East Coast Blizzard??

Wow!

I am reading scary stuff about the snowstorm back East.

Trish, Whiterose and others, I hope everything is okay....

Please let us know how you're holding up. :eek:

No snow here. Barely a dusting on the ground when I woke up. I think it bypassed the entire Ohio Valley area and headed for the east coast. I haven't talked to anyone from there yet, but hope they are ok and digging out.

We have over a foot here (NJ). Now the winds are starting...its still snowing lightly. I didnt have power from 3AM to 11AM...it was freeeezing in here! I have a fireplace, but that only works while youre sitting right in front of it.

My neighbor just plowed my driveway...to my surprise :) I will shovel later...or, maybe not! My dog made it thru to do what she had to do...shes big, so she didnt disappear in it lol.

We've had a very mild winter so far, so i guess we have to expect at least one big snow.

Hi, NC here. They were forcasting 5 to 8" here. They talked it up a lot and everyone got prepared but we didnt get anything but a light dusting of snow. We were prepared for a power outage.That happens frequently here during storms. But we didnt have to go thru that this time. :)

Glad to hear at least three of you are doing okay. :)

Jellybean, sorry about the power outage. We just spent 1.5 days like that last weekend. Thank God there was no snow though.....

That would've pushed us over the edge. :eek:

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Nor'easter Dumps Nearly Two Feet of Snow
Nor'easter Slams Mid-Atlantic, Northeast With Nearly 2 Feet of Snow, Nearing Record Levels

By SAMANTHA GROSS
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - A major storm slammed the mid-Atlantic and Northeast states with nearly 2 feet of windblown snow on Sunday, nearing record levels as it blacked out thousands of customers and shut down air travel from Washington to Boston.

Wind gusting to 40 mph blew the snow sideways and threatened coastal flooding in New England. And in a rare display, lightning lit up the falling snow before dawn in the New York metro area.

By late morning, 22.8 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park, the city's second heaviest snowfall on record, surpassed only by the 26.4 inches that fell in December 1947.

"This is a dangerous storm," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said as he urged people to stay home.

The storm interrupted a relatively mild winter and came right after America's warmest January on record. The country's average temperature last month was 39.5 degrees Fahrenheit, 8.5 degrees above average for January, according to the National Climatic Data Center. The old record for January warmth was 37.3 degrees set in 1953.

On Sunday, New York City had more than 2,500 snow plows and salt spreaders at work, along with snow-melting machines that could dispose of up to 60 tons of snow per hour, officials said.

Elsewhere, 21 inches of snow had fallen at Columbia, Md., between Baltimore and Washington, and thousands of customers in that state had no electricity. Hartford, Conn., and Wayne, N.J., reported 19 inches and Philadelphia's northern and western suburbs measured up to 18, the National Weather Service said.

"It's going to be a menace trying to clean it up," Wayne Mayor Scott T. Rumana said Sunday.

Radar showed snow falling from eastern Virginia to Maine as the nor'easter crawled up the coast.

Whiteout conditions were reported around Philadelphia and Trenton, N.J., with northerly wind gusting to 40 mph.

Few people ventured out into the storm if they didn't have to.

"I'm just out to get some doughnuts and coffee, then I'm going right back home," said Chris Vasili of East Brunswick, N.J. "It's not too good out here right now."

Karen Gulley of Mansfield, Mass., took her two young children to Boston to visit the New England Aquarium, but their plans changed to snowman-building because of the storm.

"It's their favorite thing to do," Gulley said.

Emil Krupczyn, a mechanic for the U.S. Postal Service, didn't let the snow interfere with his 200-mile drive home to upstate New York from Manhattan, but he figured the journey would take about six hours.

"There's no rushing in this stuff and if you don't have no place to go, don't go," he said as he waited for a street to get plowed.

The possibility of coastal flooding was a major concern for Massachusetts, said Peter Judge, spokesman for the state's Emergency Management Agency. Meteorologists predicted 2 1/2-foot storm surges from Cape Ann to Cape Cod with seas off the coast running up to 25 feet.

More than 80,000 customers were without power in Maryland, according to Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. spokeswoman Linda Foy. She said it could be at least 24 hours before power is fully restored.

"It's taking us a long time to even get to the locations where we can begin the restoration process," Foy said.

Power also was out at thousands of homes and businesses in New Jersey, New York's Long Island and Connecticut.

Most airlines canceled all flights at LaGuardia Airport, some of them until Monday, said Steve Coleman, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Hundreds of flights were canceled at Kennedy and Newark airports.

Delta said it also canceled Sunday arrivals and departures at Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Providence, R.I., and Hartford, Conn.

New Jersey Transit suspended all bus service statewide, although most rail service continued operating. Amtrak reported a few cancelations and delays but said most trains remained in service.

However, the storm was good news for ski resorts after an unseasonably warm January dragged down business.

"The best thing for us is it puts snow in customers' back yards and they think of snowboarding and down hill (skiing)," said Carol Lugar, president of Mohawk Mountain in Cornwall, Conn., which had up to 1 foot of snow by late Sunday morning.

"I personally love the snow," she said. "I like snow shoveling. If you shovel snow all winter you can paddle a kayak or canoe all summer."


Associated Press writers Nahal Toosi and Desmond Butler in New York City; Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, N.J.; Sarah Brumfield in Baltimore, Stephen Singer in Hartford, Conn.; and Brandie M. Jefferson in Boston contributed to this report.


Copyright 2006 The Associated Press.

Probably have about 8" here so far in southern NY.

I'm just so happy that Sunday & Monday are my days off. They'll have plenty of time to clean all that crap up before I have to go anywhere. :D

Two visitors from Providence, RI are sitting at the Ft. Lauderdale airport waiting for their promised flight home. I'm making up the guest bed. What are the odds, Trish? Last thing I heard, Greene Airport wasn't "closed" but it wasn't allowing planes to land or take off, either.

ITS TERRIBLE...I'm in New Hampshire but my mom is getting it even worse near boston!!!. We have to have at least 15 inches or so more!!

I had to leave this morning for work YUCK drove in the nastiness... thenc ame hope to shovel my entire HUGE driveway and drove home in the crappy roads!!!

I can't believe my work OPENED!! And people were actually SHOPPING...

You can't even plow fast enough to keep the snow off the ground.. The wind is horrible...

There have been so many accidents etc out here.... and these four wheel drives thinkt hey can still drive 80 miles an hour what goofs!! scary stuff definatly SCARY

.... You can't even plow fast enough to keep the snow off the ground.. The wind is horrible...

There have been so many accidents etc out here.... and these four wheel drives thinkt hey can still drive 80 miles an hour what goofs!! scary stuff definatly SCARY

:eek: YIKES! Be careful out there, Meralove!

Here in Raleigh, NC ...I'm just a little too southeast to have really gotten any snow.

We got some flakes today...but nothing that stick. It was a hoot to drive through though...especially for this Texas girl!!!

I hope everyone with snow is ok and stays inside!!!

Nadine.

Well, my gf (in Sth Philly) told me earlier that there was 13 hlf"... she measured it herself. I missed it by a week. Whilst I was there we had a day that was fine for wearing a short sleeved t-shirt. What's that all about???? We never get snow that deep here, I was looking forward to hopefully getting some whilst I was there.

lousy crap... thats all i gotta say

I am glad to see ya all east coasters safe and sound.

It is SO beautiful outside today! The thick snow covering everything, and bright and sunny. I wish i had a digital camera...

Yeah as much as it is a drag to have so much snow all at once, it is a beautiful sight. I love it when we get snow here. But, in a storm you do have to be very careful. If you can stay home, better do that and enjoy the view ;)

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Caye con les, no work today, let's shell the ol' log book HA HA!! Suckers!! Actually pretty damn cold here too!! 60!!! Burrrrrrrrr!!! And sunny blue skies suck too!! HONK!! HONK!! :p :cool:

DaBollocks...be nice now.
You dont have to like it but might as well enjoy the view :p

Nahhh.... i always want to live somewhere that has snow at least PART of the year.

I watched the turkeys later today...and there were three huge males...usually its just the females flocked together. I need to put out corn for them with the snow so deep.

It is SO beautiful outside today! The thick snow covering everything, and bright and sunny. I wish i had a digital camera...

I happen to be visiting your area for a few days.. so here ya go :)

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After they stopped forecasting snow we got about 1" last night. Enough to call off school today. Its all gone now. No major storm like they were saying for us. Thank goodness! Hope everyone North is thawing out nicely. ;)

Beautiful pic...thank you! :)

It is SO beautiful outside today! The thick snow covering everything, and bright and sunny. I wish i had a digital camera...

We got 15 inches in my OM's town. 21 inches in the town where my college is. I heard there was 17 inches in Philly and 21 in NYC :eek: . Those amounts are almost unheard in the actual cities. They usually get less than the suburbs.

Most schools were closed today, but my college was open. :rolleyes: I almost got in an accident on the Parkway today too, black ice and an idiot stopped in the right lane near exit 145. All the major roads I traveled on Parkway, Turnpike, 280 and 130 were cleared fine for the most part though, but local roads in Mercer county were a nightmare.

The last report I heard earlier was that Providence was getting hit. I guess the only thing they can do is keep calling the airline. As far as I know, it's all supposed to end tonight in this area. I think they said the coast of Maine would get hit later tonight.

I'd hate to be stuck in an airport.....

Oh, I'm catching the last part of the news. Our Providence network affiliate is saying it's tapering off....and later in the week the temps will be in the 40's. YAY!!! It will all be gone! :D

Yep, they had to stay but I said "Much better to be "stuck" here in my home then to have been flown to Orlando or N.C. or something and stuck in an airport".

We have to leave at 4:00 am to get their flight tomorrow morning.

Hmm which one?!! HA HA!! Snow!! Yeah right!!! :rolleyes:

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