Data centers dig in as monster storm strikes America's East Coast

Re: Travelling advice

What, no Dragunova and two boxes of 7.62×54?

Re: Travelling advice

@Alister:

And now I'm in too much pain (Ow,My sides!), and weak from laughter to go out and brave the elements. Kudos, Sir!

Re: Travelling advice @Alister

"Reflective warning sign"

Is that not already mandatory car equipment in Britain?

Re: Travelling advice (RAC "be prepared" list)

Four years or so ago I was trying to get Burghfield just before Christmas, and it unexpectedly(?) snowed a little in the south of England. Some parts coped better than others.

I needed to get off the M4 where it meets the A4 (J12). The off ramp slopes up, and there was minimal movement for an hour or so. There's a view of the roundabout/rotary from below and traffic was moving much faster there than on the off ramp.

Once I was safely onto the ramp I got out of my car and walked up towards the top of the ramp to ask the driver of a brand new Scania five axle job that was blocking the off ramp to all but the smallest+bravest vehicles whether he'd got a snow shovel. He had no snow shovel. Good job I had one then.

So I got my shovel out of my car and he dug out enough snow to get his otherwise-immobilised shiny truck out of the way. I don't know or care whether he got all the way up the ramp, but at least he was no longer blocking hundreds of other people. Utter tosspot.

So, as the RAC rightly says, "be prepared". Even if you don't need these things yourself, they may come in handy in other ways.

Also please STAY OFF THE PHONE EXCEPT FOR IMPORTANT MESSAGES.

The cellphone networks are not designed to cope with a stationary motorway, and your extended chat may end up blocking a call which actually matters (e.g. a call for lfiesaving emergency assistance).

Thank you.

Re: Being out in the snow 'officially against the law'

Because the "Mayor" and the entire NYC government are wimpy and ineffectual idiots and morons who shouldn't have been given drivers license's; let alone allowed to vote or govern. Those "decree's" have cost NYS millions of dollars in lost productivity and not resulted in any safer behavior.