weatherpruf

i've got poodles...and they love snow. it sticks to their curls like velcro and forms snowballs all over them....it's kinda funny actually.

so it could be north, or it could be south, or it could be central....what if i go outside and swing a cat over my head 9 times, will that help?

i got neighbors like that; call animal control because the dog is outside too long; yet they throw food around for the birds and that makes the dogs bark. i'm about to call on them but i'm not sure which idiot is making the calls.

well, there is this strange habit among a number of young men these days to wear shorts all year round; drives teachers crazy.

was it on a weekend? i don't remember it; i vaguely remember the guy at the boatyard complaining there was snow on the boat so he couldn't work on it; my hull had delaminated. he was located in brick....i got the company, stratos, to spring for a new boat, as the hull was under warranty....

i seem to remember one around thanksgiving that year; thought it would be a blockbuster winter, which we had not had in 5 years by then.....

well someone got the word....shovels were flying off the shelves in costco this afternoon.... ' half a pallet left ' the worker told me....

it was supposed to be a rather meh winter, but just on what i've seen so far, it's looking ok...la nina, pacific jet, whatever, but better than 4 inches in new brunswick in mid dec is usually a good signal, albeit a small sample over time.....

there was no snow in central jersey for that one iirc......it was mainly south. or was that feb? in any case, there was no significant snow as it was my second year teaching and the only snow day we had was for the snowless wonder that winter where not a single flake fell.....i did not get my first actual snow day until the super storm of 93, but that's partly because the board in elisabeth were a bunch idiots. in 89 actually i was in jackson, where everyone was bussed so they called school ' on the 7th snowflake ' or as i noted, merely the threat of snow.....biggest bust until march 2001....

typical metro weather; 6-7 inches of snow and arctic conditions, didn't last a week. all gone here, like butter melting in a skillet.....but we got some nice holiday photos.

i had tomato seedlings sprouting in the garden. it was so hot i wanted to put the ac on with a house full of guests. heck with that. at least we had some winter this year. hope spring eternal.

i remember that storm. was teaching 7th grade in elizabeth. lights went out 2nd period, and most of the schools in the region closed early. but not us. sat in the dark with the same kids the whole day, accomplishing nothing. they did send us up some tuna sandwiches. institutional tuna, in other words the worst. that was the year i decided to leave teaching.....

was picking my daughter up on way to hoboken and heard wnyc report ridiculously low amounts, with saying suburbs got 2-4....shit there looked to be more than that in hoboken even; we had over 6 in middlesex co....going with RU's meticulous measurement in metuchen of over 6....

no, i have to tolerate the opposite.....ever sit on a rocking boat when its clear you should be heading in but the captain swears its going to calm down?

had stopped at the store around 10 am or so in woodbridge mall and was surprised at a last second band that was pretty heavy; despite it being a weekend, the cleanup was crap. the lots are a mess.

hmmm...sky looks like its clearing here....guess the flurries were just a sideshow.

we had one big one in either 02 or 03 in december, like 14 inches ; it was a friday

we had some good days on the porgies by going up and making the run to long island sound, and a few good days in the spring on sea bass. we do not like tossing shads and jigs all day for bass and we do not like the new regs. used to blackfish under the verrazano and fill a cooler. as for tuna, i actually used to work the deck with one of the guys from wicked tuna back in the 80s. the less said the better, but you can figure out who he is. he made a lot more money on tv than he ever made fishing. i'm looking forward to some nice holiday photos tomorrow. cheers.

we had a crap season; too much wind, stripers were skittish, porgies were only in the sound, sea bass got picked over in a week. friend is thinking of calling it quits, we've been at it since 1982.....and porgies going for a staggering 12.99 a pound at wegman's.....with those kinds of prices, it won't be long before we have a 3 fish limit with a closed season, so the netters can have their fill.....

i was outside doing yard work with just a shirt jacket, but the ground was still frozen and so were the raised beds. snow should stick nice.

gassed up the blower; got out the big daddy, because it is self propelled; the smaller craftsman does a crap job.

"it will bring its own cold air with it" there, i said it so no one else has to. and, i wouldn't count on it, i never do....let's see how it unfolds. been around long enough to see forecasts completely turn around, for good and bad....

yes. get your cameras ready. it may be the only snow of the season; if you celebrate holidays and have decorations, it is a rare chance to get great seasonal photos; make a card.

2010 shall live in infamy in the nyc metro....it was great by today's standards, but most of the good stuff was just a hair too south....still i'd take the 3 big storms we had that were around a foot each in a heartbeat today. but as a retiree now with bad knees and a bad back, and adult kids who have to drive each day, i no longer wish for a lot of snow. i never had to work or drive in it, working in a school, and my kids would be home, but things are different now. 3-6 inches is about my limit these days. and even they are getting hard to come by. 2021 was quite good, but we were all busy with something else that year. i still suffer bouts of brain fog from long covid.

my grandparents were visiting from southern indianan and they had never seen snow like that.....an older woman told me her husband died shoveling the snow and she had to keep him the house for a few days as no one could get to her.....