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What It's Like to Be Trapped by a Wall of Snow in Buffalo Storm
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Posted on 11/19/2014 7:54:15 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
11/19/2014 8:49:48 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: usconservative
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posted on
11/19/2014 8:50:36 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
11/19/2014 8:51:51 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Phillyred
A few years back I had to work in Buffalo for a month (in August) Absolutely loved it. Weather was beautiful, I enjoyed the area, good times. But I repeat, it was August.
To: Phillyred
in global warming.
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posted on
11/19/2014 8:57:57 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
11/19/2014 9:01:27 PM PST
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Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: FreeReign
Well prepared..
Yep. Improvise, adapt and embrace the suck. LOL.
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posted on
11/19/2014 9:12:12 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Larry Lucido
500° below zero: Hell freezes over. The Bills win the Super Bowl.
and the Sabres win the Stanley Cup.
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posted on
11/19/2014 9:18:45 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: usconservative
I was born there and still have relatives there. One of my cousins told how she has had to sleep on the couch for a week and keep the fireplace going to stay warm. I asked her why she doesn’t get a generator. She said it was no big deal.
I explained that living in Arizona, I have a propane powered generator to manage the power outages and that it made life real nice when the power went out.
I talked to one of my other cousins who lives in the Batavia area. He is supposed to fly out this Saturday for his Arizona elk hunt. It is questionable whether he will be able to accomplish that. He said he may have to drive south until he finds an open airport.
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posted on
11/19/2014 9:22:49 PM PST
by
Glennb51
To: Phillyred
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posted on
11/19/2014 10:42:57 PM PST
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: FreeReign
Nice to see Canadian beer coolers are in full effect.
To: Phillyred
More snow please
To: Vince Ferrer
When Lake Erie freezes Buffalo can relax. It won't be too long, since the waters never reached their usual heat this last summer. Ice is already forming in Lake Superior.
To: Phillyred
Blame it on the Obama. He said that the earth would begin to heal, the oceans would cease to rise ie global warming would stop. Since he can control everything on earth, he obviously did this. /s
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posted on
11/20/2014 12:07:49 AM PST
by
greeneyes
(Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
To: Phillyred
Until you have personally dealt with a storm like this, it is hard to imagine what life is like in such places.
Around the Watertown area, older houses can have doors on the second floor for use after such storms. I did not see this around Buffalo.
I used to go shovel out around the street fire hydrant--they are usually marked with a yellow stake many feet tall.
People put up 6-7 foot stakes at the end of their driveways and put bright plastic bottles on them so they can aim their snowblowers properly.
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posted on
11/20/2014 12:25:45 AM PST
by
Nepeta
To: Phillyred
Until you have personally dealt with a storm like this, it is hard to imagine what life is like in such places.
Around the Watertown area, older houses can have doors on the second floor for use after such storms. I did not see this around Buffalo.
I used to go shovel out around the street fire hydrant--they are usually marked with a yellow stake many feet tall.
People put up 6-7 foot stakes at the end of their driveways and put bright plastic bottles on them so they can aim their snowblowers properly.
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posted on
11/20/2014 12:26:16 AM PST
by
Nepeta
To: All
With another 2-3 feet expected to fall today, then by Sunday and Monday milder with rain, widespread flooding and roof collapse potential will follow. The flooding will be partly from stream runoff (this more likely around the margins of the beavier snow pack where 1-2 feet has accumulated and can all melt) and from trapped meltwater that has nowhere to drain with some of the snow left on the ground. In other words, this will quickly become a horrendous mess as opposed to a winter fantasy landscape that has trapped thousands in their homes and vehicles.
The brief thaw will be followed by more sub-freezing cold by about Thanksgiving Day, not a lot of snow for Buffalo as winds will be more northwesterly then, but the mess left behind would ice up. Almost unimaginable how things will play out for the heaviest snowfall zones and I hope there is a long gradual thaw in early December so they aren’t stuck with the mess all winter. Of course it may reload once it goes away. Before the infamous Blizzard of (late January) 1977 there was a lot of lake effect snowfall in November 1976 as well. Not this much maybe but above normal amounts anyway.
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posted on
11/20/2014 1:23:36 AM PST
by
Peter ODonnell
(Is it just me, or is there something wrong with political correctness? /s)
To: KarlInOhio
Next problem will be water. By Monday next, forecast is for high of 58 degrees.
To: Pappy Smear
I’ve been all over, but nothing’s sweeter than a summer day in upstate NY.
To: Nepeta
Yes, my father used to tell me about exiting from the second floor (he was from Van Buren, Maine) and wearing snowshoes to get around. I can’t wrap my mind around it.
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posted on
11/20/2014 1:39:41 AM PST
by
grimalkin
(We are a nation under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan)
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