghhh why! Normally I would be happy but we don't receive pay when Mother Nature calls for a day off. (I don't have vacation time). Dumb @$$ work doesn't know how to plow. No city and commercial plows are allowed.

I empathize with you. My dh doesn't get paid if he has to close either since he owns his own business. He will always try his hardest to get to work no matter what, but if people don't show up then he has a day where costs are not covered.

 

[Cesar R M]

I'm guessing he meant to say he never "wore" glasses, but added an "h" after the "w"? I could be wrong, but that's my best guess.

bingo. I might have typed too fast.. then it was very late lol

 

[Cesar R M]

My mom said she heard thundersnow!!! I didn't yet but I did hear a loud bang but it wasn't thunder. Complete white out.

IS thundersnow that rare?
This guy was nuts lol.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Hope you got home safe today @MinnieM123 .

 

[StarWarsGirl]

My work is closed tomorrow...urgghhh why! Normally I would be happy but we don't receive pay when Mother Nature calls for a day off. (I don't have vacation time). Dumb @$$ work doesn't know how to plow. No city and commercial plows are allowed.

Sympathy like. Even though I am forced to telecommute when we have bad weather, it stinks when you don't get paid.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

IS thundersnow that rare?
This guy was nuts lol.

Fairly rare, at least here. I can only remember having it once or twice.

 

[Figgy1]

Hope you got home safe today @MinnieM123 .

What she said. so I can reach out and pinch you

 

[Figgy1]

Fairly rare, at least here. I can only remember having it once or twice.

We get some about every 2 years or so.

 

[Songbird76]

A firestick is an Amazon product. It kind of turns a regular tv into a smart one so you can watch Netflix and other streaming services.

Oh! Firestick...I didn't know what that was either. I was thinking it was some kind of external hard drive. Thanks for explaining that!!

 

[Songbird76]

Haha sorry about that! My iPhone always autocorrects words and I I am in a hurry, I don’t read back over before I send. I edited it but it may not have corrected it. It is an Amazon firestick.

Yeah, I didn't know what a Firestick was either...so autocorrect wouldn't have helped me. I really am bad with tech stuff. But it sounds like a handy gadget if you don't have a smart TV!

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

My School District just announced that school will be closed all day on Friday.
What a relief!

Brick NJ received over a foot of snow. My teen and I worked together for an 1 hr 1/2
*
We accomplished half the job.
The wife said she will help us do more after dinner.
Family teamwork

 

[MinnieM123]

Be safe out there today!

Thank you Figgy. I actually got home around 2:30. Left after 12:30 and got a train around 1:15. Hubs came to pick me up at the station and it was dicey on the roads (main street) because snow was falling at about 2-3 inches an hour at that point, and the plows were doing their best to keep up. Luckily hubs is a great winter driver and pulled us out of a few snow problems.

Seems to be winding down now--so far we have about 14 inches. Really pretty outside, too. I shoveled the front steps and felt great. Jack barked from inside, while I was shoveling. Not sure what his issue was. Hubs had taken him out earlier and he loved it--until one of his paws started to freeze and then he wanted to come home. But other than his paw, he really gets excited about snow.

 

[MinnieM123]

@Mr Ferret 88 , how are you doing? Are you still safe? They closed the flood gates here yesterday as a precaution. It was WINDY. I woke up thinking there was a very clumsy burgler in my yard because I could hear stuff moving, like the trash cans. But it was a trash day yesterday and when we got back from the eye appointments, all the trash cans on the street were blown over. It did rain a lot, but we are almost on the German border, so far from the areas that would have flooded. I don't know how they fared on the coast, but the fact that they closed the flood gates says something. I hope you are staying dry and your house is undamaged! And that you have power!

The above made me think about the storm surge today on the MA coast from the large snowstorm we're having. Largest surge since 1921, I think they said. Some coastal areas (including some streets bordering the ocean in Boston) flooded today.

I was watching the news when I got home from work, and the firemen were rescuing some people from cars in flood waters. They had large rubber rafts and would put the people in those, and then pull the rafts down the street to where the water edge had stopped. It was weird watching them pull these rafts through the water that also had large blocks of ice in it from the storm!

 

[MinnieM123]

We get some stupid AccuWeather station instead. Nobody likes it and Verizon doesn't care.

I have both on my satellite, and the Weather Channel has always been much better. At one point (a few years ago) they took it off our system and people complained. They put it back on . . .

 

[MinnieM123]

@MinnieM123 You've had your fun now call it off. My stepdad in NY, just told me he has a 4 foot snow drift in front of his garage. There are bare spots on the driveway.

But . . . but . . . variety is the spice of life. Otherwise, if it didn't snow at all, life would be boring.

 

[MinnieM123]

IS thundersnow that rare?
This guy was nuts lol.

I've heard it a few times down through the years, if we get a really big Nor'easter. I didn't hear it during this storm, however. It's a fun phenomenon.

 

[MinnieM123]

Brick NJ received over a foot of snow. My teen and I worked together for an 1 hr 1/2
*
We accomplished half the job.
The wife said she will help us do more after dinner.
Family teamwork

I enjoy shoveling and it's really good exercise. I just like being outside when there's snow around.

 

[donaldtoo]

We got a few inches last night!! Nobody was expecting snow so when it started we were all like well that's nice we'll get a dusting.... But by the time I went to bed everything was covered with at least two inches. My friend was flying out tonight and was stuck in the runway for five hours

Belated sympathy like.