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Winter 2015 - boom or snow job?

Re: Winter 2015 - boom or snow job?

joecct said:
The end of Western Civilization as we know it. Jim Cantore is on the move - destination Boston.

To our posters in NNJ to Maine, stay safe.
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Joe: I am all set for this one-got my flashlights here, my shovels here, my heavy LL Bean winter clothing here, lots of canned goods here, two bottles of Ultimat Vodka here, cat food and litter for my guys here, and a good woman with me. We are expecting 18"-24" but the last time we got a storm like this we led the nation with 36"+. I wasn't planning on going anywhere until St Patrick's Day anyway:eek:. The way NJ and the drivers here handle snow, this should be a disaster of Biblical proportions. Even if it isn't, the media will make sure that it is and compare it to Sandy from a couple years ago. (But of course with the addition of the snow and the cold) The long range temperature predictions indicate that whatever falls, is going to be around a very long time as we are going to be in a long stretch of frigid numbers.
 
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One "good" thing about the impending blizzard -- no more discussion of under-inflated footballs.
 
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FreshFish said:
One "good" thing about the impending blizzard -- no more discussion of under-inflated footballs.
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I'm reading this just after the sports segment of the morning radio show where they were talking about Bill Nye refuting Bill Belichek's explanation of the balls losing PSI during the ball scuffing/conditioning process.
 
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Just saw Jim Cantore retweet someone that said that the State of Connecticut will be enacting a travel ban starting at 9ET tonight.
 
DrDemento said:
Joe: I am all set for this one-got my flashlights here, my shovels here, my heavy LL Bean winter clothing here, lots of canned goods here, two bottles of Ultimat Vodka here, cat food and litter for my guys here, and a good woman with me. We are expecting 18"-24" but the last time we got a storm like this we led the nation with 36"+. I wasn't planning on going anywhere until St Patrick's Day anyway:eek:. The way NJ and the drivers here handle snow, this should be a disaster of Biblical proportions. Even if it isn't, the media will make sure that it is and compare it to Sandy from a couple years ago. (But of course with the addition of the snow and the cold) The long range temperature predictions indicate that whatever falls, is going to be around a very long time as we are going to be in a long stretch of frigid numbers.
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Got the standby generator installed. Of course that means we'll never lose power again.

Driving in NJ must have really deteriorated since I moved down here in 1979.
 
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joecct said:
Got the standby generator installed. Of course that means we'll never lose power again.

Driving in NJ must have really deteriorated since I moved down here in 1979.
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When we drive upstate NY people actually wave to you, kind of waving you in ahead of them. Of course down here in NJ they wave also, only it is with one finger.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Seriously?

The snownami, the snowpacalypse, snowmageddon, a towering snowferno, is on your horizon and you're that underprepared?

Only two bottles?

May Jim Cantore have mercy on your soul. :D
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Yup, only 2 bottles the Blue regular and Red cherry vodka. We do have a case of Tito's Handmade around and Jenny has about 4 flavors of Van Gogh. I think we can hold out for a bit. My only oversight is having only a couple fresh limes.:)
 
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All this Deathstorm2015 talk has me thinking about last year when the Dakotas had a blizzard around October that wiped out thousands of cattle but no one knew about it for a week because the news stations/East Coast were too enamored with something else.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
All this Deathstorm2015 talk has me thinking about last year when the Dakotas had a blizzard around October that wiped out thousands of cattle but no one knew about it for a week because the news stations/East Coast were too enamored with something else.
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They weren't whales.
 
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St. Clown said:
I'm reading this just after the sports segment of the morning radio show where they were talking about Bill Nye refuting Bill Belichek's explanation of the balls losing PSI during the ball scuffing/conditioning process.
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Here's the word of an expert in gas physics

It would take a 30C drop in temperature (or 54F) for an inflated football to naturally lose two pounds per square inch (PSI) of air pressure, a University of Toronto physicist says.

(Stephen Morris) on Friday let the air out of two theories on the pressure drop that have become favourites among speculators on the interwebs.

The first: that the Patriots inflated their footballs not with air but with some other gas — like helium, or a refrigerant such as Freon.

As speculation goes, these diabolically selected gases would deflate quicker than air over a couple of hours, then the rate of deflation would taper off as the ball’s inside pressure neared a state of equilibrium with the outdoor environment.

No pins required. Brilliant, right?

Well, no. Morris immediately discarded the theory.

“It doesn’t matter what the gas is, unless it’s a rare, special gas,” Morris said. “There’s a concept called an ideal gas law. All gases at that pressure are basically the same. They respond to pressure the same. Helium, or any gas, would have the same effect as air.

“It would take a special, heavily engineered coolant gas to have just the right properties to be non-ideal, and I don’t think that’s likely here.”

The second, much more popular theory is that the Patriots’ footballs naturally deflated by two PSI because of the temperature drop — from when the officials took a pregame pressure reading of each ball in their locker room, to halftime, right after the balls had been thrown and lugged around for more than an hour in the chill of a mid-January evening in Massachusetts.

Pressure is directly tied to temperature.

Never mind that the theory would fail to account for why only the Patriots’ footballs experienced such a drop in pressure. The physics don’t add up either, Morris said.
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aparch said:
Just saw Jim Cantore retweet someone that said that the State of Connecticut will be enacting a travel ban starting at 9ET tonight.
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I'm surprised they are waiting until that late....



ah, he announced the ban at 10 AM. Given the change in the weather since then, look for him to move it forward by 2 hours when he makes his 5 PM status update.
 
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IIRC Boston (Massachusetts / Feds?) has a law that says you can't dump the plowed snow in the water (river / ocean). Wonder if NYC has a similar law? Well, where do they think it goes after it melts?
 
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joecct said:
IIRC Boston (Massachusetts / Feds?) has a law that says you can't dump the plowed snow in the water (river / ocean). Wonder if NYC has a similar law? Well, where do they think it goes after it melts?
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When it melts from the streets, it goes into the sewer system. Don't they then filter it before releasing it? I don't know....

The rationale behind those laws has to do with motor oil and the like, I think (though as usual I could well be wrong....). If it melts and is filtered then motor oil and gasoline are removed, while if plowed snow is dumped directly then motor oil and gasoline gets dumped with it.
 
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