NYC Killer Blizzard Shuts Down Big Apple

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On a deserted street in Manhattan. No traffic. No body. Alone. Desolate. The end is nigh.

[NorthernFocus]

Doesn't exactly look like what most people call a blizzard. But you guys are getting more snow than us this year. AWESOME!

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Apparently we're in a lull. *Supposed* to come in strong overnight into tomorrow. We'll see. Hoping to get some good pics of the bliz tomorrow.

[FootLoose]

Your weather forecast is all over our news, Jack. Hope you and everyone else there is ok.

[IzzieK]

We were supposed to have snow last Sunday, all we got were flurries...you are having a dumping. Hope you are OK...seems like it with your doggie there posing for you. 7K+ flight cancellations! Wow!

[Shadowman]

Some people (skiers, snow plow operators) are actually drooling for all that white stuff. Stay safe.

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Blizzard?




What blizzard?



Twelve hours later and about the only difference is...well, it's 12 hours later. NYC dodged the h̶y̶s̶t̶e̶r̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ historic blizzard of '14. Even in CT only got about 8ish inches. Boston on the other hand....happy I'm not there.

[IzzieK]

I just told Bill about your post and that of Greg's telling us that your area is on tv most of the day. He asked why? It wasn't that bad...news can get people into panic mode...

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We lucked out here in NYC, in CT they got about 10 inches where I live and a way out on Long Island where I have a house, they caught the full brunt of the storm. Luckily (so far as I've heard) there were no fatalities directly attributed to the storm. I've worked a couple of blizzards so more than happy to have missed this one. But...it's only the end of January and we still have February to get through, so plenty of opportunity to have some major fun.

[FootLoose]

I just told Bill about your post and that of Greg's telling us that your area is on tv most of the day. He asked why? It wasn't that bad...news can get people into panic mode...

We don't have 'weather' here anymore. If it is a hot summer's day, it is 'extreme weather'. If it rains, it is 'wild weather'. And if we have an afternoon storm, it is 'violent weather'. It seems every day the weather sets a new record: eg, today was the mildest day since last Friday (I exaggerate, but only a little).

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Tell me about it, around here in the summer, the *weather people* are constantly warning us about 'Dangerous Lightening', not to be confused with friendly lightening. Summer time, it's the dreaded 'Heat Index', winter time it's the deadly 'Wind Chill.' When I was a kid, in the winter it was understood that it could/would be cold outside, my mother, knowing it was windy out as well as cold, insisted that we 'bundle up'. That was it, no wind chill, no deadly threat of frost bite, just bundle up. We all survived.

[Donald]

Tell me about it, ...

It's fascinating to read this stuff from you guys over there, because that is the way our weather forecasters behave as well. I suspect your guys started it and we copied - That's the way things tend to happen over here. We get 'yellow', 'amber' and 'red' "weather warnings". Why?

All the weather forecasts are now infused with judgement. as Jack says above. Just tell me if it's going to rain, snow, be sunny, etc. I'll decide whether I think that's a good or a bad thing. God, I must be getting old.

[ucci]

It's fascinating to read this stuff from you guys over there, because that is the way our weather forecasters behave as well. I suspect your guys started it and we copied - That's the way things tend to happen over here. We get 'yellow', 'amber' and 'red' "weather warnings". Why?

All the weather forecasts are now infused with judgement. as Jack says above. Just tell me if it's going to rain, snow, be sunny, etc. I'll decide whether I think that's a good or a bad thing. God, I must be getting old.

Big deal Donald. Down in the land of Chunder, down under, we also get colour coded weather warnings, with the sophistication of varying shades of intensity in the various colour hues. Nothing to do with snow and stuff but relates to the the other end of the scale and the potential and possibility for bush fires in the area.

[FootLoose]

I'd like to know when the weather became 'bad'. When did it actually decide to be naughty? The weather is the weather: it is what it is. It's not good, bad or indifferent. It's just the weather.

When I was a kid, if it was cold in the morning my mother would tell me to go outside and stand in the sun. If it was cold in the afternoon, after school, she would tell me to go outside and run around to warm up. There were none of these namby-pamby air-conditioners; not even electric radiators for most people. We had open fires which were a pita to get going, and weren't especially helpful as they created a draft throughout the house and sent most of the heat up the chimney anyway, and polluted the neighbourhood with smoke, to boot.

And wearing 3-4 woollen jumpers - hand-knitted, at that - to keep warm was quite normal. Ahh, for the good old days...

[Mark von Kanel]

Where i live the weather reports mean nothing, the only true way to check the weather is to stick your head out of the window....

[IzzieK]

I go to the backyard, look up the sky and can predict if it is going to snow that night or not...I am getting good at it. My husband looks at the almanac, which is what he was used to, being a farmer's son...he's always wrong and I am at around 95% right but then he's a male, he MUST always be typically wrong.

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The weather mafia has started something new here; it is including the number of people about to be in 'harm's way.' They are just absolutely titillated, practically rubbing their hands in evil scientist manner as they proudly announce that '... XX million people will be affected...' Seriously at some point I think they're just going to go through a phone book and start reading out names of people in the area about to be demolished by the violent, deadly, historic, record breaking springtime shower.

[Shadowman]

Or you could be this guy.

http://www.wkbw.com/news/buffalo-nat...-business-suit

The guy stated he never expected to attract attention.

[IzzieK]

Or you could be this guy.

http://www.wkbw.com/news/buffalo-nat...-business-suit

The guy stated he never expected to attract attention.

But he did...travelling light might kill him. I know it will kill me in that blizzard and snow on the ground...

[joebranko]

Looks like you missed the worst of it!