IrishRob17

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and Happyland. The Old Man often referred to the Coconut Grove Fire and when he was doing school inspections, as a side job, the Our Lady of the Angels School fire. Some teachers would get upset if they were told they couldn't store something in the wrong spot (like hallway or stairwell) or hang their own curtain on classroom windows. When they would protest and ask him why he would ask them if you knew what happened in Chicago on 12/1/58. Of course they didn't know and he would explain that 92 students and 3 teachers died in a school fire and it was his job to make sure that didn't happen again. He also would like to point out that when a fire/building inspector does a good job no one knows it...because nothing bad happens.

I'm not sure if I shared this before or not, but that tragedy is very much related to my work. As a result of that terrible day the Article 19-A Vehicle and Traffic Law was created, making buses and bus service in New York the safest in the Country. Part of my work is related to making sure the bus operators we deal with are following Article 19-A properly. As my Old Man used to say (he had 40+ years in Fire Protection and Code Enforcement) all those building codes, fire safety codes, etc. that people complain about were created out of tragedies and when a home owner would gripe or a student would ask a question he could usually tell the story of the fire or incident that lead to that specific law or requirement.

There’s no lock on any significant snows but it won’t matter, it’s gonna get cold again, all the guidance has that.

Maybe I'll throw one up to stir the pot

We get crushed on the 6z GFS in the beginning of April. Lock it up.

It wasn’t supposed to rain all day. An early batch, which already moved through, and see what pops up later this afternoon.

I’ve seen photos out of Vermont, the worst mud season in a long time. The peepers have been singing for 10 or so days now and I’m told that the frogs will be on the move tonight. I literally ran into that a few years ago, hundreds of frogs hopping all over with some not making it it across the road. It was almost out of a horror movie, cool and creepy at the same time.

So it started in 1845 but “only” destroyed a 1/3 of the crop, as I recall. The Irish managed. It came back in late July of 1846 and took out 90% of the crop, so it got real at that point. Mind you the Brits kept getting whatever food they could from their “Breadbasket” aka. Ireland. In the spring of 1847 the Brits set up soup kitchens, as the Irish started dying during the winter of 46-47, the soup kitchens really helped. Then in the summer of 47 when the blight didn’t come back they shutdown all the soup kitchens but few Irish had the means to plant a crop in spring 47 so that’s when many really suffered creating ‘Black 47’ After a high of 75 it’s down to 59 here so no one complains this is a weather board LOL

I have a love/hate relationship with deer, depends on what they do to my yard. Anyway, I used to get big herds like that, sometimes bigger, but the local deer population has taken a hit thanks to https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/123773.html

Afternoon Rich, I watched the first episode of this, https://www.aptonline.org/catalog/HUNGER-THE-THE-STORY-OF-THE-IRISH-FAMINE#:~:text=Documentary | TV-PG,Century had surprising international origins. yesterday on one of the PBS stations I get, with the second episode next week. Wow, I was certainly reminded of how Black 47 happened, what a mess. What I hadn't realized was how the southern and western areas of Ireland were affected the worst and that's the area most of my relatives were from, some distant ones still there.

Are you angry but gave up cuss words for Lent? Please advise.

Best of luck with your, hopefully speedy, recovery.

2.8” officially on the board but 3.6” on the grass. 2.8” goes in my books.

I did some clean up but a high above freezing with the current sun angle will do wonders. Then 50s and sun on Monday.

This line on the radar has been more wind than snow.

Snowing here again

2.8” on the board but 3.6” if I measure in the yard so I’ll go with that measurement LOL

Any minute now

Yeah, seems like it’ll be over sooner than expected, the radar looks terrible now.

It’s incredible how many people play right into his hand…over and over again. 29/27 with heavy snow. Everyone else having trouble loading the NWS site?

The wind has picked up here, nothing too crazy but definitely blowing sideways. 31/28

Glad to see some more local mPING reports, if it’s any of you guys, thanks. I know, I’m a dork. 33/30 and moderate snow.

I had a small period of sleet, all snow now. 33/31

And I hear the peepers down along the river for the first time this season.