Nor'easter
- Thread starter Flying Spaghetti Monster
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With each passing New Jersey winter, I hate snow more. I think I'm fully galvanized toward the "move to the west coast" category.
You must be glad you're no longer living there.
Well, that was bad timing-- my Brother got married yesterday... in Cohasset. The Nor'easter hit just in time to make getting to the church and the reception miserable. 
When I left to go home, there was blinding rain and wind and the narrow, winding streets were covered with wet leaves, debris, some branches and occasional flooding. By the time I got as far as Braintree, it had turned to snow; by the time I got to Quincy, it was an inch deep on the road and very slippery. It took me nearly two hours.
I wish it had just been a day earlier or later.
When I left to go home, there was blinding rain and wind and the narrow, winding streets were covered with wet leaves, debris, some branches and occasional flooding. By the time I got as far as Braintree, it had turned to snow; by the time I got to Quincy, it was an inch deep on the road and very slippery. It took me nearly two hours.
I wish it had just been a day earlier or later.
I love snow ... in the winter! But, I'm just not ready for it this early. Not looking forward to it. Not supposed to be TOO too bad here in Boston, but we have to go to my MIL's tomorrow, and she's in the 10"-12" band.
We got a wet dusting last night, nothing to write home about. Hopefully getting a frost will help jazz up the foliage here, it's been a dud this year. And seeing as this my last fall in New England, I was hoping for a good one.
I'm heading to your homestate next spring...
That is the creepiest name for a town. Everytime I drive through there, I expect to see a grove of trees with big pink brains ripening on them.
Got a fair amount of snow here, but I understand it's worse out west. My girlfriend's entire university lost power, and I just read that there are over 2 million people without power and they are expected to be without for "days." Yeesh. I never lost power, though it flickered a few times. Crazy. I hope everybody's safe and staying warm.
I thought Quincy and Braintree were the same town, albeit renamed at some point in the 19th Century?
^ Quincy was formed out of *part* of Braintree, but they're not exactly the same.
I've thought the same thing my whole life.
No, they're separate cities, although they do share a common history, as MLB says (along with Dorchester, my hometown). But Quincy and Braintree have been separate since around the time of the Revolution or so. Dorchester, though, was absorbed by Boston and is now just a "neighborhood."
I thought Quincy and Braintree were the same town, albeit renamed at some point in the 19th Century?
Being naive at the time, when I visited my brother years ago in Long Island, his friends commented on his surprise at heavy snowfall. We were raised in Pasadena, the Los Angeles area. I told his friends that of course he was surprised, saying that we "keep" our snow in the mountains, where it belongs, and not outside one's front door. They were amused with the idea of "going to visit" the snow.
A lot of us here would appreciate that arrangement.
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