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Yes, they've developed a taste for meat.

I've been seeing rabbits in my yard. I don't recall that before in January.

Days and days of grey miserable light. I feel for people with SAD.

It's been awhile. Maybe 2010?

Two Fiddleheads down the hatch and I'm already hung over. Getting old sucks!

Dunno, but tail risk isn't often a popular topic of conversation. I imagine folks in Texas weren't discussing their potential risk prior to last year either.

What's the backlog for a generator these days? My cousin was looking to install one, but there was a solid six month wait, so he gave up.

As much as I generally dislike this kind of weather approaching peak winter climo, I'm actually a little relieved that intense cold has held off. New England is an energy crisis waiting to happen. Since we seem to have a complex about building gas pipelines directly from producing states, we have to ship all our gas via LNG carriers. There are no domestic LNG builders, so much of our gas gets shipped via international carriers from the Caribbean. The LNG facility in Everett usually receives 6-10 shipments of gas each winter to offer adequate supply for home heating and electricity, but thus far this winter they've only received one, presumably because the crisis in Europe is offering much higher prices. Add to that the shutdown of Pilgrim a few years ago and New England is one 2018 style cold snap away from having a Texas-sized blackout problem on their hands.

This was Main Street in Cambridge. Note that the cars are parked pointing out into the lane of travel.

These are awesome. I lost so many of my pictures of that month. As you can see, the parking situation was like something out of Lord of the Flies. Open spaces were guarded quite vigorously. My bro lived in Charlestown, and people would smear feces or slash tires or knock off a mirror if someone dared to take their parking space. It got pretty contentious. I guess people felt that going through the work of clearing a space every few days conferred ownership.

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Here are a few fond memories from Cambridge in Feb '15. I don't remember the exact date, but this was the mid-level magic system where Jim Cantore had like 6 thundersnow strikes in Plymouth. MIT had a snow farm on Albany that was a good five or six floors tall and there was another one on Binney where some maples were almost entirely buried. I thought Jan '11 in southern CT was going to be tops for my lifetime. Little did I know what was coming.

That one was both fun and a little painful. The meat of the deform was tantalizingly close, but I couldn't coax it in.

Gassing up the mower now.

For real. I saw him in concert in Hartford a couple decades back and middle aged women were rushing the stage and practically attaching themselves like barnacles to him. It was quite humorous watching security pry them off while Rod kept on singing.

Terrifying Steve. Glad you're okay. I had the exact same experience on Chapel Street in New Haven earlier this week, thankfully not at highway speed. People are idiots.

Correct. Although it looks like Fishers is close to freezing too, so maybe @StormSurge can provide an observation? Merry Christmas, Mike!

A very merry Christmas! Thanks to everyone for sharing their remarkable knowledge and tolerating my weenieish babble all year. Enjoy the day with your loved ones. With the sun just rising, it appears we have a light glaze. Breeze is still northerly and cold is holding tougher than I expected yesterday.

Are you suggesting spiders migrate? If you see a black widow, odds are it hitched a ride on tropical fruit, like in a bunch of bananas or something.

Well gents, time to crack a few Trilliums and celebrate. Merry Christmas to you all!

It's beautiful. If I can't get a white Christmas, a white Christmas Eve is a solid consolation prize.

2013 sucked up until February. I remember Kevin was so down he was tossing the blizzard depictions until a day or two out.

I've had approximately .1" of snow this month for every ten pages in this thread lol. Rookie numbers, gotta pump those up.

Awesome post-mortem analysis of last week's tornado outbreak.