WhiteBus said:

Slowing down is definitely more important!

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Good point. I was pleasantly surprised this morning driving Rte 4 at the lack of SUV gladiators on the road

Leonard23 said:

It's ridiculous that these towns don't pretreat the roads when a storm is coming. They're cheap and it causes accidents that could've been avoided.

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Slowing down is definitely more important!

DJ Spanky said:

Tyler just pulled in from VA about an hour go. Ham's cooking, fireplace is roaring, Corey and I are working on getting the trains running around the tree.

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Getting the trains running would be faster if you put the Scotch down and use two hands. 😁

Merry Christmas everyone. Enjoy a wonderful Christmas Day or Hanukkah with your loved ones!

I agree. In a few games this season, the announcers called his name. And, "in a good way," I should add.

I hope he brings those shades to the Hula Bowl.

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AreYouNUTS said:

****ing EPIC right here!!!

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I always assumed Fink was Lester's creation...great stuff...

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Tyler just pulled in from VA about an hour go. Ham's cooking, fireplace is roaring, Corey and I are working on getting the trains running around the tree.

AreYouNUTS said:

Seriously…this is killing me

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Only the 2nd Schiano bowl I'll be missing (had a family issue for St. Pete) and it's killing me because none of our crew or a related 2nd crew we sometimes hang with 15+ good friends) wanted to go and I didn't want to try to justify going alone to the boss.

Merry Christmas my friend!!!

RU848789 said:

Easy and the 2400 miles can be split into about two equal segments, with the first half mostly at an average of 80 mph (speed limits 65-70) and the 2nd half at an average of 90 mph where speed limits are mostly 75-80 mph, which translates into 28.4 hours of driving time. Add in 5 stops for gas and fast food and bio breaks (~15 min each), that's 30 hours of travel time. Assuming no major traffic problems. You and I could do that no problem. Now I want to go, lol.

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Seriously…this is killing me

AreYouNUTS said:

Not even a question it can be done in under 48-hours with multiple drivers only stopping for food/gas/etc. NONE. 2400 miles @ 70 MPH average (which is low) is ONLY 34 hours of ACTUAL driving time.

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Easy and the 2400 miles can be split into about two equal segments, with the first half mostly at an average of 80 mph (speed limits 65-70) and the 2nd half at an average of 90 mph where speed limits are mostly 75-80 mph, which translates into 28.4 hours of driving time. Add in 5 stops for gas and fast food and bio breaks (~15 min each), that's 30 hours of travel time. Assuming no major traffic problems. You and I could do that no problem. Now I want to go, lol.

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That traffic on the way back sucked - the drive back was much more of a blur to me than the way down.

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We also had to drive south first, to the team hotel IIRC, which cost us about an extra hour.

Folks, keep the climate change bullshit out of this thread.

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T2Kplus20 said:

One more bust to end 2024.

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How was this a “bust?”

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I'm with you, we had a little over an inch from this storm. When I went out at 3:45 I still had to clean the car off even though it had been sitting in the sun.

AreYouNUTS said:

As fast and easy as that drive down was, including snow from Metuchen to DC, the ride back was equally as long and freaking awful! Was talking to Eric about it at the basketball game last week how we managed to stop for fast food twice - Wendy’s in Arby’s IIRC - between Orlando and Jacksonville It took us so long lol!!!

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That traffic on the way back sucked - the drive back was much more of a blur to me than the way down.

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goru7 said:

My disagreement with you is withPrinceton . They are a good team and a team that will make the NCAA tourney. Kennesaw is not an NCAA team and like I said we win 9 out of 10 times. My only point about Kennesaw was they were about a 135 NET team when we played them not a 300 NET team. Pike never thought for a minute he would lose that game when he scheduled it as ACE’s homecoming

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Do you think Princeton would make the NCAA tournament if they played in the Big Ten?

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bac2therac said:

Yes all my new snow melted and also losing the snowpack now from the other nuisance event

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Unless you're operating a giant heat lamp, there's no way all of you new snow is melted, unless you're just talking about paved surfaces or you got a lot less snow, which I don't think was the case, or maybe a very sunny spot next to a lot of warm boundaries exposed to the sun (paved surfaces, trees/decks/rocks etc.). The snow will be gone after the warm-up and rain this weekend though.

Here are a couple of pics from about sunset in Metuchen. The first shows that today's snow on paved surfaces without much car/foot traffic (no snow was left on paved surfaces from Saturday since there wasn't much accumulation on them to begin with) held on pretty well on streets and sidewalks and the 2nd shows 0.9" on the sidewalk across the street from me vs 1.1" that fell today and that area was a little shady, but not in complete shade.

And the next pic shows we still have about 2.8" out of the 4.4" that fell since Sat (loss due to melting and compaction). Yes there are some south facing yards with bare spots next to paved surfaces and trees, but most yards have 1-2" of snow (my yard is more shady than most, hence the 2.8"). It will certainly be a White Christmas for most of CNJ, other than you, pictured below in your lair.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night, plus a win for the Knights two days from now!

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