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Thanks to climate change – which we all know does not really exist – a major Nor’easter had dumped a boat load of snow, generated Hurricane force wind gusts in excess of 80 Mph. (As and ex-Floridian I can tell you that ain’t nothin to sneeze at.) and cut power to an estimated 600,000 people or more.
Closed roads and airports and stopped trains. Essentially brought everything to a halt from New York to the Canadian Maritimes. So while you look through these photos From The Daily Mail, think about those FIREDOGS who are having to brave this mess.
And if any of you in the North East have some sort of internet access, let us know how you are doing. And keep safe and keep warm.
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Two feet of snow atop the garbage can when it was all over, in Amherst, Western Massachusetts. Everybody gets their shoveling exercise. One day’s work for the snow plow drivers.
I watched the college students across the street. They rolled out of the house around 4:20 in the afternoon. (Shoveling was done on our side by then.) 6 cars were completely covered in snow. Inside, the students were oblivious.
The first three guys out started shoveling near their respective cars. A well dressed young woman walked to her car. She and a guy were calling their good-byes to the shovelers and each other.
I was watching from across the street upstairs so I couldn’t hear them, but I could tell what was being said. The woman wiped some snow off the back window of her car.
‘What do you mean “I can’t leave?”‘ (It’s snowed in. You can’t just back up through it without digging out. You’d get stuck.) Both hands up in the air in anger! Eventually, head hung in sadness. Then back into the house. A half-hour or so later, the 3 guys had the long sloping driveway cleared.
Two guys were shoveling, and the third one poured some gasoline out on the driveway and set it afire. Then he poured more gasoline on it. It burned for a few minutes, but didn’t lessen the shoveling chore. (It’s getting easier to get into college, as long as you got the dough.)
Great pics. Glad I’m in semi-tropical Cleveland.
Well It’s not the snow that is the problem but the loss of power which means loss of heat regardless of the fuel.
The Town Manager’s robo-call says that no one lost power here.
And where is here ?
Amherst, Mass: 2 feet of snow.
Well you are fortunate then.
You must not live out of town to watch idiots across the street. If you can walk to town why care if they plow the roads. If i were you and the roads were clear enough i would go to Easthampton and hang at the Brass Cat till needs were met. Easy for me to say from where i am.
Yea. We have the kind of weather that NC used to get 30 or 40 years ago.
Ahhhh, that’s why its nice to live in CO. Snow here, even from major storms, rarely stays on the ground more than a couple of days. Usally streets are clear within a day. Of course we are approaching our snow months (Late Feb through early Apr) so watch me be proved wrong. LOL Still, we’re in the middle of a Severe to Exceptional drought out here. Looking at the long range outlooks, doesn’t appear to be much improvement. The state climatologist says that multiple decade long droughts punctuated by a wet year or two followed my multiple wet decades is common in the west.
BTW Ohio Barbarian – I wouldn’t be crowing about living in the tropics there in OH. If the model verifies, looks like OH will experience an intense cold spell late next week. We’ll be in the sunny and in the 50s. Ha! LOL
Hope all you folks in the NE weathered the storm OK (no pun intended).
Yeah…we’ll actually have a real winter. No July in March situation like last year.
My feelings on winter? Bah! What’s good about it? Snow, cold, flu, more accidents, longer commutes, short days, having to wear all those clothes, the list goes on. This from one who did graduate research on winter snowstorms. LOL If I could, I’d live in the Northern Hemisphere Mar through Oct and Southern Hemisphere (New Zealand is nice) Oct through Mar. I like the way they have xmas there. Its in their summer season and a whole lot less consumerism hype. Kind of hard to get all “wintery, snuggly, googly” when its 80 degrees. Better yet, the tropics sound even better. LOL
At what point is a major storm so severe that it gets promoted to colonel?
Sorry, this storm is not exactly unprecedented:
I was in Boston for this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States_blizzard_of_1978
Forgot about this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1978
The worst winter storm I’ve experienced was the 1978 blizzard that hit the Great Lakes a week and a half before the New England blizzard that same year. At the time, Mrs. Tiger (whom I wouldn’t meet until several years afterward) was a student at Notre Dame. Northern Indiana got hit with the blizzard, then got hit with heavy lake-effect snow after a cold front moved through. Total snowfall in South Bend was 36 inches, and Notre Dame closed for the first time in memory.
That is surprising to me, what you say about the snow not sticking in Colorado.
I was in Boulder and Denver in 1994. I went into the mountains above Boulder, it was about July 10. There was snow on the ground more than a foot deep.
You are correct. It can snow anytime of the year in the mountains. On the ewastern plains downslope winds (chinooks), altitude (I live at 6000 feet) contributing to dryness and water/ice evaporation/melting/ablation, and abundant sun (not a lot of cloud cover in CO) combine to minimize duration of snow on the ground. That being said, I’ve had snow in June and September south of Denver.
I lived in Colorado for 20 years, specifically Denver Metro. You guys don’t even salt the roads. You just lay sand down in patches and wait for the sun to come out and melt everything; only, it doesn’t always happen that way.
Every time it snowed overnight, there were at least a hundred accidents in Metro Denver and the whole area was on “Accident Alert,” which means the cops won’t come out unless there is an injury and the drivers are supposed to exchange insurance information.
I’ll put up with the occasional heavier snow storm so long as Ohio continues to use rock salt, thank you very much.
And it still gets colder there more frequently than it does here, and hotter in the summer. And you don’t have any real trees. Besides, low humidity sucks. That’s just my personal preference, of course.
Colorado’s not all bad, though, don’t get me wrong. Your Mexican food is fantastic. People here have never heard of green chile. Silly Yankees.
Wah, wah, wah OB. LOL We’re used to it. But actually you are right. I think even in the city of Fort Collins officially states that sometimes snow and ice removal is at the mercy of God’s will and not the city’s ability to clear roads. LOL.
Still, I’d much rather live in CO than OH. At least we have a lot of sun here and not the gloomy cloudy weather so prevalent in OH. BTW, I was staioned at Rickenbacker AFB in Columbus years ago. Miserable. The thing I don’t understand, why would Columbus have the main drag named after OSU’s arch rival – Michigan. LOL
I finally got out in the back yard here in Western Mass: Though only 2 feet of snow are apparent in the front yard, I hit more than 3 feet in a drift in the back yard.
Wow! That’s a lot of snow. Wish we had that moisture here in dry CO. Oh wait, that means snow, ice, and cold – an anathema to me. LOL
1″ here in South Jersey coastal, some wind and rain, no big deal.