Snowbounding, inconveniencing folks, AND WORSE, from the Tri-State Area all the way up through the whole of nuEngland.
I got zero snow so far this year! A few years back I got 8" one day. Snow, that is...snow, those with minds in the gutter.
There is a shit load of snow on the ground. Some of the drifts are 4 or 5 feet, and there is at least a couple of feet everywhere. I don't think I've seen this much from a single storm before, and it's still coming down at a quick pace. Looks like several hours of shovelling ahead. On the plus side, we didn't have much snow on the ground before the storm, so we should be able to find places to put the snow.
The sound of shovels scraping the sidewalk woke me up this morning. Kudos to those building supers! I'm up high, and there was a "white out" around midnight.
Just a little snow up here. 29.3 inches of snow sets a record since 1979. Just when I thought I might be able to get the motorcycle out for a short jaunt too. Oh well, there is next month. At least the snow is fluffy powder and not that slushy heavy stuff heart attacks are made of. Gotta go and alert the global warming group to be on the lookout for a heat wave. We damn sure could use one.
I just spent an hour shovelling just my front steps and the sidewalk. I'm not sure I want to see both cars before Spring, though we will definitely have to dig one of them out. The street isn't even plowed yet, which is very unusual. At any rate, I've completed the bare minimum -- somebody in a wheel chair could use my sidewalk.
Yep, this was normal for the whole winter when I was a kid. Didn't have to worry about the commute, though; all I had to do was bundle up in a snow suit and trudge up to the sledding hill with my Snow Wing. Got the cars unburied, but I think I'll wait a while to "trim" the rest of the driveway.
Yes and no. A storm that dumps two to three feet of snow in 24 hours is fairly unusual. I've lived in Boston more than 20 years, and this is only the third storm of this magnitude in that time period. Yeah, it happens, no, it's not normal.
Yeah, and walking up hill in it to school both ways. People remember the extremes, but the data doesn't support the perception. Three of the five snowiest winters recorded in Boston were in the past 20 years. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_top_ten_snowiest_winters_in_Boston And also 5 of the 10 largest blizzards.
Well I remember winters back to the mid 1960s and heavy snows like this were not typical. At least not all in one monster blast like this one. The difference these days seems to be that it warms up enough to melt a lot of it between storms, and when I was a kid it stayed cold all winter. The snow kept piling up. This in upstate New York, the Hudson Valley area. That said, I remember a couple of really big ones. I think 67-68? Then in the early 70s. And one weird one, in early May one year, dumped a few inches of snow long after we thought winter was over.
Up in Albany IIRC/AFAIK from Capital District folklore I've heard about, they call that the May Snowflake!
HA! Not saying things are getting warmer, but when I lived in Wisconsin once winter hit it stayed for the duration. We generally started ice fishing (on most smaller lakes) between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and the ice left the lakes around mid-April. Snow level would vary, but generally started accumulating around mid-November and most was gone (except in very shady spots) by early April. For at least a decade now, the ice forms later and melts earlier. And not just occasionally, but nearly every year. This article about Minnesota makes you think too. I'm sure it's anectdotal, but if over the next couple of decades the winter gets even shorter and shorter and whole ecosystems are affected (species of animals, fish, trees, etc.) it would surely mean something is amiss.http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/01/30/global-warming-is-ruining-the/ update! Lake Winnebego too - no good ice until the end of JANUARY? WTF? http://www.lre.usace.army.mil/greatlakes/hh/datalinks/PrinterFriendly/11Apr12Minutes.pdf
And how much of that ice is safe to drive on? As a kid, I can remember seeing people drive cars out on to frozen lakes to go ice fishing. Doesn't happen that often any more.
So worse than the blizzard of 78? Man I loved that one. Then again I was only 7 years old so to me it was just one giant amazing playground. question because my memory is hazy. Yeah I know that most towns have a law that says you have to keep the sidewalk clear, but does it have to be kept clear during the storm or can you wait till it is over? Also what about a snow blower instead?
In my town it's something like within 24 hours of when the snow stops falling. I can't remember for sure.
