Posted on 12/27/2017 11:08:45 AM PST by GonzoII
(Reuters) - Snow piled up in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday after two days of record-breaking snowfall that had already surpassed 5 feet (1.5 meters), breaking city and state records, according to the National Weather Service.
Though residents are used to winter snow squalls blowing in from adjacent Lake Erie, which straddles the border with Canada, the Christmas storm is already one for the ages.
"This is an incredible amount of snow that we're trying to move," the Erie Police Department said in statement after the city declared a "snow emergency" on Tuesday, imploring people to stay off the streets.
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One of the joys of going to snow country is making real snow cones. Some of my favorite snow cone flavors are Barbancourt, Mt.Gay, Appleton Estate and Flor de Caña.
Snow caves were made from the snow in between the sidewalk and the curb. When the snowplow went down the street you got even more snow to pile on the cave. We got smart one year and placed a large board on the top so that it would not collapse as a bunch of us sat in there.
The town we lived in made ice rinks at some of the parks and we would take a shovel to the ice rink and when the snow fell we would make snow trails.
As I now live in Texas, I still hanker after driving in the snow at night with the snow falling on my windshield.
And that ladies and gentlemen is why people who were sentenced to be born up north don’t stay there. Can’t say that I blame them, just don’t try to recreate us in the South into your own likeness.
I was born and raised in Lansing. The City would make ice rinks in about five parks around the city and three parks had nice hills that were for sledding. Good times.
Erie, PA is on the south shore Lake Erie, about 100 mi. WSW of Buffalo, NY. That puts a HUGE target on its back for giant lake effect snow storms, just like the ones that hit Buffalo.
Solar minimums will do that.
Erie, Pennsylvania pummeled by record 5 feet of snow
My Wife was born and raised there. The one Son and Family are still there. Why I don’t know.
Southern NC is enough snow for Us.
The little light pole has a Hat on ,LOL
No thanks.
I spent more than a few days/nights skating and playing hockey at Sycamore Park.
Good times.
It sure is beautiful. Just as the rose too is beautiful but with a few troublesome thorns.
Sub zero temperatures tend to keep the riff raff off the streets and in controllable numbers. Meanwhile, you can enjoy the chiggers, palmetto bugs, snakes, gators, humidity, and the various migratory species of humans who intrude on your solitude each winter.
In either situation, hope you and yours are having a fine holiday.
If it gets much warmer, we’re all going to freeze to death.
When I was growing up and even now I hate to hear people complain about the snow.
I live in Buffalo, and quite often make the trip to Erie. Have some associates there. They, like us, are used to snow, but this pushes the limits.
Comstock Park was the closest to me when I was younger. Sledding was so-so but the ice rink was nice. There was a bigger park that had the great sledding,. The big hill was called the Flying Angel that had a big hump then you had to make a right turn or crash. We had great times sledding those runs.
When I was a bit older they started a rink at Gier Park Elementary School, which was not only a couple of blocks from my house but where I went to school. Small but steep sledding hill but the rink was nice and we could just walk there rather than beg our parents to drive us.
[If it gets much warmer, we’re all going to freeze to death.]
That’s what I’m afraid of!!!
Or if the thermometer was an inch longer.../hat tip to Mark Twain(?)
We lived in Fulton, which is in the lake snow area.
One year they had about 5 feet fall in three weeks and although they were used to it, that was a bit much for all of us.
The funniest thing was, though, that for all the clearing of everything the DPW did, they didn’t bother with their own roof.
It collapsed under the weight of the snow load.
Shoveling off your roof was the town sport.
We used to have a tractor with a plow, and as soon as I could drive it, I learned how to use it to plow snow, and made lots of money every winter. :-)
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