My business takes me to New England frequently. I’m from outside Philadelphia and worked in NYC for years, so this is sort of uncharted territory for me.
This past winter was mild temperature-wise. But, there were really nasty storms. Many costal areas in New Hampshire and Maine got walloped. Boston seemed to be its usual self with not a ton of snow (the last serious winter was 2015). Parenthetically, the traffic around Boston is worse than NYC.
Many folks with whom I spoke in the NH and ME areas chalked up this winter’s devastation to global warming blah blah blah. But amidst this hype almost EVERYONE said “….and I haven’t seen anything this bad since the storm of 1978.” A few of you who I pinged have mentioned the 1978 storm and digging out streets near Boston. So it’s real.
Now, I remember a massive snow storm as a kid, which aligns with 1978. We were building snow men and using snow blowers outside of Philadelphia, which is sort of unusual. So it happened; It WAS a biggie.
But it wasn’t global cooling (which was all the rage in the 70s).
Thus, if you do the math, this “global warming”-induced 2024 stormy Bad Stuff seems like - wait for it! - a 50-year weather pattern/High Water Mark. Add to that homes being built by Low Information Homeowners over the years so close to the water that you’re just ASKING to be washed out to sea, and you get middle-aged Greta’s…and she’s on the spectrum with slimy parents who use her as a human shield to ca$h in. She’s got an excuse.
A fifty-year storm cycle seems pretty normal, and hardly a reason to buy a Tesla or eat bugz.
We live in NH further inland, and it was a great winter. Fairly snow free, a few storms, and relatively mild.
South of us seems to be in the storm track anyways, so yeah, likely they did experience worse. I don’t see it as being unusual.
And our worst storm in these parts was a few years ago when we got over 40 inches of snow in one 24 hour period.
A whole state cannot be measured by what happens in one part of it.
Preach it, DoodleBob! Excellent post!