I LIVE HERE!!!
"Shelter's safety can't still a powerful tug of home" by David Filipov, Globe Staff | December 19, 2008
FITCHBURG - .... Joanie Joyce, 76, was still here yesterday. Her home on Lincoln Street still had no power, no light, no heat. She was one of 130 people - some of them elderly and infirm, some children, many in need of care - who have been stranded at the center since last Friday with no sign that they will be able to return to their homes anytime soon.
And with the effects of one storm still dominating every aspect of Joyce's life, another is expected to blow into the area today. Forecasters are predicting as much as a foot of snow across the state, another act of nature that could keep Joyce and hundreds of others like her in unfamiliar surroundings during the holiday season....
You see, GLOBAL COOLING and SNOWSTORMS are ACTS of NATURE -- but GLOBAL WARMING (sic) is an ACT of MAN!!!! Yeah, I am sick of the damn bias, innuendo, and lies passing itelf off as "news."
Many houses in Fitchburg have their electricity back, blazing with holiday cheer, including some on Joyce's own street. Others have no lights, and remain cold and uninhabitable, their occupants sent somewhere else, a maddening situation to grasp.
Such are the vagaries of power. Many towns in the central part of the state had only partial power, according to officials with the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. They said 28,000 customers, both businesses and residences, still lacked power. Though only a dozen shelters were open across the state, more were ready to go if today's snowstorm proves as problem-filled as last week's ice storm, said Peter Judge, a spokesman for the emergency management agency.
In New Hampshire, 49,000 customers were still without power, said Jim Van Dongen, public information officer for the state's Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
For people who had somewhere else to stay, the long days without power still brought worries. Was the house OK? Would the pipes freeze? For those stuck in the senior center on Wallace Street, the problems were more fundamental.
"I had to stop going to work," said Anne Davis, 42, a single mother of seven who is a surgical technician. Her family had to change shelters as the power started to go on and other makeshift refuges in the city started to close down. Tired of coming home to the shelter - she said home and then corrected herself - only to find that her children had been moved, she finally stopped going to work. She hopes her employer understands.
Her real home still has no power, she said, as she headed off in her minivan to pick up laundry with her oldest boy, Matt, 16. The neighbors across the street have their Christmas lights on. Of her children, Davis said, "They're not even excited about Christmas."
Who is, really? Only self-deluded idiots in my book!
The senior center, a fortress-like, 19th-century red-brick structure that was once a training ground for a state militia, was a warren of National Guardsmen, Red Cross volunteers, city officials, and medical aides, all of them speaking into walkie-talkies about shipments of supplies, corridors and bathrooms that needed cleaning, refugees from the cold who needed care, meals to be arranged.
Yeah, the GREAT, CARE-TAKING STATE at your service. I'd rather they gave all the tax money back and let locals do it; not as much theft of the $$$$.
Dozens of cots were arranged in neat rows in the gym, a former drill hall. Christmas music blared from a speaker, and the scent of disinfectant wafted up from the aged wooden floors.
Some 500 people came in after the storm, and many more arrived seeking food and warmth during the day, said Joan Goodwin, director of the senior center, who got the call from city officials last Friday morning that the facility, which never lost power, was going to be the main shelter in the city.
"People were coming just to get fed," said Goodwin, whose home was without power until Wednesday night. The shelter became so crowded that nurses and police had to be called in to help.
As she spoke, Leon Rouleau, 82, a frequent visitor to the senior center in ordinary times, walked up. He has been coming in to warm up ever since his generator conked out. "It's a wonderful job they're doing here," he said, adding that there was supposed to have been a Christmas party at the senior center today."I guess that's been called off," he said.
Yup, but the nanny-state is their for you!!! You get sick of it after a while!
"Mother Nature to put a foot down" by David Abel and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff | December 19, 2008
A week after a massive ice storm broadsided the region, another serious storm threatens to dump more than a foot of snow today from the Berkshires to Boston....
The timing and expected intensity of the storm are like that of last year's Dec. 13 storm that caught unsuspecting commuters on their way home, trapping many in slow-moving traffic for hours.... More snow is forecast for Sunday. That storm is expected to begin in the morning and change to sleet by afternoon.
And the global warming? Pffffft!
"Easy sledding; Few problems on roads, but man dies outside home" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | December 20, 2008
.... As snow fell in New England yesterday and last night, it seemed that the worst had been avoided. There was a largely effortless commute, few major accidents, and a palpable sense of relief. The storm, it turned out, dumped less snow than forecast and was more a source of wonderment and holiday delight than headaches and danger....
It never stopped until this morning after midnight! You know, if the MSM papers are LYING ABOUT the WEATHER, well then, you CAN'T BELIEVE THEIR ACCOUNTS over anything, can you?
Kim Buttrick, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Taunton, said continued flurries into this morning were expected to dump another inch or two.
It NEVER STOPPED, folks! I know because I LIVE HERE!
Today will bring a small window of calm in a cloudy day with only periodic snow showers, she said, before the region gets hit with another storm tomorrow that is forecast to leave 1 to 3 inches of snow before turning to freezing rain by afternoon.
Yeah, right, whatever!
Now they are telling us TEN (see below) and I already have TEN on the GROUND NOW (with it adding up quite rapidly)!!!
Many greeted the storm with stoicism, shrugging off the predictions of howling winds off the coast and 12 to 14 inches of snow as a mere nuisance or a chance to hunker down with some cocoa.... The storm was most burdensome for about 8,000 residents of Central and Western Massachusetts....
Oh, now they finally get around to my neck of the woods! Us "country bumpkins" could freeze our asses of and the elite stinks in Boston wouldn't give a steaming stinker!
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LUNENBURG - .... After more than a week without power, the Massaks and their two sons worried that not only would the latest storm further delay restoration of their electricity, but that it would open additional leaks in their roof and trigger its collapse.
"It's just miserable, but we're all alive," said Gregory Massak, 50, a local firefighter who spent much of the past week helping others. "They said we'd have our power back by Friday, but now we don't know which Friday. The snow is going to set us way back. I'm trying not to cry."
Nope, Americans just bend over and take the misery and injustice while some richer slurps shit!
.... Town officials also worried that they are overtaxing their small staff, with many employees, like Gregory Massak, dealing with their own problems. Jack Rodriquenz, director of the town's Public Works Department, said his 12 employees were already putting in 30-hour shifts. Now they will have to cope with what he said would be, in effect, a three-day storm.
Yup -- and it gets one little sentence from the minimizing, global fart-misting, agenda-pushing scitte sheet! Sigh!
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Update: As I post this (see stamp and add three hours for est) it is SNOWING AGAIN -- HARD!!!!!!!!!
Update (10:00 a.m. est): The snow is FALLING HARD as I type this update!
I figure I shovel just before I WALK DOWN the ROAD to my friend's house today!!! I will stop blogging at 12:30 come hell or high water today.
FITCHBURG - As thousands of frustrated residents remained in the dark for a ninth day yesterday, officials and lawmakers in north-central Massachusetts lashed out at the region's electric utility and Governor Deval Patrick said he would seek an investigation into why Unitil had still not fully restored power....
Fearing the effect of a storm today that could dump up to 10 inches of heavy, wet snow and possibly wreak more havoc on power lines, lawmakers and municipal officials from the four Massachusetts communities served by Unitil gathered yesterday afternoon at Fitchburg's fire and emergency management headquarters for a news conference....
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The prediction of another wintry blast comes on the heels of the season's first major snowstorm, which dropped half a foot or more across the state Friday evening and into yesterday. Although that brought the usual trappings of a winter storm, including delays and cancellations at Logan International Airport and scattered temporary power outages, the region was spared major headaches.
Many dug out yesterday as snow fell in a continuous dusting of flakes throughout the day, and ventured onto icy, slushy roads to squeeze in holiday shopping, ahead of the start of Hanukkah this evening and Christmas on Thursday....
Seriously, they are incredible!
Yup, PITCH the SHOPPING in this slop!!
Are you 'effin kidding!!!!?
According to the National Weather Service, the Boston area and southeastern part of the state will see just a few inches or less of snow today, along with a potential mix of rain and sleet. But communities west of Route 128 can expect 6 to 10 inches of additional snow, with 10 or more inches predicted for some areas west and north of Interstate 495, said Bill Simpson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton.
It's "a one-two punch," Simpson said, given the previous storm. "It's certainly going to be a powerful event."
NO IT'S NOT, liar!!! It's been ONE LONG PUNCH!!!!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!
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