Posted on 01/28/2022 9:17:03 AM PST by Capt. Tom
It’d the media that does the whining. The people,just deal,with it and say “hey, it’s winter” . My folks always said “Weather will be weather whether or not”
"This is a big storm. The last time this happened? Four years ago!! So, this is unprecedented!!!!"
He's just spewing as much hype as he can. It doesn't really have to make sense.
Better watch the winter olympics now since it may be the last one with enough snow to hold them.
It appears the global warming scam is melting down.
“What is wrong over at WBUR? They called it a “nor’easter” and didn’t use “Bomb,” “Cyclone,” or “Bombogenesis” once! Not only that, they used “storm” SEVEN times!
This is simply not a credible report with shoddy reporting like that.”
Here is a second opinion from this morning. - Tom
BLIZZARD WARNING
ISSUED: 9:40 AM JAN. 28, 2022 – NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
...BLIZZARD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 5 AM
EST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Blizzard conditions expected. Total snow accumulations of
18 to 24 inches. Winds gusting as high as 70 mph.
* WHERE...Portions of eastern, northeastern and southeastern
Massachusetts.
* WHEN...From midnight tonight to 5 AM EST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Very
strong winds could cause extensive tree damage.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Considerable blowing and drifting snow
along with near white out conditions at times. Snowfall rates of
2 to 4 inches per hour is possible at times.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Travel should be restricted to emergencies only. If you must
travel, have a winter survival kit with you. If you get stranded,
stay with your vehicle.
&&
Here in the South we are freaking out over a couple inches of snow.
But two weeks ago it was several inches of ice.
So it’s a good thing there won’t be an NFL game in the Boston area on Sunday.
The next year I was living in the South. We had 2 inches of snow and the university was closed for two days.
Snow means money in Colorado…..not so in MA.
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I experienced the 1978 blizzard first hand. Don’t recall the exact amount of snowfall but the wind was horrible. There were county roads that were drifted shut for miles with drifts 6-8 feet high. Some of them weren’t plowed out for 2 weeks. There were many places where you could literally walk up a snow drift to the top of your house. And it was really cold as well. Temps below zero and wind chills something like 50 below. I was a firefighter back then and we had a horrible time responding to incidents. We had a county snowplow assigned to the station to go ahead of us.
“Anyone know how this compares with the ‘78 blizzard ?”
We won’t know till it’s over.
Some things to consider though, we have had warnings now for several days. In 78 they had no idea of the magnitude of what was coming and iirc they forecasted less than a foot of snow and then kept adjusting the “forecast” after the snow had fallen.
In 78 there were several other storms prior to it, one on January 21st left about 20” of snow. Right now the ground is mostly bare around Boston.
This will hit on a Saturday, the Blizzard of 78 hit during a work week and thousands were trapped in cars overnight on major highways.
The Blizzard of 1978 stretched from NJ up to Nova Scotia and out to Ohio. Over 1,000 homes were destroyed along the coast, it hit at high tide and then lasted over 33 hours.
Most didn’t have snow blowers, now most do.
Most didn’t have generators, many more do now.
Trees are trimmed on a more regular basis.
Yes..you are exactly right. That is how I remember it too. The entire seaside road of Town Way in Scituate was wiped out...every house was washed out to the sea. Of course, new ones were built, and I teach a student Bass Lessons in one of them.
If this weekend is as bad as ‘78, I may not have a house to go to on Monday.
My Ford Bronco was buried to the roof, and we didn’t see a plow for at least two weeks.
The silence was amazing. No traffic sounds, no snowblowers, no plows, no city noise...nothing.
GloBullWarming I’m sure:-)
You have seen many of these Boston Snowstorms.
One of he main problems in Boston is the many cars parked on the streets, making snow plowing just about impossibe.
Today I had a woman here in Scituate, tell me she called her daughter in South Boston to come down here, as she had propane and a generator and all kinds of food to ride out the anticipated power failures.
Her daughter said she would, except she would lose her parking space in Boston during the storm. So a relative has volunteered to pick her up and bring her down here. - Tom
Oh wait...
Thankfully this storm is at the end of January, not the first of February.
Then they would have to compare it to the February Storm of the Century from '78, and everyone would realize that it is just winter doing its thing.
not even close...Not as much snow and plenty of warning.
Back in 1978, they were not prepared for the timing or the
snowfall amounts.
Back in the early 70s, I lived in Niagara Falls and worked in Buffalo, for 2yrs. We routinely got 158” of snow per year. So much that they had to scoop into dumptrucks, drive loads to the Falls, and dump it into the Niagara River. No room to store it in town. I moved to Miami after 2yrs.
I don't know how these snowflakes might display on other systems, but mine show up as 6 chickens:
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Donna Read was gorgeous in Wonderful Life.
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