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@bmazor, you're right that it's piddling and ridiculous. It seems crazy that 2 inches of snow can gobble up hundreds of thousands of man-hours like that. Posted by Nicki P Wood

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 6:44 am

Yes, my delightful Lasagna Primavera (which I planned when I did my weekly menu on Sunday--yes, it's true) was a monumental amount of food. And my husband was stuck on the fifth floor of Cummins...

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 6:53 am

My story is a bit different in that I had planned on Mr. Eats *not* being able to make it home from Franklin for dinner. Alas, he left at 3:30, just 30 minutes before the traffipocalypse and arrived...

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 7:33 am

Off topic, has anyone seen the sign on The Trace building showing a new brazilian steakhouse is coming to the space? Posted by blake

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 7:42 am

I holed up at the Gold Rush with some coworkers. To say that it was packed would be an understatement. Posted by BP

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 7:50 am

we thankfully were home before all the madness. I did have to get creative in the kitchen, and settled on good old breakfast for dinner: fried eggs, toast with homemade lemon curd and bacon crack...

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 7:58 am

Well, thanks to Twitter updates, I left my office in Cool Springs just in time- 3:30. I arrived to my home in Green Hills at around 3:50-3:55. Posted by betheats

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 8:24 am

Bmazor, it is not the 1.4 inches of snow that is the problem- it's the .030 inches of ice freezing at rush hour. Bacon and waffles here. Posted by Terence

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 8:25 am

My story? It took 2 hours to get to Music Row from East Nashville to pick up my wife, which was annoying, and mainly caused by "driving," and then we headed home. Posted by bmazor

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 8:47 am

I'd shopped on Tuesday so I ate what I'd planned: club sandwiches. My 10 minute commute from Downtown to the East took an hour. Posted by Pseudonym

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 9:21 am

Blake, yeah we saw that sign, too. Dana's been trying to get some info from the El Rodizio folks and we're all wondering why it will make it there when Fire of Brazil crashed and burned in Green...

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 9:24 am

I won't speak for Nikki, but I read Snowpocalypse as irony. I've been calling Wednesday's weather Snowpocalypse V- as I do so I'm reminded of Duane Thomas' Super Bowl quote: "If it's the ultimate...

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 9:25 am

After getting ominous reports from co-workers who faced horrible traffic, some of us here at the Scene walked two blocks to Urban Flats for dinner. Looking out the window we saw all kinds of craziness...

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Re: Weekly Open Thread: Eating Through a 'Snowpocalypse'

February 11, 2011, 9:41 am

After spending 30 minutes going 1.5 miles on White Bridge (which I understand is NOTHING compared to what everyone else had to deal with), we took a [planned] break at Las Maracas (which was veering...

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