Charlie Baker Don’t Need No MEMA Vest
Had this week’s nor’easter struck anytime prior to January 2015, you would have found Charlie Baker shoveling snow at his North Shore home.
Baker told Boston.com that he and his wife had a “fairly standard routine’’ that involved making sure the sidewalk in front of their Swampscott home was clear.
“It’s on the way to an elementary school. Shoveling the walk is a must do,’’ Baker explained.
After shoveling was taken care of, Baker said he and his wife would “normally have something to eat and drink with neighbors’’ before walking down to watch the “tide crashing up against the seawall.’’
Baker said a neighbor will help take over shoveling and plowing duties at his home, and that he’s spending the evening with friends in town.
“If I went home I probably wouldn’t get back here tonight.’’ Baker said.
Baker said conversations this weekend with MEMA and the National Weather Service indicated this would be a historically strong storm.
“The modeling never went anywhere but worse,’’ he said. “It’s gonna be a heck of a storm.’’ Baker was wearing a suit Monday night. But Tuesday is a snow day, and the new governor said he has no intention of wearing a suit on a snow day. While he wouldn’t say what exectly he’d wear, he ruled out donning everybody’s favorite MEMA vest, or bibbed snow pants.
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