Posted on 12/27/2010 9:34:21 AM PST by FreeReign
NEW YORK -- A powerful East Coast blizzard menaced would-be travelers by air, rail and highway Monday, leaving thousands without a way to get home after the holidays and shutting down major airports and rail lines for a second day. Officials urged anyone who did not have to drive to stay off roads in the region, where high winds pushed snow into deep drifts across streets, railroads and runways. Nearly a foot and a half of snow was expected to fall by the time the storm wore out later in the day.
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Al Gore strikes again.
Meanwhile, President Obama is sunning his carcass in Hawaii.
Expat yankees always tell us southerners how well they can drive in this type of weather. Seems not to be the case when the roads are not scraped clean and salted before they go out driving
Mom in Boston is saying that the Newscasters are comparing this to the Great Blizzard of ‘78.
eek.
Gee, looks like what those east coast areas USED TO GET fifty years ago.
Just a return to normal winter weather.
Wow, didn’t realize they had global warming, er, “climate change” back then!
I was living on the Cape then- the ‘78 blizzard was a pretty good storm. But our winters used to be more like that when I was growing up.
I heard on WFTV (Orlando) that it snowed in Jacksonville, Fla. last night. Fed-X and UPS have cencelled services in several states per Fox.
Come on up and try it yourself sometime.
(This has been a self-policing misspelling correction.)
When those of us in northern Michigan get 2 feet of snow we still go to work and conduct daily business...oh, and it doesn’t make national news either.
So to the eastern seaboard I say “waaa”.
I just remember five feet of snow overnight, and shoveling a TUNNEL through the snow to get out to the street. A whole week went by before they plowed.
Cape Cod was spared most of the snow because of the warmer waters . West of Boston, people were stranded for days in their cars on I95 (Route 128 to locals).
Do you still live on Cape Cod? I love it there.
I’m in Orlando too- heard same! Just heard no deliveries from Maine to Virginia..
Two feet of lake effect snow is fluffy, it's low in water content and its not as big a deal. That's the kind of snow you mostly get in N. Michigan similar to where I grew up east of Lake Ontario.
Anyway last night's blizzard dropped a heavier in water content snow with 40 to 70 mph winds accross a heavily populated area. One heavy band set up in eastern New Jersey into Brooklyn and Staten Island that dropped from 25 to 32 inches of snow.
If you don't like this making national news, then don't read the posted article.
I was going to say the same thing. This isn’t that bad. The press is turning the American public into a bunch of wimps. Any snow means people immediately call in and say they can’t come into work and the local press hypes it to sell papers and get people to watch local newscasts.
This really began with the widespread availability of mobile phones. At that point every rubber neckin yahoo with a mobile phone started calling in live on radio stations and crying the blues. It just goes on from there I'm afraid.
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