Posted on 01/23/2016 12:02:03 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
That reminds me of when I was on vacation in Colorado, but in the Summer. Pulled up to some motel in Pueblo when a storm was coming through. A genius parked next to us had left his beautiful sports car front window rolled down. A moment later, the skies let loose with golfball sized hail.
I thought for a moment about getting out of the car and rolling up the guy’s window, but I wasn’t going to risk physical harm from the hail to help an idiot. Needless to say when the hailstorm was finished, his front seat was covered and coated in iceballs. I didn’t get to see the reaction of the owner, which would’ve been the cherry on top.
I don’t think we got 8. 5 was what I heard. I haven’t stepped out to stick a ruler in the snow.
Our biggest problem as pedestrians is the crosswalks. Someone shovels or snowblows them out and then the snowplows come by and block them up again.
Last blizzard the local Franciscans were shoveling the crosswalks. They told me they had been out there since 6:30 in the morning.
That’s the way to do it.
Having grown up shoveling out from some pretty serious snowstorms, there’s no point in trying to do it all at once. It’s not going anywhere while you rest.
Unless it melts and then you’re fine.
Off the ends of the Great Lakes, Watertown, Tug Hill, Adam's Center, Pulaski, Buffalo, Hamburg, the South Towns of WNY. Where the tanks from Fort Drumm are called out to drag the stuck snow plows out of the snow drifts.
Not technically blizzards but dealing with feet of snow in a 24 hour period is pretty much the same.
I’ve driven a BMW.
Nice is not the word.
They’re wonderful.
over to the east, we got 5 inches, then lost 1 then got 2, then 1 more for a total of 8
the gage now shows 7
to make the gage, buy a 12 “piece of pvc pipe and lay off lines at 1” intervals with a magic marker numbering each line up to 11.
I made a base from a flat piece of aluminum and screwed a piece of broom stick to it. The gauge part slips over the broom stick.
Alternatively, you can drive a section of the broom stick into the ground but the table top gives a more accurate reading.
I’m never going outside again! This climate change thingee is frightening.
Happens every day.
It all depends on how much cold air is in place or the timing of the storm as in how much warmer coastal air the storm wraps in.
In some Nor'easters I've been in my +50 years of living in the Mid-Atlantic, sometimes the snow has been very wet and heavy, even with periodic sleet and freezing rain bands like the blizzard of '93 in Baltimore. We still got a lot of snow but it was wet and heavy, it stuck heavily to the trees and roofs and combined with the very high, near hurricane force winds, caused a lot of power outages, trees coming down, roof collapses...
In others like the blizzards of 83 and 96 and 2003, it was a very heavy but fine and powdery snow.
This storm here in Central PA, it was all snow and a very dry and powdery snow. No significant power losses which is a good thing but lots of drifting.
PenDot is saying this morning that they are still working on clearing the major roadways and to not expect secondary roads to be anywhere near cleared until Tuesday.
Where I am, just south and east of York City, our "official" snow fall total is 30.5 inches.
Looking out my apartment window, some cars are completely covered in snow up to their roof tops or even higher in some of the drifts.
The snow removal team at my apartment complex consists of a lone maintenance guy in a small 4x4 pickup truck with a small snow plow attachment.
I watched yesterday afternoon as he was trying to plow and constantly getting stuck. He managed to finally clear a small narrow path but also plowed all the cars in. The few people who I saw trying to shovel out their cars yesterday afternoon, no one seemed to get out and most gave up and since there's not really anywhere to put the snow except for back in the semi-plowed area or next to a neighbors' car, it's going to take days for most of us to get out.
The maintenance guy is back at it this morning, bless his heart, but is not making much progress.
And they haven't even started on the sidewalks. There is a drift in front of the sidewalk leading to my building that looks to be at least 4 feet.
Because most of them are lawyers...or trust fund babies.
A blizzard is a violent snowstorm with winds blowing at a minimum speed of 35 miles per hour and visibility of less than one-quarter mile for three hours.
What's so rare about that?
A blizzard of stupidity.
>> Eight or ten blizzards a year are not uncommon to coastal areas, but the U.S. gets about 10.7 to 11 blizzards a year.
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There is a lightning strike every second . . . somewhere.
But, if you live in Portland Maine you do not get 8 blizzards a year. Maine has bad winter weather. Agreed.
The U.S. gets about 10.7 to 11 blizzards a year.
The entire US?
Blizzard of 1993 hit Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
2009:
“The region west and northwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area saw blizzard-like conditions throughout the day Christmas Eve as up to 8 inches of snow fell in the region, according to the National Weather Service. Winds gusting at up to 65 mph drifted the snow as deep as 5 feet in some areas.”
Well, they will want a couple of hands for our 30”.
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