Winter Storm NEMO coming (Boston, New Haven: living, Amtrak, park)
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Last night the LIE and the Sunrise highway were CLOSED. But some people are just TOO IMPORTANT to stay home so they hit the roads and got stiuck all over both highways and must now be rescued at taxpayer expense. How very very sad.
A tank should drive by and shoot everyone in the head who is sitting behind the wheel of these cars. The world would be a better place without these self "IMPORTANT" people.
The LIE and the Sunrise Highway are still closed this morning.
Last night the LIE and the Sunrise highway were CLOSED. But some people are just TOO IMPORTANT to stay home so they hit the roads and got stiuck all over both highways and must now be rescued at taxpayer expense. How very very sad.
A tank should drive by and shoot everyone in the head who is sitting behind the wheel of these cars. The world would be a better place without these self "IMPORTANT" people.
I had to go to work last night and I work in the health care field. So there I went...
I usually drive but I did not because I would have never gotten a spot upon my return. Not only that but I did not want to be stuck at work, digging my car out. When I left work, it was after midnight and the storm was really going at that point. There is also very little public transportation running that takes me where I need to go. It is not very safe where I work either---very desolate. And I am lucky that I live SOMEWHAT close to where I work---I actually went out of my way to walk in the opposite direction in an attempt to catch a bus (which did not happen) and only could take the train 1-2 stops. Then I had a very, very long walk home. They don't want people to drive but the walk home was very difficult (obviously no one is shoveling after 1 AM and most streets hadn't even been plowed where I live) and I had no direct public transportation to get there.
I can understand why some people drive. Some of us had to go to work. It's nice the trains are running but a lot of the buses don't run at all after 1:00-1:30 AM.
It would be a tough call to make when you know the lives of others depend on you .Many of our Search and Rescue call outs were in the worst conditions ,naturally.
So you kind of anticipate it after a while .
Remember to bring extra food and water and blanket or small tarp, or military poncho, for shelter if necessary .
POwer bars store well and Gatorade may not freeze right away.
When I lived in the mountains , I had a sheet of shrink wrap plastic I covered the cab of my truck with jaming it into the door lock to hold it on , and it served me well bothe for removing the snow accumultion from the vehicle and keeping in the heat during the nite .
My old truck had thick oil so I kept a portable light, perminantly mounted inside the engine area to keep the block warm to some degree and the rough service bulb would last all winter .
The cab would be relatively nice inside too.
The nice thing about a light is , though the tarp went to the ground around the front of the truck you could still see from insid the house, that the light was on, if you remembered to plug it in when you got home.
It worked better than the heated dip stick .
CBS news just reported that total snow in Central Park was 11.4 inches and the Bronx had the highest amount of snowfall within NYC at 15 inches.
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