KPB
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Joined: 11/25/2012 From: Ithaca, New York Status: offline
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Hopefully they will be open by Sunday when it actually matters to me. We get in kind of late Saturday night. But I remember trying to visit New Orleans 25 years ago during Christmas, in what turned out to be the “deep freeze” year. Not a great vacation... every pipe in the whole city burst and flooded the streets, then it all froze... we bailed, eventually, came back a year later! But looks like this freeze won’t do as much damage or last as long. Up here, Grayson is definitely a non-event except for the cold, and we’ve had -15 within recent memory, so -1 is not really setting any local records. Canceling a lot of flights, though, and my niece may get delayed or rerouted on her flight home from JFK to Tel Aviv. Honestly, when I compare this with the similarly-hyped Hurricane Sandy, there seems like a whole lot of talk for an event having very little direct impact. Ok, 15” of snow in Boston, but they sometimes get 4’ or 5’ dumped on them, maybe once every year or two. Sandy more or less shut down the region for ten days! So why such a big deal? I wouldn’t want to be on a boat out in the Atlantic today, granted. And the weather pros are clearly totally fascinated by the low pressure record, but ignoring where that is happening..., which is what? 100 miles off the coast?
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