*Official* East Coast Blizzard 2013 thread
 

Run for your lives!!!

Katie Horner can only dream she was living in New York or Boston right now!



http://www.wunderground.com/US/NY/075.html



... Blizzard Warning remains in effect until 1 PM EST Saturday...

* locations... New York City... southern Westchester County... and
coastal portions of northeast New Jersey.

* Hazard types... heavy snow and strong winds.

* Accumulations... snow accumulation of 10 to 14 inches... with
localized higher amounts within developing snow bands.

* Winds... north 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.

* Temperatures... falling into the 20s by this evening.

* Visibilities... one quarter mile or less at times.

* Timing... the strongest winds and heaviest snow will occur this evening
into Saturday morning.

* Impacts... heavy snow and winds will make for dangerous driving
conditions with visibilities near zero in white-out
conditions. In addition... some tree limbs will be downed...
causing scattered power outages.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

A Blizzard Warning means severe winter weather conditions are
expected or occurring. Falling and blowing snow with strong winds
and poor visibilities are likely. This will lead to whiteout
conditions... making travel extremely dangerous. Do not travel. If
you must travel... have a winter survival kit with you. If you get
stranded... stay with your vehicle.

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Nemo.

Which is Omen backwards...think about it...SATAN'S SNOWSTORM!!!!!

I was expecting more, but its not over

everybody was freaking last night, was gonna go to the grocery store at 9pm (it's always empty that late) and there wasn't a parking spot to be found at any grocery store (went to 2). so I said **** that and stocked up on beer instead.

Whats the big deal. We do this crap all the time in Iowa

the news was showing a reporter dude in some grass this morning and he had a yard stick as if to measure the snow in a live shot......and there was no snow on the ground yet.

shit you not.

oh, last night I read the news and thought it said 6am - 1pm today. I guess it's in effect until 1pm tomorrow. ****.

New York is such a collective drama queen.

Exactly, I saw the 10-14" and I was like, big deal. Put on your boots and go to work. :D

Damn right. Thinking about starting a South Dakota 2013 Blizzard thread...

of course its "blown up" because of the amount of people affected compared to Iowa and its occuring in major media hubs.

**** the east coast

I hope a Nor'easter, 3x this size, hits New York next year the week of the Superbowl.

Even when the chiefs will be playing in it?

I stocked up on beer for the upcoming 10-14 inches of snow for up here this weekend.

Beer. Check.
Blackberry. Check.
Whiskey. Check.
Bag of chips. Check.
Porn. Check.

I'm all set!

This. We're such weather pussies around here, it's not even funny. Actually, it is. Any O NOES or Sky is Falling gifs you guys have would be applicable.

NIce knowing you all.

this is sandy part 2 according to gary lezak and his LRC theory. he's been calling this since november i think.

It's New England. It's February. It's snowing. Unpossible.

This.

They're talking 2 feet or more.

I'm trapped in work with four other staffers.

We can run Blu-Ray through the film projectors.

So we're watching "The Day After Tomorrow". :D

Over 3,000 flights were cancelled by Thursday morning. Roads - all roads, apparently - were closed as of 4 pm today. Projections are saying that this could be the most snow that's fallen in Boston ever.

I have a feeling it will be a bad snowstorm, and they'll be digging out for a bit, but it has the potential to be a Very Big Deal.

If the entire eastern seaboard disappeared, I would not care.

Oh, also, Dylan: Check in, please.

Bets on when the first Red Cross "Give us $5 to help with this disaster!" ads start rolling out?

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ROFL

Will the fat gov come out screaming for more $$$? Gotta be some good to come from snow

I have enough beer to last till Tuesday, internet, DVR and DirectTV. Now they are talking 6-14 inches by Monday morning going to work time. On top of the 7 inches we have already.

I'm watching Al Roker poop himself on the Weather Channel.

That's barely enough to track a rabbit in Buffalo.

Can somebody say "lol" to my video, ****.

Colorado is looking at you wondering what the big deal is.

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http://www.newwest.net/snow_blog/art...reek/C458/L41/

RECENT STORM DUMPS 80 INCHES (2008)
Epic Snow at Wolf Creek

By Carson Bennett, 1-14-08

Wolf Creek, Colorado – consistently the “mostest and the bestest” snow in Colorado. With an average annual snowfall of 465 inches (nearly 39 feet) Wolf Creek is a top destination for alpine and cross-country skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, and snowshoers from Colorado and surrounding states.

Why does Wolf Creek receive so much snow, and so consistently? It has to do with the shape of the San Juan Mountains at Wolf Creek Pass. The San Juan Mountains are the first major obstacle subtropical Pacific storms encounter on their way across the southwestern states. The warm air rises quickly when it hits the San Juans, and as it rises it cools. Since cold air can hold less moisture than warm air, the storms dump precipitation as they make their way up and through the funnel-shaped 10,850 foot high Wolf Creek Pass. Basically, Wolf Creek Pass was designed with powder-junkies in mind.

Wolf Creek has already enjoyed more snow than usual this season. Last week the ski area reported eighty inches in seven days. Total snowfall at Wolf Creek so far this season (283 inches) exceeds Keystone by 150 inches, Breckenridge by 140 inches, and Vail by 83 inches, to name but a few. A cashier at the Conoco on the edge of Pagosa Springs told me she hadn’t seen snow like this in forty years. The Pagosa Springs Sun reported on January 10 that, between the fifth and sixth of this month, nearly five feet of wet, heavy snow fell on parts of Archuleta County. Wolf Creek Pass itself was closed for four days while the Colorado Department of Transportation and avalanche control crews blasted and cleared more than fifty snow slides, “32 of which breached U.S. 160 and buried the roadway, in places, under 16 feet of snow.”

What did the recent storm mean for the ski area? After CDOT crews reopened the pass, it meant some of the best ski days in Wolf Creek history. I was lucky enough to head up this last weekend, and reveled in knee-deep powder all day…on every run...for three days in a row. Granted, the most popular runs were packed down pretty quickly, but whenever I hiked the ridge, or took one little turn off of a packed-powder trail into the trees on either side – pure bliss. Powder to my ankles, to my knees, to my waist in some places (and up to my eyeballs whenever I took a digger).

If it’s snow you want, my friends, Wolf Creek is your destination.

A bad weather day on the East Coast = the whole world has to watch and act like we give a **** (when we don't). North Dakota laughs at you! BTW, did anybody notice that they have a blizzard warning in ND too? Send in the military??? LOL!

This...

There's kind of a massive population density difference between Boston and Fargo.

Oh no! A snow storm!!

Yeah, so? Seems like the larger city would be more ready then.. **** um, they're big fat pussies who cry every time something comes along... And, BTW, I'm pretty sure Fargo has 300,000 better people in it than Boston.

Just because the national media is making a big deal about it(are they? I don't know) doesn't mean the locals are. Nobody around here is acting any different than a normal snow storm that we get every year. Good to know that the whining in the northeast about this is matched by the whining outside the northeast about the coverage.

I do think they were predicting 40" for Boston at one point. Not exactly a few flurries.

I live in rhode island, there is 16 inches of snow so far. Lots of power outages. 60+mph wind gusts. Its nasty out there. Snows falling at 4-5 inches per hour.

I would think a big city would have a harder time with a huge storm than a rural town would.

That's why you're awesome!!! :) Rep!!!

Was reading on twitter that it's snowing 5 inches an hour in some parts of Connecticut. The radar looks like a severe storm.

That would be a neat trick, considering Fargo has barely 100,000 people in it. It's only slightly bigger than, well, Lee's Summit.

And you must have noticed that a big city has a harder time dealing with snow, because the population density means it's harder to move the stuff out of the way. You must have noticed that, living near KC, and Boston has half again Kansas City's population stuffed into less than 1/3 the size. And it's not alone, the Massachusetts-Connecticut-Rhode Island cluster has *eleven* cities with more than 100,000 people in an area 1/4 the size of Missouri. That's not even counting the three northernmost states, New Jersey, and - oh yeah - New York.

On top of all of that, this isn't just a snowstorm, it's an actual blizzard - winds of over 50 miles per hour and thundersnow have already been reported. Just reading the snowfall amounts might not get you excited, but New England is not laid out like the midwest that most of you know best. Big storms can mess the place up, but good.

This is turning out to be a bad, bad storm.

Thats like 1/3 an inch an hour of rain, in the midwest. I have received over 7 inches in a 12 hour period in the spring. Dont buy into the hype.

This.

I would enjoy that I think. Not like I would be at the game anyway. The whole nice weather, Chiefs aren't near the game schtick is getting old anyway. Was pretty decent weather here the week of the SB. That weather would hurt the economic boom of the game though.

Yeah but it's a different ballgame when it snows. You'll see people get blasted with 8-12 inches of rain in a day and severe flooding. But you still don't see too many 80 inch snowfalls in the midwest. Or anywhere really that's not a mountain.

I'm sure we'll all be hearing numbers we can text donations to. I get it, I went through the storm of '78 in Virginia Beach, I just don't recall the concern... It was awesome!

It's good for you. Builds character. :thumb:

And any minute now some douchebag in Florida is going to chime in about how it's 75 degrees and he just got back from the beach.

I try to look at shoveling the driveway as a bonus workout. Just like this Chiefs season was a bonus comedy show I wasn't planning on.

so I went over to a buddies house to drink some beer. About 2 miles away.

There is a driving ban right now I guess. So I borrowed his skii gear and walked home.

I only had 3 beers in 5 hours. So I was intending to drive home, but didnt even hear about this driving ban. That was a crazy walk home. I just walked in the middle of the street, 20 feet visibility in front of you. I'm glad he had that ski gear or I woulda been ****ed.

Gold Bond, and walk slowly.

I remember that. It was over Washington's birthday, right? We got a couple of feet in Maryland. We stacked it up against the neighbor kid's shed and made a sled ramp.

I'll be golfing tomorrow.

Today's forecast for my area: Sunny and 78! :)

You asked...

Maybe they can give the blizzard a name and pass another bill because storms are so much worse when they hit a bunch of yankees.

Looked out the hotel window at 5am to find a stuck car, and the flatbed that had come for it had slid into it and got stuck. After 90 minutes of sliding, and ruining the flatbed's back end, another tow truck had to rescue it, LOL.

Maybe it's easy to be a little whiny bitch when you live in Florida while a blizzard hits the northeast. Next time a hurricane hits you, I'll enjoy pointing and laughing.

Seriously, some of you are just giant ****ing dickmunchers.

Maybe they would send you guys some help too, if you ****ing morons weren't running around eating each other and running around naked on peoples roofs. See I can generalize people into one big group too ****ing asshole..

That being said I have 2 feet of snow under my car port and about 3 everywhere else. Its not a small storm.

Thanks for posting the shot JD. Lets get a few more shots from some of you guys out there in snow land. Is it as bad in some areas at the media whore's were calling for, or was that more smoke and mirrors from those clowns? Post up some shots.

They're really blowing this blizzard out of proportion. Every news channel is showing it, I wanna see the LAPD look ****ing stupid. Come on CNN show some Dorner shit already, **** this snow.

Last Facebook post I saw from my pal on Cape Cod was about 7pm last night. I think he may have lost his power. He said he had a case of beer and plenty of wood for the fireplace. And if he runs out of liquor, the Kennedy Compound is about a mile down the road from his house....

ROFL

I have been laughing since they started talking about it.:)

But we know how to drive in it, they don't.

I haven't posted crap how many times we have had winds of plus 60mph winds and snow this year(2013) and -30 below zero temperatures that went with it.

Well I'm a dumbass for going out and leaving my car on my friends street. Not good. I bet it's burried and I really wish I hadn't underestimated this storm. I was like, Sandy wasn't shit, it hasnt seriously snowed in 2 years. ****.

If you are caught driving anywhere in Massachusetts you are supposed to get a $500 fine and up to a year in jail. Ya, my car is ****ed.

Not to worry, the snow plows will move it for you. Do you have a good body shop in your area?

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Watching CNN. So they have a woman reporting from a gas station, this guy in a sedan is trying to drive through the station and she starts bitching at him for driving in the snow. ROFL. He mutters some excuse and she says "Be safe." "OK lady, you have a **** off day as well."

Man, if you think Bostonians can't drive in the snow, don't come to DC. You'll go into system shock instantly.

Not so much fun when floods and 2ft of snow hit you, is it?...

Been there done that.

Where I live has never, ever took a direct hit from a hurricane. But, the day my son left KC to come down here, there was a tornado/funnel cloud in the sky a 1/2 mile from where he slept. At least with hurricanes you get some warning.
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