Posted on 01/25/2015 1:37:37 PM PST by robowombat
A double dose of snow makes its way toward NYC Driver miraculously survives pileup between two big rigs Motorists angry over alternative-side parking rules during snowfall New York braced for one of the biggest blizzards in “the city’s history,” with over 24 inches of snow expected to blanket Gotham on Monday and Tuesday, authorities said.
“We are facing one of the largest storms in the city’s history,” Mayor de Blasio said. “This could be a storm…the likes of which we have never seen before.”
Snow is expected to begin falling just before sunrise on Monday before the serious blizzard kicks in late in the afternoon and through Tuesday morning’s rush, forecasters said.
Garbage and recycling will be suspended Monday and Tuesday so New York’s Strongest can put full efforts into clearing up to 36 inches of snow.
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OMG! OMG! THIS IS CRAZY!! INSANE!! I can understand if this was up north in like late January but...oh wait.
The Mount Baker ski area in Washington averages more than 53 feet of snow in a typical season. Their record was set in 1998-99, with 1,140 inches (95 feet). Holy smokes.
It was YOU I saw on Barbara Walters’ Today Show! I was home with some awful flu and watched tv all day. I clearly remember the skiers. There’s always been a reason I liked you, Cov!
When I lived out near the Rockies I don't ever remember rainfall after September and before March in any winter season.
It looks like if you put that thing in neutral, it could go backwards like a bat outta hell.
Oh, dear. I slept through that red sky at morning - and I’m not even a sailor. What did the temperature hit today? I actually put the air conditioner on in the car I was so warm.
I forgot about the tidal surge up there coming on the heels of the second storm. Was hard, hard winter that year.
Sorry, I left out perverts, murderers and worst of all...lawyers.
But before the February blizzard, we had a soaking rainstorm in between, on January 26-27. Now that was a historic blizzard in the Midwest and when you talk about "Blizzard of '78" out there, that is the storm that comes to mind for them. But just rain on the East Coast as we were on the warm side. Still, that storm caused much havoc as people still hadn't cleared the piles of snow from around the storm drains and we had massive street flooding.
The February 6-7 blizzard took everybody by surprise. It wasn't until Sunday morning that people started getting excited about it. Even on that Monday morning, as I was getting ready for school, at least one of the Boston news stations was forecasting the storm to push out to sea.
Around 10:30 that morning on February 6, the temperature in Boston was still around 40 degrees but within the next hour, the winds picked up and temperature went to about 30. Around noon, it was announced that school was closing and that we were to get home as soon as possible.
I'll never forget walking back to my house that day. I lived close to Revere Beach and the winds were so strong that I had to turn around and walk backwards. It still hadn't snowed one flake.
Right around dusk, I'm thinking around 4 or 4:30, the "wall of snow" came over us. I mean it was a wall. It went to a complete whiteout within seconds. It snowed all night and into most of the next day. 27 inches officially in the city but most suburbs got 40 inches or more. Just a few blocks down the street from where I lived, they had no snow on the ground at all because the ocean came in and completely washed all the snow away.
I just checked. The 54 year average is just a bit more than 20 feet and the record is about 36 feet. Lake effect snow just keeps coming as long as the lake is open.
You hit on the subject that always gets my blood boiling...the lack of communication to older people during these storms is an outrage. The media always tell people to fire up their generators if you lose power. WTF? People in apartments and condos don't have generators...they go without heat until the power boys get the power back on line.
Then they tell people that if they have lost power that 'warming centers' or temporary shelters have been set up in their area. For a list of those shelters; people are told to log onto the station/paper website. Hello? They don't have ANY power. I called the major television station here in Red Hampshire during our last power outage to point this out and was told 'well, duh...you can access our website on your mobile device'.
Do they have ANY idea how many people (especially elderly) don't carry a mobile device? In fact, I doubt many elderly even know what a mobile device is...
If you're stuck with a radio, good luck. They rarely, if ever will interrupt their syndicated programming to provide people with LIVE updates...not our here in the rural areas.
I'll probably make a few phone calls tomorrow to see if I can rock some boats before it is too late.
Inside the aqueducts, there are numerous freshwater sponges that seem to do some additional filtration.
There use to be a lot of breweries in New York, mostly to do with the quality of the water. Much of that water infrastructure is at least a century old, and still going strong.
Time for....
Now it's official.
Under shcool vill shtay uppen no matter vut!
You are sweet, Marcella. Thank you for that heartfelt post.
I’m happy that my 90 year old mom is now in a fabulous nursing home where, undoubtedly, there will be generators if we lose power. My husband and I - if this storm comes off - will survive on our gas heaters and fireplace!
LOL! Could have been me, but I was so wrapped up in a hooded parka with snow goggles I couldn’t recognize myself in a photo. On the way in I only saw 2 other skiers, one of whom was in the same design studio. Coming home there were more, but I think most of them had been playing hookie.
Rupert’s Brewery used to be up in the 80s on the East side. The mansion is still there and I like to imagine the dray horses barreling down that street to deliver beer to the saloons. In the amazing book by Harpo Marx called “Harpo Speaks” he recalls this vividly.
Yes. NYC does that too.
Read about the Blizzard of 1888 in NYC. Fifty inches of snow fell from March 11-15 and 200 people died. Some were trapped in burning buildings, while horse-drawn fire wagons were blocked by snow drifts twenty feet high. That was a truly catastrophic storm, and it wasn’t caused by global warming.
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