Weather Report Suite: About 1/2 inch of snow here in CT., heading towards possibly 2 feet. Looks pretty ominous out there. What's happening where you are?
I say we get half of the 8" minimum predicted out here in Bucks. But the fire is nice (as is the egg nog) and we're looking forward to leftovers.
rain
We left adman in Bucks and once on I-78 it was windy and snowy but not that serious it seemed. Then cars in front of us started swerving and sliding and we saw one in a ditch and then a smashup ahead showing parking lot trafffic and we detoured off pretty luckily and arrived in city no worse for wear. But radio was already reporting 12--15 cars involved in the smashup we avoided and another bad one on I-80 involving 20 so we glad to be home and dry with 2 bloody mary's and biscuits/gravy.
Over an inch. Really coming down now. Visibility is maybe 50 feet. If only I had bloody mary fixin's!
we have min 2 inch already
2 inches here too. Making do with champagne. Good thing we over bought on the Christmas pates.
we over bought on the pate too
we are more in the 5 inch range now
2" in bucks.
I haven't stepped even near the door since this started but already have bundled kids up 3 times. They are on their way out to help skinny shovel again. On the last venture out Ryley committed a felony probably, dumping snow in a mailbox. He'll be writing a letter of apology to the post office tomorrow.
5 inches in the driveway, 7 inches on the back porch. Still comin'.
Crazy wind and drifting more than really heavy accumlations here in city but two lighting flashes and thunder just now, which I have never before heard or seen in a snow storm.
I'm becoming less skeptical. Still coming down full blast. Ten inches in places for sure and drifts much deeper.
Wish we were there.
I remember lightning and thunder in a big snow storm in mid-90's NYC.
Dry, clear and f'n cold in Houston. 31, which gets the locals on a tizzy.
reports show we got 18 inches minimum, i shoveled at least that much with the winds and woke up with min 18 inches more to move
there is a car in the middle of the road in front of our house, and one at the end of our block half way into the avenue
1500 flights canceled
i think bay ridge took a bigger hit than average, all subways are not running yet out here, just the express trains from 59th and 36th to the city
Still snowing...
!!!
Those car photos are the drifting side of the school parking lot. Neighborhood not so dramatic overall. I'd say maybe a decent foot of snow on average.
from today's Wonkette.
To the family members I just emailed this link to - I'm not responsible for everyone's comments!
Very eventful storm. At first I was bummed that my ergonomic snow shovel that I've had for more than 10 years broke. So early this morning I made my way to the rinky dink hardware store where the guy lives in the back knowing he would be open, about 6am. On my way there I found a woman half buried in snow without shoes and her pants half way down. She was frozen with her arms stuck out in front of her her but alive no doubt. I unburied her with my hands and brought her in to help her. I did call an abulance but guess what...it got stuck. The thing is the city has NOT plowed my street at all! The snow drifts go across the entire street from one car hood to the next. Its insane. I researched stuff online and after 3 hours she seemed ok so I took her home dressed in some of my old clothes and shoes and when we got there her sister started yelling at her saying she told her not to go out last night. I think I looked frozen at that point. The ambulance is still stuck around the corner. I got a new shovel and it sucks! Its metal and the snow doesnt want to come off of it. It freezes so every time you have to bang it on something rather than flinging it.
thats crazy....your good karma points are way way up!!
Nice job Ken.
Hats of to you Ken. An amazing story but I feel like it's mine after Lucy's grilling.
Why was she frozen? What was she wearing? What did she look like? What was she doing outside? What was her name? Why was she frozen?...
Funny because Eleanor had a million questions too. Did you feed her?, Why didnt she have shoes?, Where was she going?, What was her name?...unfortunately I didnt have an answer for a lot of the questions.
They could use you on Mount Everest.
that sounds like a life saving event ken. bravo!
4th ave 74th brooklyn
Good man Ken. And yeah, a lot of plowing not going on here in city too.
local church yard
Janet's Christmas Tree
I can't believe Schiller's would violate city sanitation code like that...
Rivington St. trash can / giant snowball maker:
via mb
ken, my god, that is crazy. thank god your shovel broke, or she might still be there. alice and got all bundled up and lasted about 15 minutes with the wind. i'm going to head out again later, better dressed. i'm determined to enjoy the winter wonderland, whether i like it or not. ;-)
where the fuck was she going? i would suggest something untoward but she might have been related to the coked-up bear and i dont want to piss it off.
Im thinking she was squatting to do some business and just fell(why pants were half way down). As for the shoes...???? For the first 1'2 hour she couldnt speak. Then it was 2 hrs of just Spanish. The last half hour she was able to speak English. The ambulance is still stuck!
the booze keep her alive!!
and how come the sister didnt call someone to find her! must be festivus related.
Looks like NYC is a giant version of my home town in Saskatchewan, not to diminish your experience, because winter in my hometown sucked.
yes but canadians deserve to be miserable like a presumably old feebleminded half naked woman who takes a walk in the middle of a blizzard for no discernible reason.
True that. We beg for it.
Just lost electricity which was mildly interesting. Came back on after 10 minutes though so no pioneer days reenactments for me.
maybe she was hurt by someone.
Not sure where this is, but somewhere on the east coast.
nice vid.
It was so cold here in Houston I wore a fleecy jacket -- mainly so people wouldn't say, "Don't you have a jacket?" Brrrr.
Why would they use snow removal equipment that gets ... stuck in the snow.
the report from jc is 2' of snow fall drifting to 3' on our side of the street which remains unsullied by the snow plow - salt/sand truck.
I got a recorded message from some functionary - they are blaming the lack of plowing on "cars stopped in the middle of the street"--right, I'm sure the decline of municipal services has nothing to do with the ideology of "reducing government" and a certain loudmouth governor.
looks like we might have had 30 inches per one old timer in the hood, "biggest storm of my life" he said.....
New Yorker
December 29, 2010
Is This Why Your Street Isn’t Plowed?
by Samantha Henig
New York’s snowy streets may have played a role in the death of a newborn in Crown Heights, and have left one woman in Bay Ridge waiting for an ambulance for thirty hours. Mayor Bloomberg, facing outrage from residents and city officials like Christine Quinn, insists that “Our city is doing exactly what you’d want it to do.”
What we want it to do, it seems, is to get ready for tourists to party. While the outer boroughs deal with still-white roads and curbs buried under walls of plowed refuse, Times Square is revealing its multicolored painted sidewalks, thanks to dump trucks carting off the blizzard’s remains.
and he's (bloomberg) making our mayor (jersey city, healey) look good. :
Interesting - a leader taking responsibility for things that go wrong in his city. That's what leaders do. Paying attention Jerremiah?? (And Bloomberg has the legitimate excuse that the sanitation department laid off 400 people. The JCIA has had no layoffs.)
The melt down is going to be pretty gross.
crazy photo I saw on reddit
The meltdown is already gross. If I weren't so lazy, and disgusted, I'd go snap some shots. Or did you mean emotional meltdowns?
And why is it that so many nyc dog owners think that snow fall excuses them from having to clean up their dog's shit?
thats a universal, not just nyc.
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- jim 12-26-2010 7:27 pm
I say we get half of the 8" minimum predicted out here in Bucks. But the fire is nice (as is the egg nog) and we're looking forward to leftovers.
- adman 12-26-2010 7:35 pm [add a comment]
rain
- steve 12-26-2010 7:40 pm [add a comment]
and barf
- steve 12-26-2010 7:40 pm [add a comment]
We left adman in Bucks and once on I-78 it was windy and snowy but not that serious it seemed. Then cars in front of us started swerving and sliding and we saw one in a ditch and then a smashup ahead showing parking lot trafffic and we detoured off pretty luckily and arrived in city no worse for wear. But radio was already reporting 12--15 cars involved in the smashup we avoided and another bad one on I-80 involving 20 so we glad to be home and dry with 2 bloody mary's and biscuits/gravy.
- jimlouis 12-26-2010 8:20 pm [add a comment]
Over an inch. Really coming down now. Visibility is maybe 50 feet. If only I had bloody mary fixin's!
- jim 12-26-2010 8:55 pm [add a comment]
we have min 2 inch already
- Skinny 12-26-2010 10:47 pm [add a comment]
2 inches here too. Making do with champagne. Good thing we over bought on the Christmas pates.
- jim 12-26-2010 11:06 pm [add a comment]
we over bought on the pate too
we are more in the 5 inch range now
- Skinny 12-27-2010 12:16 am [add a comment]
2" in bucks.
- bill 12-27-2010 12:25 am [add a comment]
I haven't stepped even near the door since this started but already have bundled kids up 3 times. They are on their way out to help skinny shovel again. On the last venture out Ryley committed a felony probably, dumping snow in a mailbox. He'll be writing a letter of apology to the post office tomorrow.
- linda 12-27-2010 12:49 am [add a comment]
5 inches in the driveway, 7 inches on the back porch. Still comin'.
- jim 12-27-2010 12:51 am [add a comment]
- jim 12-27-2010 12:52 am [add a comment]
Crazy wind and drifting more than really heavy accumlations here in city but two lighting flashes and thunder just now, which I have never before heard or seen in a snow storm.
- jimlouis 12-27-2010 1:40 am [add a comment]
I'm becoming less skeptical. Still coming down full blast. Ten inches in places for sure and drifts much deeper.
- jim 12-27-2010 2:03 am [add a comment]
- jim 12-27-2010 2:29 am [add a comment]
Wish we were there. I remember lightning and thunder in a big snow storm in mid-90's NYC.
- steve 12-27-2010 3:30 am [add a comment]
Dry, clear and f'n cold in Houston. 31, which gets the locals on a tizzy.
- mark 12-27-2010 4:52 am [add a comment]
reports show we got 18 inches minimum, i shoveled at least that much with the winds and woke up with min 18 inches more to move
there is a car in the middle of the road in front of our house, and one at the end of our block half way into the avenue
1500 flights canceled
i think bay ridge took a bigger hit than average, all subways are not running yet out here, just the express trains from 59th and 36th to the city
- Skinny 12-27-2010 1:01 pm [add a comment]
Still snowing...
- jim 12-27-2010 2:20 pm [add a comment]
- Skinny 12-27-2010 2:25 pm [add a comment]
!!!
- jim 12-27-2010 2:43 pm [add a comment]
- jimlouis 12-27-2010 3:14 pm [add a comment]
Those car photos are the drifting side of the school parking lot. Neighborhood not so dramatic overall. I'd say maybe a decent foot of snow on average.
- jimlouis 12-27-2010 3:16 pm [add a comment]
from today's Wonkette.
- L.M. 12-27-2010 3:35 pm [add a comment]
To the family members I just emailed this link to - I'm not responsible for everyone's comments!
- jim 12-27-2010 3:48 pm [add a comment]
- Skinny 12-27-2010 4:05 pm [add a comment]
Very eventful storm. At first I was bummed that my ergonomic snow shovel that I've had for more than 10 years broke. So early this morning I made my way to the rinky dink hardware store where the guy lives in the back knowing he would be open, about 6am. On my way there I found a woman half buried in snow without shoes and her pants half way down. She was frozen with her arms stuck out in front of her her but alive no doubt. I unburied her with my hands and brought her in to help her. I did call an abulance but guess what...it got stuck. The thing is the city has NOT plowed my street at all! The snow drifts go across the entire street from one car hood to the next. Its insane. I researched stuff online and after 3 hours she seemed ok so I took her home dressed in some of my old clothes and shoes and when we got there her sister started yelling at her saying she told her not to go out last night. I think I looked frozen at that point. The ambulance is still stuck around the corner. I got a new shovel and it sucks! Its metal and the snow doesnt want to come off of it. It freezes so every time you have to bang it on something rather than flinging it.
- ken 12-27-2010 4:07 pm [add a comment]
thats crazy....your good karma points are way way up!!
- Skinny 12-27-2010 4:21 pm [add a comment]
Nice job Ken.
- jim 12-27-2010 4:24 pm [add a comment]
Hats of to you Ken. An amazing story but I feel like it's mine after Lucy's grilling. Why was she frozen? What was she wearing? What did she look like? What was she doing outside? What was her name? Why was she frozen?...
- steve 12-28-2010 4:38 am [add a comment]
Funny because Eleanor had a million questions too. Did you feed her?, Why didnt she have shoes?, Where was she going?, What was her name?...unfortunately I didnt have an answer for a lot of the questions.
- ken 12-28-2010 5:06 pm [add a comment]
They could use you on Mount Everest.
- alex 12-28-2010 12:51 pm [add a comment]
LOL
- steve 12-28-2010 2:40 pm [add a comment]
Me and a pack of Saint Bernards
- ken 12-28-2010 5:07 pm [add a comment]
that sounds like a life saving event ken. bravo!
- bill 12-27-2010 4:10 pm [add a comment]
4th ave 74th brooklyn
- Skinny 12-27-2010 4:10 pm [add a comment]
Good man Ken. And yeah, a lot of plowing not going on here in city too.
- jimlouis 12-27-2010 4:14 pm [add a comment]
local church yard
- Skinny 12-27-2010 4:19 pm [add a comment]
Janet's Christmas Tree
- jimlouis 12-27-2010 4:28 pm [add a comment]
I can't believe Schiller's would violate city sanitation code like that...
- jim 12-27-2010 4:33 pm [add a comment]
Rivington St. trash can / giant snowball maker:
via mb
- jim 12-27-2010 4:38 pm [add a comment]
ken, my god, that is crazy. thank god your shovel broke, or she might still be there. alice and got all bundled up and lasted about 15 minutes with the wind. i'm going to head out again later, better dressed. i'm determined to enjoy the winter wonderland, whether i like it or not. ;-)
- linda 12-27-2010 4:51 pm [add a comment]
where the fuck was she going? i would suggest something untoward but she might have been related to the coked-up bear and i dont want to piss it off.
- dave 12-27-2010 5:05 pm [add a comment]
Im thinking she was squatting to do some business and just fell(why pants were half way down). As for the shoes...???? For the first 1'2 hour she couldnt speak. Then it was 2 hrs of just Spanish. The last half hour she was able to speak English. The ambulance is still stuck!
- ken 12-27-2010 7:03 pm [add a comment]
the booze keep her alive!!
- Skinny 12-28-2010 1:16 pm [add a comment]
and how come the sister didnt call someone to find her! must be festivus related.
- bill 12-27-2010 5:11 pm [add a comment]
that was my immediate thought. The sister was all indignant like, "I told you so!" There was plenty of alcohol on the table of her home too.
- ken 12-27-2010 6:58 pm [add a comment]
Looks like NYC is a giant version of my home town in Saskatchewan, not to diminish your experience, because winter in my hometown sucked.
- L.M. 12-27-2010 5:13 pm [add a comment]
yes but canadians deserve to be miserable like a presumably old feebleminded half naked woman who takes a walk in the middle of a blizzard for no discernible reason.
- dave 12-27-2010 5:24 pm [add a comment]
True that. We beg for it.
- L.M. 12-27-2010 5:29 pm [add a comment]
Just lost electricity which was mildly interesting. Came back on after 10 minutes though so no pioneer days reenactments for me.
- jim 12-27-2010 6:19 pm [add a comment]
maybe she was hurt by someone.
- linda 12-27-2010 7:09 pm [add a comment]
I didnt get that feeling. She was definitely boozed up and smelled of alcohol.
- ken 12-27-2010 7:51 pm [add a comment]
Not sure where this is, but somewhere on the east coast.
- jim 12-27-2010 8:30 pm [add a comment]
nice vid.
It was so cold here in Houston I wore a fleecy jacket -- mainly so people wouldn't say, "Don't you have a jacket?" Brrrr.
- mark 12-28-2010 6:13 am [add a comment]
Why would they use snow removal equipment that gets ... stuck in the snow.
- mark 12-28-2010 6:26 am [add a comment]
the report from jc is 2' of snow fall drifting to 3' on our side of the street which remains unsullied by the snow plow - salt/sand truck.
- bill 12-28-2010 5:00 pm [add a comment]
I got a recorded message from some functionary - they are blaming the lack of plowing on "cars stopped in the middle of the street"--right, I'm sure the decline of municipal services has nothing to do with the ideology of "reducing government" and a certain loudmouth governor.
- tom moody 12-29-2010 3:17 am [add a comment]
looks like we might have had 30 inches per one old timer in the hood, "biggest storm of my life" he said.....
- Skinny 12-29-2010 1:01 pm [add a comment]
Nice shot!
- b. 12-29-2010 4:19 pm [add a comment]
New Yorker
December 29, 2010
Is This Why Your Street Isn’t Plowed?
by Samantha Henig
New York’s snowy streets may have played a role in the death of a newborn in Crown Heights, and have left one woman in Bay Ridge waiting for an ambulance for thirty hours. Mayor Bloomberg, facing outrage from residents and city officials like Christine Quinn, insists that “Our city is doing exactly what you’d want it to do.”
What we want it to do, it seems, is to get ready for tourists to party. While the outer boroughs deal with still-white roads and curbs buried under walls of plowed refuse, Times Square is revealing its multicolored painted sidewalks, thanks to dump trucks carting off the blizzard’s remains.
- b. 12-29-2010 8:52 pm [add a comment]
and he's (bloomberg) making our mayor (jersey city, healey) look good. : Interesting - a leader taking responsibility for things that go wrong in his city. That's what leaders do. Paying attention Jerremiah?? (And Bloomberg has the legitimate excuse that the sanitation department laid off 400 people. The JCIA has had no layoffs.)
- bill 12-29-2010 9:36 pm [add a comment]
The melt down is going to be pretty gross.
- L.M. 12-29-2010 10:22 pm [add a comment]
crazy photo I saw on reddit
- sally mckay 12-29-2010 11:01 pm [add a comment]
The meltdown is already gross. If I weren't so lazy, and disgusted, I'd go snap some shots. Or did you mean emotional meltdowns?
- jimlouis 12-30-2010 7:30 pm [add a comment]
And why is it that so many nyc dog owners think that snow fall excuses them from having to clean up their dog's shit?
- steve 12-31-2010 5:48 am [add a comment]
thats a universal, not just nyc.
- bill 12-31-2010 1:43 pm [add a comment]