Point of fact: In the northern parts of this country, it can snow for seven months of the year. Yes, it may be rare to have measurable snow accumulation in New York City in October, but it has happened before.
It snows in the northern part of the country. Get over it.
(Yes, it's snowing here. Mother Nature is giving an early gift to the body shops.)
Shall we gather at the river?
4 hours ago
It never hurts to inform the idiots in Tourist Class that shit may happen. They may even not step in it as a result...doubtful, but some of them may even have their Listening Ears on or consider wearing them the next time. Stranger things have happened.
ReplyDelete'Sides, a wet thick snow followed by high gusty winds is as likely to cause Bad Things To Happen as an all-out blizzard, such as is seen in the Northeast. Power outages are even more likely.
Yes, but the nearly nonstop hype? That's necessary?
ReplyDeleteDid my usual prep for probable bad weather. What did I do, filled the gas can and brought the snow flininchuckin machine form the shed to the garage to insure the non event will indeed be true, or not.
ReplyDeleteWinter in New England, Feh, it happens.
Eck!
There is close to a foot here. I had just given up reading by lamplight and gotten ready for bed when the power came back on. Good thing, it'd have been kind of chilly in here by morning, based on a drop of about 1degF/hr.
ReplyDeleteAnd her in the N.W. they will go batshit if it seriously rains.
ReplyDeleteThe Boston media went nuts, as usual, over what looks so far to be.... oh, maybe an inch and a half, which doesn't even qualify as a dusting. The branches of the trees, still with leaves, look very weighed down, though.
ReplyDeleteIn the Metrowest of Boston the damage to trees was significant with power outages big time.
ReplyDeleteI've spent time on genset.
Bad storm, still excessive hype.
Eck!
Power went out a minute after I posted that and it stayed off until an hour ago.
ReplyDeleteI learned two things from this storm:
ReplyDelete1. It's bad when it snows a wet, heavy snow on trees that still have leaves on them. I've never seen more tree damage from a storm in my life, and that includes hurricanes. Just a couple inches plus leaves did that.
2. Tree lose leaves in Fall so they can survive Winter.
There was an ice storm in the NY area in October `87. It was much the same, the trees had leaves and the weight of the ice broke trees all over the place. Some people were without power back then for three weeks.
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