Posted on 02/12/2006 2:42:31 PM PST by conservative in nyc
A record storm blanketed the city in 2 feet of snow on Sunday, stranding tens of thousands of air travelers and sending sanitation workers into overdrive to try to get the streets passable by Monday.
By 1 p.m., the National Weather Service reported that 26.9 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park, the highest tally since records started being kept in 1869. The record was 26.4 inches in December 1947. The snow is measured by the official Central Park measurer for the National Weather Service.
The storm caught some New Yorkers by surprise, coming on the heels of an unusually mild January.
"It's sort of crazy because it was so warm a couple of weeks ago and now we have knee-deep snow," said Skye Drynan, walking her dogs Bella and Forest in lower Manhattan early Sunday.
With visibility at less than a quarter mile, Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged New Yorkers to stay off the roads.
"This is a dangerous storm," Bloomberg said. "Don't drive unless you have to."
The mayor, speaking at a salt storage facility on the Hudson River, said that with 2,200 snow plows and 350 salt spreaders working, he hoped to have all the city's 6,300 miles of streets cleared by Monday's rush hour.
Bloomberg said 2,500 Department of Sanitation employees were working in 12-hour shifts, with vacations and days off canceled, and temporary workers were being hired at $10 an hour to shovel snow.
The storm closed all three of the region's major airports, and airlines canceled more than 500 inbound and departing flights -- 200 each at La Guardia and Newark airports and 120 at Kennedy. The Port Authority said Kennedy could be open by 5:30 p.m., but La Guardia will not open until at least 6 a.m.
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I live between Olney and Columbia, MD....and measured just over 22". As pretty as it looks, alot of my evergreen trees suffered limb loss from the weight of the snow overnight.
When I win the Powerball Wednesday I'm buying an island in the Caribbean, building a casino/hotel and inviting friends and family down for fun in the sun.
No polititians allowed and all lawyers deported upon arrival!
it was like time stood still today. way more people than usual out in the streets, kids out having a good time...
can't wait to see how the trains run tomorrow.
/ global warming
What kind of snow was it? Light and fluffy or the heavy wet stuff? I don't mind the first but I absolutely hate the later.
It's all Karl Rove's fault.
Light and fluffy. Definitely more than 2 feet of snow where we were in Central Park. Just a whole lot of fun.
"Well, is it pretty, anyway?"
It's beautiful here in Bayonne, NJ, the seventh borough, I call it. Nice fluffy snow. I love snow.
Leni
Wow, that's unreal. We moved from northcentral NJ, where we were lucky to see one decent snowfall a year, to NE Ohio - land of lake effect snow from Erie - almost 2 years ago, did get a good bit last year, but this year we have yet to see even one decent snowfall HERE.
Another pet peeve of mine is people posting "it must be global warming" in reply to a cold weather thread, as if noone has ever made that particular wise crack before. But I always have to check to see if it is in the first 10 replies.
Was enjoying the snow earlier today but then we received news that my wife's uncle died today while shoveling snow in Queens, NY. Has of course put a damper on the day and I ask that prayers be offered for his soul. Thank you.
Rrayers sent
Prayers sent
The usual on the Upper East Side: uniformed doormen pushing snow blowers, weird old people carrying groceries in plastic bags, cross-country skiers down Park Avenue....
Wasn't there some humongous big blizzard in the 1880s - after the storm stranded people walked across the frozen Hudson to get to New Jersey?
Mrs VS
It makes perfect sense. We all know liberals have this amazing ability to hold two opposite beliefs at the same time: global warming in the summer followed by a new ice age every winter.
Sorry to hear... prayers.
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