NYC is shutting down...

[brooklynite]

All commuter rail suspended; subways running only in tunnel sections; streets closed to non-emergency vehicles.

Current snow estimate is 14-18 in. Approx 10 in. in my yard.

[MineralMan]

1. Yikes!

Sounds bad!

[brooklynite]

4. I shoveled the sidewalk twice; not really keeping up...

Link to tweet

[MineralMan]

54. That's a lot of freaking snow!

[yonder]

2. Meanwhile, in SW Idaho we haven't got

but about 4 inches all winter???

[tinrobot]

3. 14-18 inches? We got about 8-10 feet up in the Sierras.

[HUAJIAO]

22. But ya don't got subways and traffic lights!!

Lucky for you ---- SKI!!!!!!!!!

[OnlinePoker]

48. Yah, but still well below average.

Northern Sierras are at 66%, Central at 73%, and South at 58% of average for this day.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=swccond.pdf

More coming this week, but not as much.

[Cha]

5. Wow.. that's a lot for NYC

[electric_blue68]

64. Thought about this and started to look it up...

So so far I've found for average NYC snow fall...

Jan - 15"
(surprised thought it was more like 10&quot

Feb - 7.8"

March - 5"


And I feel personally insulted 😬 when
there's a rare APRIL snow! 😄

[LaMouffette]

6. Stay safe from the storm, Brooklynite! One good thing: this will keep the anti-maskers home

for a while so they won't be running around infecting others with Covid.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. We Just Got 10.5"

Guy on the news said it was picking up moisture off the Great Lakes. I heard estimates of 24-27" for northern NY!
Yikes!

[roamer65]

8. The lakes aren't froze over.

50 years ago near freeze overs were common in winter.

Not anymore.

Last couple of weekends I have been along southern Lake Huron. Zero ice then...in January.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. We Have A River Running Through Town

I've seen no ice this year, and just past the dam, the water is only 3 feet deep.
Some winters, even the mill race freezes, and it's 15' deep!
So, I can believe there being no ice on huge lakes.

[mgardener]

33. Lake Champlain used to freeze regularly 40 + years ago.

It doesn't much any more.
But it was -11 this am....

[roamer65]

34. It's becoming rarer with climate change.

I have seen it in other aspects of MI climate. Growing season is now longer.

[electric_blue68]

39. The Hudson River gets big patches of ice on occasion...

with climate change rarer.

Maybe a century or more ago it could totally freeze for a while.

[HUAJIAO]

23. Which part of northern NY. That's a big area...

[ProfessorGAC]

38. I Understand

I was watching Chicago news this morning. The Chicago weather guy wasn't any more specific.
To be fair, it's outside his viewing area. You know how these weather people get anytime these events come along.

[HUAJIAO]

49. HA HA.. yup... We have about 3-4 on the ground near Rochester... maybe 5

but it keeps getting plowed off so no biggy as of now....

[ProfessorGAC]

53. I've Been To Rochester Several Times

Kodak was a reagent supplier, so we were customers.
And, I did some consulting for a private label detergent plant called KleenBrite.
Rode home with some Kodak dudes on a late flight.
Problem with the annunciator meant couldn't take off for an hour.
There's about 12 of us, so attendant says "Everyone in 1st class. Drinks are on United." then busts out the liquor cart.
Those dudes got TRASHED! She actually gave me 2 mini bottles of Courvoisier because "I grabbed you these before those guys to to the expensive stuff.
When we landed, I hurried to get to my car before those guys did. I'm hoping they had company limo or cab!

[Demsrule86]

61. My sister was born in Rochester ...she is older than me. But there was so much snow that

Mom (very pregnant) had to slide down the roof and my Dad caught her when my sister was on the way...She was born on February 9th...They couldn't get the doors open.

[HUAJIAO]

65. Holy cow !! I have never seen it that deep...

5 years ago there was 6 feet in Buffalo........ in one day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I live about 40 minutes from ROC and so far this year very little snow and not cold - teens and 10s - only last week. and it won't last long.
Not about--- lemme look ----- about 9-10" on the ground.... but that came over about a week so no biggy...
I have a Honda HRV with $840 worth of snow tires !!!!

keep warm !!

[PufPuf23]

9. Actually glad this thread is about snow when opened.

Mind went first to cv19.

[Niagara]

14. That's where my mind went too. n/t

[raccoon]

43. Me too. Nt

[Thekaspervote]

11. Oh.p no! Everyone in NY and NYC..be safe!!

[liberal_mama]

12. My daughter just texted me that Katz's Deli is closing at 4pm

The weather is too bad for a pastrami sandwich! It's best to just stay home in this weather so I'm glad to see a lot of closings.

[HUAJIAO]

24. OMG !!!!!!!! it must be bad....

[JHB]

51. Hello, Deli. This is Joe, Deli...

Would you please send up
Some pastrami on rye?

A box of Ritz, Deli
And some Schlitz, Deli
Some chopped liver
And a sliver of your apple pie

Turkey legs, Deli
Hard boiled eggs, Deli
Some tomatoes and potatoes you french fry

Oooohhhh

Please don't be late, Deli,
'Cuz I can't wait, Deli,
Deli, without breakfast I will die!


( to Mad Magazine)

(RIP Joe, because there ain't no deliveries today)

[Niagara]

13. Be safe and keep cozy from the storm, Brooklynite.

Sounds like a stay in pajamas day to me.

[LizBeth]

15. Fun and every one stay safe.

[My Pet Orangutan]

16. God. I thought it was the virus.

Never thought I'd welcome 2ft of snow.

[Klaralven]

17. Can DeBlasio do better than John Lindsay?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1969_nor%27easter

I was at my fiance's apartment in Queens Saturday the weekend it started. It snowed until Monday morning, and I called out at work. Tuesday I got up, dug out my car, put on the chains, and dug through the deepest drifts for a block to get to a plowed street. People on their stoops stood and looked at me like I was a crazy person.

[cstanleytech]

18. While I miss snow in general I do not miss shoveling it.

[AllaN01Bear]

19. eep.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

20. Stay home staff safe

Hope everybody is Ok.

[Miigwech]

21. Nothing like NYC in the snow ... Boston in the snow, Paris in the snow

even Austin in the snow, well a dusting only but snow! ... so many memories of great cities in the snow.

Do you have any great cities that you remember in the snow?

But NYC ... the best memories of all because the people make it so memorable. All of a sudden NYC becomes a small town were everyone talks to one another and lends a helping hand, is there to help out if you need it. A total transformation from a giant city to just little square blocks of folks living in communities. Once the snow melts the magic ends but as all NY'ers know ... that STRONG spirit is always there !!!!

[malaise]

25. Stay safe

and watch that high tide overnight

[marble falls]

28. ...

[malaise]

29. Damn you're good

[marble falls]

30. One is only as good as is one's friends.

[marble falls]

26. Hooley mooley. I still want to move back north.

[Warpy]

27. I'm sorry.

Back in Boston, they'd send garbage trucks around to pick us up for work (I was a nurse). If we were lucky, the driver's cigar wasn't lit.

The combination of the winters and the cost of living sent me west.

[Mopar151]

37. Boston metro area bad, on both counts!

Moving snow in Beantown is urban warfare!

[Warpy]

40. It's fun to see what people put out to save the place they just shoveled

Sometimes it's boring trash cans and boards, sometimes it can be a sprung couch and old lamp. I found a lot of little stuff was better than one or two big things.

Take somebody else's parking spot, your car gets torched.

[crickets]

31. Yikes. Stay safe, everyone! 🌻

[mgardener]

32. We just got upgraded

From advisory to winter storm warning.
Not too bad 9-13.
Stay safe everyone.

[kirkuchiyo]

35. So its like spring in Michigan? nt

[Demsrule86]

62. or Ohio...we had snow on May 1st last year.

[Cozmo]

36. Take care, stay safe

[CaptainTruth]

41. The cold is coming all the way down to us in FL. 37-39 overnight.

[electric_blue68]

46. I'm sure my friends in FLA will be "thrilled" ! 🙄

[Duppers]

42. My son is in Brooklyn too.

Caton Ave. I warned him to stock up on food but he hadn't.
Bet he's shocked at the closings.

He should pay more attention to the weather.

[electric_blue68]

47. That's what I did the previous 2 days, plus home goods...

esp so I could have choices on what to eat. 👍

[edhopper]

44. And people questioned

why we bought a condo instead of a house.

[electric_blue68]

45. It was 13" about an hour+ ago in Central Park...

more snow, sleet, freezing rain, some more snow tomorrow but lighter.

I got plenty of stuff so I won't need to go out till Thurs.
Even an extra blankie if I need it. 😁

[Johnny Noshoes]

50. Working a double shift.

I work as a security guard/freight elevator operator from 8-4. Did that and now have to work the front desk 4-12. Hopefully the midnight guy can get here and I can't get the hell out and get home for much needed sleep. Stay safe out there everybody

[FakeNoose]

52. Manhattan doesn't mess around

Most cities plow the snow and push it to the side of the road. In Manhattan they can't do that. They load the snow onto dump trucks and carry it right out of the congested areas. Some of it gets dumped into holding lots outside the city, and some snow (I've heard) gets dumped into the East River.

The residents' cars are always parked left side-right side, so on any given day there's one side free of cars. That helps a lot, but if anyone's car gets stuck during a snowstorm, it gets towed. No mercy!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

55. It's been very wet/icy and the most slippery snow...

... that I've seen in my area for several years, so I assume it's similar around NY.

Extremely cold temps right behind it.

[Grasswire2]

56. How are things on Long Island?

Wondering about a disabled friend in Great Neck. Usually emails me every evening. Nothing so far tonight.

[Demovictory9]

57. stay safe

[electric_blue68]

58. So we ended up getting 17" in Central Park

Oh joy. 🙄

[brooklynite]

59. Tuesday afternoon and its snowing again.....

[electric_blue68]

63. Yeah, I heard it was going to start up again 🙄

[Demsrule86]

60. New Yorkers! I don't say snowflakes...but I had over three foot in my yard about a month ago

in Ohio.

[electric_blue68]

66. Because we're near the ocean we do get some...

some (warmer air) moderation in our snowfall.

Oh, yeah, I know inland and especially land locked States
get more snow.

When I worked (non civil servant) for NYS government in NYC we had some people come down from the Albany (State Capitol) to add workers for the backlog we were dealing with.

They've laughed at us and our 1 1/2 ft snow.

They are used to 3 ft. When it gets above 4+ ft then they start to get cranky!
So I hear ya!