Snow-cane or Snow Armageddon 2026
Feb. 22nd, 2026 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatCrazy Org is prepping for the snow armageddon or snow-hurricane that is set to hit us around midnight tonight. My sinuses and head can feel it coming - I've been struggling with a sick sinus headache all day long, along with vertigo - the only thing keeping it at bay are medications. (antihistimine for vertigo, decongestant (that you can take if you have high blood pressure), and migraine meds.). So far it's kind of working. I did fall asleep while watching All Creatures Great and Small on PBS Passport around 2pm. ( I decided to donate to PBS - and got access to the app again, at least for the year. If you donate more than $60, you can use the PBS Passport app.)
The Mayor issued a "travel ban" effective at 9pm today (Sunday) and the Long Island Rail Road suspended service, and Crazy Org (major public transportation agency) has advised its non-essential office workers - that you can tele-work from home if you are set up for it or in the program. (I'm not in the program (union) nor am I certain I have the set up any longer - since they've changed the security protocols again - but I've already chosen to take a personal day or vacation day - since the vertigo is hovering in the background and will be an issue. I have enough left that it won't be an issue.)
"Updated at 3 p.m. on Sunday — Mayor Mamdani has declared a "state of emergency," which features a "travel ban" on city roads and, obviously, a snow day for kids. And there will be no Citi Bike after 8 p.m. tonight and no Long Island Rail Road after 1 a.m. on Monday morning.
City streets will be closed to "non-essential vehicular traffic" from 9 p.m. Sunday to noon on Monday, the mayor said in a midday press conference.
"This will be New York City's first old-school snow day since 2019," Hizzoner told the city's joyous public school kids.
The MTA initially said it would maintain service throughout, but conditions are fast-changing. At 3 p.m., the transit agency said LIRR would halt service early Monday morning, to resume "when weather conditions permit."
The storm is supposed to dump anywhere from 12-14 inches on the city or the equivalent of 2 feet of snow. The bulk of the snow fall is supposed to be in Long Island, New York City, and New Jersey.
"The latest forecasts show that it could be one of the strongest winter storms the New York City area has seen in years. Almost the entire area can expect to see a foot to 18 inches of snow between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning as a result of the late-season nor'easter.
Much of Long Island, as well as Monmouth and Ocean counties in New Jersey, could get as much as 2 feet." https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/live-updates-snow-totals-blizzard-nyc-nj-timing-storm-radar/6466668/
I've been binge-watching All Creatures Great and Small - S6, napping, and fending off a vertigo headache for most of the day. I did go to the grocery store around 1 pm (before the storm really hit - and it was just drizzling) to pick up olive oil, coconut oil, honey, Mrs Dash seasoning, toilet paper, chocolate, and recycling bags and trash bags.
Also spoke to mother. Apparently it's raining in Ohau, Hawaii, and almost spring in Montana (according to my niece) , which has received hardly any snow, the plants are springing to life, and the temperatures are in the fifties and sixties. It's also in the 60s in Hilton Head, SC. Sounds lovely. I want to be there. It's 31 F here and rapidly dropping, and snowing.
Now, have decided to try cubicle mate rec'd "Start-Up". [ETA: tried, gave up (I found the guy tied to the chair with barbed wire a bit much) and the woman wanting to do a crypto start up annoying - plus I am not an Adam Brody fan). Went back to watch Angel S5.]
The Mayor issued a "travel ban" effective at 9pm today (Sunday) and the Long Island Rail Road suspended service, and Crazy Org (major public transportation agency) has advised its non-essential office workers - that you can tele-work from home if you are set up for it or in the program. (I'm not in the program (union) nor am I certain I have the set up any longer - since they've changed the security protocols again - but I've already chosen to take a personal day or vacation day - since the vertigo is hovering in the background and will be an issue. I have enough left that it won't be an issue.)
"Updated at 3 p.m. on Sunday — Mayor Mamdani has declared a "state of emergency," which features a "travel ban" on city roads and, obviously, a snow day for kids. And there will be no Citi Bike after 8 p.m. tonight and no Long Island Rail Road after 1 a.m. on Monday morning.
City streets will be closed to "non-essential vehicular traffic" from 9 p.m. Sunday to noon on Monday, the mayor said in a midday press conference.
"This will be New York City's first old-school snow day since 2019," Hizzoner told the city's joyous public school kids.
The MTA initially said it would maintain service throughout, but conditions are fast-changing. At 3 p.m., the transit agency said LIRR would halt service early Monday morning, to resume "when weather conditions permit."
The storm is supposed to dump anywhere from 12-14 inches on the city or the equivalent of 2 feet of snow. The bulk of the snow fall is supposed to be in Long Island, New York City, and New Jersey.
"The latest forecasts show that it could be one of the strongest winter storms the New York City area has seen in years. Almost the entire area can expect to see a foot to 18 inches of snow between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning as a result of the late-season nor'easter.
Much of Long Island, as well as Monmouth and Ocean counties in New Jersey, could get as much as 2 feet." https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/live-updates-snow-totals-blizzard-nyc-nj-timing-storm-radar/6466668/
I've been binge-watching All Creatures Great and Small - S6, napping, and fending off a vertigo headache for most of the day. I did go to the grocery store around 1 pm (before the storm really hit - and it was just drizzling) to pick up olive oil, coconut oil, honey, Mrs Dash seasoning, toilet paper, chocolate, and recycling bags and trash bags.
Also spoke to mother. Apparently it's raining in Ohau, Hawaii, and almost spring in Montana (according to my niece) , which has received hardly any snow, the plants are springing to life, and the temperatures are in the fifties and sixties. It's also in the 60s in Hilton Head, SC. Sounds lovely. I want to be there. It's 31 F here and rapidly dropping, and snowing.
Now, have decided to try cubicle mate rec'd "Start-Up". [ETA: tried, gave up (I found the guy tied to the chair with barbed wire a bit much) and the woman wanting to do a crypto start up annoying - plus I am not an Adam Brody fan). Went back to watch Angel S5.]