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Fman99 Dec 09 2010 06:11 AM

Five straight days of lake effect and we've already had about 40" of snow fall this week at the Fman household. I've been out there twice a day, morning and evening, shovelling my driveway which is two cars wide and 2.5 cars long. Good times!

Ceetar Dec 09 2010 06:42 AM Re: Snow!

I miss Buffalo. There is no snow down here in Jersey currently.

metirish Dec 09 2010 08:00 AM Re: Snow!

Fman99 wrote: Five straight days of lake effect and we've already had about 40" of snow fall this week at the Fman household. I've been out there twice a day, morning and evening, shovelling my driveway which is two cars wide and 2.5 cars long. Good times! can't say I envy you with that...

soupcan Dec 09 2010 08:55 AM Re: Snow!

Fman99 wrote: Five straight days of lake effect and we've already had about 40" of snow fall this week at the Fman household. I've been out there twice a day, morning and evening, shovelling my driveway which is two cars wide and 2.5 cars long. Good times! Dude - you live in Syracuse, it's like..what it does.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 09 2010 10:26 AM Re: Snow!

This weekend, you get more "local color," right?

Fman99 Dec 10 2010 08:17 AM Re: Snow!

Yeah, we get a break tomorrow and Saturday and then its supposed to ramp up again Sunday/Monday. It is what it is. I like where I live, weather notwithstanding. I even like shoveling snow, it's beautifully quiet at 5:45 in the morning and the sun is beginning to lighten the sky. It's good exercise, too. My thing is the duration of this... the local airport had 97 consecutive hours where it was snowing. That's just silly, even for up here.

soupcan Dec 10 2010 08:26 AM Re: Snow!

I think it was my junior year at SU when it snowed for 45 days in a row - meaning at least some flurries every day. The thing that amazed me the most about that was that it didn't even come close to the record of 61.

Fman99 Dec 16 2010 01:35 PM Re: Snow!

We're up to 70.5" of snow since the season started. Average annual snowfall here for a season is about 120". It. Just. Keeps. Snowing.

Ceetar Dec 16 2010 01:38 PM Re: Snow!

Better make lots of Snow Pagans.

metirish Dec 16 2010 01:39 PM Re: Snow!

Ireland right now is going through some crazy snow weather, which is unusual as it rains mostly....they have had large snowfalls for several weeks now and more coming apparently....running out of salt too from what I am reading. Here's a very cool NASA image from two weeks ago http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... ?id=47528#

Willets Point Dec 16 2010 02:12 PM Re: Snow!

Ireland right now is going through some crazy snow weather, which is unusual as it rains mostly....they have had large snowfalls for several weeks now and more coming apparently....running out of salt too from what I am reading. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves

Valadius Dec 16 2010 06:54 PM Re: Snow!

Not too much snow in Munster though.

Rockin' Doc Dec 16 2010 06:58 PM Re: Snow!

We had our second snow of the year this morning. Only an inch of accumulation each time. No shoveling required, which is fine with me.

soupcan Dec 22 2010 10:02 AM Re: Snow!

The New York Times is all over this fast-breaking story! December 22, 2010 In Syracuse, December Is Even Snowier Than Usual By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS SYRACUSE — In some places, as the first days of winter pass, the prospect of a white Christmas is just that: a possibility, sometimes realized, sometimes not. But in this city, hard by the Snow Belt beneath Lake Ontario, there is no need for any caveat. By this time, every year, it has snowed so heavily and so often that any more would be incomprehensible. Syracuse has met the incomprehensible. As of Tuesday, even before winter had officially begun — at 6:38 p.m. Eastern time — 71.9 inches of snow had fallen this month, making it the city’s snowiest December ever. There has been at least a trace of snow on all but four days so far this month. In one four-day stretch last week, 43.2 inches came down. There are areas of New York where a modest snowfall can be a great white disruption, closing schools and airports, paralyzing businesses and erasing traffic from most streets. Syracuse is not one of those places. As much as the people here enjoy complaining about the snow, they may take greater pleasure mocking the less hardy citizens, for whom snowfall is a catastrophe rather than just weather. Through all of this snow, public schools in Syracuse closed for just two days, and the airport shut down for 15 minutes. Piles of cleared snow grew to two-story heights, but the roads were plowed and kept open. “We got calls from all over asking us to relay horror stories, and we said, ‘We don’t have any; everything’s fine in Syracuse,’ ” Mayor Stephanie A. Miner said. “I suppose if we’d had a tornado warning or a hurricane warning, we’d be at a standstill. But we’ve been dealing with this for a long time.” Since 1951, the city’s snowfall totals have averaged nearly 10 feet a year; the last time fewer than 100 inches fell in one year was in the winter of 2001-2, when a paltry 59.4 inches came down. That was the lowest annual snowfall since the National Weather Service began recording snowfall statistics in Syracuse in 1951; the highest came in 1992-93, when 192.1 inches fell. Perhaps it makes sense that most Syracuse residents seemed to regard the extra snow this year as a visit from a cranky, if not altogether unpleasant, older relative. “Oh, we’re just used to it,” said George McGuire, 41, a lawyer, who did not seem a bit bothered by the mound of snow at his side: it stood about 6 feet high and 10 feet wide, right in the middle of downtown. “If you had this kind of snow, you’d be used to it, too.” Not all Syracuse residents were quite so understanding of people from afar, who might be less accustomed to such a pounding. “In New York City, you guys get a few inches, you close down,” said Kathy Pucello, 45, a secretary. “And we’ve gotten like 10 feet!” But in fairness to those farther south, not all cities are not quite so well prepared. Syracuse devotes an entire bureau of its Department of Public Works to snow and ice clearing during the winter, which lasts about five months here. The public works commissioner, Pete O’Connor, said his department watched its overtime budget year-round to make sure it could afford to pay for the worst winter storms, when plows are run around the clock in 12-hour shifts. Once a good pounding lets up, the snow-plow drivers, whom Mr. O’Connor calls snowfighters, haul the powdery remains to a seven-acre lot at the Department of Public Works, where mounds can reach as high as a two- or three-story building. Once the lot reaches capacity, snowfighters start dumping on any city land they can find, like parks and parking lots. So far, there is still room for more. Despite the challenges all this snow presents, Mr. O’Connor said he still wanted to see more of it — at least enough to mark a record high for any month in Syracuse. “I want to break the all-time record, and then I hope we never break it again,” Mr. O’Connor said with a chuckle. “Let’s get it in the books and move along.” Mr. O’Connor may get his wish, said David Nicosia, a meteorologist with the Weather Service’s office in Binghamton, N.Y. “They’re getting there,” Mr. Nicosia said. Much of the snow in Syracuse comes from what is called the lake effect, Mr. Nocosia explained. Cold air blows down from Canada and picks up moisture from Lake Ontario, then promptly dumps it onto Syracuse. This snow is much fluffier, he said, than what falls in a normal snowstorm in much of the Northeast. Some Syracuse residents could not be happier about their place in the lake-effect bull’s-eye. “I can’t get enough of it,” said Russell Hall, 43, the director of marketing at a manufacturing company and an avid skier, who keeps his boots and skis in his car in case the mood strikes him. “I left Minnesota because there was hardly any snow. It was just cold.” But not all of his neighbors are as enthusiastic. “People don’t know how to drive in the snow, even here,” said Debra Bassett, 37, a contract coordinator for an energy company. She said a heavy snow often tripled her 30-minute drive home from work. “It amazes me every year.” While the weather does present challenges for commuters and extra costs for the city — in the second week of this month alone, Syracuse spent nearly $200,000 on salt — a snowy December does have one distinct advantage. “I’m going to say there is a 100 percent chance Syracuse is going to have a white Christmas,” Mr. Nicosia said. “I’ll put my reputation on the line for that one.”

A Boy Named Seo Dec 22 2010 10:18 AM Re: Snow!

All we got is rain. Buckets and buckets and buckets and buckets of neverending rain. Am not cut out for Seattle. Hate this crap.

metirish Dec 26 2010 02:30 PM Re: Snow!

NYC wants to join the fun Fman.... Metro North on a Sunday sked tomorrow so make sure to check the times here , so far no interruptions http://www.mta.info/mnr/ http://as0.mta.info/mnr/schedules/sched_form.cfm

Rockin' Doc Dec 26 2010 03:55 PM Re: Snow!

We have 8.5" of fresh snow as measured in my back deck. It is lightly snowing at present, but I think the accumulation will be minimal before the remainder of this front passes us. This is the single largest snow we have experienced in eastern North Carolina since I moved here in 1985. We generally don't get 8-9" of snow in a winter, let alone in less than 24 hours, so this area is pretty much shut down. It will be interesting to see how long it will take for life around here to reach some level of normalcy. The people of this area deal with hurricanes better than they do snow. Hell, I don't even own a snow shovel.

metsmarathon Dec 26 2010 06:03 PM Re: Snow!

about two hours ago, there was an inch on teh ground. i ran out to the grocery store for cookie-making supplies. i came home to find that work is already cancelled for tomorrow.

metirish Dec 26 2010 06:18 PM Re: Snow!

Coming down hard here in the Bronx.... In the time it took me to shovel around the driveway there was already a good half inch down......

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 26 2010 06:26 PM Re: Snow!

I left for a run just as it began this morning but had to cut short the bridge because it was so slick. Really started coming down by the time I got home. Very windy and nasty right now but I can't tell whether snow is still falling or just blowing.

Chad Ochoseis Dec 26 2010 06:29 PM Re: Snow!

Ironically enough, I escaped the snowstorm by flying out to Cleveland just before they closed Newark Airport. Sunny and clear here, though there's more than enough snow on the ground to take my niece and nephew sledding tomorrow.

themetfairy Dec 26 2010 06:36 PM Re: Snow!

I got to the gym this morning, and got home just as the snow started sticking. We're guesstimating 8" on the patio so far, and it's still coming down.

seawolf17 Dec 26 2010 06:47 PM Re: Snow!

Probably about 8"-10" here on eastern LI right now, but it's definitely still coming, and windy and cold as hell. I've been out shoveling twice already; probably make another run across the driveway before bed, then hit it in the morning.

Fman99 Dec 26 2010 07:13 PM Re: Snow!

As usual, the noreasters like this one that slam into the coast are too far south and east of here for us to notice. Not that we won't get our share this year.

metirish Dec 26 2010 09:24 PM Re: Snow!

When I opened the door a while ago I got this, the snow had drifted up and left this mould

themetfairy Dec 26 2010 09:38 PM Re: Snow!

Our scene isn't quite as dramatic in Central NJ. But note for the record that, normally, there's a decent step down from our door to the front porch -

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 27 2010 02:03 AM Re: Snow!

Drove from Jersey to Queens at mid-afternoon, driven by something close to necessity. Between the rear-wheel-drive, 20-40 mph crosswinds, the baby in the car, and the near-complete lack of traction and visibility, it was one of the scarier, stupider undertakings I've ever undertaken.

dgwphotography Dec 27 2010 05:33 AM Re: Snow!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Drove from Jersey to Queens at mid-afternoon, driven by something close to necessity. Between the rear-wheel-drive, 20-40 mph crosswinds, the baby in the car, and the near-complete lack of traction and visibility, it was one of the scarier, stupider undertakings I've ever undertaken. Glad that you're home safe. To all those who say "Let it snow", and pray for snow, F*ck you.

metirish Dec 27 2010 05:51 AM Re: Snow!

What a mess the drifting outside the front door Need to shovel that to get out of the driveway for tomorrow Door mould got higher

cooby Dec 27 2010 08:57 AM Re: Snow!

That is so neat!

Ceetar Dec 27 2010 11:05 AM Re: Snow!

cooby wrote: That is so neat! I agree. I love the snow. and missed work today, woo hoo. My wife left for the Dominican Republic hours before the storm hit. she's probably on a warm sunny beach right now. sucker.

MFS62 Dec 27 2010 01:14 PM Re: Snow!

Up to the door handles of my Jeep. I'm too sore from shoveling to take a picture (camera or phone are too heavy for me to lift right now). When I looked at the weather maps, the shaded area that said "24-31 inches" was over my house. Plus drifts. Later

Lefty Specialist Dec 27 2010 01:57 PM Re: Snow!

I'm up to 29 inches. Of snow, that is. What?

Ceetar Dec 27 2010 03:02 PM Re: Snow!

http://picasaweb.google.com/DebbieLoves ... directlink

G-Fafif Dec 27 2010 03:24 PM Re: Snow!

Car dug out. Outsize sense of accomplishment.

Ashie62 Dec 27 2010 04:42 PM Re: Snow!

Dug out..22" NJ

Fman99 Dec 27 2010 05:11 PM Re: Snow!

You are all total pansies. Up here we'd just call it "a weekday."

Ceetar Dec 27 2010 05:26 PM Re: Snow!

Fman99 wrote: You are all total pansies. Up here we'd just call it "a weekday." yeah, but they actually have people up there that plow.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 27 2010 05:42 PM Re: Snow!

Our street's on Bloomberg's efficient new Let's Just Wait Till It Melts grid. Wifey Bucket contemplates our buried car. Lunchpail

Kong76 Dec 27 2010 05:47 PM Re: Snow!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Holy phwam!

cooby Dec 27 2010 06:13 PM Re: Snow!

We got not one flake here in Central PA, but my daughter and her beau drove right to it for a visit with his folks in Philly. This weekend, mr cooby and I will be travelling there too, so we'll get to see it, haha.

metirish Dec 27 2010 06:17 PM Re: Snow!

No plough on our street today either, yet there was the mayor for life on TV getting all shitty when asked why the streets were not being ploughed.......he can be so smug at times like that.

cooby Dec 27 2010 06:18 PM Re: Snow!

I hope you are all able to take tomorrow off

Kong76 Dec 27 2010 06:25 PM Re: Snow!

Not sure I'd want a city plow barreling down that street if my car was parked on it as pictured!

Ceetar Dec 27 2010 06:29 PM Re: Snow!

Kong76 wrote: Not sure I'd want a city plow barreling down that street if my car was parked on it as pictured! Nah, that's the easy part. The hard park is parallel parking back into those spots after you go to work.

cooby Dec 27 2010 06:40 PM Re: Snow!

Around here after mammoth snowstorms, you'll see people "reserving" their shoveled out spot with a kitchen chair...

metsmarathon Dec 27 2010 07:01 PM Re: Snow!

we only got about 8" max here in mountainous northwest jersey. minimm was largely unimpressed by the magnitude of the storm. Snow! by twenny6point2, on Flickr

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 28 2010 08:56 AM Re: Snow!

First plow we've seen since the storm hit has been stuck in front of our house since 9am. Getting a shovel now...

Ceetar Dec 28 2010 09:00 AM Re: Snow!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: First plow we've seen since the storm hit has been stuck in front of our house since 9am. Getting a shovel now... Who will plow the plows?! I made it to work today. my parkinglot and street were still pretty bad, they only came through once so there's still a lot of ice an mess. But after that things were pretty smooth, even if a lot of random lanes on roads are closed due to piles of snow. surprised the lot at work was plowed as well as it was.

seawolf17 Dec 28 2010 09:02 AM Re: Snow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE

metirish Dec 28 2010 09:19 AM Re: Snow!

NYC sanitation came down our street at 11:30pm last night , I don't remember such a united uproar about the plowing this year....plowing or ploughing? Brooklyn's borough president was going ape shit on TV yesterday about the lack of ploughs. Saw this in Gothamist http://gothamist.com/2010/12/27/bloombe ... if_you.php Picture of mayor for life's well ploughed street that's his house on the left with the bay windows source http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ ... ners-block

Edgy DC Dec 28 2010 09:54 AM Re: Snow!

Mayor for Life? No plows? You people are amateurs when it comes to entrenched and unresponsive gummint. We went 40 days without plows visiting us under Marion Barry back in 1995.

metirish Dec 28 2010 10:04 AM Re: Snow!

Edgy DC wrote: Mayor for Life? No plows? You people are amateurs when it comes to entrenched and unresponsive gummint. We went 40 days without plows visiting us under Marion Barry back in 1995. Well he was probably thinking about snow of of different kind....otherwise occupied.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 28 2010 11:27 AM Re: Snow!

Ceetar wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: First plow we've seen since the storm hit has been stuck in front of our house since 9am. Getting a shovel now... Who will plow the plows?! Me and my neighbors. The driver basically sat in the cab smoking while three of us dug beneath the entire truck. We finally got him loose enough to back out all the way back to the main road. The rest of the street is still unplowed and therefore impassible.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 28 2010 12:44 PM Re: Snow!

Predictably, this is a complete clusterfuck by now. The street looks passable as you enter onto it, but it's not once you get to the point where the snowplow bailed. Now there's three cars stacked up all trying to reverse up the snowy one-way.

themetfairy Dec 28 2010 12:45 PM Re: Snow!

Maybe it's better that they don't come....

metirish Dec 28 2010 12:51 PM Re: Snow!

themetfairy wrote: Maybe it's better that they don't come.... WOW, astonishing stupidity....thankfully caught on camera

Ceetar Dec 28 2010 12:52 PM Re: Snow!

What was it about this storm that so baffled snow plows? I mean, this is what they're supposed to do right? how do they do it upstate with much bigger amounts? Is it just that they come by more frequently and don't wait until there is 3 feet of it in drifts?

Frayed Knot Dec 28 2010 01:04 PM Re: Snow!

At least Bloomberg (AFAIK anyway) hasn't pulled a John Lindsay by publicly stating that the reason some streets hadn't been plowed was that they were in the outer boroughs and therefore not nearly as important as Manhattan streets. Yeah, that one went over real big.

Fman99 Dec 28 2010 01:15 PM Re: Snow!

Ceetar wrote: What was it about this storm that so baffled snow plows? I mean, this is what they're supposed to do right? how do they do it upstate with much bigger amounts? Is it just that they come by more frequently and don't wait until there is 3 feet of it in drifts? Laws that prohibit parking on city streets between 10 PM and 5 AM. Drivers who know what they're doing.

Edgy DC Dec 28 2010 01:18 PM Re: Snow!

The region hit is large and plows can only be in one place at a time.

Ceetar Dec 28 2010 01:24 PM Re: Snow!

Fman99 wrote: Ceetar wrote: What was it about this storm that so baffled snow plows? I mean, this is what they're supposed to do right? how do they do it upstate with much bigger amounts? Is it just that they come by more frequently and don't wait until there is 3 feet of it in drifts? Laws that prohibit parking on city streets between 10 PM and 5 AM. Drivers who know what they're doing. Budget cuts? Makes sense about the streets, but someone told me they couldn't go to work mainly because no one bothered to plow the Little Neck LIRR station parking lot.

dgwphotography Dec 28 2010 01:36 PM Re: Snow!

seawolf17 wrote: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE There must be an echo in here...

Ceetar Dec 28 2010 01:51 PM Re: Snow!

metirish Dec 28 2010 01:56 PM Re: Snow!

Cory Booker the mayor of Newark has been using his twitter feed to correspond directly with snowed in residents . I just doug out ur car. All the best that to a resident who complained that she could not get to a medical facility. speaking of medical facilities , my father-in-law who gets dialysis three times a week in Valhalla NY couldn't get there Monday morning obviously....he really needed to go for it but his street was not plowed(still not)....his daughter called 311 and called 911....nothing , they couldn't get to him ....his daughter and son walked him to the nearest E.R. which thankfully is at the top of his street and a short walk away....fine for healthy people but a man with kidney and heart failure it was torture.....they brought a chair with them so he could sit and rest ......

Gwreck Dec 28 2010 02:22 PM Re: Snow!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Predictably, this is a complete clusterfuck by now. The street looks passable as you enter onto it, but it's not once you get to the point where the snowplow bailed. Now there's three cars stacked up all trying to reverse up the snowy one-way. Same thing around the corner from us, as some jackass tried to drive his SUV down the street, got stuck, and then left it there in the middle of the street, blocking everything. Even better, when you turn down the side street, you can't yet see the SUV, so people try to drive down the street. Fun times last night as an ambulance and police car had to back up as they couldn't get by...

Edgy DC Dec 28 2010 05:03 PM Re: Snow!

metirish wrote: Cory Booker the mayor of Newark has been using his twitter feed to correspond directly with snowed in residents . I just doug out ur car. All the best that to a resident who complained that she could not get to a medical facility. speaking of medical facilities , my father-in-law who gets dialysis three times a week in Valhalla NY couldn't get there Monday morning obviously....he really needed to go for it but his street was not plowed(still not)....his daughter called 311 and called 911....nothing , they couldn't get to him ....his daughter and son walked him to the nearest E.R. which thankfully is at the top of his street and a short walk away....fine for healthy people but a man with kidney and heart failure it was torture.....they brought a chair with them so he could sit and rest ...... Awful. I'm glad he got in, but awful. Good reason to make friends with somebody with a badass truck. Ask after your elderly and infirm neighbors, folks.

Ceetar Dec 28 2010 05:12 PM Re: Snow!

Edgy DC wrote: metirish wrote: Cory Booker the mayor of Newark has been using his twitter feed to correspond directly with snowed in residents . I just doug out ur car. All the best that to a resident who complained that she could not get to a medical facility. speaking of medical facilities , my father-in-law who gets dialysis three times a week in Valhalla NY couldn't get there Monday morning obviously....he really needed to go for it but his street was not plowed(still not)....his daughter called 311 and called 911....nothing , they couldn't get to him ....his daughter and son walked him to the nearest E.R. which thankfully is at the top of his street and a short walk away....fine for healthy people but a man with kidney and heart failure it was torture.....they brought a chair with them so he could sit and rest ...... Awful. I'm glad he got in, but awful. Good reason to make friends with somebody with a badass truck. Ask after your elderly and infirm neighbors, folks. I can hear the elderly women below me hacking and coughing, and singing loudly to christmas songs, so I assume she's alright.

Edgy DC Dec 28 2010 06:45 PM Re: Snow!

Or she's trying to distract herself as she suffers. Give her a knock to be on the safe side. Some folks may need a pharmacy run or some detergent. Or whiskey.

MFS62 Dec 28 2010 09:37 PM Re: Snow!

When the signs in Montreal say "No parking on snow streets" they mean it. The streets are clearly marked. They come through with huge front loaders, pick up anything on the street , and dump it into the St. Lawrence River. Many a car has been lost that way, especially small ones easily covered with snow. Later

Rockin' Doc Dec 28 2010 10:02 PM Re: Snow!

seawolf17 wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE Wow, that makes me feel better about the local snow removal policy of clearing the interstates, main thoroughfares, and simply waiting for the sun to take care of everything else.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 28 2010 10:17 PM Re: Snow!

Ceetar wrote: Edgy DC wrote: metirish wrote: Cory Booker the mayor of Newark has been using his twitter feed to correspond directly with snowed in residents . I just doug out ur car. All the best that to a resident who complained that she could not get to a medical facility. speaking of medical facilities , my father-in-law who gets dialysis three times a week in Valhalla NY couldn't get there Monday morning obviously....he really needed to go for it but his street was not plowed(still not)....his daughter called 311 and called 911....nothing , they couldn't get to him ....his daughter and son walked him to the nearest E.R. which thankfully is at the top of his street and a short walk away....fine for healthy people but a man with kidney and heart failure it was torture.....they brought a chair with them so he could sit and rest ...... Awful. I'm glad he got in, but awful. Good reason to make friends with somebody with a badass truck. Ask after your elderly and infirm neighbors, folks. I can hear the elderly women below me hacking and coughing, and singing loudly to christmas songs, so I assume she's alright. You should sing along with her. But louder.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 28 2010 10:42 PM Re: Snow!

Spent another few hours tonight digging out a shuttle bus from the middle of our street. Driver eventually got it off to the side, kinda, but it will be awful hard for a plow to come through, if that ever happens. I swear the plan was just wait for it to melt.

Frayed Knot Dec 29 2010 08:20 AM Re: Snow!

in Montreal ... they come through with huge front loaders, pick up anything on the street , and dump it into the St. Lawrence River. I think one of the problems in NYC is that a number of years ago they put through some well-intentioned though ultimately goofy environmental laws making it illegal for the city to simply shove the snow off the island and into NY harbor, meaning that the slower method of picking the stuff up and hauling it somewhere needs to be employed. After all, no telling how much the earth would be impacted were dirt to get into the rivers and bays. I also suspect some of those laws are put in as a pay-off to unions who don't want there to be less work to do. I always heard that home in-sink garbage disposals are (or at least were) illegal in NYC on account of the sanitation union objecting to the idea of there being less garbage.

Edgy DC Dec 29 2010 08:25 AM Re: Snow!

Rockin' Doc wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE Wow, that makes me feel better about the local snow removal policy of clearing the interstates, main thoroughfares, and simply waiting for the sun to take care of everything else. I like that he called them "fucking retarded," "idiots," and "insane" over and over, and then drops the camera lens toward his lap to reveal that he's watching from an open window wearing gym shorts, a tee, and nothing on his feet. At least some peope are out there being proactive. It's an emergency, and sitting there in your underwear cursing the city doesn''t exactly help.

Ceetar Dec 29 2010 08:29 AM Re: Snow!

Edgy DC wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE Wow, that makes me feel better about the local snow removal policy of clearing the interstates, main thoroughfares, and simply waiting for the sun to take care of everything else. I like that he called them "fucking retarded," "idiots," and "insane" over and over, and then drops the camera lens toward his lap to reveal that he's watching from an open window wearing gym shorts, a tee, and nothing on his feet. At least some peope are out there being proactive. It's an emergency, and sitting there in your underwear cursing the city doesn''t exactly help. Twitter and the internet certainly help things like this go viral fast too. A bit of that 15 bytes of fame or something. I imagine all the funding issues the MTA is reported to be having plays into their crappy situation with snow removal and operations too. I doubt the snow-removal group is any better funded. (Or do they just suck? Are these the same guys that are always doing construction and causing traffic and messing up the Cross Island->Throgs Neck merge?

metirish Dec 29 2010 08:47 AM Re: Snow!

While Mayor Mike gets hammered Cory Booker gets lavished with praise for being proactive in his approach, using twitter to go help people....this though is classic....he goes to one house to help and gets in to a inline verbal with the guy You know what would be nice? If we had a Mayor who, instead of telling us to stop our complaining as he frolics down his completely plowed street, picked up a shovel and lent a hand? Maybe we should move to Newark, because that's just what Mayor Cory Booker has been doing. Armed with Twitter, he's been taking requests, and recently announced to Rookie2Veteran "I am here now to help" not an hour after he wrote for help. However, Rookie (T. Bonds) doesn't think that Booker did a great job, and now the war of words is on. If T. Bonds wanted Booker's help he certainly didn't act like it, writing, "I fuck around & get arrested if cory booker come here wit a fuckin shovel," but said, "#corybooker just called and said he comin thru #pause ...he on avon & stratford now...we will see." Once Booker arrived, Bonds quickly told the rest of the Twitter community that Booker "wasn't doin nuttin but chit chat...they was shovelin shit I shoveled already," and almost seemed jealous when he wrote, "This nigga talkin more than he shovel...da mother thinks he's martin da way she laughin at every joke." He finally stepped up to the mayor himself, writing, "I did everything before u came...I kno u had to see my path." But Booker called him out on his shoveling work, writing, "Wow u shud b ashamed of yourself. U tweet vulgarities & then I come out here to help & its ur mom & sis digging. Where r u?" As if that weren't enough of a smackdown, Bonds said, "Cory booker really a mayor tho cuz he ratted on me to my moms smh...my mom said 'TaJuan I'm embarrassed.'" Seriously Bonds, all Booker was trying to do was garner a little good PR after laying off 13% of the police force! We'll see if the smack talk continues, or if Bonds just got grounded. http://gothamist.com/2010/12/28/take_th ... yor_di.php

Edgy DC Dec 29 2010 08:55 AM Re: Snow!

Let Operation Move-To-Newark begin.

Ceetar Dec 29 2010 08:55 AM Re: Snow!

Of course, Bloomberg is nearly 70. Not sure that's who you want shoveling. And can't a mayor get his hands on a plow that's not being used and drive that around? probably more efficent. I see all this hate and disgust for Bloomberg, and yet everyone voted for him..three times..

Ceetar Dec 29 2010 08:56 AM Re: Snow!

Edgy DC wrote: Let Operation Move-To-Newark begin. The PATH to 1 to 7 transfer to Mets-Willets Point is not a good one unfortunately. big draw back there.

soupcan Dec 29 2010 09:27 AM Re: Snow!

If T. Bonds wanted Booker's help he certainly didn't act like it, writing, "I fuck around & get arrested if cory booker come here wit a fuckin shovel," but said, "#corybooker just called and said he comin thru #pause ...he on avon & stratford now...we will see." Once Booker arrived, Bonds quickly told the rest of the Twitter community that Booker "wasn't doin nuttin but chit chat...they was shovelin shit I shoveled already," and almost seemed jealous when he wrote, "This nigga talkin more than he shovel...da mother thinks he's martin da way she laughin at every joke." He finally stepped up to the mayor himself, writing, "I did everything before u came...I kno u had to see my path." But Booker called him out on his shoveling work, writing, "Wow u shud b ashamed of yourself. U tweet vulgarities & then I come out here to help & its ur mom & sis digging. Where r u?" As if that weren't enough of a smackdown, Bonds said, "Cory booker really a mayor tho cuz he ratted on me to my moms smh...my mom said 'TaJuan I'm embarrassed.'" Seriously Bonds, all Booker was trying to do was garner a little good PR after laying off 13% of the police force! We'll see if the smack talk continues, or if Bonds just got grounded. I can't understand 95% of this. "Cory booker really a mayor tho cuz he ratted on me to my moms smh...my mom said 'TaJuan I'm embarrassed.'" What?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 29 2010 09:46 AM Re: Snow!

soupcan wrote: If T. Bonds wanted Booker's help he certainly didn't act like it, writing, "I fuck around & get arrested if cory booker come here wit a fuckin shovel," but said, "#corybooker just called and said he comin thru #pause ...he on avon & stratford now...we will see." Once Booker arrived, Bonds quickly told the rest of the Twitter community that Booker "wasn't doin nuttin but chit chat...they was shovelin shit I shoveled already," and almost seemed jealous when he wrote, "This nigga talkin more than he shovel...da mother thinks he's martin da way she laughin at every joke." He finally stepped up to the mayor himself, writing, "I did everything before u came...I kno u had to see my path." But Booker called him out on his shoveling work, writing, "Wow u shud b ashamed of yourself. U tweet vulgarities & then I come out here to help & its ur mom & sis digging. Where r u?" As if that weren't enough of a smackdown, Bonds said, "Cory booker really a mayor tho cuz he ratted on me to my moms smh...my mom said 'TaJuan I'm embarrassed.'" Seriously Bonds, all Booker was trying to do was garner a little good PR after laying off 13% of the police force! We'll see if the smack talk continues, or if Bonds just got grounded. I can't understand 95% of this. "Cory booker really a mayor tho cuz he ratted on me to my moms smh...my mom said 'TaJuan I'm embarrassed.'" What? Funny that our Shakespeare lives a stone's throw from "avon & stratford."

Ashie62 Dec 29 2010 10:14 AM Re: Snow!

Ceetar wrote: Of course, Bloomberg is nearly 70. Not sure that's who you want shoveling. And can't a mayor get his hands on a plow that's not being used and drive that around? probably more efficent. I see all this hate and disgust for Bloomberg, and yet everyone voted for him..three times.. Not quite everyone, prolly not those who disliked Bloomberg extending mayoral term limits anyway.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 29 2010 10:27 AM Re: Snow!

Ceetar wrote: Of course, Bloomberg is nearly 70. Not sure that's who you want shoveling. And can't a mayor get his hands on a plow that's not being used and drive that around? probably more efficent. I see all this hate and disgust for Bloomberg, and yet everyone voted for him..three times.. To be fair, said cumulative amount of hate/disgust is still the least amount of hate/disgust I've ever seen directed toward a New York City mayor since... say... Dinkins.

metirish Dec 29 2010 10:36 AM Re: Snow!

Frayed Knot Dec 29 2010 10:45 AM Re: Snow!

The caption for that last aerial view should be 'Maine's Turn to Get its Ass Kicked' Ceetar wrote: And can't a mayor get his hands on a plow that's not being used and drive that around? probably more efficent. Hizzoner probably doesn't want to risk looking like Mike Dukakis in the tank.

soupcan Dec 29 2010 11:19 AM Re: Snow!

metirish wrote: Is that coming or going...?

metirish Dec 29 2010 11:21 AM Re: Snow!

sorry , caption with the picture said NASA took this satellite image of the storm moving out to sea late Monday night, leaving behind the snowy chaos Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z19WgeF2WZ

metirish Dec 29 2010 11:25 AM Re: Snow!

A street in Brooklyn.....Bucket's street?

Edgy DC Dec 29 2010 12:12 PM Re: Snow!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ceetar wrote: Of course, Bloomberg is nearly 70. Not sure that's who you want shoveling. And can't a mayor get his hands on a plow that's not being used and drive that around? probably more efficent. I see all this hate and disgust for Bloomberg, and yet everyone voted for him..three times.. To be fair, said cumulative amount of hate/disgust is still the least amount of hate/disgust I've ever seen directed toward a New York City mayor since... say... Dinkins. Well, there was enough hate and disgust with Dinkins after he took a pass on the Crown Heights riot to elicit a near police riot in response and make Brooklyn go Republican for the first time in forever. WFAN must be a riot today.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 29 2010 12:17 PM Re: Snow!

Edgy DC wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ceetar wrote: Of course, Bloomberg is nearly 70. Not sure that's who you want shoveling. And can't a mayor get his hands on a plow that's not being used and drive that around? probably more efficent. I see all this hate and disgust for Bloomberg, and yet everyone voted for him..three times.. To be fair, said cumulative amount of hate/disgust is still the least amount of hate/disgust I've ever seen directed toward a New York City mayor since... say... Dinkins. Well, there was enough hate and disgust with Dinkins after he took a pass on the Crown Heights riot to elicit a near police riot in response and make Brooklyn go Republican for the first time in forever. WFAN must be a riot today. How the hell did I space on Crown Heights? You're completely right. Which makes Bloomberg maybe the smallest mayoral vitriol target in my lifetime.

Kong76 Dec 30 2010 07:21 AM Re: Snow!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-nyc ... emergency/

Ceetar Dec 30 2010 07:34 AM Re: Snow!

Kong76 wrote: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-nyc-unions-order-worker-slow-down-during-winter-storm-emergency/ Oops, I made the mistake of reading some of the comments on that article. Gaaah..

metirish Dec 30 2010 07:34 AM Re: Snow!

Kong76 wrote: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-nyc-unions-order-worker-slow-down-during-winter-storm-emergency/ yeah , been hearing about that on various outlets......I dunno, I wouldn't blame anyone for believing it. Bucket, how are things by you?

metirish Dec 30 2010 11:03 AM Re: Snow!

Latest Bloomberg Says Plows Have Hit Every Street By SAM DOLNICK Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Thursday that snow plows had been down every street in the city except for those still blocked by stuck cars. He said that tow trucks would have those vehicles clear in the afternoon, and that plows would return to streets still buried. But, as he did the day before, Mr. Bloomberg acknowledged that the city’s response was “inadequate and unacceptable” and said that his office would conduct an extensive review of what went wrong. “We’re not making excuses,” he said. “The response to the storm has not met our standards or the standards that New Yorkers have come to expect from us.” “When something goes wrong we find out why it went wrong and we roll up our sleeves and fix it,” he said. “The response to this snowstorm was inadequate and unacceptable.” Mr. Bloomberg held a news conference in Queens after visits to Staten Island and Brooklyn where he spoke with residents about their snowbound plights. (He is to go to the Bronx in the afternoon.) He said that 1,600 plows and other equipment were clearing streets Thursday alongside 2,000 day laborers hired to shovel out bus stops and snow piles. The last of the 600 buses that were stuck have been freed, he added. John J. Doherty, the sanitation commissioner, said he would look into claims that his department’s rank-and-file deliberately slowed down the cleanup work to protest budget cuts. “We have to look into that,” Mr. Doherty said. “I have not seen that. I’ve seen a lot of dedicated people out there”

Ashie62 Dec 30 2010 11:06 AM Re: Snow!

Third term NYC Mayors have had difficult terms.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 30 2010 11:56 AM Re: Snow!

metirish wrote: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-nyc-unions-order-worker-slow-down-during-winter-storm-emergency/ yeah , been hearing about that on various outlets......I dunno, I wouldn't blame anyone for believing it. Bucket, how are things by you? We finally got plowed overnight Tuesday. Dug the car out and drove down to VA, where we are now. That photo above is way too nice to be my block but that's pretty much what the street looked like.

MFS62 Dec 30 2010 09:38 PM Re: Snow!

Ceetar wrote: Of course, Bloomberg is nearly 70. Not sure that's who you want shoveling. And can't a mayor get his hands on a plow that's not being used and drive that around? probably more efficent. I see all this hate and disgust for Bloomberg, and yet everyone voted for him..three times.. The picture of Bloomberg on a snow plow would be as funny as that picture of Michael Dukakis in a tank and battle helmet during his Presidential run. Later

Frayed Knot Dec 31 2010 01:36 PM Re: Snow!

Queens councilman Halloran claims several NYC sanitation workers clued him in to an intentional "slowdown" of snow removal citing a union protest to budget cuts.

metirish Dec 31 2010 02:14 PM Re: Snow!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-nyc-unions-order-worker-slow-down-during-winter-storm-emergency/ yeah , been hearing about that on various outlets......I dunno, I wouldn't blame anyone for believing it. Bucket, how are things by you? We finally got plowed overnight Tuesday. Dug the car out and drove down to VA, where we are now. That photo above is way too nice to be my block but that's pretty much what the street looked like. Escape From NY enjoy

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 11 2011 07:38 PM Re: Snow!

Coming down here again pretty hard, could be up to a foot? Big piles still on the street from boxing day storm.

Edgy DC Jan 11 2011 07:52 PM Re: Snow!

Getting hit hard here, also.

Ceetar Jan 11 2011 07:54 PM Re: Snow!

Someone call my company's owner and tell them it is actually okay to close work once in a while?

themetfairy Jan 11 2011 08:27 PM Re: Snow!

Schools here will be closed tomorrow.

TransMonk Apr 19 2011 07:52 AM Re: Snow!

I've got snow falling right now. There should be a rule about snow after Tax Day. Sheesh.

MFS62 Apr 19 2011 08:41 AM Re: Snow!

TransMonk wrote: I've got snow falling right now. There should be a rule about snow after Tax Day. Sheesh. You're right, good weather is anything you don't have to shovel. I remember that when my kids were little, the schools in town were closed because of snow in May! But, look on the bright side. At least its not volcanic ash that's falling. Later

Ceetar Jul 22 2011 12:10 PM Re: Snow!

i miss this thread.

Willets Point Jul 22 2011 12:22 PM Re: Snow!

I didn't expect to see this thread today.