This is apparently a no-BS Storm which is gonna hit Philly and North...

[hollysmom]

90. I remember that one

It was a year before we moved into the house - we lived on the top floor of a converted Victorian on the Palisades and we had to go down a flight of stairs outside as well - the owner tunneled through and e had to duck down to walk through a cave in the snow. I was terrified it would collapse on us, but it did not. it is not like I could walk down from the back fire escape, the narrow driveway was not plowed for 4 days and you could not walk through the some times taller than me snow (off the roofs and down a narrow alley) When people shoveled the snow, they were fined if they put it in the street, so they would pile half the snow on the other half of the side walk and you had the hill on the other side of the property, so you ended up walking through a narrow walk way that had snow piled up 6 foot on one side and the retaining walls on the other side.

the one thing I remember were all the dead rats int he street when the snow melted. who knew they were all there? there were a few cats as well, we had a lot of feral cats in that city. but lots of rats.