Posted on 01/30/2019 2:14:46 PM PST by metmom
This is no ordinary blizzard that’s blasting Buffalo and the Southtowns.
Not only is the lake-effect fueled storm dropping snow at a rate of 1 or 2 inches per hour, powerful winds are creating whiteout conditions.
Then there’s the deep, bone-chilling, even life-threatening cold.
(Excerpt) Read more at buffalonews.com ...
I grew up in Rochester, NY. Graduated from high school in '65. There was no such thing as school closings when a snowstorm hit. I had to walk a mile to school, and then back home. We didn't have a car. It was just easier walking, than trying to take the number of busses necessary to get there. My Dad worked as a track foreman on the NY Central Railroad, and worked all day in bad weather. During a snowstorm, he'd come home from work at 4 p.m., eat supper, go to bed, and sleep for a few hours before having to get up, and head back out to work at midnight. He'd then work until 4 p.m. the next afternoon, just so they could get the tracks cleared. Sometimes that routine had to be repeated for a number of days, just to clear it all away.
Visited Ft. Drum one time in December. They had plowed the streets, but you needed to drive out into the intersections to see if there was cross traffic.
The brutal fall and winter of 1976-1977 was used as proof we were entering a NEW ICE AGE!
That happens up there.
They they need to use the tanks to pull the snowplows out of ditches and fields they have inadvertently driven into cause they couldn’t see the road.
Must add something else. January of 1977 made the news in which the entire Continental USA had constant cloud cover for the entire month.
Yup.
I’ll take some global warming right now.
I just checked the school closings and delays for here in the CNY area and there are numerous schools closed and many on a two hour delay, which often ends up being a closing anyways.
The temperatures are not expected to rise to 0 until 10AM and the winds are forecast to stay strong, keeping the wind chill at dangerous levels.
The people in Buffalo have a special name for this kind of weather.
They call it “wednesday”
CC
Could you send us some?
I don’t even get any today; I’m in my cave working on websites.
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