Any of you either dealing with, or keeping track of, how how bad the winter has been in the North East? I can’t remember a worse winter in my adult life. Not just the all time record snow (and more coming today…) but very cold temps for weeks on end. The entire city of Boston essentially at a total stop. I was supposed to go to FL, but it was not happening fast enough for me, so I grabbed a ticket to Panama last minute and I’m out of here.
Man attacks plow driver with shovel in Somerville, police say
A Somerville man was arrested Sunday on charges that he attacked a snow plow driver with a shovel, police said.
The man, who has not been identified, attacked the driver and his plow while wielding a shovel on Dickinson Street around 1 p.m., said Somerville Police Lieutenant James Rooney.
The plow driver was injured but did not go to the hospital, Rooney said.
“This is extraordinary circumstances with all the snow,” Rooney said. “People need to work together, not be fighting with the people who are trying to clear their street.”
The man is to be arraigned in Somerville District Court on Tuesday, Rooney said. He is charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and malicious destruction of property over $250.
I’ll be in Panama for a month starting next week (those are cold temps for Panama…), and believe me, not a millisecond too soon. When I return, gonna start looking for a place in FL asap. I was supposed to already be in FL by now, but nothing fell into place in time to avoid this horrible crap.
The weather pic he posted is of Florida, not Panama. Panama doesn’t get anywhere near that cool…ever! (unless your up in the mountains near Costa Rica)
My wife & I were watching the news the other night and we even commented with a “Holy Crap” as they were showing all the snow out east. We’re in WI and we get a fair share of cold & snow.
That said, I couldn’t imagine NOT having four seasons. I love snow to the point where I wish we’d get even more.
I think what Euro posted above would suck to live in and it’d bore me. (He also has 5 G19s & that’d bore me too).
I’ll take summer and fall. Spring is too “iffy” and winter flat-out sucks balls (I hate the cold, and I’m originally from Ohio). Yeah, 95 degrees with matching humidity sucks too but if given the choice between that and 20 degrees, well…bring on the shorts!
You said “those are cold temps for Panama” so I thought you might have glanced at what Euro posted and thought it was Panama. Yeah, I know you have a place there and we’ve talked before (I spent 3 years there in the Army).
Here in Minnesota, we like the snow…the more the better. This year has been so sucky for snowfall amounts that my buddies and I had to go to Montana to find enough to ride.
How would it bore you? I’m sitting here with the windows open wearing basketball shorts and no t-shirt. There’s a nice breeze, and the sun is shining.
We get our fair share of cold. Tomorrow the high is supposed to be 57. But it’ll be back up to 76 by Sunday. Just enough to wear a jacket and look stylish before going back to flip flops for the next 6 months.
Boring is sitting inside while the entire city is shut down due to snow and ice…and owning a bunch of different types of handguns.
That’s the thing, we’re NOT just sitting around. There’s so much to do in winter that no one should be just sitting around. Living in a climate that doesn’t change much throughout the year would bore me. I need climate change. Just when I start getting sick of the heat, it’s time to throw on jeans & flannel. When I get sick of that, the snow starts flying. See where that’s going?
Oh, and I shoot a variety of guns in the snow &/or single digit temps, so that’s a nonissue.
Na, but me personally I like winter. I just wish it were a little shorter. Like three months instead of five/six. I’d rather be too cold than too hot. The summers here are borderline too hot when they get into the 90s. I can’t imagine being somewhere it’s 100+ every day with the humidity to match. Plus, the winter gives me a reprieve from doing yard work. Sure, I have to shovel now and then, but the time I put into shoveling is probably less than 5% of what I put into doing yard maintenance around the house.
Yup, that’s one way to make winter/snow suck less for sure. Looks like fun. I tried to buy some cross country skis or snow shoes to at least give me something to do outside, and all the places I went were sold out, so I purchased a ticket to Panama.
A buddy of mine is a few hours north in NH and has snow mobiles to ride and lots of trails, but I have been too busy constantly clearing my drive way, finding places to walk the dog, removing snow dams, etc, etc to go anywhere and am too damn tired to do it anyway by then.
That would be tough if one had to bundle up inside while it was cold or snowy, or if you lived in an area where snowfall paralyzes the infrastructure. Boston would suck for that reason. Minnesota, not so much. Two feet of snow and they might start the grade schools 2 hours late. As for Florida, no thanks. Been there. The snowmobiling sucks. Maybe when I get real old, I’ll feel differently about wintering in Florida/Arizona/Texas, but until that happens…no thanks. Some people like winter and don’t mind the cold.
So the question begs to be asked, the guy that attacked the plow driver with his snow shovel probably did so after the plow driver threw all the snow from the street on to the dude’s driveway and sidewalk after hours of shoveling. Can’t say that I blame him if that is the case lol.
Those of us in the Pacific NW are wondering where the snow is for us. I haven’t even put my snow tires on this year. I’m strangely ok with a little break from waiting to get through the next snowstorm.
