Posted on 01/19/2016 3:56:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In the 70’s in MI, we built snow tunnels through our yard for a week. What is it with these weaklins?
It is a snow storm. Deal with it. Nothing we have ever experienced in North America is truly historic. We have, at best, a little more than 500 years of recorded history and far less for most of the continent.
I remember the storm of ‘93. Got stuck at my brother’s apartment in New Castle for 3 days. The PA Turnpike was closed. I finally attempted to get home to Westmoreland County. Had to take Route 79 down to the Parkway and make my way east. Took me over 3 hours. The scenery was surreal. Aldi’s was crazy busy today.
There are blizzards in winter, who knew?
Now wait a minute ! is this historic storm a “weather channel” historic ? The same weather channel outfit that is naming fog banks and mud puddles?? OHHHHH the hughmanateees !!. That is all- carry on.... ps. we all gonna die !!
Nice to read about someone so well prepared. I lived through Rochester, Lake shore winters, for 60 years and never minded the great lake effect storms...always prepared and planning a “storm party” at home.
My memories are also of the Shadow and both were before the time of TV sets.
It was a special event to put a card table in the living room and listen to “The Shadow Knows” in front of the RADIO.
Long before frozen meals there was a chicken noodle dinner in a jar!
It was on at 5 or 5:30 PM on Fridays, I think...no time for that “buzzing” Green Hornet comes to mind.
Crank up those solar panels, its going to be cold.
I had a 66 or 67 (somewhere in there) Evinrude wide track. Never, ever got it stuck in snow, not once. On ice (metal cleats slipped on ice), yes, but never in snow.
My newest one is a 87 Arctic Cat. It’s in been in the bone pile ever since I got tracks for the ATV. It will probably still run, don’t know, don’t care. This Arctic Cat has a narrow track and too much power. On the straight away and level ground it’s OK. But in the forest, going up hill, slowing down for a tight corner, it will get stuck every time. Try digging a ramp in 4 feet of snow to get one unstuck.
I sure wish I had that Evinrude. Quite a machine even today.
How am I supposed to believe this? It’s not in ALL CAPS, like the N.W.S. puts out?
I’m in Middletown, but I work up in Basking Ridge (a hell commute from hell), it’s amazing how much colder it can be up there.
The worst day, pretty much ever, was one day when it started sleeting, snowing, really wet heavy snow, right about 4:00, there really wasn’t even any way to close early. (And I must say that the people I work for are very good about closing early, for weather, for holidays, they are better than OK on that score.) It was coming down so fast that the highways were covered even with all the traffic. You could not go over 20 mph, if you did you started to slip all over the place.
But, all us Route 287 drivers are very inured to moving slowly, so I just crept my way home, it took 3 hours but I got there.
Good luck with this storm and all the inclement weather we are sure to get before spring. We’ve really been very lucky so far this winter so I can’t complain (too much).
Hope it shuts DC DOWN FOR A MONTH......
USELESS PARASITES
They named it ‘Jonas’.
They’re now calling it a blizzard, for DC/Baltimore...
-JT
I drove home in a blizzard from work the other night. 22 miles at 25 mph and several times I had to stop to make sure I was on the road.
Here in northern Michigan that’s just the beauty of winter.
We got over a foot of snow in a few days time.
But then we do have a state that knows how to deal with it and does.
Snow in January... wow, that certainly is historic.
The District and suburban folks here don’t get enough real snow to learn how to deal with it. My husband, who learned to drive in the ‘wilds’ of PA, laughs at us down here, both for our driving, and the way we delay or close schools over a dusting ;-)
But I am getting a little worried about this; I grew up with terrible stories of the Knickerbocker storm from my Grandma; and they seem to be predicting something also historic for this weekend.
-JT
I was 10 years old in NJ, Bergen Co. for the Big Snow of ‘47. I remember walking through snow mid chest high. When my father dug the path to the street, we measured the snow and it was 27”. I dug a cave in the wall of snow for my 2 year old brother. For those who say this storm has not hit the west yet, this storm is moving up from the south. Here is another map and story.
AccuWeather should change their name to “AccuPanic”.
Wow, a whole foot? That is serious.
Man, that’s a lot of snow.
That was a good article. I remember the storm in ‘96, I shoveled my balcony 3 times. For one thing I was afraid it would collapse, for another I couldn’t face the idea of looking at a wall of snow for however long it would take to melt!
I lived in Bayonne at that time, on a little dead end street, they didn’t plow us out for 3 days. My boss was annoyed I didn’t come to work. I said: sorry, I love my job but not enough to walk through thigh high snow to get here. Pretty sure my kid had no school either. That snow hung around too, iirc.
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