WOW!! What a snowstorm, huh?!?!!

Why stock up when you have Chinese delivery? They'll deliver to you amidst the chaos and destruction of the Second Coming much less a pussy category 5 blizzard.

o NO!
I have no milk, and half a butternut squash in the fridge
what will we do!?


o yeeeeeeeaaaaaah - our electric lines are underground, and none of us are required to drive to the store. I love urban living!

watch out at eastern parkway and washington, folks. one woman and I were hanging onto the fence there and another woman totally went down face first - she was BLOWN over by the wind. it's totally idiotic out there.

also, I had this really creepy dream about vampires and trolls and stuff that I was battling (and I was somehow harry potter with a sword - snape was helping out) and then I got locked into a bathroom because this crazed vampire kid was coming after me (and the kid was somehow snape's) and I woke up when the kid apparated into the bathroom behind me and whispered "I'm right behind you, [alafairnadia]". omfg! the ice hitting the windows had me convinced the vampire was in my house so I ran around turning on all the lights with a book as a weapon (not a harry potter book, or vampire book, or troll book) and I was really pleased that I know that my closet in my bedroom is such a disaster zone no vampire could hide in it, even if they turned into a bat or hung upsidedown. had to share, sorry.

it's a totally weird mix of sugar and rock salt flying around (OUCH!)
but it's only slick at the bare spots
beware the bare spots . . .

Emily wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]watch out at eastern parkway and washington, folks. one woman and I were hanging onto the fence there and another woman totally went down face first - she was BLOWN over by the wind. it's totally idiotic out there.

Are you sure the woman you saw falling over wasn't ME, from a distance?! Because I just got home 15 minutes ago from an entirely abortive attempt to walk across Eastern Parkway from Underhill to Washington. I got knocked down twice in front of the museum and then gave up and went home!

I underestimated you, storm.

no - she was coming off of washington to e.parkway. this was around 8:50 a.m. hope you're ok!

pitu wrote: o NO!
I have no milk, and half a butternut squash in the fridge
what will we do!?


o yeeeeeeeaaaaaah - our electric lines are underground, and none of us are required to drive to the store. I love urban living!

oh! :shock:
watch out for your dogs. this is the kind of weather that dogs risk electrocution
--keep them away from power poles

Emily wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]
no - she was coming off of washington to e.parkway. this was around 8:50 a.m. hope you're ok!

Yeah, I'm none the worse for wear--was wearing a big puffy coat that cushioned things a bit. I just couldn't believe that it actually happened. If only I'd seen your post before I left! But actually, it helped because I was considering trying again and walking around the other way, straight down Washington, and it sounds like that wouldn't have helped.

well, at least there's a fence that kinda wraps around the corner where you can hang on, but if you didn't manage to hang on, there's a potential for being impaled, so it's probably best to avoid e.pkwy right now.
I've heard flatbush is no better.

Now that's winter!

From the Colbert Report Monday night:

Wait for the "11 feet of snow" part.

god i just finish shoveling snow and it blows. cause my dad took all our snow shovels and forgot to bring them back from his work. i use a regular shovel a lot more work.

hate snow.

saw sje. hehe i keep spoting her around town. this time she saw me and said hi. i usually see her and her bike but today she was on foot.

brooklynpotter wrote: and i have to go to f'ing williamsburg. on the G train. then walk to my studio which is far from the G and very close to the river.

It's good to know that someone rides the G train. I had been under the impression that it was just there to clog up the tracks and delay the F train, but this makes me feel better.

Boston Bob is D-e-d

Electrified Manhole Cover Blamed in Death of Dog
By CHRISTOPHER FAHERTY

Authorities are investigating the mysterious death of a Boston terrier yesterday in Lower Manhattan. The terrier, named Bob, was killed after stepping on a snowy manhole cover on Rector Street while on a walk with a young female dog walker.

It is unclear exactly how the dog died, but police received a 911 call at 3:30 p.m. from someone who said the dog had been electrocuted.

At 3:40 p.m., an office manager working nearby, Pamela Barnwell, approached a sobbing young woman, who explained that the small dog she was walking began crying and bleeding from its feet after stepping on a manhole cover.

Ms. Barnwell said that the dog walker was inconsolable.

Bob was rushed to a local pet care shop, Petropolis, where the owner, Tazz Latifi, performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

"I was just devastated, but hopeful that the dog could be revived," Ms. Latifi said.

After 20 minutes, Bob, still unresponsive, was taken to Battery Park Animal Hospital, Ms. Latifi said.

Bob's owners, who moved to the city two weeks ago, were distraught, the owner of Walkee Doggie Inc., the company hired to walk Bob, Seth Edelstein, said.

Yesterday evening, Con Edison workers were at the scene and had cordoned off portions of the sidewalk on Rector Street.

A spokesman for Con Edison, Chris Olert, said a work crew examined the surrounding area and found no stray voltage.

http://www.nysun.com/article/48734