Like this?
Great Lakes ice house becomes internet sensation
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/great_lakes_ice_house_becomes.html
Posted on 03/13/2017 7:35:12 PM PDT by onona
Stay Safe Freepers !!
Yeah.
I noticed that.
It doesn’t look like it’s moving terribly fast which is part of the problem.
How much fake news are you shoveling out now?
Now blizzard warnings in 8 states.
Blizzard conditions are 35 MPH sustained winds, lots of snow, and visibility of less than 1/4 mile for a minimum of 3 hours.
Not *just a storm*.
Are you OK this morning?
Storm is a big nothing burger here in NYC. Subways running below ground. Just saw the trusty 104 bus on Broadway. Sleeting now, mixed with some snow, but looks like it’s tapering off already.
The staff all calling in to the diner to find out whether they should show up for work. Owner and two managers there talking them into coming in on the phone. They will be understaffed later if these folks can’t get in. One of the workers said, “I’m at JFK.” Managers look at each other like “Wha?”
No traffic except plows and police cars. No one on the streets. They are holed up inside after almost clearing the shelves at Zabar’s.
I remember a few blizzards in the 60s where our area was shut in for 5 days before plows got to us (Henrietta, Wedgwood Park) and our house was at the end of the street and the wind blew straight up to us. Could literally watch the drift in front of the house grow and change shape and ended up with 3 feet at the top of the driveway and 6+ feet at the bottom and across the road. Driving the road that Olympic Park is/was on (have no idea of whether it's still there or not) and they had cleared 2 lanes and the banks were 8 feet high on either side.
I sometimes miss the ";excitement" of a good storm but do not miss the shoveling/scraping, etc., to get out of the driveway and to work.
S. MS Summers are as brutal on me as a NY Winter, but w/o the shivering/scraping/slip-sliding away when the glare ice covers everything - once watched a slo-mo accident where a car moving about 3 mph kept pumping the brakes as he slid about 60 feet and ended up with a slow fender bender into a parked car. There was also a storm off the lake that blew so much spray up that cottages along the lake were covered in feet of ice.
On the flip side - nothing more beautiful than the initial pristine landscape right after a snowfall with the blankets of white and ice glistening off the branches of trees. And during the Fall, when one drives the southern tier, every mile driven is an opportunity for 50 postcard pictures.
Stay safe and warm and enjoy the show - praying the power stays on for everyone.
For now.
I just checked google maps traffic map and the whole interstate system is orange with a section of red on I-81.
Quiet as all get out but not surprising considering EVERYTHING is shut down.
I was never an advocate of "no fault" insurance and believe we should have more competition that will drive down the premiums for responsible drivers while high-risk accident-prone drivers pay more.
Same with medical insurance. I don't like paying high premiums so others can go running to the doctor every time they get the sniffles or stub their toe. I only go to the doctor when absolutely necessary - which means almost never. I also take care of myself so that I do not have to take a dozen pills a day for blood pressure, diabetes, etc. So my premiums should be lower.
FOTFLOL!!!
It hasn't even gotten to you yet.
Storms have bands of more and less intensity. It doesn't mean the storm is over.
They are not just one level of intensity through the whole thing. Clearly you don't really understand weather.
Sounds as if the southern habit of “snow day” has spread to formerly resilient areas that once would have just taken a winter storm in stride and prided themselves in keeping things running smoothly. An unanticipated day off can be pleasurable, don’t get me wrong, but in places that get frequent snowfall it’s sort of impractical, isn’t it?
Like this?
Great Lakes ice house becomes internet sensation
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/great_lakes_ice_house_becomes.html
They don’t take snow days here unless absolutely necessary. They don’t close for nothing. No school means no state money. Can’t have any of that you know.
The Finger Lakes region is pretty hilly and in many places downright desolate and some of the school districts are spread pretty wide.
They need to take into consideration getting the kids to and from school safely, if they can even do it.
Many times the back roads are downright impassible and where there are open fields and the wind is blowing strongly, the roads quickly become drifted over and driving is downright dangerous, especially for the idiots who plow into those areas full tilt. You have to slow down to almost nothing to not have your car thrown off the road when you hit a sudden deep drift.
They take them here on the forecast of any amount of accumulation.
What county are you in? Here in Broome we have some pretty good snow now. Still coming down steady. Maybe 8+ in so far.
The fact is, the upper Midwest gets just as excited about snow as the rest of us. I was on a business trip once in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for Rockwell Collins and they got all excited about a snowstorm that was on the way, just like they do back east. You had reporters doing liveshots on I-380 and the obligatory footage of public workers affixing plows to dump trucks and filling them with salt. You had the school closures, the "snow emergencies" being declared, the parking bans, the usual warnings to "stay off the roads and let the road crews do their jobs."
Everybody was clearing the supermarkets of milk and bread.
It was just like being back on the East Coast. I felt right at home.
Total snowfall in Cedar Rapids once the storm was done?
Five inches.
South of Syracuse.
Mr. mm says about 3 inches.
That’s now.
Exactly like that...
What’s scary for them is the weight of that amount of ice.
Water is HEAVY.
Well, they just this minute declared a state of emergency in my county. All non-essential driving prohibited. Realistically nearly everyone had to go into work today, so when businesses start to close it may be ugly for a bit. I am a stay at home person, so I am glad for that.
Hubby had to go in today. He is one of the “essential personnel” that don’t get a day off for snow.
Just measured my snow boots - 9.5 in. in height, and the snow was just about to the top when I went out at 7:30. LOL. I just took a baby aspirin because I will have to go shovel soon.
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