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***Northeast Snowstorm*** February 16-17 2003 (Official Thread)
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Posted on 02/16/2003 8:19:33 AM PST by SamAdams76

Moderators, please pull if a similar thread has been started. I did a search on "snow" and blizzard" and came up with nothing.

What originally looked to be primarily a mid-Atlantic snowstorm has blossomed overnight into a monster snowstorm that threatens to shut down the major cities of the Northeast for tomorrow.

Just got the latest forecasts. Washington D.C. area will see 1-2 feet. Philly will see 17-34 inches according to their local mets. NYC will see 1-2 feet. And Southern New England (including Boston), which was originally thought to be missing this storm, is now pegged to get at least 10-20 inches before all is said and done with possible blizzard conditions tomorrow night as the storm explodes ("bombogenisis") off Nantucket island during the day.

Some very impressive snowfall reports already coming in despite the fact that the storm hasn't even developed off the coast yet. Some 8 inches is on the ground in the DC area and snow is falling heavily in the Philly area and parts of New Jersey. This snow is NOT from the storm that is expected to develop off the Carolinas this afternoon, move northeast and "explode" off Nantucket Island during tomorrow.

These storms are never a sure thing until they happen because they are so unpredictable. But this storm has all the ingredients to make it a storm of historic proportions from Washington D.C. to Portland, Maine. If everything falls together just right, we could be looking at 2 feet (or more) of snow in many urban areas of the Northeast over the next 36 hours.

Please post your local reports here.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Delaware; US: District of Columbia; US: Kentucky; US: Maryland; US: Massachusetts; US: New Hampshire; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania; US: Rhode Island; US: South Carolina; US: Vermont; US: Virginia; US: West Virginia
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To: sciencediet
re: post 905
LOL I was admiring the picture and never noticed the highly technical apparatus! Very ingenious :)
921 posted on 02/17/2003 10:27:29 AM PST by Wednesday's Child
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To: KLT
If your dad's in Boston, you must have heard about the piano in the pond? Rumor has it that the Babe threw a piano in a pond and people believe if they can find it and bring it up it will break the 'curse'. I guess I'm not that good a fan, thinking that money would do a better job.
922 posted on 02/17/2003 10:27:39 AM PST by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: cajungirl
Ooh dearie,,your liquor man is sending out for you!!! You must be a real tru blu freeper man.

That's not just ice in my veins, sweetie pie. When my time comes...the coroner is going to open me up and wonder how I got FR tatooed on my heart.

Believe me...it wasn't easy...I had to go find a doctor in who wasn't afraid to leave some steele inside his patient.

923 posted on 02/17/2003 10:30:10 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum (Pluck your "Magic Twanger"...Froggy!!!)
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To: Gabz
Thought I'd have to be also, but we try to have some class....and they did miss us...sooooo, we ignored it...
925 posted on 02/17/2003 10:38:42 AM PST by KLT (NY NEEDS TO BE CLINTONFREE!)
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To: sciencediet
Well, he lives in NY now...but I'm not sure if he knows about that...will have to ask him...
926 posted on 02/17/2003 10:39:18 AM PST by KLT (NY NEEDS TO BE CLINTONFREE!)
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To: Wednesday's Child
Yep, it's the McDonald's for birds here. We have two Yankee Flippers to deter the squirrels. Check out their site and watch the video. It's a hoot!
927 posted on 02/17/2003 10:43:55 AM PST by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: Focault's Pendulum
Did you keep your 11 o'clock with Mr. D?
928 posted on 02/17/2003 10:44:16 AM PST by CaptRon
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To: big'ol_freeper
where did you find the weather map?

P.S. Nice doggy
929 posted on 02/17/2003 10:44:19 AM PST by Taffini (I like Tony Soprano even though he is a fat-boy)
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To: Unknown Freeper
My son (17) and his friend are shoveling our 110 foot driveway. I am parked at the top next to the road and so is he.

My question to him is, "When you shovel us out, where we gonna go and why?"

If I would have tried to shovel that stuff I guess I could drive to the Hershey Medical Center.

930 posted on 02/17/2003 10:45:46 AM PST by AGreatPer
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To: sciencediet
"looks like we're running a primitive laundry. "

LOL!!

931 posted on 02/17/2003 10:47:00 AM PST by bribriagain
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To: MistyCA; SAMWolf; AntiJen
Misty, we've got SNOWGOONS over here!
Sam, know anywhere that I can buy a flamethrower to get rid of this crap falling from the skies?
Jen, barring Sam knowing where I can get the above mentioned item, know a good warm area that I can go vacation at?
932 posted on 02/17/2003 10:47:46 AM PST by Darksheare (<----- F-F-F-FREEZING!)
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To: CaptRon
Did you keep your 11 o'clock with Mr. D?

I dug my butt out.....then snow shoe'd down to a preferred vendor.

I figured as long as I was out for some nicotine.......

933 posted on 02/17/2003 10:48:48 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum (Pluck your "Magic Twanger"...Froggy!!!)
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To: Darksheare
Tried your local Army Surplus yet?
934 posted on 02/17/2003 10:50:38 AM PST by SAMWolf (To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul)
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To: Focault's Pendulum
I got saved! Door bell rang and two little entrpeneurs wanted to shovel the driveway. Who was I to discourage budding capitalists? Now there's just and inch or two which I will handle after a conversation with Mr. J. Walker.
935 posted on 02/17/2003 10:50:49 AM PST by CaptRon
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To: CaptRon
Make that an inch or four (in a little over an hour).
936 posted on 02/17/2003 10:53:08 AM PST by CaptRon
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To: sciencediet
OMG! What a riot!
A few years ago, my husband took a long piece of thin wood, atttched it to a bracket a little off center,attatched it to the fence, and attatched an ear of corn on the shorter end. When the squirrels jumped on to get the corn, their weight caused it to rotate and they wound up riding it down and falling off. They continued to try for hours, all with the same result! It was a hoot. Finally, though, they did figure it out but it kept us amused for quite a while :)
937 posted on 02/17/2003 10:58:42 AM PST by Wednesday's Child
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To: CaptRon
I got saved! Door bell rang and two little entrpeneurs wanted to shovel the driveway. Who was I to discourage budding capitalists?

I wish one or two of them would show up at my door.

But since they haven't I guess it's time to see if I can yet find the back end of my van, and maybe even find the side walk at the end of my driveway.

938 posted on 02/17/2003 10:59:32 AM PST by Gabz (Snow is beautiful - as long a it is gone tomorrow)
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To: Gabz
It was a beautiful thing.
939 posted on 02/17/2003 11:00:37 AM PST by CaptRon
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To: AppyPappy
You're lucky. Up here in Massachusetts we've already got several good inches of snow, which added to what was already about three inches on the ground, and we're expecting blizzard conditions in a few hours. I think we'll have 1.5-2 feet when it's over.
940 posted on 02/17/2003 11:00:47 AM PST by baseballfanjm (Boston Red Sox= 2003 World Series Champions, Nomar and Pedro= World Series MVPs, Me= Forever hopeful)
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