More than a foot of snow fell in Boston and up to 2 feet in other parts of the state Friday, as a winter storm that exceeded most predictions pummeled the seacoast, toppled a house on Plum Island, and knocked out power to more than 9,000 homes.
But a month after a February blizzard delivered Boston its biggest winter whupping in a long time, this surprisingly strong snowstorm raised little fanfare.
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Tell all of this to my patients who depend on "The Ride" and other means of transport to get to their dialysis and chemo appointments. Meteorologists blew this one BIG TIME and it wasn't a minor inconvenience to them.
Yes, Kathy, you still have a right to protect your house, no matter how shortsighted the purchase was.
The Glob's staff reporter once again blows the story... a not unusual fact these days of ownership dithering. A fill-in weatherguy on Channel 5 (the one where the reporter guys and girls are now announcing they work for WCVB every time they sign off an on-air story) said that the botched snow depths were really caused by a Tachikawa or a Tomodori or some other kind of Japanese effect that starts with a 'T'. Apparently the T word somehow involves a couple of low pressure systems colliding aloft and somehow dragging lots and lots of ocean moisture ashore to dump it over New England. (Don't hoot and holler if there is some other more technically correct explanattion.) Whether this has to do with the European or American model forecasts I can not figure, but we readers do deserve a more probing explanation of such a weird weather phenom so we can explain it to Howie Carr and his Herald brethren, thus proving that delving into the stuff written by bow-tied bum-kissers has a mind-enhancing benefit. It does seem however, that the Glob is starting to fail the almost certain cater to a small gang of Brattle street regulars to slide down the slippery slope to the lowest common numerator. (or is that denominator?)