Here we go again.................................as soon as we almost get completely dug out of the snow........at least in my neighborhood..............insult gets added to injury and we get dumped on again. If you have been reading this blog, you have seen the pictures of Snowmageddon.........the first round. Today, you will see the start of the second round.
It was like watching a tv in the 1960s..........no cable and lousy reception.............and all you can do is sit there and shake your head. We were only a few hours into this second round and already it looks like this.
Here is a shot without the flash.........I am disgusted at this point and head off to bed........fuggeddaboutit. Should I be shocked at what it will look like when I wake up?
Okay..........I woke up.........it is daylight..........and it is not good. Everything that everybody did to clear a way has been undone as if we never did anything.
The sad thing is it ain't over yet..........the blizzard aspect is just beginning to start........the wind has kicked up.
Our path is gone...........the cars are covered again.
If you are in Alaska or Canada or even Buffalo or Minnesota, you probably are laughing at us here in Baltimore...........but this is not a normal thing for us. You may enjoy this stuff but we don't.
As I write this Baltimore City has declared Stage Three emergency which means that nothing but emergency vehicles are permitted on the roads and streets. Other jurisdictions are following suit, one by one...........I-83 is closed.........and a fire station in Dundalk catches fire and their roof collapsed......go figure.........
Snow! This is getting ridiculous.......................snowmageddon.............and then there is a news report that 63% of the United States has snow on the ground!...............and today Chicago has a 3.8 earthquake!.............what is next?...........LOCUSTS?
It will take some time to get rid of this.........
For now, we still have electricity........thankfully...................
.........all of the local tv stations have been non-stop reporting and aren't even bothering to show their regularly scheduled programs.
There is nothing like watching plows and reporters all day on tv.
There are some highways that look pretty good........for now. And on every station, at the bottom of the screen, there is a banner that informs us about everything that is closed or cancelled.............wouldn't it be better to tell us just what is actually open?
Classic Nor'easter. Notice the red area...........that's the blizzard warning............
1:27 PM...............wind and snow = blizzard.
So they say that when it is all done we will have an additional 10-20 inches of snow..........and that don't even refllect how much of it that will drift into heaps well over 4 foot.
It's Snowmageddon!
More to come.......it ain't over yet and it is only 3PM.................aarrgghhh!
Here are a few odds and ends about some things that have been on my mind lately. I have also tossed in some observations that I have had that maybe you haven't had. So let's get started, shall we?
Some of you may know that there had been some talk about how our government might tax soft drinks. Another sin tax like the cigarette taxes. The spiel this time was that the consumption of soft drinks such as Coke and Pepsi contributes to obesity and thus costs us dearly in the form of higher health care costs. The specific problem was said to be diabetes and the culprit is sugar. Furthermore, they tossed in the word "children".........you know.......as in "childhood obesity" and "it's for the children". I followed the story for several months now wondering if in fact they would actually shove a new tax down our throats in the form of the Soda Tax. Not much had been mentioned in the media about it.........it kinda disappeared............nobody was saying how it was coming along..................until yesterday. Well...............not really yesterday. Yesterday, it was all over the news that drinking soft drinks "causes cancer of the pancreas". Huh?...........are you kidding me?..........I have been drinking sodas forever now and they are just now saying this?
I ain't buying it, folks. This is bullshit. Hmmmmmm..........something is odd about this "news" story..........so I did a little research. Why now?...........why are they spreading this "major discovery" now? I did a Google search for information about the proposed Soda Tax to see what was being said about it lately. I discovered that the Soda Tax was defeated in committee by lobbyists for the soft drink industry as well as other industries that are heavily related to the consumption and purchase of sodas. I think this is fantastic news..........the soda tax ain't got a chance...................right?
Wrong. When things do not go the politicians way, or when things aren't happening the way the politicians want it......well........they have to demonize things and toss in the word "children" and then proceed to incite the big scare tactic to lure common people into actually agreeing to be taxed to death. The group of thugs that were and are behind the proposed soda tax have been consorting and scheming and have now tossed the big fear tactic upon us.......thus the news story that soft drinks cause pancreatic cancer. I can see it coming now................they might even suggest that the consumption of Coke and Pepsi is the cause of excessive gas resulting in an inordinate amount of burping and flatulence, thus contributing to global warming.........you get the picture.
People better wake up and start taking action. Vote every one of these thug mobsters out of office. And don't try to tell me about some these so called "fresh faces" in politics being acceptable. Consider that now that Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon has now been replaced by Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, somebody "new" will have to fill the empty spot that Rawlings-Blake had. The "new" City Council President has been named and most people will be thinking at how he is a "fresh face" on the political scene in Baltimore...................believe it? Not me.
When asked about if she will be able to work with the new city council president, her replacement, Rawlings-Blake said that it should be no problem at all because they have been working together for over 14 years now.............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..................got that?...........14 years!..................new?...........fresh face?...............are you kidding me? All I can say is..............where and who are the people that live and work in Baltimore that are absolutely delighted about the past 14 years where Rawlings-Blake and her successor have been working together? The more things "CHANGE"...........remember, that was the Obama campaign mantra............the more things STAY THE SAME.
Here is a nice aerial photo of Maryland.............notice how white everything is?................it is called snow.............and there is alot of it..........and as I write this, there is yet another winter storm warning in effect and snow will begin falling again this afternoon............another 12 to 20 inches of snow is possible...........this ain't a good thing.................somebody ought to give Al Gore a shovel and send him to Baltimore...................this "global warming" crap is an insult to everyone because every person with at least a hint of common sense surely can see that Al Gore and people of his ilk are just capitalizing on a scare tactic that they have created..............the only thing that truly is scary is the fact that Al Gore was so very close to becoming President..........one can only imagine what things would have been like if he had been in control of this country. People should be sick and tired of being scammed by these blue-blooded millionaire politicians.
I saw Madonna on tv recently.........she was "performing" for the benefit of Haitian earthquake victims. To me, Madonna is simply an entertainer.......not an artist........not a musician........and certainly not all that much of an inspiration...........unless you aspire to be a media "ho". As I watched Madonna, I noticed how she has aged considerably and just how much she has begun to morph into yet another entertainer...........
.............yep..........that's right.............Judy Tenuta............at least Judy plays an accordion and doesn't pretend that she is important.......hehehe.
You may not know who this person is............his name is Reggie Nalder and he is an actor. He has been in some famous movies and television shows..........even Star Trek...........and I was under the impression that he had long since passed away after a very long career.
Back in the day.......when I worked at the old Vilma Theater as an usher, the movie "Mark Of The Devil" ran for about a month and every day I would see Reggie Nalder's face up on the big screen..................Back then, I never would have imagined that I would ever see anyone even closely resembling him..........if that would happen it surely would be one of the signs of the end of the world.....................
...........well.............guess what............it's the end of the world!
Damn if Nancy Pelosi doesn't look exactly like Reggie Nalder.
I may have mentioned this before, but U2 singer Bono looks just like Robin Williams.
The Baltimore Ravens did fairly well this past season. I noticed that the Ravens head coach, John Harbaugh looked awfully familiar to me..........I couldn't quite figure out who he looked like.......and then it hit me..............once again that old job as an usher in a movie theater gives me the answer................
...........hehehe........Billy Jack! Remember Billy Jack?
Okay.......on a more serious note............remember how George Bush was criticized for his response when he was first informed of the 9-11 attack? He was at an elementary school.......remember? People criticized him for years and kept saying that he was a puppet and could only say what others told him to say. Unless he had a script, he had difficulty coming up with a response on the fly..............hmmmmmm.
Today we have Obama.............take a gander at the picture shown above. Obama was in an elementary school...........and he ain't speaking on the fly.............in fact he hardly ever speaks without his teleprompters...........imagine that..........he brought teleprompters to an elementary school!..................are you kidding me?..............let there be no doubt that Obama is controlled by something or someone in power over him. Let there be no doubt that Obama is a very scripted president. Let there be no doubt that Obama is a puppet...........where are those that criticized Bush?..............I can tell you where they are.........they are busy trying to distract you.......they are running interference...........they are busy whining and moaning at how Sarah Palin had some "cheat" notes scribbled on the palm of her hand when she addressed the recent tea party gathering in Nashville........................oh the shock.........oh the shame............how dare Palin do such a thing?
Let's see............Obama good........everybody else bad...............it's the end of the world.
The snow stopped and now the process of digging out of this unbelievable amount of snow has begun.............and it is gonna take a few days to do that.
There isn't alot of area to put the shoveled snow.........the sidewalk is one thing to deal with.......
..............getting the cars free from snowmageddon's grasp.......well, that's an entirely different story.
It is gonna be awhile before all of this melts...............this is not the norm for Baltimore in the winter.
Hmmmmm............that pile of white is my son's car. Notice that, because it was indeed a true blizzard, the snow drifted and filled the spaces in between each vehicle.
Fortunately, a plow managed to cut a path on the street...........and they worked at it the entire time during the snowstorm..............the problem was twofold...........not much they could do with so much snow, no place to put it...........and no sooner they cut a swath, it covered right back up as if they hadn't been there.
Here is another nice view of my son, Dash Riprock's car...........can't see it, can you?
Supernurse had just bought a new van the other day...............maybe she should have gotten a Humvee.................Dash Riprock, being the great son that he is, busted his butt shoveling around her van.
Did I mention that even though the road is "passable", it is icy?
I like the snow................but not this much.
It will take a while to get our white Grand Am outta there.This is the back view..........
............and this is the front view..............aaaarrggghhhhh!
We also have a gold Grand Am.............this is the side view.........
.........and this is the front view....................it's gonna take a while to get that one out too.
We got dumped on............big time.
At least Dash Riprock has made some headway and we can now see Supernurse's van...........of course......uhhhhh.......the space between the van and Dash's beemer is completely packed with snow.
Some neighbors haven't even begun to fight............my guess is they will all be out here before the Superbowl game starts today.
What a mess.......................I don't know what I would do without my righthand man, Dash Riprock............there is no way I could shovel this stuff...........did I mention that this ain't the fluffy, powdery snow?.............
...............no.........this snow is the heavy, wet, variety..............great for snowballs and snowmen, bad for extreme shoveling.
Not alot of room to work with........is it?
My neighbor got his car loose............but he ain't going anywhere just yet........hehehe.
As you can see, the wind was a factor during the storm...........
.....................and it is COLD!
Notice the cars across the street...............the plow made a nice path there........but......none of the cars have been dug out yet.....................yep......it is gonna be an interesting Superbowl Sunday.
Here we go again.................................as soon as we almost get completely dug out of the snow........at least in my neighborhood..............insult gets added to injury and we get dumped on again. If you have been reading this blog, you have seen the pictures of Snowmageddon.........the first round. Today, you will see the start of the second round.
It was like watching a tv in the 1960s..........no cable and lousy reception.............and all you can do is sit there and shake your head. We were only a few hours into this second round and already it looks like this.
Here is a shot without the flash.........I am disgusted at this point and head off to bed........fuggeddaboutit. Should I be shocked at what it will look like when I wake up?
Okay..........I woke up.........it is daylight..........and it is not good. Everything that everybody did to clear a way has been undone as if we never did anything.
The sad thing is it ain't over yet..........the blizzard aspect is just beginning to start........the wind has kicked up.
Our path is gone...........the cars are covered again.
If you are in Alaska or Canada or even Buffalo or Minnesota, you probably are laughing at us here in Baltimore...........but this is not a normal thing for us. You may enjoy this stuff but we don't.
As I write this Baltimore City has declared Stage Three emergency which means that nothing but emergency vehicles are permitted on the roads and streets. Other jurisdictions are following suit, one by one...........I-83 is closed.........and a fire station in Dundalk catches fire and their roof collapsed......go figure.........
Snow!
This is getting ridiculous.......................snowmageddon.............and then there is a news report that 63% of the United States has snow on the ground!...............and today Chicago has a 3.8 earthquake!.............what is next?...........LOCUSTS?
It will take some time to get rid of this.........
For now, we still have electricity........thankfully...................
.........all of the local tv stations have been non-stop reporting and aren't even bothering to show their regularly scheduled programs.
There is nothing like watching plows and reporters all day on tv.
There are some highways that look pretty good........for now. And on every station, at the bottom of the screen, there is a banner that informs us about everything that is closed or cancelled.............wouldn't it be better to tell us just what is actually open?
Classic Nor'easter.
Notice the red area...........that's the blizzard warning............
1:27 PM...............wind and snow = blizzard.
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