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Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Sunday, December 26, 2010 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
We have blizzard warnings in Boston as well, tonight into Monday. I have to go to work on Monday and my company does not close because of snow

Couchtomato
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09-09-2008

Sunday, December 26, 2010 - 9:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Couchtomato a private message Print Post    
Started snowing last night. Everything today is a sea of white (except mostly wet driveways & road), absolutely gorgeous. Still snowing, got a little over 3 inches so far. Expecting a low of 17 overnight.

Ginger1218
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08-30-2001

Monday, December 27, 2010 - 8:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ginger1218 a private message Print Post    
This is my idea of hell. We are buried in snow. I had no heat in my house last night. Heat is just coming up now I am freezing and a prisoner in my house. I need to move to Florida. Have I ever mentioned HOW MUCH I HATE, DETEST SNOW

Mak1
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08-11-2002

Monday, December 27, 2010 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
I'm glad your heat is back, Ginger! That's the worst thing....even worse than the snow

A former TVCH poster, bastable, has been stuck at JFK airport for about 24 hours and has been tweeting, blogging and giving interviews to the networks. He is disgusted with Virgin Airlines but still posts with a wonderful sense of humor, complete with twitpics and twitvids. StevenBB10 has just chimed in, too. It's really a fun read, written in a terrible situation.



twitter.com/bastable
the blog:
jason-cochran.com/photos/lord-of-the-flies-snowstorm-disaster-at-jfk-courtesy-of-virgin-atlantic/

Mak1
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08-11-2002

Monday, December 27, 2010 - 12:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
The weather here in Maine is very cold with howling winds blowing the new snow around. We got about 6" of new snow overnight, with a second batch starting now. It has been dark all day. :-(

Ginger1218
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08-30-2001

Monday, December 27, 2010 - 1:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ginger1218 a private message Print Post    
My block, which is a major street that lead to a major highway is totally inaccessible. There is a 18 wheeler stranded outside my building.
I am trapped and horrified by this whole thing. The Mayor and Sanitation has done a horrific job with this whole situation.

Mak1
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08-11-2002

Monday, December 27, 2010 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Oh Ginger, that's terrible! I hope tomorrow will be better.

Colordeagua
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10-24-2003

Monday, December 27, 2010 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I am in the 'burbs 15 - 20 straight west of downtown Chicago. Knock-on-wood, we've never gotten any extreme weather condition. Yes, it was hot for an extended stretch last summer. Some comparatively small areas in Chicagoland were flooded. At times small areas had power outages. Very occasional tornadoes some miles further out from the city. If that's where you live . . . not good. But certainly for the most part no worries about extreme weather here.

We had a white Christmas. Now there's about 4 - 6 inches on the ground. Currently 18 degrees. Streets are clear. No problems.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, December 27, 2010 - 7:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Thanks for the information on Bastable, Mak1. I normally follow his Tweets, but apparently today I did not go to Twitter all day. I have now spent about fifteen minutes reading the whole thing. And he just tweeted about a minute ago and is still not on his plane.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, December 27, 2010 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Well, and now I am compelled to follow Bastable's tweets and report here. 9 minutes ago, he tweeted that they were boarding.

Edit: One minute ago he tweeted: "If I fall silent, you'll know I'm gone after 31 hours. If I return, I'm coming back as an evil genius villain."

I presume he is on the plane and will soon be instructed to shut down his phone.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, December 27, 2010 - 8:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Hahahahaha, he is finally onboard and finally has his Virgin Atlantic blanket they denied him for the past 32 hours.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 4:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
I am glad Bastable got his blanket!

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 6:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Bastable (Jason Cochran) quoted on CNN as food supplies run out:

Dejected

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 6:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
I think Bastable's going to be getting some awesome job offers after this, his tweets are hilarious. Good for him for making great use of a bad situation.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 9:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Here in Dallas it is dreary and damp. I'm sure comparatively speaking that it isn't very cold but it sure makes for a miserable kind of day.

Ginger1218
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08-30-2001

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ginger1218 a private message Print Post    
Still trapped. The streets are still not plowed. It is a nightmare. The little shrimp they call a mayor has dropped the ball big time, and he is sooooo friggin arrogant, he needs a smack in the mouth.
Just a little frustrated, in case you can't tell.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 10:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Christian Science Monitor is covering Bastable ROFL!! This is awesome:

CNN's Most Intriguing

Jmm
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08-15-2002

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 11:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jmm a private message Print Post    
LOL Go, Bastable.

Texannie
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07-15-2001

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
They were showing his tweets on GMA yesterday!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 1:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
That is very cool for him!!

One person of many hit by this situation is a little boy in Oregon who was home for Christmas but he and his dad were set to return to NYC for his next round of treatment for a very very tough cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, at Sloan-Kettering.

They were flying United. Mom called the day before and was told flights were cancelled. But then she kept hearing stories and luckily checked and their flight was still on. (they were flying through Denver).

So they called United and were told yes, flight is on and if you don't show up, you lose your money, etc.

ACK.. so they rushed things and off they went and then were stuck in Denver. Last I heard United would fly them back to Portland (Oregon) but they were out the money they had spent already and really need to be at Sloan-Kettering for this specialized treatment. Rhabdo doesn't stop growing just for bad weather :-(

They are having the doctor at Sloan contact their local children's hospital where they have put in much time to see if they would be willing to follow the protocol and administer the treatment, but I'm betting that still there would have to be shipment of those drugs.

Another little kid is being treated here in OC and in great pain and her drugs were being shipped from NY (or Vermont) and hadn't arrived so she's in pain for another day.

And I know there are countless situations like that due to this weather.

I was reading the NYTimes blog yesterday with updates about ALL the transportation problems, not just flying in and out but trains, bus, subway, cabs, etc.

There was one report where someone hailed a cab to try to get to one of the airports and he said he didn't know NYC.. because he had just brought in people from Buffalo (for a $900 fare).. but he did say that the NYC cabbies didn't know how to drive in this weather but Buffalo cabbies did..

Ginger, glad you have HEAT..

Here is has turned colder as we have had sunny and clear weather.. without the cloud cover it gets colder at night.

And my desktop either has a crazy virus or malware or the hard drive is really damaged. So I've been on the upstairs laptop (the desktop is off but the network is up) and it is really COLD up here.. no heat. Downstairs, at least have a space heater to run.

Will go read all the Bastable stuff.. he always was interesting and I'm sure he's stayed that way.

Ginger1218
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08-30-2001

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ginger1218 a private message Print Post    
I think that I may be able to get off my block by tomorrow morning and go to work.
The mayor really really dropped the ball on this one. I have never seen NYC like this. We have a bigger snowstorm in 2006 and it was not like this. When Giuliani was mayor, we had huge snowstorms and the streets were cleaned up in 2 days. He had the plows and sanitation trucks taking the snow and dumping it in the ocean.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 2:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Our mayor left and went to Mardi Gras in February when the city was hit by a 23 inch sudden snow fall.

Many streets were not cleared. He was not here to oversee anything.

When he returned he said it was nobody's business when he went of vacation.

Colordeagua
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10-24-2003

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 6:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Those mayors sound like Bilandic in Chicago. Michael Bilandic didn't get the snow removed so he lost the next election to Jane Byrne. This was in the late '70s - early '80s.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 - 6:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
My daughter in in Gallup, NM working at a Christian youth camp...and today it started to snow. Big stuff for small town kids from east Texas!

Maris
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03-27-2002

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 - 9:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
Ginger, we are still waiting for the plows. Still have two feet of snow. cant cross the streets because the piles are higher at the corners. Bloomberg really screwed over the boroughs, worse than John Lindsay.