‘Unbelievable’ Snowfall Blankets Parts of the Northeast.
GLENVILLE, N.Y.—The Northeast’s first whopper snowstorm of the season buried parts of upstate New York under more than 3 feet of snow, broke records in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and left snowplow drivers struggling to clear the roads.
We were lucky in central MD. The transition between heavy snow and rain passed right over us. We got 3 inches of snow and then some sleet and freezing rain on top. Not a big deal.
Some of the snowflakes were as big as a fist. I’ve never seen them so big ever before.
Better them than us, in Eastern Wash. state and N. Idaho we had our own Snowpocalypse on Dec. 17-18 of 2008 where we got about 40 inches of snow in about 36 hours. The snow was so deep we couldn’t get into the parking lot at work for a few days until the all the snow was plowed so we couldn’t work and I had to abandon my POS Chevy Corsica a couple of blocks away from my house because the snow was so deep on the residential streets. I had to have my son with his Ford Bronco pull me out the next day. And the first workday of Jan. 2009 a Monday we had a whiteout on Hwy 95 South of Moscow, Idaho headed towards Lewiston, Id. only 30 miles away where I ended up drifting off the road because I couldn’t see the road and had to be pulled out by a tow truck. I should’ve stayed home that day but did make it back home safely. And a snow plow got stuck in the middle of the median on Hwy. 95 just outside of Genesee, Id. that day as well. That was the last really hairy Winter we had around here in a long time. So far this year it’s mainly been just wet and rainy and not too terribly cold or snowy yet with temps in the high 30’s to low 40’s and maybe 50 degrees by this weekend. SNOW is a four letter word in my book, we never know what we’ll get from one year to the next.
The first snow fall was a complete mess but not as bad as they stated. I work in the Bronx and I would only take the major parkways to get to location, which were just OK and side street horrendous. But by the time I went home the snow was pushed enough to be bearable to handle the steering wheel but still tricky. City has no leadership. What do you expect.
God Bless us all!!
GLOBAL WARMING!
That’s right, Eric — 3 FEET of Climate Change.
Next Ice Age just around the corner.
A Californian’s observation. If you want to get away from Libtard assholes, you need to move where it gets colder than hell. Well, I guess hell’s probably not that cold. But you get the idea.
….and then God comes and serves me up a lolly pop….thank you God, I’ll take vanilla…..
Snow? That’s racist! We should ban that just as the BBC has banned White Christmas because of its racism.
I live in Phoenix and this snowstorm is costing me a huge amount of money. I have a piece of equipment down and the repair parts have to go through Pennsylvania. It’s already cost me over $10K, and I don’t know how much longer I’m going to have to wait.
In Massachusetts in 1978 when my kids were small and I worked for an electric utility company that started Sunday, February 5, 1978, and broke up on February 7. which left 27.1 inches of snow resulted in lightning and thunder along the snow as it fell at 4 inches an hour at times.
The storm’s straight-line surface winds destroyed buildings along the coast, brought north shore ocean water into coastal and somewhat inland to homes with water that filled to cellar ceilings and sea water into living rooms along with sand, seashells and dead fish.
with sand and sea
Wind gusts of 100 mph were recorded in Plum Island and 110 mph at First Cliff in Scituate, Massachusetts. Duxbury Beach was hit with 85 mph gusts and 93 mph in Chatham. All side roads were impassible. Some of us used cross-country skis to get to work because we were ‘vital” to restoration and repairs. The plows still hadn’t reached our streets by the 3rd day. I personally saw these things and will never forget them.
Bah! Snowflakes. Years ago I lived in the Keweenaw Peninsula where we enjoyed 200 inches of snow every winter. Never missed a day of school.
Sure, we had snow plows as big as houses.
A very wise woman once told me… “Snow is like sex… You never know how long it’s gonna last or how many inches you’re get”
OMG!!!Global freezoning!
Don’tcha LOVE how the local media acts like they’ve NEVER seen snow before? 🙄