NORTHEAST BLIZZARD - Live Thread - January 22-23 2005

[madison10]

Mainly because a bunch of morons without snow tires or 4WD go out and run into the morons with 4WD who think that just because they can accelerate in this stuff, they can also brake.

THAT is about the funniest thing I've heard all week...and it's the truth.

[surrey]

Hey, that's my screen saver. I can dream can't I?

[oceanview]

NYC now has special type of trucks that can remove snow from these smaller width side streets.

[exnavy]

Grand Haven

[Severa]

I say Brunswick but we're actually in Topsham annex housing. We're fairly new here (moved here in Dec) so we haven't gotten to really check out all the shops of Maine Street.

[ProudVet77]

NYC is a fantastic sight during a blizzard. Make sure you take plenty of pictures, as you'll have some rare opportunities. Get pics of times square devoid of cars. You can stand right in the middle of 5th avenue and not get run over. Try that any other time :)

[Jorge]

I went out and got my beer at 9:30.

I wanted to beat the crowds and pick my beer up early last night.
But the distributer was totally packed..and the parking lot was nuts.

I was lucky to find any Coors left and actually get out of the parking lot alive.

[dirtboy]

Invariably, the skiers coming back to Denver on Sunday evening would be tied up in a colossal traffic jam on I-70 eastbound because some moron in an SUV would be going 60 mph in the snow, hit a sharp downhill curve, and find out the limitations of 4WD the hard way.

[bikepacker67]

Wow.. just went out to get a picture or two, and take a measurement, and IT'S STOPPED! Not a flake is flying - two new inches on the ground.

Just SE of Springfield area.

[dirtboy]

I was lucky to find any Coors left and actually get out of the parking lot alive.

Desperate times breed desperate measures. I guess if you can't get beer, you settle for Coors.

[nwctwx]

Reminder:

In-depth storm tracking.

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=15964

[Howlin]

I posted a thread on the probability of the storm yesterday and got many 'silly' responses.

Anybody who has been on any of your weather threads should know better than to think you'd be joking about any type of storm; just ignore the twits.

[Jim Noble]

Central NH checking in-just started snowing, pressure dropped from 29.49 to 29.09 since 3PM, wind has moved from SSE to NE and picked up to 5mph steady gusting to 12. Temp dropped from 11F at 3PM to 4F now.

Should be a long night.

[oceanview]

NYC broadway shows are running tonight.

[nopardons]

That wasn't the real reason John V. lost the Mayoralty...he went from being an almost Conservative GOPer,to faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar lefty lunatic,who embraced the Black Panthers.

But Mayor Bilandic (sp?) DID lose,because he didn't even get LSD cleaned in one of Chicago's WORST blizzard seasons.

[SamAdams76]

Must be a "dry slot" which is common in these type of rapidly intensifying storms. In fact, there is a huge dry slot over most of central PA which is keeping accumulations much lower than forecasted (so far).

I remember during the Blizzard of '93, the Boston area got into a dry slot and a forecasted 30 inches of snow ended up being only about 15.

[ProudVet77]

"step V block" now that's a term I'd forgotten. Remember having to plane a chamfer on it so it could be extracted from the mould in foundry? All the other FReepers are going "what are they talking about?". Tech sure gave you a well rounded basic engineering background in the first two years. IP (Industrial Processes), metal shop, drafting, freehand drawing, etc... great background, I still use some of those skills.
Sadly like most of the students from '69-'73 or so I don't do reunions. If you go to places like classmates, there are very few people from '70 signed up. We started our freshman year with the teachers strike, and it went downhill from there.

[oceanview]

there is a dry slot that will spare some areas, but once the coastal low kicks in, its going to get wild.

[oceanview]

cargo jet skids off the end of the runway at JFK airport.

[jocon307]

"Oven stuffers were gone."

Gosh darn, they were gone at the A & P in Bayonne last night too! Hubby said: we're going to the butcher in the AM, and we did. I don't know if the supermarkets all ran out of meat or what happened, but we waited on line for 45 minutes! We're doing ribs for the football tomorrow.

This is a great thread, it has just been a relaxing day. And still coming down heavy here. Haven't seen a snowfall like this for a few years.

I really like snow, to me it's like a little gift from God. It makes everything so peaceful and pretty, at least for a while.