Let me see if I have this straight: if I wake up in the Northeast (where I am not) with 30 inches of snow on my doorstep, I’m not “having things bad?”
One note. In many states, snow depth was so deep that they built two story outhouses and all houses had a door on the second floor dormer for just such events.
The name of this game is apocalypto-— “please oh please watch our network to get the latest news, and watch our stupid ads....because only WE can help you” Bulletins and advice from Bloomberg—”help us FEMA” Help us dear GOV.
This is the same thing that happens with a major hurricane— a lot of interest in the run up and the impact....then NOTHING afterward for people really hurt. Like during Andrew in Miami— not a word. Not the namby pamby CAT 1 that flattened wooden shacks on Rockaway that don’t even qualify as “housing” but valued at...well you know.
The most important part of this expanded govt. role— FEMA as interface to the “civilian” military and martial law (about which see Deval Patrick order citing no travel allowed on roads— seriously, you’ll need a special pass not “just cause you’re free to do so”. Big MAMA govt. and their choir in the media. About the only time ad rates go up on the Weather Channel is during hurrican season or this type of thing.
We keep a “storm box” with two weeks of food (separate from our 2 years worth) with cooking fuel, emergency batteries, heat blankets (space blankets), propane for heaters, and kerosene for lighting when the batteries go. Well, we’re just country bumpkins who are PREPARED- or in other words people to be watched by the feds as “preppers”. What idiocy.
Want to know what cold really was— Valley Forge in the Revolution and when the Delaware river had huge ice blocks in it when Washington crossed to the Battle of Trenton— a 200 year cycle of a mini-ice age. Think how much people invested in global warming would have made with what is coming (and are still trying to make it seems pitching global warming)- another cycle of cold.
Seriously though to NE freepers— be safe and careful, and we pray you will be OK, and better yet prepared.This is nothing a real New Englander hasn’t seen before. Deo Vindice.
Thanks for this post. I never heard of the “school house blizzard” I guess it got over shadowed by the March storm.
We really have it a lot better nowadays, there wasn’t even radio back in the 1800s!
This account didn’t mentioon the the Great Pasadena Blizzard of 1949, which buried the Southland under about four inches of snow.
I couldn't agree more. I talk to young people all the time that have no concept of the time before they were born.
The snow was between 4 to 6 feet depending on the wind drifts. For kids it was great because we had three snow days. Everybody stayed home and gave the city enough time for all the trucks to have their plows replaced.
It was basically no big deal.
I now live where two inches of snow shuts down the entire city for a week.
I know it’s a little late, but the other day there was some kind of NWS advisory for here (W PA) about... 1 (one) inch of snow that could hit. Insanity.