Blizzard of '15

The reports I saw tonight were for 24 inches of snow in NYC and 33 in Hartford, Conn. That is a shit-ton of snow.

 

Looks like it might start as early as midnight in New York, though the worst of it is still projected for Monday night into Tuesday.

 

We had 26 inches in eastern Connecticut during the blizzard of '13. Will be interested to see if that is topped. I am a high school teacher now, and we have a professional day Monday; I most likely won't see my students until Thursday.

I, personally, can't get enough of these weather situations, winter or summer. Don't know if it is a New Englander thing or not, but it seems the vast majority of us love talking about this stuff.

 

By the way, I always meant to ask how Buffalo folks were doing after their 7 feet of snow back in December. There were a lot of worries about flooding, but I never really heard anything at all within a few days after the Bills had to play that one game in Ford Field.

Anyone from SJBuffalo? What became of Snowpocalypse?

 

They had 50 and rain the weekend after Snowvember - some minor flooding, but not as bad as it could've been if ice jams on local creeks hadn't broken loose. Most of whatever damage they got was from roof collapses. Think the final death toll was 12 -- mostly shoveling-related or auto accidents, but either two or three were people who got trapped/buried in their cars.
(Similar to Blizzard of '77 in that respect.)

Went up for the Cleveland game Thanksgiving weekend; about the only sign left was plow-manufactured mountains. (We had to park in the driveway sted backyard at the house where we tailgate, but that was due to mud, not leftover snow.)

 

Since this is happening in New York and Boston, I'm sure this will be covered like it is the end of the world as we know it snow storm.

When Denver gets that much, nobody will blink.

 

The difference between Denver and Boston is that sometimes in Denver it'll be 60 two days after a big storm. Here, snow that falls in January is there for months. After a huge storm, smaller storms become real pains in the ass because there are limits to where the snow can go when you try to move it.

 

NYC is the most important place on Planet Earth.

 

Imagine the coverage if this was a year removed and the Super Bowl was in town on Sunday.

 

Right. It couldn't possibly be that a lot of our fellow East Coasters are egotistical, panicky drama queens.