Posted on 03/13/2017 1:16:25 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
Get out now while you still have the chance!
A blizzard warning has been issued for New York City and much of the tri-state area beginning at midnight Tuesday as Winter Storm Stella threatens to dump as much as 18 inches of snow.
Whiteout conditions are expected to make travel extremely dangerous and power outages are likely amid crippling wind gusts of 20 to 40 mph, according to AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tom Kines.
New Yorkers stockpile supplies as massive snowstorm looms.
“Travel will be poor at best, if not impossible,” Kines told The Post on Monday. “If you have the option tomorrow of staying put, I would definitely recommend that. And if you try to fly by air tomorrow, forget it — not happening.”
The blizzard warning — which will be in effect for 24 hours — will cover New York City and Long Island as well as Fairfield, Westchester, Rockland, Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Union, Monmouth and Ocean counties.
Snow will begin around 3 a.m. and continue throughout Tuesday before tapering off in the evening, Kines said.
The city is expected to get at least a foot of snow and 16 to 18 inches could get dumped on western and northwestern areas of the city. Eastern Long Island could be spared with just 6 to 8 inches.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I was remarking to my barber today, how during my lifetime, the media has totally demoted the term “big”; that NOTHING is “big” anymore. Everything is “massive”, “giant”, “monster”, ect., ect.
I can’t think of a single big weather event in the last 30 years that the media referred to as “big”, yet most such similar events in my childhood WERE referred to exactly that way - as BIG.
Stella Artois?
From your wiki:
“The storm took its name from the resulting collapse of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C. shortly after 9 p.m. on January 28 which killed 98 people and injured 133.”
Yeah - I guess that gives a storm naming rights. I don’t recall blizzards in Minnesota growing up, but maybe they had them (I was more concerned about going sledding!).
Where I live now we’ll get windstorms that do damage, and they’ll get named if they are close enough to a special date (The Veteran’s Day storm of 1998, etc.)
CRAP!!! THEY NAMED IT!!!
(First time I heard a name attached to this...I still hate this trend!)
State of emergency declared in New York as major snowstorm approaches
This week is the anniversary of the 1993 Mother of all Snowstorms...
Even Buffalo and Watertown are not out of the aim of this storm.
It's already snowing in Buffalo and as of yesterday, there were still 40,000 people without power from that windstorm they had last week.
No sanctuary there.
And if you try to fly by air tomorrow, forget it —
????? fuggedaboutit! Youse fly by ground only, or I’ll break your am fer ya!
Only a New Yorker could make a statement like that. “Fly by air...”?
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Youse aint seen the way Nu Yawkers drarv by ground...
:)
We’re ready. We went to the supermarket Sunday.
The German guest who was originally scheduled to leave tomorrow will be with us a couple more days, but he’s a good guest so he’ll be fine if he doesn’t go nuts being stuck in a tiny apartment tomorrow.
Here’s an article about the ‘President’s Day Storm’ of 1979. I always remember it as the ‘Valentine’ storm, because I’d just finished up doing a lot of heart-shaped cookies that I’d seen in a magazine and wanted to try making, even though it was past Valentine’s Day. I remember my brother and I going out walking in it, for a lark late at night, because it was one of the biggest snows we’d seen:
I also remember the ‘Great Furlough’ storm, of 1996 - my husband (then boyfriend) and I got stuck for almost a week at a friend’s house - all the peoples’ cars were just frozen in place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_blizzard_of_1996#Washington_D.C._and_Baltimore
(A lot of times, these storms and their impacts have been very difficult to predict in our area - as tonight’s storm may prove to be.)
Blizzard of 93.
That was one mighty blizzard, but was recently beaten. Then...there was the blizzard of 1888 ( no I wasn't around back then ) which was a killer and why ALL overhead cables are now buried under NYC streets.
Nope; not just a few inches, it takes more than that and that IS what NYC is going to get....LOTS of snow.
I remember that storm, and that Winter; but I don’t remember remarkable accumulation here, just the cold. I recall that this was the year I discovered Duofold underwear, and ‘HotHands’ hand warmers.
I decided that year to quit driving to my job down on K street, and use public trans. - I put two of those HotHands things in the toes of my boots, and two in my gloves. I was warm and comfy, and haven’t been afraid of cold weather - at least in my area - since. (Those HotHands things can last up to 8 hours ;-)
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That’s BRUTAL shoveling.
Seems a few hundred people die every time one of these hits.
Sad.
*dfwgator goes away happy*
BTW, I see 34 degrees coming and going in NYC tomorrow.
Is the temperature in the clouds the same as closer to the ground?
Really stupid question, but one I don’t know the answer to :)
At 34, it should be rain, no?
:-)
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