I'm glad I don't live in Utica, NY today. Looks miserable. Please be safe if you're in the area.

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[handmade34]

1. it is what

I am looking at outside my window today (in Northern Vermont) ...my chickens are on their own today

[whistler162]

2. Got up at 5 AM and no major snow

Go back to bed just before 6 AM after finding out my district is closed, yeah vacation day. looked out around noon and bam a little snow, 6" to a foot. West of Syracuse.

[smirkymonkey]

3. I grew up about 15-20 minutes north of Utica.

We used to get pounded with snow every winter and temps would get so low our pipes would freeze. What you see here in this video was nothing compared to what it was like back in the 70's. Of course I wouldn't want to deal with that now, but back then, we just thought 3-5 feet of snow was a typical winter storm. There were times we couldn't see out the windows of the first floor of our house.

Anyway, hope everyone in the area stays safe and warm!

[catbyte]

4. Same here. I grew up in northern lower Michigan and they don't have the winters now

that we used to have. I remember one blizzard back in 1967 that was so bad our school was closed for two weeks and they had to bring in snow removal equipment from Canada to clear the road by my house. We were halfway up a hill and the road was closed by a 40' drift that caused the snowplow to get stuck. It was insane. Even we kids were suffering from cabin fever. My birthday is in late June and there was still snow on north-facing creek banks. There's been nothing even close to that in at least 15 years.

[redwitch]

5. I was supposed to go there today!

I rescheduled my appointment when I saw the forecast. We have the same weather here too. Two hours or so east of Utica.

[wendyb-NC]

6. Lake affect snow in a winter storm.