#NEMO update

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Stephen Gordon

I’m using science to determine the affect of a blizzard on a disney flamingo. For Cory. (and science)
Donald Petersen

That map is so eye-catchingly colorful! I take it that’s a bad thing.
Paul Renault

You’re not helping, Xeni… Wasn’t last year’s storm the historic one? Heck, even Mexico was affected:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_31_%E2%80%93_February_2,_2011_North_American_blizzard

Here, in SW New Brunswick, Environment Canada tells us that we’re probably going to get some 40 cms of snow tonight – all in all, it’s been a pretty easy winter. Besides, I’ve got lots of firewood, the liquor cabinet is well stocked, and I don’t have to work this weekend.
wunder

We really shouldn’t be calling this storm Nemo… http://gawker.com/5982748/dont-call-this-storm-nemo
- bzishi
  
  Relax. Once someone suffers property damage due to confusion from the different storm names and decides to sue The Weather Channel for their ratings ploy, the problem will sort itself out.
Gregory Primosch

Shocked cat… I missed you so!
Cowicide

Has the storm hit any nukes yet? Is it a radioactive super snowstorm? Fuuuuuu……

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