Your fucked from Tuesday Afternoon to potentially Wednesday noon

Nope. Then wouldn’t these kids be walking home from school in the dark if we had it your way? What a terrible argument

> ok mom! lol

OK, son. That's enough now. You know how I dislike you getting in your moods. You still haven't taken out the trash or done the dishes, and now you are on the internet giving me sass. I am going to revoke your internet privileges if you don't straighten up.

/sarcasm

Not awesome. Sun won’t come up in December until 9 am. If you live in Michigan it’s 10 am. Kids walking to school in the dark.

Im all for ending the change, but it should stay on winter (standard) time year round not summer.

> And it's really about protecting the most vulnerable, too.

Absolutely.

What gets me the most in my city's FB page, is I'll look at these parents complaining about kids being soft these days, and 99% of the time they look like they're a poor/working class person (not to be too judgemental).

I mean I'm blue collar myself, but also college educated, and making a very good income for my area.

Too many of the least well off people support views that are the antithesis to their well-being.

Is Tewksbury fucked?

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Milk, eggs and bread! French toast for everyone!

I'm at the part of mass near i84. The town I live in 20ish min away from that gets a lot more snow than the town I work in near the ma/ct border. Whatever dropped was mostly gone in a few days

I wouldn't be surprised if this storm turned into mostly rain again. My weather app said the amounts are likely to vary by elevation, so I bet most of Central Mass won't be too bad.

Models are crazy right now.

Last several GFS runs have been putting my area (southcoast) in the teens for snowfall amounts, NAM is putting me in a couple feet (not trusting the NAM this far out though).

Last Euro run was trending east I think, but still has me at like under 3 inches, along with the ICON.

I don't think we're going to have an accurate idea of things until late Sunday/early Monday.

If I were putting money on it, I'd say this is going to end up being an interior storm, but as of right now there's still a good chance it could be a bigger hit for eastern/coastal Ma.

I know. And it's really about protecting the most vulnerable, too.

We live in a kind rich town. Rich folks are driving their kids to school.

But Worcester? You have vulnerable families and new immigrants and poor and struggling families. Kids with addicts for parents.

Yeah, we know they dont care about people that fucked up -- but maybe they should care about the kids.

I taught school in Fitchburg. Parents would call once they came to or sobered up and ask if their kids went to school. We just have to do right by those kids.

Bro I’ve literally had to clean my car off twice this year and shoveled once. What wet heavy snow?

Sometime in the last few years, forget when, we had a deep freeze the night after a snowfall.

So school was canceled for a second day. The "uphill both way" parents were hollering about how the streets are all plowed the sidewalks are all shoveled.

They were completely ignoring that the deep freeze turned the streets and sidewalks into a skating rink. It was cold enough overnight that even the treated roads were a sheet of ice.

I could barely walk down my front steps and get to my driveway, busted my ass, went back inside and called out of work.

Yet these dumbasses wanted busses on the streets and kids on the sidewalk walking to school? Not to mention we know there's always assholes who don't shovel their sidewalk. So you want kids having to either get soaking wet walking through 8 inches of snow, or walk out into the street while cars and busses are slipping and sliding on the road? No. Fuck that attitude.

What I don't get about the way these people think is.....don't we want BETTER for our kids? Don't we want their lives to be EASIER than our generation and previous ones?

What exactly are we trying to make our kids to "tough" for? I mean don't get me wrong I understand wanting to raise kids to be strong and independent....but why does that have to involve putting their lives at a UNNECESSARY risk?

The only answer I've ever gotten is "Well when they're an adult and have a job they....."

I'm an adult with a job. I called out. I'll use sick time if I still have it, or I'll take the points. My job is non-essential. I'm not risking my life for a corporation's profits. Teach kids that. Maybe when the next generation gets into management they'll be more understanding.

What does daylight savings have to do with carbon monoxide detectors?

I think it was last year or the year before, my city closed the schools when the temperature was predicted to be like 5 degree with a -20 wind chill.

People were up in arms with things like, "It's winter, that's too be expected! Wear a coat!"

I commented that those temperatures are absolutely not normal for southcoast Mass, they were FAR below normal. Not every kid has a proper winter coat for those temps, let alone proper gloves, hat, thermal underwear, wool socks, etc. And considering not every parent can drive their kid to school, it would be way too dangerous in those temps for kids to be walking or waiting 30 minutes for the bus.

I just got told off and had people say other parts of the country have winter temps like that every day......

Yeah, and those kids are fucking prepared for it, unlike kids in fucking New Bedford.

Here in north central ma we've had our fair bit of snow this winter - less than usual, but not nothing. Though maybe further south has seen even less.

/u/coggs362 You are hoping this lasts a few more days.....

I remember thinking scornfully of people that scramble to get milk before a storm, as I was out getting milk before a storm.

ya the snow/rain is really not going to be bad, its the wind that's the big thing with this one

Better stock up on pie the day before.

People are ridiculous. I don't think western MA is really a thing until you get out to like.. Palmer / Ludlow

Meh. Fake news. It will be rain.

Oh, so NOW we're supposed to blindly believe the guvmint?

What town cancels for rain?!

Now we've had 2 storms -- that we were on the absolute cusp from either 7 inches or just rain because the line of freezing was right there.

My town got like 6 inches. The town we share a school with got rain. So while we were shoveling out snow, everyone in the other town was sure (and I bet still is) there was zero reason to cancel.

But cancelling for rain seems crazy.