A row of handsome cabs make their way through Central Park December 20, the morning after a winter storm hit New York City dumping nearly 5 inches (12.7cms) of slushy snow and sleet in the New York area. (AFP/File/Timothy A. Clary)
Posted on 12/22/2008 10:04:11 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A massive winter storm blanketed the US West Coast with snow, sleet and ice early Monday while blizzards and snow squalls struck the Northeast and Midwest, killing at least four people and making travel dangerous.
The storm snarled holiday air traffic across the country, with delays at major airports in San Francisco; Houston, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; New Jersey and New York, officials said.
The fierce weather was blamed for the death of two people in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate Highway 80 east of Des Moines, Iowa.
Another weather-related fatality was reported in northwest Iowa when a farm tractor being used for snow removal slipped off the driveway and overturned, killing the driver, the Des Moines Register newspaper reported.
Drivers blinded by blizzard conditions created a 30-vehicle pile-up on Interstate 94 in western Michigan Sunday. Dozens of the vehicles were also involved in a series of other wrecks nearby, including one that killed a 31-year-old Illinois man, CNN television reported.
Travel was also treacherous in the northwestern states of Oregon and Washington, with heavy rain, sleet and snow expected until 10:00 am (1800 GMT) Monday, the National Weather Service said in its winter storm warning for the region.
"This is probably one of the worst storms since 1990," weather service meteorologist Dana Felton told AFP by phone from Seattle, adding that the last big storm on this scale was on Christmas day 1996.
"This is definitely a once-in-a-decade type of storm."
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A row of handsome cabs make their way through Central Park December 20, the morning after a winter storm hit New York City dumping nearly 5 inches (12.7cms) of slushy snow and sleet in the New York area. (AFP/File/Timothy A. Clary)
Doesn’t matter. When you’re a global warming cultist, it only proves global warming is occurring. Doesn’t make sense?
That’s because rational, clear thinking people know that GW is a crock. GW cultists go with their feeeeeellllllllllings.
There is a Reuters story out today about how this is just more evidence of global warming.
Do those people have any idea how foolish they sound?
No, no, you have it wrong my friend! I just had one of the zealots explain to me that the melting of the ice cap in the arctic is effectively pushing the cold air south. He also told me that global warming will only affect the equatorial regions and that in fact, it will cause the northern and southern hemispheres to in fact cool first. So there you have it, this is quite normal. 
It was below zero this morning and our Furnace went out during the night. Woke up at 4:15 and it was 64o and DROPPING. Got it fixed a while ago and its STILL 59o right where I'm sitting.
I shoveled global warming all morning from my driveway. I used my global warming shovel while I had by global warming gloves and coat on . . . I also sprinkled some global warming rock salt on my sidewalks . . . calling Al Gore and the Dummycrats!!!!!!
Brad Vest/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A homeless person attempts to keep warm in a customized shelter during Sunday's snowstorm.
(December 21, 2008)
Here in NYC 5 inches is considered a major storm by our nitwit mayor and his brain-dead bootlickers including the local TV media who tried to frighten everyone to death because the wind-chill might be 5 below. What really was bad this time was that the ground snow turned into ice overnight. I just spent an hour and a half hacking my car out of the hardest ice I have ever encountered.
5 degrees here in Southern Ohio this morning. 16 degrees by 5 PM according to the weather chicks.
The worst of winter weather here is always January.
Don’t know how he managed with a straight face, but I was told by a colleague today that all this unusually cold weather is the “rebound effect” of global warming. That he said it with such absolute conviction, as if fully supported by all the great scientific minds of the age, I simply stood there staring at him; quietly breathing through my mouth for several seconds before turning, and walking away without a word. No sense wasting precious oxygen.
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They don't care.
Al & aRnie call anyone who disagrees with their agenda 'deniers' or 'flat earthers'..
These days ya got your Dems, Pubbies, and Greens,, the greens seem to be controlled by a kind of fungus that grows in their heads, they seem perfectly normal outwardly but are delusional, almost bordering paranoic about the climate, it's the darnedest thing. scientists are baffled.
From Boston??? I'm in Boston, and this morning's news said we're a foot of snow above average for the date! And temperatures have been way below normal!
Here in N Nevada, there is a sheet of ice on everything. Was warmer early this AM, and a front came across about 5 AM, and turned everything to ice, and then snowed lightly on top of it all.
I-80 closed east and west at Mustang, where a fatal accident occurred. Neighbor told me cars were twirling like Olympic skaters at 6 AM.
Stick around.
Here in the Portland area we’ve had three days of non stop snow and ice. The gnomes in the back yard are completely covered. In the 10 years that I’ve been here I’ve never seen anything like it. The midwest, yes, but not here. I think there might be a foot of snow out there.
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