h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Can you point it out the window? Take a picture of the snow? And mail it to me at postteamhg-at-gmail-dot-com?

Curious people would like to see it.

Don't worry about the composition, lighting, etc: I have Baby Photoshop.

nvm, then. Many others have rallied to the call! There will be lots of photos this month.

Whew!

There are loads of photos of our snow at various websites. There's also a sad photo of cars half-submerged in a school parking lot in Gloucester.
http://patch.com/massachusetts/hamilton-wenham/dozens-cars-submerged-gloucester-high



There were phenomenally high tides at the time our storm ("Grayson") hit. The storm merely intensified the high tides.

I'll bet.

I live well inland. The ocean is at least ten miles away from me.

I never did trust the ocean. It's . It has a mind of its own, and that mind seems to be malevolent

Paranoid, moi?

The Aegean was always friendly.

Not with Calypso and Circe there to ensnare Odysseus! Scylla, Charybdis, Cyclopses.....

Water is quite heavy, but it is also, well, fluid. If there's enough of it, and if t comes with enough speed, it could knock tall buildings over. When the dinosaurs' asteroid hit the ocean near the Yucatan, what did the most damage was the fearsomely high tsunamis that crisscrossed the continents until their momentum was spent. the Indian subcontinent was crossed at least 500 times by thee waves.

Well, that's true.

But I used to live in Greece. The Aegean has no tide and tends to calm. I never ran into any cyclopses, though.

Of course you didn't. The ones that Odysseus didn't kill are still out looking for him.

I hope you weren't drinking any good coffee when you ed.

Not that I begrudge you the finer things in life. I just don't want to see it wasted.

I never waste - and I never read h2g2 posts without swallowing first.

That probably goes double when you're reading my posts.

The temperatures have gone up about 25 degrees since yesterday morning, but I still yearn for a warm place to get away to. I envy you your stay in Greece. heck, I'd settle for the island where they filmed "Popeye," the movie that had Robin Williams and Shelley Duval in it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081353/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

I loved that movie, including the songs. "He's large" is what Olive Oyl sin gs when asked to enumerate Bluto's virtues. His size is the only virtue she can think of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUa_E1CugU

I like that movie, too. It's much truer to the original Popeye comics, which were exercises in surrealism...I'll bet Malta is a beautiful place.

I'm glad it warmed up in Massachusetts, too. I knew the temperature had gone up in Pennsylvania about two am, when I woke up and had to take a layer off the bedcovers...boy, was that welcome. 6F is for the birds.

Try 6 below zero.

I read somewhere that Philadelphia's temp went below zero F for the first time in recorded history.

That seemed a little strange to me, because Lancaster County, which is not that far away, has had temps way below zero.

I'm pretty sure Philly's had below zero before. Although it's not usual.

Philly's usually way warmer than here out in the west of the Commonwealth.

Does it have to do with the north/south arrangement of the mountain ridges? Polar vortexes can slip southward between the ridges without being deflected by anything tall. Philadelphia, however, is sort of protected because the Adirondacks and Catskills deflect some of the cold winds. That's my theory.

I think you're right. The Poconos are to the north. Over here, north of Pittsburgh, we're in the northern Appalachians.

You're north of Pittsburgh? Be afraid, be very afraid.

But seriously, you must be close enough to Lake Erie to get some lake Effect snow. That much snow would drive me bananas -- er, more bananas than I already am.

We're only halfway up - and glad we're not nearer to Erie. They had something like six feet of snow. We got less than a foot.