Posted on 02/24/2025 6:40:08 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Feet of snow across parts of central New York caused more than two dozen homes and businesses to collapse under its weight, according to Oswego County officials.
A lake-effect snowstorm started on Feb. 14 and did not let up until Feb. 19, piling feet of snow on roofs.
According to the National Weather Service’s Buffalo office, the highest weekly totals included 79.1 inches in Palermo and 55.8 inches in Minetto.
On Feb. 19, the city of Oswego had 20 inches of snow on the ground, the highest snow depth so far in February, according to the NWS.
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It happened one year to the roof of the DPW in Fulton because of the snow weight.
Everyone knew to shovel off their roofs and people did it all the time.
The DPW knew better.
I’ve been in Oswego many times. Likely the building collapses are going to raise property values. Too bad, because the view of Lake Ontario is great and it’s beautiful country around the city. The city has a lot of potential, but alas is only another economically depressed Canal town, thanks to NYS government.
Plus Oswego County was a welfare county. I don’t know if that’s changed, but it is poor.
There are some good farms and orchards up there, though.
I grew up in that area. We didn’t think it was abnormal.
Lake effect snow is much lighter than synoptic snow. It has a lower water content. It's fluff.
Headline problem: New York county is a place, coterminous with Manhattan Island, with one small exception (Marble Hill).
The events in the article happened in Oswego county, in New York State.
I also grew up in the Buffalo area and moved to CNY later when we got married. Lived in the snowbelt in CNY and remember especially the Superstorm of ‘93 in March.
I am mostly familiar with the snow patterns off of Northernish Lake Michigan. Pretty interesting. The worst snowfall is about 10 to 20 miles West of Traverse City. The actual shore of the lake only gets about a third of what gets dumped inland. Inland is the snowmobile capital of the midwest.
While there I got talking to a Regular Army 1LT who had wintered over during the previous winter. He said that many parts of the installation remained unplowed during the winter and in those areas the buildings (old WWII wooden buildings) were completely buried in snow.
No wonder it's now the home of the 10th Mountain Division!
Net Zero will fix it
Can you blame them?
I have a friend who lives in Oswego.
Yep. Oswego is getting the lake effect from Buffalo.
I suspect the boat inside that building was worth more than the building itself.
Most every pic was of a shallow roofed, free-span outbuilding. There’s always the expectation that a snow load would collapse the roof. Build it steep or build it strong. An hour’s work of jamming braces under the center of the trusses probably would have saved them.
In reality, every owner was probably unsurprised and the MSM just went around with a drone taking pics to come up with this bs story to fill up page space and mildly push the climate agenda.
There are smart and stupid ways to go about it.
6.5 feet of snow has happened before, however the narrative is that it was supposed to never happen again, because Climate Change is still considered to be a warming event. 😋
Astonishing. Never, ever happened before. Not once.
LOL...they don’t show that poor user of the tool getting plastered in the face with the tons of snow he cut loose.
Six or seven years ago, we had a real bad winter with heavy snow fall. We started getting ice dams and water in the house that was buckling our JUST REFINISHED floors! Ugh. I hired a company to come out, shovel the snow off and steam off the ice dams. Fortunately, it has happened just one time in the eight years since we bought the place.
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