Blizzard Nemo

SVX92-97 · #1 02-08-2013, 11:50 PM

No Fish here, just Oceans of SNOW. Nearly 30 inches and still snowing like crazy, drifts six feet high on side of house, CRAZY. Havent seen it this bad since 78 Blizzard.

SVX92-97 · #2 02-09-2013, 05:37 AM

over 30 inches reported in my area

Sean486 · #3 02-09-2013, 05:44 AM

We didn't get anything in Harrisburg, but I am going to Connecticut on Monday so hopefully the roads will be clear by then.

Landshark · #4 02-09-2013, 06:14 AM

i guess they'll wait until summer to start the "Global Warming" talk.

....and when did we start giving snowstorms a name? do rainstorms get names, too?

dcarrb · #5 02-11-2013, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Landshark

....and when did we start giving snowstorms a name? do rainstorms get names, too?

I think that's a Weather Channel thing. Adds drama! Intensity!

The next one is Winter Storm Orko. Yes, really. Listen to us! This is serious! Prep now!

Watched a sedan tumble over an embankment last weekend after it entered a curve way, way too fast for conditions: A dusting of snow. (The occupants emerged without serious injury.) At least you folks in the northeast know how to drive in the stuff.

dcb

Landshark · #6 02-11-2013, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by dcarrb

At least you folks in the northeast know how to drive in the stuff.

dcb

wait, were you serious?

SVX92-97 · #7 02-11-2013, 08:07 AM

may get 3-6 inches on Thurs. and theyre watching another possible blockbuster for Saturday

Weebitob · #8 02-11-2013, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by dcarrb

I think that's a Weather Channel thing. Adds drama! Intensity!

The next one is Winter Storm Orko. Yes, really. Listen to us! This is serious! Prep now!

Watched a sedan tumble over an embankment last weekend after it entered a curve way, way too fast for conditions: A dusting of snow. (The occupants emerged without serious injury.) At least you folks in the northeast know how to drive in the stuff.

dcb

Well I admit while driving during that storm I must have hit a patch of black ice along an otherwise snow coated but striaght back road and spun out. Driving in this with all season tires didn't help. About 20 minutes after my powersteering belt (which I swore was installed about 2 years ago) decided to turn into spaghetti. There's always a price for driving in bad weather whether you initally seeing it immediately or not.

I got about 6 inches on average around here. Luckily most of it was powder so it wasn't so difficult to shovel. I'm worried about the mixed forecast for Wednesday if the temperature goes down low enough. Saturday for NJ seems to be a shower, CT always gets it a lot worse.

dcarrb · #9 02-12-2013, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Weebitob

There's always a price for driving in bad weather whether you initally seeing it immediately or not.

It has been my observation... here, there, everywhere... that folks tend to drive at the very limits of control in any sort of inclement weather. A guy was killed here a few weeks ago after his small pickup hydroplaned and crossed a grassy median into incoming traffic, and it's little surprise because people bleepin' fly on that stretch of road. The driver of that car that went over that embankment simply let his guard down, entered an icy curve too fast, and off they went. Had I not been following him, if might well have been me.

dcb

SVX92-97 · #10 02-09-2013, 12:00 PM

Milford, CT gets the title as highest Snow total, a whopping 38 inches. I measured 33 inches in a few level spots in my yard

Blacky · #11 02-09-2013, 01:40 PM

We only got about 6-8 inches up here but it made for some excellent skiing.
A little south and west of here got more than a foot with heavy winds.
The 401 East, the biggest highway in Ontario was closed for about 7 hours because of crashes.

Conn SVX · #12 02-09-2013, 01:48 PM

Well we got 26" and just spent 3 hours removing it from my driveway.

bwb3 · #13 02-09-2013, 03:02 PM

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....and when did we start giving snowstorms a name? do rainstorms get names, too?

Isn't naming storms a great way for climate change pundits to come back and say something like "Nemo was the biggest storm in NE history". Makes great press. So far it is ranking #5, last time I checked and, the disappointment is showing on the TWC reporters.

Gene

Lookin4SVX · #14 02-09-2013, 03:17 PM

I CAN'T FIND MY SVX IN ALL THIS SNOW!

And my legacy in the driveway:

SVX92-97 · #15 02-10-2013, 11:47 AM

Three days in a row off from work, they closed due to Nemo. They havent even plowed the parking lots, and this is AT&T folks.