As Bostonians we just naturally think of the city as the “Hub” of the universe.  As a result, we also naturally expect that everyone knows and cares that we were hit on Tuesday by Nor’easter Juno, which dropped ~24 inches of snow on the Hub and about 30 inches out where I live.  “Inches?” you ask.  Yes, “inches!”  Central to this kind of geocentricism is the view, widely held by Americans, that we should use a silly and antiquated measurement system, that is all together different from that used by the rest of the modern world. Hmm!

Anyway, there is one photograph that is going the explosive viral rounds on the internet showing a man clearing the finish line of the Boston Marathon in the midst of the storm.  Not great photography, but powerful symbolism and meme.