Yetis #ROOAR Through Neighborhoods
by | Jan 28, 2015 2:24 pm | Comments (4)
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11-year old Sophie and 8‑year-old Jacob had a little more snow shoveling power left in the tank. Little sister Esther was ready to pack it in.
Winter Storm Juno
Coffee Consumed, Community Connected
by | Jan 28, 2015 2:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Oricchio serves one of the last pastries, a chocolate croissant.
David Oricchio was nearly out of “carbs” by 2 p.m. Tuesday — no “pastries, bagels, bread”; just a container of Trader Joe’s plain yogurt, some Irish oatmeal, and three day-old scones.
Still the customers kept coming.
The Little Plow That Could
by | Jan 27, 2015 5:38 pm | Comments (4)
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A crowd of onlookers gathered to watch the maiden voyage of the Snogo — one of New Haven’s new monster snow trucks — on Church Street Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Dave Lawlor maneuvered an old-school eight-foot plow down Anderson Street more smoothly, and a day earlier, than he would have after storms in years past.
Travel Ban Lifted; Parking Ban Remains
by | Jan 27, 2015 2:16 pm | Comments (24)
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Officials, who worked through the night, at the EOC Tuesday.
White-coated Justice on Elm St.
New Haven “dodged a bullet” from Winter Storm Juno and will begin returning to normal — slowly.
That was the word in the latest update on the city’s response to the storm, held at noon at the Emergency Operations Center in the basement of the 200 Orange St. government office building.
It’s Snow-Sculpture Contest Week!
by | Jan 27, 2015 12:07 pm | Comments (1)
A past year’s entrant.
A massive snowfall means … it’s time for another New Haven snow-sculpture contest.
It’s Not Nemo
by | Jan 27, 2015 9:45 am | Comments (2)
The latest information from city emergency management chief Rick Fontana on Winter Storm Juno, as of 8:30 a.m.:
240 Cars Tagged, Towed Overnight; Forecast Downgraded; Ray Cuts A Bartender A Break
by | Jan 27, 2015 9:23 am | Comments (7)
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As Ray Willis and Joe Canzanella finished giving out tickets on State Street, a bartender ran out of JP Dempseys to her car yelling, “No, no, no, no, no, no!”
New Haven’s Face Of The Storm
by | Jan 26, 2015 6:47 pm | Comments (2)
From MSNBC to the phone calls streaming into tens of thousands of local cells, Mayor Toni Harp was the calm face and voice of the blizzard about to bear down on New Haven.
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Harp prepares to go live on MSNBC.
Neighbors Stock Up
by | Jan 26, 2015 2:21 pm | Comments (1)
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Deyssi Juarez was only “a little scared” as she stocked up on extra meat, bananas, potatoes, and a shoe-box long hunk of queso blanco. No batteries or flashlights needed. “I have [those items] in my house already,” she said