February 16, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
I live in South Texas. We don’t have weather here. We have hot, not so hot, and steam bath. That’s not totally true. We do have a spring season. Last year it was on a Tuesday.
If you want to see weather around here, you have to watch The Weather Channel. Jim Cantore is the superhero of weather.
Thundersnow in Boston yesterday.
Dude, that was number six!
Joy is a wonder to behold.
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It’s a truism that if you see Jim Cantore in your neighborhood, the hammer is coming down on you. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that everybody runs and hides at the sight of him.
1I want to see a remake/sendup of The Day After Tomorrow which features people from The Weather Channel out in the storms.
2OK. Now I am honor bound to haul out the old snapshot of my dad as a boy with a snow shovel standing on the ten feet of snow in from of his house in Ontario, Canada. The snow is just about up to the rain gutter on the front porch. Part of that 10 feet of snow in front of the house came from the snow he shoveled off the porch roof. He had to crawl out a bedroom window to do this. As the youngest in the family he would not add to the weight on the roof as he worked off the load. After clearing the roof, when he finally got down to “ground” level he did not dig all the way down to the grass. He opened a “channel” instead and used his mukluk clad feet to tamp down the floor. Now back then no one had a car. It was mostly all horse and wagon. Some of the townsfolk had sled dogs and the required sled. They got along quite well. “Snow days” were unknown as we now practice them. The only way the kiddies were allowed to stay home was the presence of blowing snow or a flat out blizzard. And they all walked to school which was not nearby. Dad grew up not only healthy as a horse but healthy as a team of damn big horses. He also considered any snowfall under a foot to be just a dusting. Right now, here in the environs of D.C. we are awaiting a snowfall to start around supper time tonight and continue on into the morning. I’m betting that at some point, the local governments and the state police will close the Beltway and the buses and commuter trains will shut down. To be fair, I haven’t seen a shutdown combo like that in about 25 years.
3Dang, I wish I could get that happy about anything.
Jim Cantore was on vacation somewhere and a lot of people suddenly wanted to leave because they thought he was there on business.
When Katrina hit New Orleans, the Weather Channel crew decided to move out of their hotel and go further inland. When they checked out, the desk clerk turned pale and said, “Take me with you!” It’s bad enough when they come, but it can be terrifying if they pull out.
I probably could have phrased that better.
4I’m sorry, but that is just ridiculous! I couldn’t get past his “two-fer” on that video. Good grief … you’d think he’d never heard thunder in a snowstorm before! I’ve heard it in S. CO but glad I wasn’t outside jumping around like an idiot because of it.
Maybe he’s just been in too many snowstorms this winter … it’s all gotten to him.
5We have friends near Boston and they feel like this:
http://comicskingdom.com/mutts/2015-02-16
6I grew up in DFW. It snowed on a Thursday evening and we woke up to it Friday morning. School was canceled. Saturday noon it was 82 degrees again. That was Snow to me. My brain can’t wrap around snow accumulations greater than about 3/4 inch. Real sorry for you Bostonians.
7Cantore is known in some circles as the Angel of Death.
Much as you might like that video, the video the Weather Channel showed of some red-headed toddler girl jumping up and down and waving her arms in front of the TV while Cantore jumped up and down onscreen just totally won last night’s Internet.
8All y’all know he was raised in Vermont???
Weather is a badge of honor here.
9Somewhere close by is a wingnut who has been praying for more weather related disasters so they can blame Obama. They don’t care about you or me. They care about scoring political points with their base,even if their base syffers from the same weather.
10I grew up in that crap. Thundersnow? Pffft. But I have spent the last 10 years in Texas lmao at family & friends in the winter. Of course they get me back in the summer but, it’s worth it. I don’t have to shovel heat.
Weather Channel is like Comedy Central for me sometimes.
11I grew up in Houston, but up here in the Great Lakes I now have several feet of snow on the ground and have shoveled the roof of my carport. There are neat white walls along my driveway and second-car parking pad. Now, at 54, I look like a body builder, with bulging biceps and a triangular neck. And I haven’t been to a gym in more than 30 years.
12We do occasionally get thundersnow here in Maryland, but most of us have sense enough to realize that it’s a thunderstorm with snow, and get inside. Mr. Cantore is waaaay too happy there, and should be forced to share whatever he’s on with the rest of us.
13The first thing we bought when we moved from Ca to Upstate NY was a snowblower—and we are using it constantly. Grateful to have heat, light, food and a partner who loves to talk to me…those are the important things in the cold. I say a prayer of gratitude for the people that are out there in it, making sure the roads are clear and the power stays on.
14It’s a different world from growing up in crAZy. The moments of beauty are many and the silence is so profound. I love it.
Jim Cantore came to my town one time when it snowed for 24 hrs, from sundown Sat to sundown Sun, left 2 ft on the ground. Jim and his crew were on Main St near the end of the storm interviewing the mayor. The mayor was both amused by the dumb questions and annoyed that the interview couldn’t be done in his office. The next dai it was off to work as usual for us.
The truth is if Jim Cantore can make it to your town, it is no big deal. Worry about the people he can’t get to.
15Shoot, we had thundersleet this morning in western Arkansas. Sleet, freezing rain, thunder and lightning. I am so ready for spring.
16A few years ago in Minneapolis we had so much snow the city ran out of places to put it. Streets narrowed and the city changed them to one way. Then more snow fell and parking was limited to only one side of the street so emergency vehicles could get through. Then it snowed more and some streets were only accessible to 4 wheel drive. Then it snowed more and we all moved to New Mexico. And lived happily ever after.
Or something like that.
(Ok, the last “snowed more” is the only one not true.)
17Thundersnowstorms. We’ve had several in NYC, but not this winter.
18What is going to be our reaction when a Jim Cantore gets struck by lightning on live TV? Are we going to say, “Now that’s one hell of a show?”
19Rhea, a lot of girls over the years have been terrified after Jim Cantore came to their town and later pulled out.
20We live a few feet outside of Boston, and are fortunate that the power has stayed on throughout these messes.
The best way to describe things going on around Boston (which had the most snow being on the water), is that we are experiencing the thrill of off road driving while, technically, never leaving the roadway. My neighborhood looks like a white walled maze, which is fortunate when we lose control and skid off the side of what’s plowed out. Thanks to the awesomeness of our local government, even historic amounts of snow has meant s-l-o-w downs, not stoppage (except on the T). Thanks to all that keep us warm!
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