NORTHEAST BLIZZARD - Live Thread - January 22-23 2005

[dirtboy]

Just doesn't seem very blizzard like to me...

Let's see how strong the coastal storm gets. Snow alone does not make a blizzard - it takes a lot of wind as well. And this snow is dry enough to blow and drift quite readily.

[cyborg]

Yeah you're right. All of it will drift right up against my door and car! LOL

[ProudVet77]

I am a bit younger than you

Sometimes I feel like I'm older than dirt. :)

[JLO]

"WOW...that's some picture,but it isn't nearly as bad as the blizzard that hit New York City in 1888 and my great grandmother lived through that one.The drifts were 15 feet high."
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LOL!! Just wait a minute. I'll find some photos of a Duluth storm back about the same time frame, where people exited their homes from their chimneys! If I can find the pics again, that is!

My state storm can beat up your state storm.............LOL

I hope everyone is safe and warm, at home. I'm sure the blizzard out east is terrible to endure.

You talk inches "Not to be too picky,but a few years ago Conn. got close to 200 inches"

Some of us talk FEET of snow.

[nopardons]

Okay...what's 200 inches in feet? SIXTEEN FEET,8 INCHES.

This wee blizzard is supposedly going to dump close to three feet on me,in 24 hours. :-(

[ProudVet77]

At least those terrorists will have to drive in this stuff to bring their bomb to Boston. Or have they blown it already and this is the nuclear winter?

[ladyjane]

I met a woman from Iran whowas married to a man in Boston in 1978. She arrived in Boston in February 1978 to finally meet the man who would be her husband. Actually he already was her husband, the ceremony happened back Iran two weeks earlier. She had never seen snow, not to mention that she had never seen her husband. Her new husband kept saying "it never snows here like this" and she was on the telephone non-stop with her mother back in Iran saying "the snow is a foot high" and "the snow is up to the window" and "the snow is over the window"

[ventana]

My wife tells this story of going out one morning after a huge snowfall and seeing a guy in a gorilla suit cross-country skiing down the middle of a pristine and deserted fifth ave.

[t_skoz]

best regards from snowy Penfield...

;-)

[Mr_Moonlight]

"You haven't lived till you've walked throught 8" of snow, barefoot, in 13° weather."

Ahhhh yes ... so then I have lived ... of course it was at ski resorts, but the principle is the same :) Outdoor Hot Tub, where ya gotta walk thru inches of snow in yer barefeet to get to the Tub .... pure Heaven :)

btw --- Long Island report here: 8" on the ground now but seems to be tapering off a bit currently. Not sure when its supposed to pick up heavy again for the overnight, but will be ready with plenty of firewood and 2-cycle snowblower fuel for tomorrow's big dig .......

[SamAdams76]

Well I've had enough for the night and I'm going to bed so I can get up early tomorrow and shovel. We have somewhere around 10-12 inches on the ground right now here in Chelmsford, MA and the heaviest snow bands are yet to come! I don't think I'm going anywhere tomorrow except my driveway to shovel. Then I will watch football rest of day. I'll let you all know tomorrow how much we ended up with.

[ProudVet77]

The good news is that if we lose power the beer will stay cold :)

[JLO]

Okay...what's 200 inches in feet? SIXTEEN FEET,8 INCHES.
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Actually, according to my calculator, 200 inches divided by feet, would be about 5.5 feet of snow.

But, hey, I'm no math wiz, nopardons.

[dirtboy]

Sometimes I feel like I'm older than dirt. :)

No, you're not.

[ventana]

I don't think I'm going anywhere tomorrow except my driveway to shovel.

I feel guilty. This is the first time I ever contracted out to a landscaper to come plow out my driveway when it snows. He's already been by once to move the first 10" so out of the gate he's more reliable than my former snow removal system (the one that went off to college).

How ya been, Sam?

[nopardons]

Your calculator is broken.Twelve (there are 12 inches to a foot) into 200 will give you 5.5 feet in some other universe. LOL

[SASsySIGster]

well, here in Connecticut, my mom's got the kids for an overnight, and my husband wandered off to play poker with the boys. Blizzard? Whatever. We each have one of those Gas Guzzlin SUV's that the prius drivers have so much of a problem with, but if I run out of hot cocoa, I can get to the grocery store. They're stuck with hot water.

Who's the sucker now??

[SASsySIGster]

well, here in Connecticut, my mom's got the kids for an overnight, and my husband wandered off to play poker with the boys. Blizzard? Whatever. We each have one of those Gas Guzzlin SUV's that the prius drivers have so much of a problem with, but if I run out of hot cocoa, I can get to the grocery store. They're stuck with hot water.

Who's the sucker now??

[SASsySIGster]

sorry about the double tap

[Jim Noble]

I'm going to bed as well, the dog just refused to go out!

Central NH: 2F, 28.90 falling, 15 mph NE wind, about 4" on the ground.

Stay warm, stay safe, check in in the AM if the power's on.