October snowfall records could be broken for numerous cities, including New York City.

[dixiegrrrrl]

"An intense storm will move up the Northeast Coast over the weekend, potentially bringing up to a foot of snow to parts of the area."
says Wunderground.com. weather page.

Is OWS planning to dig in? Has anyone heard?

[lunatica]

1. I'm sure FOX News is hoping they'll slink off

But I bet they don't.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. #OccupyDenver have reportedly already attempted to use igloos but police

are always tearing them down, just like their tents. Temperatures there are around 28 degrees and several protesters have gone to the hospital with hypothermia.

Note that global warming is not just heat, it is an increase in the pendulum swings of extremes, both hot and cold, and a chaotic state beyond that. If this winter is horrible (as was this summer with sections of the US and Canada literally on fire) then it will perhaps finally gel us into unity about solving it. We have to unify somehow.

[tomg]

4. Spot on. Climate chaos is probably a better

term, even from a pure PR point of view. If I hear one other idiot look outside at record snows and say "Yeah, global warming, then why am I being buried by snow - never used to happen" I'll shoot myself ( were I not a pacifist, I would shoot them).

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Always educate them that it's about increasing extremes, note the trend, and that we need to do

something about it soon. :thumbsup:

[tomg]

16. Absolutely, but, still, sometimes it is

like talking to a potato.

[elleng]

12. Climate changed planet

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/elleng/8

[tomg]

17. Thanks for the link. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. More and more, I am SO glad I do not have gun. Temptation is becoming overwhelming.

Makes you wonder how anyone can be that stupid and still dress themselves.

[tomg]

14. Well, after looking at the odd hats

and the dangling teabags, I no longer wonder about that.

[razorman]

3. I have been wondering what will happen with OWS as the weather turns. Even if the protestors

decide to tough it out, I seriously doubt that the media will stick with it. Actually, I am surprised that the media has stayed with the story this long, considering how little violence there has been for them to exploit.

[KamaAina]

18. And what violence there has been has come from the pigs

notably in Oakland. Yes, I said pigs. :grr:

[hifiguy]

6. Yikes! Reminds me of the Halloween blizzard

here in the Twin Cities twenty years ago. Started snowing Halloween night (Thursday) and didn't stop until the morning of Sunday November 3. 26 inches of snow. And 18 more on Thanksgiving weekend three weeks later. Yow!

[jwirr]

20. 39" to 40" in Duluth. We were snowed at least one day after it stopped.

That was on the Northshore. I am really worried about the occupiers who want to stay out in that weather. IMO I think it is a good idea to plan for called marches like we did in the 60s that keep the movement going until it warms up. With possibly a symbolic presence in the parks - signs that could be put up again every time they remove them.

In a battle you choose a hill that you can defend successfully not ground that is vulnerable. What counts here is keeping the movement going for as long as needed not defending a ground they have such easy access to. It is kind of like gorilla warfare. Strike when they are not ready for it and disappear when it is too cold. However, I would not stop what is going on now until the weather actually gets bad.

[NickB79]

21. Best night to trick-or-treat EVER! Loved that blizzard

Only the bravest and stupidest ventured out in that storm, so every house was giving out massive amounts of candy since we were some of the only kids they'd seen all night.

[hifiguy]

23. I lived in an inner ring suburb and was assistant mgr of a bookstore

in Dinkytown. The manager INSISTED that the store be open so I had to drive to and from Dinkytown that Friday, though the manager finally relented at 5 pm. I gave one of the clerks a lift home and as we were driving through an utterly deserted downtown Minneapolis I remember looking around and saying "this is like something in a Stephen King apocalypse novel." It was spookier than hell, though Surdyk's was doing big business.

A couple of doors down from his house we had to help four other guys push a Porsche 928 (the front engined coupe) out of a gigantic snowdrift. Talk about a hog on ice! Porsches are great for a lot of things but running a blizzard ain't one of them.

[ohheckyeah]

7. We are getting sleet right now

in southwestern Virginia. How bizarre.

[Nay]

24. Sleet here in Richmond, VA too. Utterly strange.

[WilliamPitt]

8. Boston's getting nailed tomorrow

My wife and I were going to head up to my mom's place in SW New Hampshire for the weekend, but they're about to get 10+ inches through Sunday, so we bagged the trip. We're supposed to get 3-6 tomorrow. Making slow-cooked pulled pork at home instead.

The last time Boston got snow like this in October was 2003, and that was one true raging bastard of a winter.

Hunkering down.

[BrendaBrick]

9. I think it might be about rotation/shifts?

I seem to recall something about this on Olbermann on Friday with Michael Moore? About how Occupy Anchorage was coming to OWS? Aside from igloos, I think they might be borrowing a tactic from the unions on coordinating shift changes etc. giving everyone a chance to get out of the elements temporarily through shift rotations so that the movement doesn't die.

[libinnyandia]

10. Snow in October?

I'm sure the "climate change" deniers will have a lot to say, displaying their absolute ignorance of science.

[in_cog_ni_to]

19. Snow in October is rare, but I remember some Halloweens Trick or Treating in the snow with my son.

We're in Illinois. Snow happens in October. I also remember very warm Halloweens as a child. We rarely had to wear a coat and cover up our costumes, so there's been a definite change in the last 40-50 years. :(

[elleng]

11. Weather warnings for a climate changed planet.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/elleng/8

[Junkdrawer]

15. Accuweather Map

[gateley]

22. Oh Dear -- just read a post that NYPD and FDNY are removing

the generators from the site (not legal and safety concerns). People were thinking it's a way to maybe make them leave once the weather turns colder -- didn't know this was in the forecast! Bloomberg must have an Accuweather app. :(