Lukey's boat is painted green, ah, me boys

[rolanni]

While we're waiting for Snowpocalypse -- 20 total inches now predicted, and!  11 more on Friday, from Another, Completely Unrelated storm -- While, I say, we're waiting for the snow to fall, I should perhaps point you to Eating Authors, a series of blog posts hosted by Lawrence Schoen, in which diverse writers talk about their best meal ever.  Today's guest is. . .

. . .why, it's me.

Here's your link.

While I'm doing the promotion thing, please allow me to ask you, if you've read. . .any of the Carousel books, really, but most notably Carousel Seas, please consider leaving a reader review on BN, Amazon, Goodreads, your blog, or wherever you talk about books with your friends.  Thank you.

Today, as we wait for Snowpocalypse (see above), it's bright and sunny - and very, very cold.  The warmest the car's on-board thermometer would own to, on my drive into town, was 12F/-11C, with a stiff wind bringing that right down to 0F/-18C.  The Shaws on KMD was. . .not particularly busy when I stopped to pick up bottled water, but the KMD Hannaford, where I stopped to pick up items not available at Shaws, Was. A. Freaking. Zoo.  Whole shelves were empty.  There wasn't a banana in the store, unless it was already in somebody's basket, the wine section had been stripped, and the bread section; there were no muffins in the bakery section.

. . .this is going to be a Strange Snowstorm, isn't it?

While I was in town, Steve, who was catching up the laundry at home, was treated to a pre-blizzard power outage.  Hoping that wasn't Central Maine Power, helpfully giving us a practice run.

For the rest of the day, there is laundry, and making sure the dishes are caught up, and, yanno -- writing.

And!  A question for East Coast peeps:  Has it started snowing where you are, yet?

Today's blog title brought to you by Great Big Sea, Lukey's Boat.  Here's your link.

Comments

[reedrover]

I'm sitting in Virginia at the rain/snow line, where we are enjoying an epic battle of... misting sleet dusted with snowflakes. This is not a Real Snow as of yet, just some inconvenient mucky ice.

I think the funniest thing ever reported as being absent right before a snowstorm was Greek yogurt, during a snow warning in Chicago a few years ago. There was plenty of milk and bread and toilet paper, but no yogurt.

[mothadventures.livejournal.com]

Snowing in the Boston, MA area. Kind of a grey and dreary snow, not serious business yet. Just enough to make everyone panic if they don't feel they have enough bread, milk, and eggs. (one radio newsperson down here calls it a "French Toast Storm").

We live between two Trader Joe's (one about a 5 minute drive, one a bit over 10) and went to do our weekly shopping last night. First store out of muffins, bread, eggs, butter, yogurt, sandwich cheese...went to the second store and they were close to fully stocked. Turns out they'd just gotten their delivery for what would normally go on the shelves Monday morning, and had all hands on deck hauling stuff right off the truck and onto the shelves, bypassing the stockroom.

Forecast here is somewhat grim; winds around here, depending on which forecaster you belive, could exceed 50 MPH gusts; with heavy snow and tree limbs, that equals a high chance of no power. I'm contemplating cooking two dinners tonight -- one to eat now, one we could eat cold tomorrow if power is out. And possibly brewing several pots of tea because it's much easier to reheat tea to drinking temp on a portable stove, than it is to bring water to a boil. The kitchen is all electric; if we have to we can hook up a generator for the furnace and hot water, but not to power an electric kitchen.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I'm in southeastern Pennsylvania but not far enough east to get the worst of the storm. The snow here started sometime overnight. We had about an inch and a half when I got up this morning. It has been snowing off and on since then, adding maybe another inch.

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Growing up in MN, your Snowpocalypse would just be an average snow storm, hardly enough to slow the commute - 70mph bumper to bumper on glare ice. Gotta love it - the land of ice racing :) Ice storms, on the other hand, brought down wires and trees - much scarier.

Love your best meal - very nice person you encountered.

Since I keep several weeks of supplies at hand, I never have to make a last-minute run, but when I've happened to be in town during the media run-up to a storm, I'm amazed how many people don't seem to have much at all in stock, based on all the stuff they're buying at the last minute. Sheesh.

Stay safe and stay warm!

[readinggeek451]

Here on Long Island, it started snowing about 8:15 this morning. Only a couple of inches so far, but we're expecting a total of about two feet by Tuesday night. The storm later in the week shouldn't be much, though. (Of course, that's what the forecasters were saying about this one as of a few days ago, so who knows.)

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

So far, my section of Connecticut just has some light fluffy flurries .... that turn to slush as soon as they hit something, like, say, pavement .... and some people are *still* clipping along as though it were a dry July ....*sighs*

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

Started snowing on Cape Cod about 10 this morning looked like lake effect snow-snow globe weather. It got serious about 6ish.
I understand that the wind is already howling on the Sandwich side of the Cape.
I did most of my supply run yesterday, just a prescription and the mail today. Rite Aid was a zoo. The pharmacists will all be ready to nap tomorrow.

[otterb.livejournal.com]

Maryland just outside of DC. This morning we had a rain-snow mix that was melting as it hit. Thia afternoon, on my 7.5 mile drive home from my office in DC I drove through the rain-snow line. Light rain at one end, intermittent snow beginning to stick at the other. We're not going to get anything to compare to what you northerners are getting, though. Stay safe.

Fluffy snow

[ireneha.livejournal.com]

Connecticut is under a driving ban this morning. Today I will be working in slippers.

The snow depth isn’t the 12 inches [plus 12 more today] that the weather forcasters predicted, but the 6 inches of stuff is getting blown around. I’m hoping for zero inches on my driveway, and all 12-24 inches in the back yard.

I have already noticed that there is a big pile of snow against the tree in my front yard. It seems that the neighbor with the plow has pushed the snow fort out of the street edge of my driveway. Must have been before the 9PM driving ban... Good neighbor!

It’s just light enough to look out the (west) window… white, very white, everywhere. Post card picture. And quiet. So quiet.

Looking out the North window, with contrast of the dark grey neighbor's garage, and fir tree. The snow is blowing every which way. No snow on the maple tree (branches waving in wind). Cannot see out the East window at all. Seems to be snow covering the screen (at least I hope that is the screen).

Re: Fluffy snow

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Here at the house of Negative Feng Shui, I don't have a clue how much snow has come down. I knocked a couple inches of really fluffy stuff off the deck and stairs. The snow accumulation at the bottom of the stairs is up to my knees, but further out in the driveway, the cars are virtually snow-free.

Re: Fluffy snow

[ireneha.livejournal.com]

I love computer time. My first missive was at around 7:30 AM. It is now 2:40 PM
the same very nice neighbor replowed by drive way at noon. Hmmm, it wasn't legal to be on the road until 2PM.... but I'm not going to tell on him.

As soon as I finish typing this post, I'm going to put on warm jeans, etc and plug in the Power shovel. Not to brag, but this is better than a snow blower, as I can lift it, and last year, that ment I could lift it to the top of a 2 foot snow drift, and let it munch it's way down. [Standard Snow Blower had a 18 inch max.

PS: I read your favorite restaurant story. My experience with the Montreal highway, and my GPS was that there wasn't time to get to the right, even if there had been an exit. I ended up following the swoop around the city to the north, and then coming back. My memory of that first day, was eating at a Fromagerie (Cheese shop) just north of Montreal after fighting the local traffic trying to go farther north.