It’s a bit early, and we may not get much more than a regular amount of snow here in Brattleboro, but the big weather news for New England is the blizzard of 2015.
Feel free to share weather-related tidbits here. I know we just about all have either friends and/or family somewhere in the path of this storm, and we may end up getting quite a bit here by the end of it all. Check the weather section for all the latest forecasts, warnings, and links to many weather sites.
That’s all the storm hype you will get from me. Enjoy the snow, and stay smart and safe!
This is one of the times when
This is one of the times when I’m very happy that I don’t have cable TV- thus avoiding the media lunacy about the “historical snow storm; ‘storm of the century” the “monster storm”. We live in New England; it’s January which means it’s winter. It snows in winter. Whether it’s 4 inches or 4 feet- it’s going to come and be whatever it is. You would think that people who have lived in this part of the country for any length of time know enough to be prepared for the possibility of being snowed in for a few days; maybe having no power. If you listen to any TV or radio station you would think this was the first storm we had ever encountered. As long as the people I care about are safe and warm I’m happy enough to have a big – or medium sized snow storm. This has been a pretty snow deficient winter so far. Stay safe. Don’t be on the roads. Go to the library and get some books. Enjoy living in Vermont in the winter.
Hear hear!
It’s not our first time at the rodeo and won’t be the last. Be smart, be safe, help when and if you’re needed, watch Nature’s show.
I agree!Whoopee!
I agree!Whoopee!
AN ADD Mystery
While we Vermonters might find it unremarkable that a monster winter storm is upon us, look at the panic, and the dramatic preparations the overall region is undergoing. Stories of scarcity, preventive closures, public transport and airlines pre-emptively shut down…
Makes you wonder how the same population can be so diffident about these types of events as a pattern for the future. How can those who shriek or freak out today tolerate lawmakers who are in denial about climate change? How does this specific event not set alarms and motivate action for the widespread disasters that are certain to come?
Let it snow baby!
Tomorrow is a day to be nothing but submerged in the fluffy white stuff that we all anticipate this time of year to indulge in knee deep, you really got to love it! Excellent base for Ski Jumping, See you there baby!!
With amplitude comes responsibilities
I’ll be out there, as I am almost every day, enjoying nature’s bounty. Don’t mean to be a scold, but I can’t shake the feeling that so many people who don’t see the elements except through screens are missing just how much is under attack by our greedy and flattened lifestyles.
There’s A Kind of Hush All Over The World Tonight
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Peter Noonan’s snow white perfection is mesmerizing…
~So listen very carefully
Closer now and you will see what I mean
It isn’t a dream
The only sound that you will hear
Is when I whisper in your ear
“I love you forever and ever”
There’s a kind of hush all over the world tonight
All over the world you can hear the sound of lovers in love~
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A Previous Snowstorm, and some other flakes
December, 1860
“On Saturday of last week a snow storm occurred which set at defiance all ordinary examples and generally accepted theories of such very common affairs. In less than seven hours full fourteen inches of well-compacted snow, of the best quality for useful purposes, fell in this vicinity. It came down as if by contact – in good measure, fast and persistently. A preceding rain had softened the previous snow and ice, giving a capital foundation for the new now, and this was improved by a subsequent freeze. The sledding is capital, as the numerous loads of wood daily arriving will attest. To the eastward of Fitchburg the storm was principally rain.
This snow blocked up the river railroad so that the afternoon train from the North, due at half past four o’clock, did not arrive until nine in the evening; and the southern train, due at half past four, did not make its appearance until half past eleven o’clock, P.M. The Boston train was nearly on time.”
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Sledding meant being able to get out your sled and do work again. If it was wet mush, you couldn’t get much done. With the right snow, you could get out into the woods and cut lumber, and bring it in for sale.
Coasting was the term for what we’d now consider sledding. Brattleboro went back and forth forbidding and allowing coasting on certain streets. George Crowell once let kids use his Chestnut Hill paths for coasting when the Selectboard was in an anti-coasting mood, typically following some accident involving kids and horses or sleighs.
Before we had the ski jump, in about that location if I read things correctly, we had a toboggan run. The opening ceremony involved a touch lit, iced chute on the hill, and hot coffee. They joked that undertakers and doctors set up shop at the bottom of the hill.
Or did they mean "hysteric?"
My fave was that already yesterday the news guys were describing the upcoming weather as an “historic storm,” well before the first flake flew.
A brief history of the future
I once had a college professor who took the position that one of our unique American cultural values is that we – as a people – are ‘nostalgic for the future.’ This goes a long way toward explaining how we can be calling an event that has not yet happened as ‘historic’. What’s next, accurately predicting events that have already taken place? We have known since last fall that snow was coming this winter.
Andy
It's All Part of Their Plan
This storm won’t be anything of the sort. The bottom line is the herders needed to bring the numbers up a little to show Barry is doing a good job on the economy so they got the sheeple all worked up and the herd ran out and over bought all kinds of food and hardware they’ll be stuck with for months. Then they’ll tell us that there’s been economic growth next month.
Or the opposite
But I thought the herd was following Mitch McConnell, hyping everything so that businesses would shut down, a negative impact on the economy, causing a drop in the stock market and blame for Obama and DeBlasio.
Or, maybe the storm just tracked a bit east and many were spared the extra shoveling.
What Opposite?
You don’t actually think there’s a difference do you? It’s them upstairs that are running the show. You know the Bilderburgs
Dear beloved Brattleboro, It is time to go to sledding at LMP
Turn off the computer,
bundle up,
and come sledding.
Sometimes it is better to embrace
the goodness that comes with winter,
instead of merely withstanding it.
Now good people, is the time.
Juno calls !
Can you hear her ?
Answer her, with enthusiasm !
Head for the hill, at Living Memorial Park !