Winter Storm Jonas

Peen

East coast is gonna get blasted, no gas station in my area has any gas, shit's weird folks.

I've already got the weekend off and I'm going to take my kids out and make some snowmen and drink, unless the power goes out. Then we bake!

How's predictions by you? Snow plans?

Raijin Quickfoot

Peen, I hope you didn't buy store bought icing for your baking.

Duke 2.0

Work off tomorrow, despite the fact that snow won't start until ~4 in the afternoon

It was scheduled as my off day anyway

Peen

I bake breads, sweet stuff is my wife's domain, all is well.

Raijin Quickfoot

https://youtu.be/VoAnLHSLHGQ

Muggins

PREPARE

WINTER IS COMING

Balefuego

I'm going to work in the morning but I fully expect to be on my way back home by noon

Muggins

Did y'all get it

it's the jonas brothers

Like the name of the storm?

Is this thing on?

Grey Ghost

My work is also open tomorrow but closing by noon
This means we'll all go in, get no work done, and then the entirety of DC will attempt to leave the city at exactly the same time
It's fucking stupid

Balefuego

good thing my commute is against traffic 8-)

Duke 2.0

I would say the politicians have enough sense to just take the day off

but it's Friday they were not coming in anyway

Dys

I've got a full work day ahead of me tomorrow, unless somehow we lose power.

And we get all the fun of lake effect snow where I am.

Sterica

Isn't the Weather Channel literally the only place that really names winter storms, and actual meteorological organizations have told them to knock it off?

But they won't because it's sensational and Weather Channel is a but husk of its former self.

Duke 2.0

If they didn't name it the thing would just be called snowmageddon again

MadEddy

Fuck this blizzard bullshit.

Grey Ghost

Whatever motherfuckers I got a cold
I'll call in sick, I ain't care

Butler For Life #1

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

https://youtu.be/VoAnLHSLHGQ

Gosh darn it I came into this thread to make this joke

I been ghosted.

Kilroy

I drove down to stay with my best friends because I would much rather be snowed in with them than with my parents

Cello

I came here to grumble about naming winter storms but I guess that's already taken care of so uh

Stay safe, friends??

Barcardi

naming winter storms is so twee

EmperorSeth

Damn it, they gave it the same name as my nephew. I hope he doesn't get ragged on about that at school. Of course, we're in the Chicago area, which is hopefully unaffected by this.

And yes, he was quasi-named after the song.

Crimson King

if you're going to name storms in a completely non-scientific capacity you should at least give them pacific rim jaeger names

Bucketman

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

https://youtu.be/VoAnLHSLHGQ

GOD DAMN IT I WAS JUST COMING HERE TO POST THIS

Peccavi

There was some speculation that we might get hit, but the last couple days it seemed we would miss the brunt of it and now it's, "Maybe some flurries, but no accumulation."

It'd be interesting to see the impact on my company's shipping, but I don't work with those numbers.

Kwoaru

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Whatever motherfuckers I got a cold
I'll call in sick, I ain't care

Hey this is exactly what I'm going hi5

Well not actually I don't want to get out of bed

But seriously going into the city tomorrow is a terrible idea

Oghulk

What's snow it was 68 here today

Darth Waiter

MadEddy wrote: »

Fuck this blizzard bullshit.

Come to Texas, Eddy, be a snowbird and visit South Pax with all of our weather in the seventies.

Bucketman

I live in Northwest Indiana. Usually by this time of the year we've had 2 or 3 blizzards. It was 60 through most of December, and now its just really crazy cold but no snow.

Olivaw

Darth Waiter wrote: »

MadEddy wrote: »

Fuck this blizzard bullshit.

Come to Texas, Eddy, be a snowbird and visit South Pax with all of our weather in the seventies.

The one time I made it down to Texas it was covered in a two inch layer of snow and ice!

Bluedude152

Minnesota got hit pretty bad

I almost might have to shovel

Oghulk

That was our once-per-decade snowstorm.

Unless you were north of say Waco. In which case ice is a regular thing.

But south of DFW? Pffft.

Darth Waiter

Olivaw wrote: »

Darth Waiter wrote: »

MadEddy wrote: »

Fuck this blizzard bullshit.

Come to Texas, Eddy, be a snowbird and visit South Pax with all of our weather in the seventies.

The one time I made it down to Texas it was covered in a two inch layer of snow and ice!

Two whole inches?!? My God, you're lucky you weren't eaten when the jerky ran out!

(But seriously, that much snow is cause for concern since it freezes and thaws so rapidly and fuckin' nobody has snow tires or tire chains.)

jgeis

Oghulk wrote: »

What's snow it was 68 here today

I saw a high of 79° on my car's infotainment screen today.

I live in Los Angeles.

Oghulk

Darth Waiter wrote: »

Olivaw wrote: »

Darth Waiter wrote: »

MadEddy wrote: »

Fuck this blizzard bullshit.

Come to Texas, Eddy, be a snowbird and visit South Pax with all of our weather in the seventies.

The one time I made it down to Texas it was covered in a two inch layer of snow and ice!

Two whole inches?!? My God, you're lucky you weren't eaten when the jerky ran out!

(But seriously, that much snow is cause for concern since it freezes and thaws so rapidly and fuckin' nobody has snow tires or tire chains.)

I always get annoyed when people laugh at how Texans react to snow, but seriously, we do not have the infrastructure to deal with anything like that. If it snows in central Texas, consider businesses and schools and etc. shut down.

miscellaneousinsanity

no work for the next two days, hooray

gonna disappear into my bed forever

CorporateRed

In Mass, it was going to Snowmageddon, but now it might be some flurries but probably not. This is fine by me, cause fuck snow. It's been really cold though, but I will take frigid over snow. Fuck snow.

My wife is in Thailand though and it's like 80something so fuck her too.

Peccavi

Uh, good luck DC/NoVa

Xaquin

oh look

according to this, I am in the 36-52 inch area

god please let my power stay on

edit:

local forecast for my zipcode

DaMoonRulz

If you're going to name hurricanes and tropical storms why not name winter storms?

Xaquin

DaMoonRulz wrote: »

If you're going to name hurricanes and tropical storms why not name winter storms?

they don't deserve it

Tallahasseeriel

Uh. I hope everyone stays warm.