Posted on 01/25/2015 1:37:37 PM PST by robowombat
The real problem is having all those people packed in that,small area. It would drive me nuts.
Take a deep breath and just try to imagine how INTENSE this storm would be if it weren’t for (shudder) gore bull warmening?
One thing I do remember of the 1978 blizzard was when then Governor of CT, Ella Grasso walked to get back to the Governor’s manson it was so bad.
This weeks snow storm of the century.
Like you, it’s the wind I worry about here in Maine.
We had eight inches of snow Saturday. Now, the local news is forecasting 20 - 25 inches here late Monday into Wednesday.
Al Roker was on the national news predicting hurricane force winds in coastal Maine. Terrific.
I wish the pope and Al Gore could come to Maine in time to experience the coming blizzard.
Yes that is the problem in the major east coast cities; no place to plow or shovel the snow to unless it is picked up and hauled away and that takes time; too many streets and many of them narrow and one way with cars parked on either side that end up getting plowed in, street to curb to sidewalks that butt right up against the buildings, no yards or grassy areas in many places.
Add to that the traffic congestion along the heavily populated NE corridor which is not as much of a problem in less congested places like upstate NY or the Upper Peninsula or out West in the ski resort areas. When you get traffic grid lock, the snow plow/salt trucks are also grid locked and rendered useless.
And it’s just not the I-95 corridor in the “big cities”; that happened here in central PA two weeks ago. We got a clipper system that only gave us only about 3” but the worst of it hit right during the morning rush hour and it was very cold, too cold for the brine and salt that had been put down earlier to be any good. My normal 45 to 50 minute commute from York to north of Lancaster took me 3+ hours. I was stuck on Rt. 30 for a time at a complete standstill and it took about an hour to go about a mile at one point. The roads became very icy and I saw many cars and trucks off in ditches. I also saw several PennDOT trucks (and FYI PennDOT sucks when it comes to handling snow storms IMO) just sitting in traffic on west bound 30. But in their defense, they can’t plow or salt if they are stuck in traffic. And to make matters worse, many of the local school districts didn’t have a delayed start so there were also school busses and parents trying to get their kids to school on time.
My nephew experienced a similar commuting nightmare that same day down in MD, his normal 1 1/4 hour commute from Hanover PA to Owings Mills MD took him over 4 hours. He told me the back roads were very slick and slow going but since he has AWD and there wasn’t much traffic, he did OK. But once he got to the Baltimore metro area it was complete grid lock.
I probably would have been better off taking my normal back roads route to work but there are several steep hills and winding sections and I had tried that during a similar snow last year and ended up turning around and going back home because of all the accidents, cars getting stuck trying to go up the hills and the local police closing sections of many of the roads I normally take.
The other thing many folks who don’t live in the Mid Atlantic and NE don’t understand is that a Nor’Easter is sort of like a hurricane with but with snow and wind instead of rain and wind.
Nor’Easters much like hurricanes are unpredictable. They can sometimes peter out or move father off the coast with little impact or they can very suddenly intensify and hug the coast and dump a lot of snow over a very short period of time and tend to develop localized bands of extremely heavy snow. People living along the coast are
Sometimes the snow starts out dry and fluffy but as typical with a Nor’Easter, as the warmer Atlantic air wraps in as the coastal low intensifies, the snow becomes very heavy in intensity and as in very heavy as in wet. There is also often a lot of wind with Nor’Easters as they ramp up; that combined with the heavy wet snow brings down power lines. And then there is “thunder snow” which is a pretty neat phenomena to watch but is an indication of very rapid intensification and that you are probably under one of those heavy bands – think of how a summer thunderstorm can dump a lot of rain in a very short time – now picture that heavy rain as snow. I understand that lake effect snows in areas like Buffalo also do this heavy banding thing, but again, Buffalo is not NYC or Boston or Philly or Baltimore or DC as far as population density and road grid lock.
Fortunately if I know bad weather is coming I can take my laptop home with me and work from home. And that’s what I’m planning on doing tomorrow. We here in my area of PA are only forecast to get 5-8” but I know how these storms can sometimes blow up. I would much rather stay home and work in my PJ’s with a cup of coffee or hot coco than spend 3+ hours of unproductive time stuck in traffic or worse yet, get stuck at work and not able to get back home or have a 3+ hour commute home or worse get into an accident because of some idiot driver; the idiot drive who doesn’t know how to drive in the conditions and slams on their breaks when the feel themselves sliding, or the A-hole driving a 4 wheel SUV or pickup truck who thinks having 4W or AWD makes them invincible and that the laws of physics do not apply to them.
What a good story!!
All the libs in NY have been yelling and screaming and complaining about climate change.
Complain no more... you climate is about to change.
Everybody in the NE needs to turn off the heat and huddle up.
Your only making it worse.
You happen to live in one of the most beautiful sections of the USA. I was there during Thanksgiving, exploring the area and fell in love with it.
Please, stay home tomorrow and take care of yourself. As Americans, we will take 1 day off but never 2. Even on 9/11, Americans got themselves to work the next day. Bless you!
You happen to live in one of the most beautiful sections of the USA. I was there during Thanksgiving, exploring the area and fell in love with it.
Please, stay home tomorrow and take care of yourself. As Americans, we will take 1 day off but never 2. Even on 9/11, Americans got themselves to work the next day. Bless you!
You happen to live in one of the most beautiful sections of the USA. I was there during Thanksgiving, exploring the area and fell in love with it.
Please, stay home tomorrow and take care of yourself. As Americans, we will take 1 day off but never 2. Even on 9/11, Americans got themselves to work the next day. Bless you!
It is a young century. They don’t know much.
My late father was in the Coast Guard during World War II.
He used to say a slightly different version:
“Red skies at night, sailor’s delight.....
Red skies at morn, sailor’s scorn.”
Here in Maine we have light to moderate snowstorms from time to time where the snow is light and fluffy.
Like you said, we could push it away with a broom.
“Drier” snow, from a blizzard, would require a shovel or snow blower.
Heavy wet snow is the worst. It’s like shoveling wet cement. Not fun.
I have a book about that March, 1888 New York area blizzard.
They claim there were snow drifts on Long Island 100 feet in height.
They have those tall sticks with orange fluorescent tops lining the sidewalk at my local post office here in Maine.
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