Colin McEnroe Show: We've Been Snowverdosed
Seriously, nature - Stop with the snow.
Published: Feb 03, 2011
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Colin McEnroe Show: We've Been Snowverdosed
There's a kind of madness overtaking us.
When there's this much snow and ice, people get a little crazy. It's not cabin fever. In fact, the problem is that you have to leave the cabin now and again and what's waiting for you out there isn't nice.
Today we asked people to call in with any especially odd, amusing or heart-breaking stories about what the snow did to their lives. But even if nothing dramatic has happened so far, we're guessing your nerves are a little bit frayed. There's something about those huge walls of snow that freak us out.
Have you also noticed how easily your principles are cast into the howling wind? I try to live in an environmentally conscious manner. But I've been dumping all kinds of chemicals on my ice. If you gave me some yellow cake uranium and told me it would work, I'd probably scatter it on my driveway.
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E-mail from Karl
Colin,
One of your guests mentioned about school buses and transit buses. Well, CT Transit buses don't have to go onto side streets (in my town, Duncaster Avenue) the way school buses do. By definition, the main drags are pretty much where CT Transit goes.
E-mail from Anna
Please remember and compare 1995--the snow and ice started earlier that year, in December 1994, and was horrible.
E-mail from John
The best part of this winter is listening to people talk about an upcoming storm and how the predictions for snow grow and grow with a fever
E-mail from Sara
I really enjoy watching reporters, weather people and news personalities scaling snow banks, avoiding snow plows and donning Northface gear embossed with their stations logo while I sit safely inside sipping something warm. Most stations put a young reporter out there, usually female with a snow bunny hat and adorable red nose. I've noticed that WVIT sends out the kids while Bob and Brad Field stay in studio pointing at maps with giant L's and red arrows and the occasional shivering thermometer. I just wonder who or what decides who has to go out into the storm and if the ability to look good in snow gear factors in to the decision. Also I wonder if anyone else is disturbed by seeing Dr. Mel standing outside the studio looking really little and cold. Someone needs to step up and let Dr. Mel in, send out the kids and keep the senior meteorologists warm dry.
E-mail from Georg
After I fill out and mail my application to the procrastinators club of America, I'll get around to shoveling out my driveway. But I've had that application for about 30 years nows after waiting about 15 years to get one. Oh what the hell, it always melts by the time I get around to looking for my shovel.
E-mail from Tony
Good show, Colin.
We have so much snow here, I'm creating my own mountain ranges. There's West Ridge, East Ridge, and South Ridge. I feel kind of powerful . . . until the avalanches occur! I've had three of them, so far . . . the latest one actually buried (and stalled) my snow-blower. What have I learned? That it's better to let the driveway's width shrink another six inches than to have to spend another half-hour cleaning up the avalanche's mess.
Unfortunately, we can't get the snow-blower up on the flat family-room roof, which we've had to shovel three times. already.
Whoaaaa! I think I just saw some sunshine!!!
E-mail from Martha
Someone in Farmington is circulating a 'This Old House' tip on how to deal with ice dams on your roof. The method involves filling pantyhose with calcium chloride ice melt and draping the hose over the ice dams on your roof. Funny thing is this actually works......in case you're wondering why the roofs in Farmington are all littered with nylon stockings.
E-mail from Elizabeth
People want nice, white fluffy snow that doesn't fall on any streets or sidewalks or rooftops. They want just enough to cover the dead grass, unless it's on a ski slope. There they want several feet of fluffly snow to drop (but not on the roads to Vermont) . No ice, no slush, no brown snow--it's a Currier & Ives vision that is over-romanticized. I'm glad Mother Nature dumps some reality on these people!
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