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The Great Big Snow

Posted: 14th March 2017 01:46

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I live in northern NJ, and starting in a few hours we're supposed to get a(n) historic snowstorm. By historic they apparently mean "not since 1993", but still, I've seen 12-24 inches forecast tomorrow. And I'm scheduled to work!

Anybody else going to be affected by this? It's hitting a lot of the northeastern US and presumably some of Canada.

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Posted: 15th March 2017 00:18

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I'm in Western New York and we have gotten, between last night and right now, about 15 inches. Another 7+ expected tonight.

And no, despite popular belief, we aren't used to this like you think over here in Buffalo-land. The famous "Blizzard of '77" wasn't actually a snow storm, it was a wind storm that blew ALL of the frozen snow off of Lake Erie as it traveled East. Buffalo is one of the few, in fact I think the only major city settled on the East bank of the Great Lake it's located on. All the others are on the North, West or South bank predominantly.

Also, Chicago is known as the "Windy City" yet isn't even in the top-50 windiest cities in the Continental United States... Buffalo is.

But the snow we get over here is terribly exaggerated; It's mostly the Southtowns that get hammered here. Syracuse, Ithaca, Olean, Elmira, Albany, Rochester... I mean, it's New York. But I think they get more average snowfall...

I'm up in Lockport, which is nestled an equal distance from Niagara Falls (the ACTUAL falls), Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, so weather patterns kind of diverge here... It's interesting, since it's mostly flat, you can usually see the storms/weather systems in all directions literally surround Lockport.

It is VERY windy in this town, though. It's basically a wind corridor because of the diverging weather systems. Which isn't to say we avoid any and all storms, the present storm is really shitting on us pretty hard but this is a truly regional (as in the ENTIRE Northeast) storm. Pretty rainy in the summer, too. But that would be from an increased level of humidity located between 3 large bodies of water, methinks.

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Posted: 15th March 2017 01:07

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I live near Rochester, NY and they are recovering from a fairly severe windstorm from last Wednesday that left many without power until the following Sunday. This is the last thing anyone around here wants, especially with no heat in the house for many and the biting temperatures outside. We've got about a foot already, with another 6 or so inches coming overnight, and another 5-10 later in the day, last I checked.
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Posted: 15th March 2017 03:26
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'Not since the 90's' is a common phrase I'm hearing with regards to weather lately.

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Posted: 15th March 2017 13:27

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I'm nowhere near that part of the country any more, but my office still is. I'm hearing that most of them got a foot or so at the office and their homes, but it still seems pretty pale relative to the last winter I spent there, where at one point we had three and a half feet of snow in my front yard, with zero drifting.

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Posted: 15th March 2017 20:41

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I used to live in Connecticut, where friends have reported that there was like 13 inches or so? Sorta weaksauce compared to the 36 inches plus weekly snowdumps that we had a few years ago.

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Posted: 15th March 2017 23:14

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Quote (TheEvilEye @ 14th March 2017 20:07)
I live near Rochester, NY and they are recovering from a fairly severe windstorm from last Wednesday that left many without power until the following Sunday. This is the last thing anyone around here wants, especially with no heat in the house for many and the biting temperatures outside. We've got about a foot already, with another 6 or so inches coming overnight, and another 5-10 later in the day, last I checked.

Shit man, WNY in the house!

Yeah that storm over in Ra-cha-cha was pretty horrid, 80mph gusts, uprooted trees. Over here in Cockport, we had Plaza Signs bent in half, hundred foot tall trees uprooted, tornado warnings... It was brutal and I had heard Roch was gonna be without power into this week...

Crazy thing is, I went through a lot of winters with no heat or running water for extended periods of time. Weeks, even months.

I read recently that the United States has BY FAR the lowest quality of living out of all the modern, first-world countries on Earth.

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Posted: 16th March 2017 11:57

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Quote (Dynamic Threads @ 15th March 2017 19:14)
Quote (TheEvilEye @ 14th March 2017 20:07)
I live near Rochester, NY and they are recovering from a fairly severe windstorm from last Wednesday that left many without power until the following Sunday.  This is the last thing anyone around here wants, especially with no heat in the house for many and the biting temperatures outside.  We've got about a foot already, with another 6 or so inches coming overnight, and another 5-10 later in the day, last I checked.

Shit man, WNY in the house!

Yeah that storm over in Ra-cha-cha was pretty horrid, 80mph gusts, uprooted trees. Over here in Cockport, we had Plaza Signs bent in half, hundred foot tall trees uprooted, tornado warnings... It was brutal and I had heard Roch was gonna be without power into this week...

Crazy thing is, I went through a lot of winters with no heat or running water for extended periods of time. Weeks, even months.

I read recently that the United States has BY FAR the lowest quality of living out of all the modern, first-world countries on Earth.

Yeah, it was brutal! I know Buffalo is certainly no stranger to these kinds of things, either.

Yesterday, the storm just kept coming of course, and we were absolutely buried. Being the wonderful companies that we work for, they did not close their buildings for the morning commute. I dug us out, but then both my fiance and I called off work anyways, and a couple hours later it didn't look like I did anything at all out there. This was probably the wisest choice in the end, as both our jobs closed everything just a few hours in to the day (aren't they just *SO* thoughtful...)

Back at it today, though. The plows cleared everything up after the storm ended for us around 3-4pm last night, and the roads were fine for travel.
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Posted: 16th March 2017 23:08

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Quote (TheEvilEye @ 16th March 2017 06:57)
Quote (Dynamic Threads @ 15th March 2017 19:14)
Quote (TheEvilEye @ 14th March 2017 20:07)
I live near Rochester, NY and they are recovering from a fairly severe windstorm from last Wednesday that left many without power until the following Sunday.  This is the last thing anyone around here wants, especially with no heat in the house for many and the biting temperatures outside.  We've got about a foot already, with another 6 or so inches coming overnight, and another 5-10 later in the day, last I checked.

Shit man, WNY in the house!

Yeah that storm over in Ra-cha-cha was pretty horrid, 80mph gusts, uprooted trees. Over here in Cockport, we had Plaza Signs bent in half, hundred foot tall trees uprooted, tornado warnings... It was brutal and I had heard Roch was gonna be without power into this week...

Crazy thing is, I went through a lot of winters with no heat or running water for extended periods of time. Weeks, even months.

I read recently that the United States has BY FAR the lowest quality of living out of all the modern, first-world countries on Earth.

Yeah, it was brutal! I know Buffalo is certainly no stranger to these kinds of things, either.

Yesterday, the storm just kept coming of course, and we were absolutely buried. Being the wonderful companies that we work for, they did not close their buildings for the morning commute. I dug us out, but then both my fiance and I called off work anyways, and a couple hours later it didn't look like I did anything at all out there. This was probably the wisest choice in the end, as both our jobs closed everything just a few hours in to the day (aren't they just *SO* thoughtful...)

Back at it today, though. The plows cleared everything up after the storm ended for us around 3-4pm last night, and the roads were fine for travel.

We've got 30 inches in Lockport as of right now. It's crazy. I think Rochester and Lockport got hit the hardest. Both around 30 inches... Out in Southern Tier, Binghamton got 30 inches, too.

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