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 was there for the big storm in Feb. 2003... a lot of things were closed for a day while they dug out. The biggest mess came from having only the center lane of most streets to drive on because of the snow pushed to the curbs taking up so much of the outside lanes... and so much fun to catch a taxi when you have to deal with snowdrifts. Beautiful however, for a day or two.
Had a great time. The best was visiting Tony Snow at Fox News Studio.
Tony chatted with us for over an hour and as a fringe benefit I got to see Major Garrett in jeans.
THUD.
NWS had thought that possibly the strongest bands would stay offshore or that if the main part of the storm came ashore, that it would turn to rain in the city.
They missed on the temperature so when that happened, NYC got the double whammy. Increased moisture and colder air.
But a full foot off is QUITE a bit.
How visible is the brown air today? We certainly get our share of haze and even smog in the New York City metro area but LA was the first time I ever saw chocolately brown air. Ugh. No thanks.
My wife has a serious case of Schadenfreude today...every time she walks by the TV and sees NYC and Boston ensnarled, she breaks out laughing and wishing it were at commute time.
(gotta admit it's easy for her to do, given this is what's happening around here this afternoon)
they hyped this I think, did they measure in a snow drift?
Very little smog in Los Angeles. Hasn't been for many years now, except on a few bad days a year, and then mostly in the Valley.
You can sled with a cup of cocoa?
It's cold in Alabama, it snowed for ten minutes yesterday, I thought we were doomed.
But, I had bread and milk.
our plowmen visited Far Annandale (near NOVA)around 3:30p ... then drove up to Wegman's in Fairfax .. once outside the subdivision, the roads were perfectly clear.
This is Best of All Worlds for the kids .. no school and they really can get out to play, visit friends, etc. As to working (outside the home) parents of younger kids, not happy news.
FCPS covers so much ground, from very rural to almost-city that they have to decide closings based on worst-case scenario .. would you want to drive (or have your kid as a passenger in) a school bus out Vale? I never questioned their decisions.
I spent a winter in a town in Sweden where they did that - people would ski to school or go on these kick sleds - looked like a kitchen chair on two wicked long runners - you stood on the runners and kicked, with whatever passenger or luggage you wanted on the chair. Don't remember any horses in the streets though.
Mrs VS
More lies from the liberal media - NO WAY was this the biggest storm for NYC - but if it's not the biggest, most deadly, "what you don't know about snow CAN hurt you" hyped news, well we just can't get top dollar for our advertising minutes. In the meantime, people are panicking and hoarding food, while they could be enjoying a pretty snow fall in the city.
i have three kids in three different private schools which go by THREE DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS! so far, 2 of them are home, bc they go by fairfax and montgomery co. but my son's school is in falls church and goes by falls church city which RARELY cancels. he is NOT going to be a happy camper when he gets this news!
"they hyped this I think, did they measure in a snow drift?"
Snow drift with a metric ruler.
bushs fault lol
And 26.4 inches of global warming in 1947.
my prayers to you and your family
Only 4" here in Drums PA.
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