Updated weather advisory

[ayashi]

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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:53:49 -0500
To: EmergencyAlerts
Conversation: EMERGENCY Notification: WEATHER UPDATE
Subject: EMERGENCY Notification: WEATHER UPDATE

Date the message was sent: December 18, 2008
Time the event occured or will occur: 12:20 PM
Subject of this message: WEATHER UPDATE
Message: Alert Message:

A weather system will be entering the State tomorrow morning. This storm
will start with light snow around 9 AM. The snow will steadily increase
until around 1 PM when it will start falling 1 or 2 inches per hour.
Visibility will be reduced to a quarter mile or less. The snow will continue
to fall at this rate until about 7 PM. The system should be out of the state
by 10 PM. Winds will be from the North East with gusts of 30 to 40 mph.
Total snowfall amounts will range from 7 to 14 inches. Boston is expected to
get around 9 inches, Worcester 11 inches Springfield 10 inches. There will
be some Ocean affect snow with this storm, which will adversely the coast
especially in the Plymouth County and Essex County areas where it can create
near blizzard conditions. This Ocean affect snow may also allow the snowfall
to continue along the coast into Saturday. Temperatures will also drop after
this storm into the teens. Sunday more snow is expected of about 1 to 3
inches, changing to rain in the afternoon and then temperatures dropping
again Sunday night into the single digits freezing the rain that had fallen.
Take great caution with this Friday storm. Ensure your car has gas; do not
travel into this storm if not necessary. If you must travel use public
transportation.


This message was sent by the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.

Comments

[amerynn.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the same storm that's hitting us this evening :(

[silentstephi.livejournal.com]

That storm ruined my DnD plans T.T

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

It's about to further ruin my already ruined final exam schedule and holiday travel plans.

[frosted-miika.livejournal.com]

we have a crazy storm coming up here aswell but I got nothing about not coming in if it's bad :(

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the update. Despite a direct request for more information from my campus president yesterday, all she replied was "we're working on a plan, we'll let you know tomorrow morning" (which was this morning and she didn't follow up). I emailed my students to let them know I'm aware we're about to be fucked, and with some of the options I'm considering. So far three students have contacted me to say their power went out last Thursday, including one who still doesn't have power.

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

Man... what a mess D:

My boss informed me today that if we aren't comfortable coming in, we are able to work from home so to just let her know. We also have someone here who will tell us to go home around noon (if we do come in) if it is looking bad.

I guess she heard that the conditions are prime to cause something very much like what happened last year, wtih the 8 hour drives home and whatnot. :(

That sucks so much for everyone who has lost power. I can't imagine being without power for so long!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. If campus *is* open tomorrow, I may call off my final anyway, and if I don't, one of my colleagues has already offered to let me stay over at his house, and he even has a spare bedroom.

There are shelters across Central Mass for people who are without power. Most heat systems require electricity to pump the fuel into the furnace and the water out.

...Goddamnit! UMass just declared they're closing, and my school still hasn't said anything.

[chichiri.livejournal.com]

Great. I'm supposed to be flying in Sunday afternoon. -_-; and supposed to drive to New Jersey Monday morning...