Currently trapped in Massachusetts due to storm.

[Maine-ah]

So I'm here, trying to get my Mom out of the shitty nursing home she's in, and back to a nursing home in Maine. Though due to the storm, I'm trapped in effing Woburn. Traffic web cams on I95 in Maine shows some serious shitty road conditions. I had planned on leaving yesterday before the storm, but Mom asked me to stay another night. Bad plan. Now I'm stuck here for a third night.

seriously missing my hubby and child.

[HopeHoops]

1. Just remember. It's pronounced "WOO-bin" - like the sandwich.

[Maine-ah]

2. I'm a Maine gal

whose parents grew up in Burlington, MA it's WOO-bahn

[HopeHoops]

3. I grew up near Bal'mer, Merlin and Worshinton DC, but I did work in Wakefield.

I picked up the WOO-bin translation from the receptionist - she grew up there. I never acquired the accent myself and still have my Merlin Bal'mer accent. I also worked in Andover. Similar accent, but different enough you can tell. Both were quite different from where I lived in NH. And my wife still has her NW PA accent, although I did FINALLY get her to start using the infinitive in a sentence.

[graywarrior]

4. Woburn.

I feel your pain

[Maine-ah]

5. lmao

hey, at my hotel bar tonight there is karaoke...I think that's all this place has going on. I may find better entertainment by poking my own eye out.

[graywarrior]

6. Woburnites used to like to blow up police stations, rebuild them and then blow them up again

For a time back in the 70's, they were crazier than Lynn people. LOL

[Maine-ah]

7. hmmm....

though I am tempted, as the entertainment is lacking, I would prefer not to be arrested

[graywarrior]

13. Hahahaha.

Yeah, do NOT get arrested in woburn.

[zanana1]

8. Where did you get your "offended" picture?

I chuckle every time I see it.

[graywarrior]

14. I forget.

I must have gotten in from facebook. It's soooo DU, tho, ain't it?

[KamaAina]

9. Better idea: Get her a community placement in Maine!

Your independent living center should be able to help out.

http://www.alphaonenow.org/

127 Main Street
South Portland, ME 04106
[phone] or [phone]

Maine is one of many states that participate in the federal Money Follows the Person program, in which the money used to pay for the nursing home instead goes to pay for community-based supports such as personal caregivers.

[Maine-ah]

11. thank you

but the transfer is just transitional. She'll only be there for a couple of days and then we'll be taking care of her at home with hospice. We've remodeled her home while she was gone, and that's where she wants to be

[Gormy Cuss]

10. If it's any consolation the roads in ME are crappy right now too.

Of course, they'll clean it up faster than they do in eastern MA.

[Maine-ah]

12. just spoke to my brother

we live in Rockland, and he said that they currently have white out conditions. Stoooopid snow.