254 PM - snow starting to fall - visibility about 1/2 mile now - snow banks are about 5 feet high in Arlington Center already (the intersections have been cleaned up nice - but there is still lots of snow right along the gutter lines)
I have not heard a forecast recently but something tells me we will get a foot of snow with wind gusts to 50 MPH - with temperatures in the teens (maybe lower since there is supposed to be record setting cold) The MBTA told everyone yesterday that they would not run on Sunday. A complete system wide shutdown. I would love to see them keep the underground subways running if possible. Alewife to Kendall. Park to Andrews. Haymarket to Kenmore. North Station to ?Mass Ave. State to ?Maverick?. You just need 5 motormen, 1 or 2 T cops, and 1 dispatcher. Put them up at the Ritz or something if need be. Maybe the emergency exits would all get covered with snow. That might be a problem. But in the case of a disaster, those subway lines could be very useful. You could park Rescue 1 at Downtown Crossing, and have them haul their jaws around on the subway - if the roads are really impassable. EMS could transport patients to NEMC. Police could move reinforcements from neighborhood to neighborhood. If mass evacuations of a building or neighborhood were needed, the subway would be very valuable. Just thought of something. Maybe they should cover the Red Line from Charles Station to Kendall Station. That is no more than a half mile. That would allow access to MGH for anyone between Alewife and Andrews. Maybe they could use a heated clear acrylic covering so the visually tender crowd would not be dismayed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
