I spotted this statue in the driveway at work the other day.
It's a perfect symbol of how everyone's feeling about the snow this Winter in Boston, an "I surrender" kind of feeling.
A lot of my colleagues are working from home and the office has been closed three or four times since we're a school, too. I generally just take public transportation.
The conditions generally haven't been that bad, except last Monday when it was 1 degree on my commute to work. I was really bundled up, but it was like Minnesota for a few minutes there.
What's been unusual is how constant the snow has been -- it's snowing a few inches to a foot about every other day -- so it's more than Massachusetts is used to, and the piles when they haul it into parking lots are getting to be 2 to 3 stories high (really).
The local weather guys are giddy at the attention, and love any excuse to use special Wintery vocabulary like freezing drizzle and thundersnow.
My take on the silver lining -- I can't help but notice that the more perilous the weather, the more strangers and neighbors talk to one another. It's perfectly "Boston" that the worse the conditions of the day, the more likely people are to open up and talk to each other. They don't share smiles and hellos, but they'll share a complaint or an eye roll.
It's a perfect symbol of how everyone's feeling about the snow this Winter in Boston, an "I surrender" kind of feeling.
A lot of my colleagues are working from home and the office has been closed three or four times since we're a school, too. I generally just take public transportation.
The conditions generally haven't been that bad, except last Monday when it was 1 degree on my commute to work. I was really bundled up, but it was like Minnesota for a few minutes there.
What's been unusual is how constant the snow has been -- it's snowing a few inches to a foot about every other day -- so it's more than Massachusetts is used to, and the piles when they haul it into parking lots are getting to be 2 to 3 stories high (really).
The local weather guys are giddy at the attention, and love any excuse to use special Wintery vocabulary like freezing drizzle and thundersnow.
My take on the silver lining -- I can't help but notice that the more perilous the weather, the more strangers and neighbors talk to one another. It's perfectly "Boston" that the worse the conditions of the day, the more likely people are to open up and talk to each other. They don't share smiles and hellos, but they'll share a complaint or an eye roll.
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I'm watching coverage of the snow on the Today Show as I read your post. Chicago got hit really hard and it's super windy. Al Roker and another guy are reporting from Boston where it's raining on top of the snow (as you know). You guys are getting all our wet weather...it hasn't rained here except for one day in a few weeks :(
ps-It's funny to watch people falling in the snow though :]
We've had to cancel client and staff meetings because of it. It's crazy how the whole country is all stormy. Here it's been 45 degrees and sunny though. Poor Al Roker...
I always think of that time Al was in Florida for a hurricane and some poor production grip had to hold Al's leg to keep him from flying away and later that day Jon Stewart replayed it, saying "Wouldn't it suck if your job was to be the Roker wrangler?"
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