Bitching about Boston

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These snow shoe may cause you to fall, .



March 07, 2017, at 5:56 p.m.
L.L. Bean has announced a snowshoe recall. The Maine outdoor retailer says it’s pulling 3,000 snowshoes because they can break, posing a fall hazard.

The recall involves the L.L. Bean Adventure Adjustable Snowshoes 25-30 inches and L.L. Bean Adventure Adjustable Snowshoe Package 25-30 inches. The recalled snowshoes have an aluminum frame with Boa bindings and a deck made from polyethylene with “ADVENTURE ADJ 25-30” printed on the side and “L.L. Bean” printed on the front. They were sold in red and blue and can be worn with men’s or women’s winter boots. The recalled snowshoe package includes the recalled snowshoes, adjustable snowshoe poles and a bag.

LL. Bean has received four reports of the plastic on the snowshoes cracking. No injuries have been reported. Consumers should immediately stop using the snowshoes and contact L.L. Bean for a full refund.


https://bangordailynews.com/2017/03/07/business/ll-bean-recalls-snowshoes-due-to-fall-hazard/

 

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Despite recent record-high temperatures close to 70 degrees, wind chills this weekend will dip into double-digit negatives. So even as the clock springs forward Sunday morning, you'll have every excuse to stay in bed an extra hour or two.

Forecasters are already warning of another potential storm coming early next week, around Tuesday.

The Boston area could be about -10 degrees. It may be another weekend of record lows.

The weather announcer said expect windchills -7 to -24. Maybe they were talking about Monday night ?

http://patch.com/massachusetts/bost...er-forecast-snow-record-cold-possible-weekend

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Nor'Easter and a blizzard, due for Tuesday.
A far from lovely commute, and an awful mess.

Snow day!

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Gov.Baker and Mayor Walsh are trying to cope with stupid people.

They put our former top female judge on, in case someone cannot hear men say the same thing.

Basic message
They are not declaring a travel ban.
They will have 800 people trying to cope with a big mess.
Do not crowd the plow.
They are asking people to stay home.
Take public transport.
Big winds and big snow.
No visibility.

Stay off the road.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Some people did not listen or read the very clear warnings of what to expect. They are out in the whiteout, because the three government officials constantly asking people to stay off the roads did not say "whiteout."

Now, the police, the ambulances,and the tow trucks must attend to damaged people and vehicles.

He should have declared a travel ban.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Went outside.

It is snowing sideways. The gusts are gale force. It started with fairy dust snow. Right now,the snow is perfect for snow men. Sticks together very well, packs down to cement. The weather announcer said, "amazing, amazing." Due for the snow to get soaked and freeze, overnight.

The snow is sticking to the trees, despite the winds.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Bombogenesis?


Stella could actually be a "weather bomb." Yes, you heard that right. So, what does Stella undergoing "bombogenesis" mean?


It's a technical term, as USA Today explains, and it's combination of the words "bomb" and "cyclogenesis," the "formation of a cyclone or storm." The term usually is used in winter to describe a strong storm that gets even stronger very rapidly — usually in the course of 24 hours. Often this happens as a storm reaches the ocean, as is the case with Stella.

The cold polar air mass over land meets the warmer Gulf Stream air mass over water, and that causes the barometric pressure at the storm's center to drop. When that happens the storm grows wildly — there can even be lightning and thunder. Technically the pressure must drop 24 millibars in 24 hours for it to be considered bombogenesis.


https://www.bustle.com/p/what-does-...la-is-being-described-as-a-weather-bomb-44307


Am I the only one that transforms into an uttter black cloud of hatefulness, when the barometric pressure drops suddenly?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

*Watches local news footage of weather* Those lovely days of hot sun, recently, have caused people to leave their patio umbrellas outside, attached to the poolside tables.

What part of hurricaine force winds, do they not understand ?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Maine knows snow, and Nor' easters

Pi Day


After school was canceled, Jacques had to settle for tweeting about the holiday from Portland Pie Company, a pizza company offering 10-inch pies for $3.14.


The deal lured hungry customers despite heavy snow.

The teacher tries to bring the “holiday” down to a level that non-math geeks will appreciate. He’s released a series of Pi Day parodies of popular songs, including Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.”

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/03/14/maine-teacher-celebrates-pi-day-despite-blizzard


I have mushrooms, olives, fresh herbs, tomatoes, and three cheeses, for home made pi.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

No school, tomorrow. Must have time to dig out of the snow.

 

[Foxxman66]

Still snowy and very windy in Saugus

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The sleet ended.The robins of Spring are out foraging. The snow is soaked, and heavy as cement. Below freezing, tommorow.

 

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Boston's Iconic Citgo Sign Will Stay In Kenmore Square For 'Decades To Come'

March 15, 2017


The 60-foot by 60-foot sign has been a fixture in the city for more than 50 years. Last July it was granted preliminary landmark status by the Boston Landmarks Commission.

Rick Esser, vice president of supply and marketing for Citgo, also thanked the mayor for "his leadership in bringing the parties together." Esser added that the agreement "ensures that the sign will continue to shine brightly for years to come.

http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/03/15/citgo-sign-staying-in-kenmore-square

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I am going to miss hearing bagpipe practice. Someone practicing, almost everywhere in the city.

 

[trysail]

( they may not be bitching about Boston, but they sure are bitching IN Boston— see the comment section; the guy shoved a stick into a bee's nest )



Why Are Climate-change Models Flawed ? Because Climate Science Is So Incomplete
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
(can you believe it?— the Boston frickin' Globe !!! )

Do you believe,” CNBC’s Joe Kernen asked Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency’s new director, in an interview last Thursday, “that it’s been proven that CO2 is the primary control knob for climate?”

Replied Pruitt: “No. I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So no — I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. But we don’t know that yet. We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis.”

It was an accurate and judicious answer, so naturally it sent climate alarmists into paroxysms of condemnation. The Washington Post slammed Pruitt as a “denier” driven by “unreason.” Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii called Pruitt’s views “extreme” and “irresponsible” — proof of his unfitness to head the EPA. Gina McCarthy, who ran the agency under President Obama, bewailed the danger global warming poses “to all of us who call Earth home,” and said she couldn’t “imagine what additional information [Pruitt] might want from scientists” in order to understand that. Yet for all the hyperventilating, Pruitt’s answer to the question he was asked — whether carbon dioxide is the climate’s “primary control knob” — was entirely sound. “We don’t know that yet,” he said. We don’t. CO2 is certainly a heat-trapping greenhouse gas, but hardly the primary one: Water vapor accounts for about 95 percent of greenhouse gases. By contrast, carbon dioxide is only a trace component in the atmosphere: about 400 ppm (parts per million), or 0.04 percent. Moreover, its warming impact decreases sharply after the first 20 or 30 ppm. Adding more CO2 molecules to the atmosphere is like painting over a red wall with white paint — the first coat does most of the work of concealing the red. A second coat of paint has much less of an effect, while adding a third or fourth coat has almost no impact at all.

Earth’s climate system is unfathomably complex. It is affected by innumerable interacting variables, atmospheric CO2 levels being just one. The more variables there are in any system or train of events, the lower the probability of all of them coming to pass. Your odds of correctly guessing the outcome of a flipped coin are 1 in 2, but your odds of guessing correctly twice in a row are only 1 in 4 — i.e., ½ x ½ Extending your winning streak to a third guess is even less probable: just 1 in 8. Apply that approach to climate change, and it becomes clear why the best response to the alarmists’ frantic predictions is a healthy skepticism.

The list of variables that shape climate includes cloud formation, topography, altitude, proximity to the equator, plate tectonics, sunspot cycles, volcanic activity, expansion or contraction of sea ice, conversion of land to agriculture, deforestation, reforestation, direction of winds, soil quality, El Niño and La Niña ocean cycles, prevalence of aerosols (airborne soot, dust, and salt) — and, of course, atmospheric greenhouse gases, both natural and manmade. A comprehensive list would run to hundreds, if not thousands, of elements, none of which scientists would claim to understand with absolute precision. But for the sake of argument, say there are merely 15 variables involved in predicting global climate change, and assume that climatologists have mastered each one to a near-perfect accuracy of 95 percent. What are the odds that a climate model built on a system that simple would be reliable? Less than 50/50...



more...
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...-incomplete/hekwjPBTScRpFyXaXnrWhI/story.html


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try, that is an opinion piece.

"That is why calls to radically reduce carbon emissions are so irresponsible — and why dire warnings of what will happen if we don’t are little better than reckless fearmongering."

That is an opinion. Jeff Jacoby has been taking whacks at it, for years. Scientists refute his interpretations of their work. I find it hard to understand why someone as intelligent as Jeff, would side with those perpetuating a ruse.

Another night of freezing rain threat. People have been flying off the roads, all of this weekend.

 

[thør]

Boston looks like a place where there's good eats.

I need a place to get a damn good lobster roll.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Boston looks like a place where there's good eats.

I need a place to get a damn good lobster roll.

Sorry, that I took so long to answer. Not many visitors.



Island Creek Oyster Bar at Kenmore Square and the Atlantic Fish Company in Copley Square enjoy good reputations.

 

[thør]

Sorry, that I took so long to answer. Not many visitors.



Island Creek Oyster Bar at Kenmore Square and the Atlantic Fish Company in Copley Square enjoy good reputations.

Excellent, I will be close to Copley.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Tornado Alley East

This week, I heard the term "gustnado."

March 29, 2017

Midland, Tex. experienced a gustnado on Tuesday, March 28. Meanwhile, a large funnel cloud swirled through Roby, Tex.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/vide...9eaec2-147b-11e7-bb16-269934184168_video.html


The best chance for accumulating snow should be north of the Mass Pike, in areas like the Worcester Hills, the Monadnocks and the Berkshires. The snow should change over to rain or sleet for just about everyone late Friday night.


The snow will have a difficult time sticking to roads, given two sunny days prior to the next weather system's arrival.

Friday is also the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the April Fools' Day Storm of 1997. Boston received 25.4 inches of snow, Worcester was blanketed by 33 inches, and Milford was buried under an incredible 36 inches.

The system will be long gone for the Red Sox Home Opener on Monday. Skies will be mostly sunny and temperatures should approach 50 degrees

WCVB TV

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

It has begun.

Somewhere in Massachusetts...

Someone is watching
the sky,and cursing,
making oaths that should
not be heard. Yes, snow.

Nothing like thør's abundance.

Flying slush, for others. More of the same, tomorrow.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

105 years of the Green Monster at Fenway. It has been said that it will last another thirty years, at least. (The grand old lady will look presentable. She has had work done.)

Monday, the Red Sox resume.

*looks at behemoth personal vanity trucks that some people drive*

Do you honestly think that you will find a free parking space on the street ? A family of six could live in that thing. Are you currently stalked by a tornado?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Slushy snow, everywhere.
OK, Canada. Thank you.
You can stop, now.
Very funny.

Happy April Fools Day, to you, too.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

WTF, Patriots ?

April 3, 2017


"Adrian Peterson reportedly will leave New England without a contract: According to ESPN’s Field Yates, Peterson’s visit with the Patriots has concluded and he’s leaving without a deal — for now, as the report adds the two sides could revisit it later."


https://www.boston.com/sports/new-e...-reportedly-leaves-new-england-without-a-deal

Kraft came out strongly last week against signing players with a documented history of domestic violence, giving the clear impression that the Patriots would not be the team to take a chance on Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon in the upcoming draft.

But then came the mixed-message news that Adrian Peterson would be in Foxborough for a free-agent visit on Monday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...age-hosting-adrian-peterson-article-1.3017586


*pointed pointing*

Attorneys debate jury instructions in Aaron Hernandez trial

April 4, 2017

Prosecutor Teresa Anderson countered that Bradley’s statement to Hernandez, shortly before the Florida shooting, referencing the “stupid [expletive] you did in Boston” warranted the charge going to the jury.

She said a “reasonable jury could find” that Hernandez shot Bradley to silence him.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Thank goodness for WGBH

The internet continues to stuff my head full of new things to remember, and less recent stuff falls out of my ear. Greater Boston reminded me that the Boston Globe's properties will be sold, and The Globe will be moving to new digs.

Printing will still go on, close to the Miles Standish Forest. They built an industrial park, out there. It will be strange, to dive by and not see the sign. Some developer will probably block out another part of the skyline with some mega building.( Fucking condo developers. yuck)

The headquarters will be closer to the heart of the city, in Exchange Place, in the financial district.