It wouldn't be an Arisia without the weather.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

According to Channel 7 news this evening, the long range weather forecast.

"Winter returns with a vengeance at the end of next week."

Now what this means they did not elaborate on. It could mean frigid cold, it could mean snow. It could mean absolutely nothing at all this far in advance, as anything that might be coming at us could fizzle out before it gets here.

But so far the Channel 7 weather crew have been pretty good this winter.

Plan accordingly...

-

Hey, I was snowbound at Arisia a few years ago... It was fun, in our top floor hotel room, listening to the blizzard wind howling outside. And looking out the window and not being able to see the street below because it was snowing so hard. And don't forget the snowman I made with the snow that blew in under the door in the art show.



It wasn't fun to come home to four foot snow drifts that had to be shoveled before we could get in the house.

Comments

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

You know what else wasn't fun? Trying to feed a toddler on what was in reach of the Park Plaza. I think I'll be bringing some food!

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I can imagine. And there is even less nearby the new hotel, (I suppose there is a Trader Joes and Whole foods within a mile, but if we get bad weather the chances of them being open are slim. Bring a cooler...

:)

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Well, they're preteens now, I'll be bringing an entire grocery store with me :)

[juniperthewise.livejournal.com]

There's a huge Shaw's in the complex where the overflow hotel is, and the shuttle goes to the overflow hotel, so....

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Ah, Thank you for pointing that out, I didn't know.

I'll have a car but sometimes it's easier if you just don't have to deal with taking it out of the garage etc.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

last year i brought a bread machine... it was a good thing to have.
this year i am bringing the brand new never used before, testing it once before i get there.. bread machine.
(i am in dealers row, and yes i share)

i am now suspecting i may need to bring my blender as well.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

I really think a blender is the best appliance to bring along!

[donnad.livejournal.com]

No, I think a humidifier is a good appliance to bring. Hotel rooms are so dry.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that's for sure. I stayed in some hotel or other recently and woke up thinking something was trying to suck all the moisture out of my body like the things with the prongs in "Tank Girl". I have to schlep everything back to Vermont though, so no humidifier for me.

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

I actually need some cold weather,so I'm happy

[fireheart.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be Arisia without the weather. Ops went to a great deal of effort to make sure the storm would land on the right day! Weathermen are not cheap to pay off.

[mdg1.livejournal.com]

Couldn't you have let it hit on Saturday instead?

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

and all the merchants who get to lug in our stuff. and the art show folks..
it just isnt a good workout without the low temps!

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

Snow? What's snow? XD

(I'm flying in from Vegas for this. Yes, I'm certifiably nuts.)

[marrus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seconded. I'll be up from New Orleans.

This "weather" thing is terrifying me. It's 74 out right now...

[dda.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, the Artist GoH that year was from Texas and his wife (whom he brought along) really wanted to see snow. She got her wish, big time! :-)

Of course, by the time they were ready to fly out, it had all been cleared so it was just a big adventure for them.

[marrus.livejournal.com]

Heh, my partner is all juiced about seeing snow again, too. He hasn't gotten his fix in YEARS now:)

I can do without it just fine...

[robdamnit.livejournal.com]

I was beginning to get worried. It's been warmer in Boston the last few days than it's been here in San Francisco. I didn't get snow for Christmas, but I'm glad there is a chance I'll get it for Arisia.

[marrus.livejournal.com]

Wow - you come all the way out from San Francisco?? Now THAT'S impressive;)

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

I did that last year. ^_^ And this year the Fan GoH is doing the same thing. ^____^

I'm a 510 boy, myself

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping to have flyers for baycon that will get you a discount. Having transplanted yourself to the SFBay, you should really give baycon a whirl... ;-D

Z

P.S.: Introduce yourself at-con.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

after several weeks of springtime weather. i drive north to Arisia. and of course it will be cold.
it just isnt Arisia without unloading the van in freezing weather!

i think its me. every time i drive north this happens.

Re: winter sucks

[donnad.livejournal.com]

No you don't, you would be paying twice as much for a hotel room, if you can get one. (Part of the reason Arisia is in January is that originally we couldn't get a hotel to commit during tourist season at prices we wanted.)

And the tourists in Boston in the summer make everything so crowded.

Now I'm with you on hating the sub-freezing temps and ice, but I like the snow, it hides the ugly, dirty, Boston.

Re: winter sucks

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

One word reply: Dragon*Con.

Re: winter sucks

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

No, not to go - for a reason cons should be winter, not summer. :)

[c1.livejournal.com]

It's New England in January. You're wanting sun, 70's, and a light breeze from the southwest?

Seriously, my favourite GOH reaction was from Tim Powers in '04. Coming as he was from SoCal, it was his estimation that people took their very lives into their hands by merely venturing out onto the sidewalk in front of the hotel. "I mean, you could DIE out there!" The whole weekend, he couldn't wrap his head around how I got by wearing a kilt in that weather.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Not me, I like the snow.
But it was 67 degrees just a few days ago!

67 degrees

[c1.livejournal.com]

That I put my motorcycle to bed and kissed her goodnight for the long, cold night was thrown into sharp relief this afternoon, when someone whizzed past on his motorcycle.

*sigh*

Don't mind cold...

[mdg1.livejournal.com]

It's the White Evil From Above that makes my life difficult.

Re: Don't mind cold...

[c1.livejournal.com]

I keep my Gore-Tex shell gear, my snowshoes, and my Grivel crampons at hand from about August through June. You never know...

Re: Don't mind cold...

[mdg1.livejournal.com]

Crampons don't help much when you are driving :/

Neither do jumper cables and a fire extinguisher

[c1.livejournal.com]

... but I keep both in the back, just in case. Oh, and snow tyres.

The other stuff helps a lot when I'm driving to mountains that are covered in white, fluffy goodness.

[autumnlaughing.livejournal.com]

Wait.. didn't *that* happen two years ago?

I remember walking home to our hotel (a few blocks away..) in a corset + thin shawl in the drizzle at 3am and not being cold.

(Of course, then there's the previous Arisia that I'd been too - I remember getting lost in Chinatown at 3am looking for food. The memories of finding food are pretty fuzzy - by the time we did, I apparently tried to eat the cream cheese packet, unopened. I thought it was the bagel. I hear it was 40 below that night (w/ windchill) and I didn't own a real winter coat that year...)

[zentinal.livejournal.com]

There's something vaguely comforting about the prospect of heavy weather for Arisia - http://www.unconventionaut.com/?p=97. Nothing caps off a great con like a three hour drive through a full fledged blizzard.

Just sayin'.

;-)

[ktpinto.livejournal.com]

I have yet to be at an Arisia that wasn't in the middle of a snow storm.

Good weather to me would be a break in tradition! :)

Not a 100% tradition

[c1.livejournal.com]

There were at least two*; both of which were in the 21st century. Arisia is (approximately) a 92% predictor of snow on MLK weekend. Sometimes the snow is so light that it's barely noticed, and it might fall on the Thursday of load-in, but yeah, typically, during the time that Arisia occupies the hotel in a meaningful sense, it snows.

*Please don't ask which ones, because for the life of me, I can't recall. Somehow, I think one was in '06.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

At the moment, the long range weather report is rainy on Friday and then colder as the weekend progress.

Of course, the weather report will probably say something different tomorrow.