Don't be fooled by the movie; Nemo's a d**k.

[Ken]

Hello all,

So, as the title indicates, that blizzard that hit my area did an absolute number on my town. There are still several of my friends who have yet to have their street plowed and many of the roads around here still are caked with about 1-2 inches worth of compacted snow. By my rough measurements and those around me we saw about 28-30 inches with snow drifts around 3-4 feet.

Naturally, since no storm can hit here without some kind of middle of the storm antics for me, my house last half power. Of course, the half with the heating system. So in the middle of the blizzard i decided to try and head out to see if Home Depot or anything was open so i could get a electric heater. Car handled everything just fine; aside from me not being able to see (due to whiteout conditions) that a plow had cleared a parking lot and i drove into a snow pile the height of my hood. Went through it just fine but discovered the next day that it had pushed one of my foglights into the car. Didn't help that to get around i was driving around in about 6-8 inches worth of snow at some times. Once the weather warms up i'm going to have to tackle that little project.

Left Saturday to see the GF in North Jersey, wasn't nearly as bad there, but the roads were still shit around here. Just got back home now and they aren't much better. I honestly have never seen anything like it, there is just nowhere to put all this damn snow. I took only a couple pictures, but they really don't do it justice. Hoping to upload those later.

[Jake]

Wow. I have friends up in MA and my boss lives in Essex County, NJ. I don't think she got much in NJ but I know Mass. got a ton. One friend there was without power (whole house) for 40 hours.

One of my coworkers lives in Poughkeepsie, I'll have to see how bad it was for him.

Keep warm!

[premiershine9]

Back home the rents said they got around 18- roads clear by now for the most part. Good to hear you were ok- CT got hammered, I remember back in middle school and high school that unless we got 6-8 or more we generally had school or a one hour delayed opening. I'll never forget my freshman year here at JMU when we had 14 or 15 inches and it took them 5 days to figure out how to push snow the right way in the parking lots!

Looking forward to the pics

[WRXtranceformed]

I feel your pain. We used to get snowed in at the farm for days and days. The worst ever was I think the blizzard of '96. We were stuck without power for over two weeks. Fortunately we had woodstoves and plenty of firewood and we had propane gas to cook. Our 'main' road was a dirt road that was managed by the county...but don't expect a dirt road to be high on the priority list for snow plows. We usually just pulled out the John Deere w/ snow plow and my dad and a few of the neighbors who had tractors plowed out everyone else.

Why do you think I was so happy when I moved down south?

[Ken]

So, of course, it decides to downpour today to top it all off. Nothing like 30 inches of wet snow for roofs. Not to mention that the snow and ice has blocked most, if not all, of drainage on roads so now there are massive ponds everywhere.

[JPolen01]

I'll just drop this here


Also pretty cool time lapse