Northeast Historic Blizzard

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With the weather channel getting on the sensationalist bandwagon I wonder about what they claim. Does it look like it is going to be as bad as they say?
 
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We too are concerned about this storm coming up the coast. It is expected here Friday night through Saturday. Tonight it is -16 c or 3F so the oil furnace is working overtime. Filled up the car tonight and there were line ups anticipating tomorrows storm. Take care and we will be watching the storms progress on CNN tomorrow. Darrell Eisner
 
They will let you know how bad it is the day after the storm! have you noticed it is now called a snow event, or rain event etc. and every one now has a name or title of some kind with theme music. They are bloviating so much they can hardly find the time to give the current conditions!:rolleyes:
I hope it stay north of us and we only get a couple of inches.
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we'll probably get 18-24" here. Not the worst we've had.
In 78 we got about 36-44, depending on the drifts.
(I don't care how much actually fell.. 'only' getting 36"
doesn't mean squat when you open the back door to find
a negative image of the door in a solid wall of snow..)

You can tell we're going to get it though.. grocery stores are
busy as all get-out. For 6", people snap up bread, coldcuts and
such. For 12" they'll buy all the bread and milk. But today they
were buying multiple cases of beer. Yeah.. we're in trouble..
 
Please don't take this as be littleing any one. I just want to understand. Is every body just having fun with this? This amount of snow and wind predicted sounds normal to me for these areas. Could just be I'm looking from the outside of the situation. Of course I pray for the safety of every one.
 
NewLondon88 said:
we'll probably get 18-24" here. Not the worst we've had.
In 78 we got about 36-44, depending on the drifts.
(I don't care how much actually fell.. 'only' getting 36"
doesn't mean squat when you open the back door to find
a negative image of the door in a solid wall of snow..)

You can tell we're going to get it though.. grocery stores are
busy as all get-out. For 6", people snap up bread, coldcuts and
such. For 12" they'll buy all the bread and milk. But today they
were buying multiple cases of beer. Yeah.. we're in trouble..
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I'm a bit closer to the coast and they are saying 2+ feet. I remember the storm in 78. At the time I lived in MA and had a cousin who rode his snowmobile 60 miles to our house. Went back with him down Rte 95/128 and it was a parking lot of cars that were just abandoned till they could be dug out one at a time and this went on for tens of miles...
 
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John Pratt said:
The first weatherman to call it snowmageddon should be taken out and shot.
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But it would show a lot more creativity than "Snow Event". Snow event by the way sounds like something CNN fashion reporters would be at.

"And Kim Kardashian walked the red carpet in her stunningly trampish usual way at this year's snow event. Now back to you Anderson."

Stay warm folks
 
Also back then, had a neighbor that put a snow fence up to stop the snow from burying his driveway. Problem was he put it on the wrong side of the driveway and the drifts in his driveway were over his house.

He never put them up again...
 
CharlesJohnson said:
Please don't take this as be littleing any one. I just want to understand. Is every body just having fun with this? This amount of snow and wind predicted sounds normal to me for these areas. Could just be I'm looking from the outside of the situation. Of course I pray for the safety of every one.
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I lived in Maine when I was younger and a 6-12 inch storm wouldn't stop much as far as schools and businesses. But when your talking upwards of 2 feet in a day it can keep you locked inside a couple of days in rural areas as the plowing and removal takes a while. It's worse if they get hit with another storm within a day or two after.
 
Wow. I need to print that picture for when I start complaining about the summer heat. My dad was raised in Montana and I grew up in south Texas. I don't like the cold up north and don't care for the heat down here. If I ever get the money I have a place in Montana and here and follow the geese for the season changes. I will pray for all in the N.E. for safety.
 
NewLondon88 said:
we'll probably get 18-24" here. Not the worst we've had.
In 78 we got about 36-44, depending on the drifts.
(I don't care how much actually fell.. 'only' getting 36"
doesn't mean squat when you open the back door to find
a negative image of the door in a solid wall of snow..)
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In '78, I was a kid living in Western NY. We had an old apple orchard on our land and we went sledding on the drifts that covered those trees. I would guess that they were about twelve feet tall.
 
sbell111 said:
In '78, I was a kid living in Western NY. We had an old apple orchard on our land and we went sledding on the drifts that covered those trees. I would guess that they were about twelve feet tall.
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Oh yeah.. we had some of those, too! Slight rain after a couple of days
snowing,and there was a hard crust you could walk on. And you're right..
the drifts went up over shrubs and such.. till you didn't see them at all.
My brother fell through one and said it was like an igloo inside. We had
to dig in from the side to get him out. Unfortunately, it wasn't a shrub,
but an 8' thorn bush..
 
sbell111 said:
NewLondon88 said:
we'll probably get 18-24" here. Not the worst we've had.
In 78 we got about 36-44, depending on the drifts.
(I don't care how much actually fell.. 'only' getting 36"
doesn't mean squat when you open the back door to find
a negative image of the door in a solid wall of snow..)
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In '78, I was a kid living in Western NY. We had an old apple orchard on our land and we went sledding on the drifts that covered those trees. I would guess that they were about twelve feet tall.
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I was living in Ohio when the one at the end of Jan '78 came. Just moved there from California the summer before. What a welcome that was! Has a drift up the back of the house that you couldn't see the patio door.
 
I don't miss the snow at all. I grew up in the mid-west, but after moving down to florida I decided I was staying. Forecast for tomorrow, partly sunny 79 degrees.
 
healeydays said:
I'm a bit closer to the coast and they are saying 2+ feet. I remember the storm in 78. At the time I lived in MA and had a cousin who rode his snowmobile 60 miles to our house. Went back with him down Rte 95/128 and it was a parking lot of cars that were just abandoned till they could be dug out one at a time and this went on for tens of miles...
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I was in central MA for that one, but had a meeting to get to in Fla.
Nothing but emergency vehicles allowed on the road. They didn't
say they had to be on the way to an emergency, just emergency
vehicles. We were selling fire trucks and ambulances at the time..
had a demo in the driveway.
Guess what we drove to Bradley Int'l airport? :tongue:

Had an aunt stuck on 128 for most of a day, then they got her out
and took her to a motel to ride it out.

I've been in other places with more snow than that.. but often seems
they either have a place to put it, they have straight roads, they
aren't getting 60-70mph winds, it's a dryer, lighter snow, it's snow
on top of frozen ground or some combination of factors that makes
it a little easier to handle.

Just came in a few minutes ago and it's coming down as granules.
Not much of it (less than an inch) but driving is horrible. Anything over
about 10 mph and it hits the windshield and turns into an opaque
smear that won't clear. Got plenty of fluid, defroster on full blast,
new wiper blades etc. Stop at a red light and the defroster and wipers
can clear it. Get back over 10mph and you're back to square one.
 
The weather channels seem to think they are in the entertainment business rather than the weather reporting business. Every month it seems like we have the "Storm of the Century" Part of the reason that so many coastal people got caught in the wrong place for 'Sandy' was because 'Isaac' was so over hyped a year earlier and did most of it's damage in land.

Coming is what we call a Nor'easter and they drop snow, the wind blows and we get high tides. Here in central Delaware all we got was rain. The places slated to get a lot of snow seem to be places that are used to getting a lot of snow and have equipment to handle it.
 
I'm here in Toronto Ontario, and I think we got nearly a foot of snow. That's a lot for us; they're telling us this was the worst storm in 5 yrs. for our area. It's light fluffy stuff, but the winds were pretty stiff. Not fun.

Stay warm and safe, everyone!

Catherine
 
I'm in California but grew up in Rocheter NY. That snow is both beautiful and a curse. Be safe, take it easy, and be assured that it wil melt ( by July:smile:)

That's why God invented 4WD........now go play!
 
At the risk of being called a "smart ---":eek:, I'll pipe in that it could be worse... could be here and I would have to put up with it.... ducking now for the snow balls being thrown my way....:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

I'm sure that most of the folks in the snow areas are more used to getting snow than I am and are aware of how to survive through it.... it would definitely be hard for this east Texas boy to be in the North East now... and I hope all are safe and sound.

I've only been in deep snow once in my lifetime, that was in Lake Tahoe area and were were only there for the weekend, which was pretty and had fun, nice warm condo, a bottle of Southern comfort, a fire in the fire place... heavenly..... then decided we were going to get snowed in and left mid day on a Sunday in blowing snow.... first rattle out of the box, some guy in a pick up pulled in front of me, slammed on my brakes (mistake obviously), skidded for about 20 feet, missed the pick up but probably soiled my pants, then about two hours later, a truck jackknifed on Donner Summit and block the road for nearly 4 hours.... we sat in my car with three adults and four kids under age of 10 for those 4 hours... fortunately it was cold enough that idling the car for 4 hours didn't overheat the engine, but a 3 hour drive took over 9 hours to get home.

Four years ago when my wife had her hip replacement, we had to be at the hospital at 6 am... we had snow the night before and there was about 4 inches on the roads.... some of the roads here go through the woods and don't get much sunshine on them....so I opted for the long way to the hospital 6 miles south through town, then north to the hospital... fortunately our road was relatively clear into town and the highways into the hospital were all clear, but on my way home that evening I came our normal route through a couple of back roads, we still had ice on some of the roads where the sun had never hit... I made it home by holding my breath and creeping over some of the icy patches... I know that you northerners wouldn't find that much of a challenge, but I did.... I could have retired to the tropics and been happy....

We're wondering about those folks from the Sandy area that are still out of their houses and some of them in tents.... :eek:
 
TellicoTurning said:
... I made it home by holding my breath and creeping over some of the icy patches... I know that you northerners wouldn't find that much of a challenge, but I did.... I could have retired to the tropics and been happy....
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It's a challenge if you're smart. The ones who think nothing of it are often
the people you find off the side of the road. I've seen cars spin out on
a dusting. It's all about respecting the conditions of the road and knowing
that someone else may not.
It's one thing to risk your life on your own driving skills and the condition of
your vehicle. But it takes a special kind of stupid to risk it on someone
else's skills. We have plenty of those special kinds here, though.

We got off light, here. Maybe 10-12" (hard to tell with the drifts) I
cleaned off my truck in about 60 seconds, most of that was ice left
from last night. The wind got rid of most of it. Had about 3 feet piled
up against the back door, but nothing much on the sidewalk.
Driveways were better than the roads. They'd been plowed, but a few
inches of slush still makes for slow going.
Wind is the biggest issue. Sun is out, making people think it's no big
thing to drive. But 40mph gusts can still leave you blinded in traffic and
you can't see who hit the brakes in front of you.
 
I have thirty plus inches at my house. Looks like I'm not going to make my flight today. Need to be in Texas by Monday morning somehow. All roads are closed in the state and all flights are canceled.
 
Driveway is clear but the roads aren't, may as well just clean my gun and wait for the plow.

No connection between the two items, just something to do.
 
wolftat said:
Driveway is clear but the roads aren't, may as well just clean my gun and wait for the plow.

No connection between the two items, just something to do.
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Driving on snow is an art...where I grew up, you learned very early about driving on bad roads...until 1957 PA did not use sand/salt in the part of the state where I lived so the roads often thawed a little during the day and froze again at night and you learned mighty early what to do when you went into a skid because it was highly unlikely you'd ever make it through a whole winter without going into a lot of them. The roads are cleared to bare pavement much, much quicker now.
 
My son sent pictures of 30+ inches of snow at his house in Cheshire CT. He said he hates it when the snow is taller than his snow blower.
 

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about two feet here not two bad.the drifts sucked. two car completely buried and a nine foot drift in front of the chicken coop, took about five hours to shovel wish i had a snow blower.
my hope was with a day off was to turn some bowls, still cant find the bowl pile.
 
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Haynie said:
The secret is to trust your training and experience, and NOT trust the other guy's training and experience. And know where the ditch is.
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Fortunately or unfortunately, I know where the ditch is... when the pavement ends on at the side of some of these back roads, you are in the ditch.... and if you meet another pick up truck, both better slow and check to see if the road is wide enough to pass... you can be only inches apart.
 
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