Posted on 02/12/2006 2:25:16 PM PST by Mongeaux
ROFLMAO! I can understand your situation....
BUT!
Good Heavens! Why do you want to give the DUmmies ideas?
( Cbs will be running this as news by tomorrow morning. LOL )
You'll have to stick it out. The ACLU has prevented Santa and his reindeer from launching a rescue mission. They say he's only allowed to fly one night a year.
-Kanye West
I was in Memphis last week and commented on the thickness of the glass in a convenience store. The Middle Eastern guy said he had the glass installed becausse of, you guessed it, President Bush. He said crime was on the rise because W only cares about people who make more than 100k. I, ever so genlty, let him know where he could take his anti W sentiment.
Yeah, that's the ticket: we demand chocolate snow.
But, stay away from the yellow snow. It smells funny.
Bush didn't forewarn anyone because these are mostly Blue States that didn't vote for him.
They cancelled my flight out of Manchester today. What am I paying taxes for? If our government can't protect us from these types of things, what good are they? </sarc>
Thanks for the laughs! I hope no one posts this on DU. They'll read it, run with it, and before you know it, it'll become the "truth". ROFL!
Record-Setting Snow Buries Northeast
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap_on_re_us/snowstorm;_ylt=Ai6q5F6_Im40zvGfMoZoQpGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
NEW YORK - A record-breaking storm buried sections of the Northeast under more than 2 feet of snow on Sunday, marooning thousands of air travelers and making even a walk to the corner store treacherous.
The National Weather Service said 26.9 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park, the most since record-keeping started in 1869. The old record was 26.4 inches in December 1947.
Wind gusting as high as 60 mph blew the snow sideways and raised a risk of coastal flooding in New England. And in a rare display, lightning lit up the falling snow before dawn in the New York and Philadelphia areas, producing muffled winter thunder.
"We might not see anything like this again in our lifetime," Jason Rosenfarb said as he walked with his 5-year-old daughter Haley in Central Park. Just then Haley jumped head first into the snow and said: "Help me out. There's too much snow."
The storm came on the heels of an unusually mild January that had people shedding jackets and ski resorts lamenting lost business.
"It's sort of crazy because it was so warm a couple of weeks ago and now we have knee-deep snow," said Skye Drynan, walking her dogs Bella and Forest in lower Manhattan.
Elsewhere, 21 inches of snow fell at Columbia, Md., between Baltimore and Washington, and at East Brunswick, N.J., Hartford, Conn., and West Caln Township west of Philadelphia, the National Weather Service said. Philadelphia's average for an entire winter is about 21 inches.
"It's going to be a menace trying to clean it up," said Mayor Scott T. Rumana in Wayne, N.J. New York officials said snow removal costs the city about $1 million per inch.
However, the storm's arrival during the weekend meant more people were staying at home instead of trying to drive to work.
Churches canceled services and the Philadelphia Phantoms minor league hockey team postponed Sunday's game because the team couldn't get home from Chicago.
The possibility of coastal flooding was a major concern for Massachusetts as wind hit 60 mph, said Peter Judge, spokesman for the state's Emergency Management Agency. Meteorologists predicted 2 1/2-foot storm surges from Cape Ann to Cape Cod with seas off the coast running up to 25 feet.
The storm closed all three of the New York metropolitan area's major airports, and airlines canceled more than 500 inbound and departing flights — 200 each at LaGuardia and Newark airports and 120 at Kennedy.
Delta Air Lines canceled arrivals and departures at Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Providence, R.I., and Hartford, Conn.
The airport closures and grounded planes stranded travelers elsewhere across the country. About 7,500 people were stuck just at Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, spokesman Steve Belleme said.
"We've been playing cards for two hours. We expect to play a lot more cards," Cliff Jefferson said about nine hours into his stay at the Miami airport.
Service in and out of New York's Pennsylvania Station on the Long Island Rail Road was canceled, and Metro North rail service to the northern suburbs was curtailed. New Jersey Transit suspended all bus service statewide. Amtrak reported a few cancelations and delays in the Northeast Corridor but said most trains remained in service.
More than 85,000 homes and businesses were blacked out in Maryland, according to Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. spokeswoman Linda Foy. More than 60,000 customers were reported in the dark in northern Virginia, and thousands more lost power in parts of Delaware, New Jersey and on New York's Long Island. Temperatures were mostly in the 20s.
Still, many people took the storm in stride, in spite of drifts that made sidewalks torturous if not impassable. Lynda Carpentero didn't let the snow keep her away from yoga class at a neighborhood gym in Brooklyn.
"We were afraid we would fall on our heads before we stood on them," Carpenter said.
Intrepid customers even insisted on going out for everyday essentials.
"I love it. It's like Christmas," said John Eaton, who went to Chubby's Deli in suburban Eastchester for his Sunday newspapers and coffee, before returning home to hunker down for the day.
Bush Knew! THe Snow Still Flew!
Cheney has stock in Tru-Value Hardware.
Do you have any idea how many SNOW SHOVELS they sold today to the unsuspecting consumer?
Deaths estimated in the 10s of thousands
Heineken Man was spotted in the Bronx, using pieces of cardboard as snowshoes, and an old tarp to transport his beer loot.
PRESIDENT BUSH HATES ESKIMOS!
He knew at midnight cause Brownie sent him an e-mail.
The Rove/Cheney/Halliburton/Bechtel weather machine has been unleashed on the Blue States!
I'd wish he'd quit it ... I'm beat from shoveling
Hey .. can I apply for disability insurance since I'm so sore that I can't move anymore ??
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