re: #318 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the battered, broken, but not beaten NYC metro area. Yesterday’s storm is wrapping up on Long Island, but some of us had to dig out of a major snowfall. Parts of NJ saw more than a foot of snow, including parts of Monmouth County that saw heavy damage from Sandy.

Power outages spiked once again during and after this snowstorm as trees and branches damaged by Sandy fell and took out power lines with them.

The commute last night was awful. Major delays for the LIRR and NJ Transit buses - we were at the PABT where the lines snaked through the building but there were no buses coming in because of an accident or other delay (no one could ever quite figure that one out because there’s no reception/internet access in the bowels of the building so if the Port Authority sent out alerts, it didn’t reach those on line). We quit the line and went to dinner instead. Best move of the night - because after imbibing and meeting up with legalbgl, we returned to the bus gates and found no lines and no traffic. That was quite the relief.

The temps are supposed to rise, so this will be a short lived snow cover, but it only adds to the misery of those without power (or those who had power and lost it).

Thanks for posting that. I just checked on it and then called my friend’s wife to warn her. She is buying some supplies (and a new ShopVac) and headed up that way to do cleaning today.

On the culinary front since I have not driven my guests out with my pasta, green beans, or meatloaf I have broken out the slow cooker and started a pork shoulder this morning… ;)