The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[Melana]

I went to the rink to watch my teenager do amazing things on the ice and the rink felt warm.

 

[day_trippr]

I confess it took me a minute to get ^that^ as the "wind" part here has caught more attention than the "cold" part...so far.
Tomorrow after a ridiculous overnight low that cold will have sunk in a bit, but then the temps will turn downright balmy Sunday. Totally New England

 

[paulthenurse]

Aaaand just like that, the entire Hudson Light and Power system (of which Stow is half of) has to come down at 3 AM to get this hunk of tree off the incoming high line that runs the entire system. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeyit!

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I hate it when that happens.

 

[balrog]

Only made it down to -6 and the wind died down overnight. We don't allow too much nonsense here in Wilberville; the town council would never vote for such a thing.

 

[day_trippr]

It got down to -10 here, currently -6. Wind is substantially reduced from yesterday's craziness. Pond was flash-frozen.
Power shutdown apparently was uneventful and brief...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I’ll send my balmy 18F to you. At least I can stop dripping the faucets.

 

[balrog]

When the temp dropped to single digits heading to -9, I had to take the precedented step of moving kegs out of the basement hatchway. I'm sure I should insulate that space but it works great most of the winter, and someone takes over my chest freezer to use it as (gasp) a chest freezer for "the holidays". The hardest part about the weather was deciding it was just too cold to want to go to the garage and brew. I need a patented Blast-Furnace-Heated-Shed-And-Timber-Frame-Emporium I guess.

 

[paulthenurse]

Everybody should have one.

 

[day_trippr]

Hope everyone had a chance to get outside today. Freakishly wonderful weather any time, never mind mid February

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

Yeeeees

 

[balrog]

Time to test the snowblower for the April snow.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

I'm gonna keep my snowblower gassed up and ready until after the June Blizzard.

 

[day_trippr]

Ugh. Bags of wet cement are falling from the sky and sticking to everything out here in the boonies.
No bueno. I see power outages in our future

 

[balrog]

Ugh. Bags of wet cement are falling from the sky and sticking to everything out here in the boonies.
No bueno. I see power outages in our future

Dusting and freezing rain here, how'd the bags of wet cement treat you?

 

[day_trippr]

Ugh. Everything was coated in 2-3 inches of frozen slushy stuff. Durango is solidly encased, I'd have to destroy it to get inside so didn't even try. Flogged the snowblower to chisel out the driveway and walkways and mailbox, then did my adjacent neighbors' driveway ends and mailboxes (score some points with their wives

Never lost power so that's a plus. Gonna make myself a hot buttered rum and chill the rest of the day

 

[balrog]

Yer basic post-physical-therapy, pre-snowpocolypse-snowgasm Mexican Lager beer.

Yes, I've tested the snowblower.

Hope all you and yours are ready for Monday/Tuesday and hope it's another weatherman oversell and undersnow. And I doubt "undersnow" will become a big internet image search term. And if it does, then I'm really getting too old.

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

Looks like its tracking north ...

 

[balrog]

Should be 4-6 out in the hinterlands of eastern mass according to NOAA
http://www.weather.gov/box/winter

 

[day_trippr]

Hmm, I'm a few miles inside the eastern edge of the 6-8" band.
If the overnight temperatures drop into the 20s it shouldn't be too bad a cleanup.
[edit] Channel 5 forecast says snow changing to something wet. Ugh...

 

[Dland]

The weather is here, wish you were weird...as they say.

 

[day_trippr]

They were clearly high and misremembering Pink Floyd lyrics.
It happens...

 

[Dland]

The weather is here, wish you were beautiful?

I listened to dark side of the moon on repeat for hours one night when I was 14. I think side one, turntable could play it over & over again, but could not flip the record. My MY, how far we have come...

 

[day_trippr]

Don't get me started. The last full-on Pink Floyd/David Gilmour/Roger Waters jag I was on lasted a year and the whole neighborhood knew it.
The Spousal Unit was 'bout ready to wreak mayhem on my arse

 

[day_trippr]

So we got just a scoche over 3 inches of perfect snowball snow here. I'm inclined to not bother with it as it's going to be in the 40s the next few days with a chance of some rain...

 

[balrog]

5-6” sloppy snow here in Wilberville. I was smart enough to use the snowblower early in the day before it turned to joint compound consistency.

 

[balrog]

Annnnnnnnnnnnnd another small sloppy one due Friday. I'm thinking Mother Nature is just fvckin' with us now.

 

[Dland]

I thought us new englander types weren't sposed to complain about the weather...

 

[day_trippr]

Commenting on the weather isn't necessarily complaining...

 

[Dland]

If you suburbanites want to grouse about the easiest winter we've had in a bit, that's cool I guess. It is not taboo, but then you're not a barnacle. ;]

 

[day_trippr]

You either need another beer, or you've had too many.
We're just talking 'bout the weather here. That's something people do for small talk in social settings...