Nor'easter
FlyingToaster wonders if Eversource will come retrieve its pole before the Tuesday storm. The pole snapped and fell in the last nor'easter.
John Hanzl reports he didn't have a good start to his commute home: He dropped his phone and then some guy on a bike plowed right into him.
But then, he continues, he forgot all that when he saw this food and a note - left for a particular homeless man he often sees on Harrison Avenue in Chinatown. Read more.
Andrea H. looked out her window today and noticed a large affirmation written in the fresh snow on the Christian Science Center reflecting pool. Anybody happen to have Jenny's number handy?
The Crimson reports the U's sailing center has lost buoyancy and is settling with the fishes down by the Longfellow Bridge.
And please, now would not be the time to bring up the old joke about why the Harvard Bridge is named that.
As of 11:45 a.m., the state was reporting 358,952 powerless homes and businesses - some still out from the first nor'easter. In Boston, there were 664 customers without power.
Louisa LaSalle spotted this beta Masshole (an alpha wouldn't have bothered at all with the back window) at Comm. Ave. and Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton this morning.
Hardy New Englander Annette Fox had some French toast a la snow this morning in Uxbridge. She adds:
10 ish inches and no power, no problem.
Lori Magno spotted this sign on I-93 south in Medford. So fill in the blank: What about THE PLOW?
Psolidarity8 ran across the aftermath of a cash between a snowplow and a car on Amory Street at Commonwealth Avenue around 9 a.m.
James D. peered out over the waves crashing on Winthrop Beach this morning.
Ryan McAskill shows us Leamington Road in Brighton. this morning.
A huge tree fell on a house on Woodward Street in Newton. Wires are down on Sycamore Street on the Watertown/Belmont line. On Tremont Street at Hibbard in Newton, too.
Rick Macomber reports a pedestrian was struck by a snowplow on Nassau Street, next to Tufts Medical Center, late last night. She was taken to the emergency room there in critical condition; the Boston Police homicide and fatal-accident-reconstruction units were called in.
Just ask Channel 7's Steve Cooper. Thomas Sullivan took the screen capture - we were too busy watching Channel 4's Eric Fisher holding a snowball the size of his head, while in the studio, squeezing water out of it all over the floor.
Earlier:
Cooper has a thing for Devil Dogs.
— Greg Wymer (@wymer) March 8, 2018
Greg Wymer watched his young master test his new dual light saber in tonight's snow in Newton.
No, we're not trying to be funny. The National Weather Service reports: Read more.
Could be, the National Weather Service says:
Latest forecast model guidence suggest a storm track that will lower snow amounts inside rte 495 and the SE NE coastal plain. Stay turned...
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission has rain gauges at 10 locations across the city. On Friday, the gauge in Hyde Park registered 3.13 inches of rain - compared to 1.69 inches in the Longwood Medical Area and 1.8 inches in Charlestown. Read more.