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 am very VERY happy I moved to FLORIDA. No snow here.
prayers sent. May the Lord receive his soul.
Mrs VS
Upstater here- we'll no doubt be sending a fleet of State plows, loaders and truck-mounted snowblowers down there to help dig out (just like always.)
That's always the problem when it snows in urban areas- where do you put it?
Don't they actually have heated trailers down there that melt the snow and let it run into the sewers?
I wonder, will the DEC stop them from dumping the salt-laden slush in the salt water of the harbor?
Good luck, and stay warm and safe!
yes, NYC has 20 of those snow melters. they no longer dump in the rivers.
apparently, there was some kind of microburst in manhattan just east into queens that sent the accumulations numbers there off the charts. western long island numbers are only coming in around 12-15.
A fervent prayer for your your wife's uncle. How old was he? Shovelling snow seems to cause many heart attacks and should be approached with extreme caution.
"apparently, there was some kind of microburst in manhattan..."
MICROBURST? Smacks of psuedo-science local-tv crapple-babble used to liven things up when "heavy storm" just doesn't get the advertising dollars sold anymore. These liberal media liars will do anything to hype up a storm when it just doesn't live up to the 48 hours of hype they build it up with.
Not even the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a reliable source for meteorological information anymore. In spite of the fact that AMERICANS pay for their freakin salaries, they are supporting the "climate-change" liberal conspiracy to ruin the U.S. economy and turn over national sovereignty to the eco-commies. So when they talk about "blizzard", sorry, gotta wonder who's PAYING THEM OFF.
The answer is clear.
What? We were warned DAYS, almost a week, ahead of time. Everybody was making preparations for the storm.
Reach out,
Reach out and mock someone :-)
"Are any Mohammedans offended or inconvenienced?"
They ought to be, because GOD obviously elected NOT to KILL all new-yorkers under a giant "MICROBURST" (also known as a "maxiburst"). Everyday that America retains it's position as the world's only hyperpower sends a clear message about in what esteem God holds us.
That storm was probably a bad one also, but what makes things really bad isn't the amount of snow that falls but what the wind does to it. I've seen over two feet of snow before, the two feet isn't what impressed me, but the 10 foot or higher snow drifts out in the rural areas are what really impressed me as a kid.
Now days we got equipment to clean up the mess after a big storm but back in 1880's I'm sure it probably would of taken forever to clean up that mess.
What was the question you ask a few minutes ago, Now what were we talking about, Now why am I sitting here at the computer.
Did you run to the store to get your supplies before it started to snow.
Of course, it gave me an excuse to lay in another six pack of brew.
Hey, I've got a family to protect. A man can't be too careful.
And no, I didn't run, that's what women are for in Alabama.
;)
So were you clobbered? :-)
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