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JohnR · 12-13-2007, 03:25 PM

Friekin' Snow Mayhem on the Flippin' roads

Nice conditions out there, bring your

SandSled

BigFish · 12-13-2007, 03:27 PM

Home hunkered down! Thank gawd I got a snowblower this winter! Just cleared my neighbors driveway as she could not make the incline up her driveway...she was stuck in the street.....guess winter is here! Anyone fishing???

tlapinski · 12-13-2007, 03:29 PM

Just got in from work. My usual 12 minute communte was over an hour. My GF's 25 minute ride is going on 2 hours, and she hasn't even passed my work yet. WTF!?!?!? Why do people forget how to drive EVERY year?

luds · 12-13-2007, 03:34 PM

I'm still at work and we closed at 1:30. It's a parking lot outside.

JohnR · 12-13-2007, 03:34 PM

Hearing all the callers on the radio bichin' about no plows on the road. When half of the businesses and all of the schools let everyone out on the road at the same time the plows can't GET anywhere because everyone is trying to beat the plows home

Then the people racing on to the highways with covered windshields needing to stop on the freakin' highway to clear their wipers

I love 4WD

GattaFish · 12-13-2007, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by BigFish

Home hunkered down! Thank gawd I got a snowblower this winter! Just cleared my neighbors driveway as she could not make the incline up her driveway...she was stuck in the street.....guess winter is here! Anyone fishing???

Larry,,, I have been testing prototypes all day today,,,, It is about 45-50 in TX,,,, Have a big pond about 2 mins up the street all to my self for testing,,

Just glad I am not flying out of JFK today,,,

ThrowingTimber · 12-13-2007, 03:51 PM

working from home been busy hadnt even looked out a window until like 30 mins ago.

BigFish · 12-13-2007, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by GattaFish

Larry,,, I have been testing prototypes all day today,,,, It is about 45-50 in TX,,,, Have a big pond about 2 mins up the street all to my self for testing,,

Just glad I am not flying out of JFK today,,,

Your a big tease Tom!

GattaFish · 12-13-2007, 04:08 PM

I figured I would get a beating for that comment,,,, I will be in NY on Sat,,,, Brrrr,,,

Also when you guys were fishing I was stuck 5 hours from any salt water.....

tynan19 · 12-13-2007, 04:13 PM

John, there were plenty of plows on our highways. It was the morons stopping in the slow lane like it was a parking lot brushing off their cars that was the problem. They seriously had a bunch of plows all backed up thus stopping everyone else.

Ribeye · 12-13-2007, 04:17 PM

Fall cleanup is now officially done.Retreat to basement.

JohnR · 12-13-2007, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by tynan19

John, there were plenty of plows on our highways. It was the morons stopping in the slow lane like it was a parking lot brushing off their cars that was the problem. They seriously had a bunch of plows all backed up thus stopping everyone else.

I agree - that was what I was seeing but I'd hear people squawking on the radio "WTH are the plows????"

macojoe · 12-13-2007, 04:24 PM

4 to 5" here in Wareham, lots of fools on the roads! I have 4X4 so I no care

Plows have been by but there is still lots on snow on the roads

FishermanTim · 12-13-2007, 04:39 PM

The majority of the "idiots" on the road during this type of weather usually have NO IDEA how to drive in the snow.
They drive with it's race time in Loudon, NH and they're in the pole position.
If it isn't the speeders, it's the "whoa-nellies" that drive EVERY ROAD at 20 mph regardless of whether it's plowed or not.
I feel sorry for any idiot that decides to tailgate me on the way home.
I'm not a "road rage" driver, but if you're showing your lack of driving intelligence, you can expect me to call you out on it.
I bet it's all part of the lack of sufficient driving instructions that newer drivers receive. You know, learn how to pass the test, not the true rules of the road!

afterhours · 12-13-2007, 04:43 PM

barrington to warwick- 3 hours!! normal is 20 min.......

eastendlu · 12-13-2007, 04:46 PM

LOL Don't take this the wrong way fellas but everytime i go up to boston all i say to myself and my wife is were in hell did all these fools learn how to drive.

They say New york drivers are bad hell no not even close

Pete F. · 12-13-2007, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by eastendlu

LOL Don't take this the wrong way fellas but everytime i go up to boston all i say to myself and my wife is were in hell did all these fools learn how to drive.

They say New york drivers are bad hell no not even close

you just have to realize the fast lane is on the right

cheferson · 12-13-2007, 04:54 PM

Been sleet for over an hour now in gansett, only maybe 2" of snow. Have to go pick up the wife in newport in 2 hours

Tagger · 12-13-2007, 05:08 PM

4 hrs. from Cambridge to Brockton ... Brutal ... worse drive in my life .. Did a white knuckle 4hr. ride in a blizzard from Bethel Maine to Brockton on a Sunday ..that was former worst ...This one topped it .... too many cars ..

MAC · 12-13-2007, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Tagger

4 hrs. from Cambridge to Brockton ... Brutal ... worse drive in my life .. Did a white knuckle 4hr. ride in a blizzard from Bethel Maine to Brockton on a Sunday ..that was former worst ...This one topped it .... too many cars ..

What did ya do wimp out and leave early......?
We packed it up at 1 too. Only took 2 hrs to get from Halifax to Stoughton.

JohnR · 12-13-2007, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by afterhours

normal is 20 min.......

Ahhh, the Nyatt - Conimicut Points Bridge... I can't make it from Barrington to Duval Sq Providence in 20 minutes on a good day

RickBomba · 12-13-2007, 07:43 PM

Left work at 5 in Eastie.
Made it to Cambridge/Allston in 20 minutes.
Got to Moody in Waltham at 6:30.
I hour to go the mile from Moody to my house!
Jess is catering an Xmas party in Boston tonight!
At least I'm home.
At one point Smarttraveller said it was 4 hours Braintree to Peobody.
I'll attest to that. I think everybody stuck on 128 was trying to cut through Waltham.
Home Sweet Home!
Rick

spence · 12-13-2007, 08:01 PM

I flew into Logan from Houston at about 12:30pm. Figured I'd jump on the Mass Pike to Newton, hit a store and get out before the storm was supposed to hit. Had I been listening to the radio I'd have known of a multi-car pile up about 6 miles south on 128.

It ended up taking me 6 hours to get home, and thank god I stopped for gas. I never stopped to shop either.

-spence

RickBomba · 12-13-2007, 08:12 PM

Oh yeah...hey Eddie. I was stuck on Main St. in Waltham Center for about a half hour, so I opened my window and started talking to the woman who'd been sitting next to me (I was trying a quick jog to the east to get on some really good back roads, she's going west).
She says to me, "I hate this town." I say, "Me, too."
She asks me what time I left work, I say 5 in Eastie.
She said she left Cambridge at 1:30 (it's 7:10 at this point) and she's got to drive all the way home to Shirley (like 40 more miles!).
So I pull up to another car (going West) and it's one of my ex-wive's friends who lives in Shrewsbury.
She doesn't realize that it's me, rolls down her window, says don't try to go in the direction that I'm going.
"I'm from Waltham," she says, and "Don't even try to go down that road, cause you're not going to get anywhere."
I say thanks and proceed to light up the fog lights, hit the hi beams, and pound on the horn, and the cars parted like the Red Sea as the Avalanche barged through.
I got home five minutes later. Hope she had a good time on 128!
Ha,
Rick

RickBomba · 12-13-2007, 08:16 PM

Oh, and thanks John for the beanie and the GCIC "Geek" Bomba.
Hope you don't need to get some sort of ISO9000 or that other SAS70 or whatever it's called, I'll tell them yer messing with proprietary information.
It pains me waay too much to know about what I just said!
I also just changed all my Oracle passwords in the office today.
More Geeky every day.
HIJACKA!
Rick

Tagger · 12-13-2007, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MAC

What did ya do wimp out and leave early......?
We packed it up at 1 too. Only took 2 hrs to get from Halifax to Stoughton.

No,,, wimped out and stayed ,,
started at 6 ,,, should have skidadled at noon ..

Katie · 12-13-2007, 09:07 PM

the school let us out early today got out in just the knick of time too!

animal · 12-13-2007, 09:15 PM

4 hours from Westerly to Johnston.95 the whole way.It wasn't that the plows were stuck in traffic(I was)there were no plows.

bloocrab · 12-13-2007, 11:28 PM

If anyone was traveling Rte 2 SB around 1:30pm near BEst Buy (waw-wick).....I was the guy who pushed the SAME brand new Caddilac 4 different times. This poor woman lost control of this beautiful caddie and couldn't figure out how to turn the wheel in order for it to stop tail-spinning. I helped her gain control of the car...but by the time I reached my vehicle, she was slippin sideways again. Got out another 3 times to push her as she was always in front of me

It's a sad world we live in. On my third attempt, someone finally got out and said they couldn't bear to watch me push the car all by myself AGAIN...especially when it's all uphill.

After reaching WEst Waw-wicks' Main STreet, it took me 4.5 hours to get back to SWansea.....

ilovetwofish · 12-14-2007, 06:23 AM

My mother in law works in boston she got of the train in attleboro at 3:00 she didnt get home till 10:30 and she lives in warick.she said people just left there cars on the highway crazy.