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...6 inches here in Portland would paralyse the city, 16 would be a disaster.
We came close three years ago when 14" was dumped on the city. Few if anyone here has a snow shovel, major streets were left unploughed for a week (only the freeways were cleared), cold sunny days and freezing nights caused snow packed down by vehicles and pedestrians to be compressed into a thick sheet of ice. I remember seeing one shop owner using a propane torch to melt the 4 -5" of what became packed down ice on the pavement in front of his business.
Not wanting to experience that any time soon.
preparing. house owner is testing the generator. 50mph wind, will be surprised if power doesnt flake
supermarket was picked clean of bread. so next best thing ordered emergency pizza rations. not a fan of cold izza, but what kan ya do trying to get in a few more biguanna renders before the event horizon. scared.
Here in extreme western NY State we are only going to be on the edge of this storm. Maybe 6 inches on top of the 12 we already have. No big deal. My larder is stocked. Got frozen pizza, canned veggies & fruits, lots of cereal & milk & powdered milk, lots of frozen ham, chicken, ground beef, jello, sardines, frozen bread, frozen shrimp. Ready for a major storm but this ain't it.
I hope the best for you, Mystiarra.
Lessons of life from survivors ... as taught us in grade one public school by a teacher who taught up North as in WAY up North at the start of her career. WAY up North is cold in winter and blizzards are not to be taken lightly. A skilled builder can get an igloo up in half an hour using a big knife. And I laugh when I see the 3D models of igloos with no hole in the ceiling hehehe 'cause man, you gonna smoke yourselves out lol ... need to have hole in ceiling to let out the fire's smoke. Fire is built in the pit of the igloo of course and ice benches line the circumference. Dogs are OUTSIDE [these are not pets] ... actually they would kinda line the inside tunnel a little during storms which provided them some shelter and the igloo's inhabitants some heat. But the big deal for survival we were taught - and hopefully will never have to deal with -- is that for the FIRST THREE DAYS of a blizzard fasting is the order of the day. Yes, fasting. Why is because ... blizzards may last an average of 5 days and if you use up all your food supply in the first 3 days, you will not have enough strength left to go hunting for food at the end of the blizzard. So once upon a time they fasted for three days, then slowly munched their way through the remainder of the blizzards ... and had enough strength to go hunting for seals and whatnot to survive.
...oven not working?
It's been steadily snowing here in NJ since 10am. Forecasts said it wasn't supposed to start until later today where we live but they were really off on that. I'm not going outside to see how deep the snow is but it looks like it's still under a foot but not by much. If the snow keeps falling at the same rate all night, tomorrow we're going to have close to 2 feet if not more.
no oven. mebbe a new one when taxes refunds
...ow I could never do withoout one. Microwave? Even frozen pizza has warnings about proper serving temperatures.
i dont know how to link the weather video
WINTER STORM
Winter Storm Orlena to Pummel East Coast as a Nor'easter With Heavy Snow, Strong Winds
lotsa boobooos
So far we have about a foot of snow, more coming even at the moment, temperatures between -10C to -20C (14F to -4F).
If the promised "Siberian Freeze" comes again with -30C (-22F) temperatures, it may cause some problems as some of the cars will have problems starting - Mine started when we had -30C (-22F) for a couple of days in the beginning of January, but the antifreeze was too weak, had to stop half way of my 10km (~6mi) travel for work to cool the engine down, but otherwise no problems.
80% of cars are equipped with studded winter tires from November/December to March/April, no slipping or sliding unless you are driving like a moron.
..odd that here in Portland OR they allow studded tyres. Mostly all they do is pulverise the pavement as we usually get little to no "real winter" here. The few times we do get significant snowfall and ice (usually about 4 - 6 year intervals) people could use simply temporary traction devices instead of grinding up the streets during non snow years (especially with heavy SUVs). Of course even with those devices most here have no idea how to drive in snow.
Back in 2009 we had a series of snowfalls which buried the city with a total of 18" of the white stuff when all was said and done. The city was paralysed for a week. A couple friends of mine and I were driving around just after the height of the storm in an older Mercury station wagon with an automatic transmission, rear wheel drive, and no snow tyres or any traction devices. We never got stuck once. .Meanwhile we saw people even in four wheel drive SUVs who were spinning tyres even though had all four wheels chained up. The person driving the we were in car grew up in Alaska and learned how to drive in some of the most extreme winter conditions so for her, this was nothing out of the ordinary. She also never shifted out of low (the car had both a Low 1and Low 2 gear), so while the going was slow, it was steady.
Studded vs non-studded is a source of never-ending fights, but for most of us (in Finland) it's about the added security when the roads are covered in ice but also have a layer of water on top, which is quite common here in south western coast.
My driving in snow story revolves around the day of the crash of the Air Florida flight 92 that crashed into the Potomac River in front of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC in January 13, 1982. I grew up in western NY State and learned to drive there and had some experience driving in snow. But I lived in Florida at the time of this story, and that morning had arrived in Washington on a consulting job. I picked up my rental car arranged by my company (a tiny cheap manual transmission vehicle
) and drove to my job site for Comsat Corp. in Virginia just off an exit at the 9:00 position of the I-395 beltway around Washington. I started my job and we were doing great, getting some some big HP satellite control & communication equipment working. We could see out the window that it was snowing hard. By late afternoon (3:00 ish) an announcement came over the intercom for employees to leave for the day because of the weather.
I'd lived in Florida since 1966 and hadn't driven in severe snow for well over a decade and hadn't driven a manual transmission car for at least as long. Getting the mile or so from the Comsat site to the beltway was a quick re-learning experience as we crept in single file through 8 inches of wet sloppy mush. One by one we approached the incline on-ramp to the Interstate and I watched car after car ahead of me start to spin their tires, drift to a wonky angle and slip over the side of the road and slide down the incline at the edge forming an informal pile at the bottom.
I was in the middle of an advancing line of cattle being fed to their doom. Then it was my turn. Up the grade I started and just like the others my car drifted to a wonky angle. I put the transmission in low, turned the wheel into the drift and carefully manipulated the accelerator pedal. I managed to continue to go straight up the ramp but crabbing at a 30 or 45 degree angle, spinning my tires and tweaking my steering wheel creatively like a concert pianist plays the end of a Rachmaninoff concerto. I made it to the top of the ramp and onto the 6 lanes of the beltway heading north.
My arranged hotel was at the next exit at the next position (approximately10:00) around the beltway. A distance of about 4 miles. The beltway was also full of cars trying to get home and crawling at a stop & go pace. All six lanes of us. It took me well over an hour to get to the hotel. During that hour I had the radio tuned to a classical station (of course) but then the music stopped and an announcement came on about a plane crash in the middle of the city. At first, details were sketchy and I thought that it was a small private airplane. It didn't take long to finally determine that it was a full size jetliner and it had crashed between two of the three bridges of the 14th St. Bridge complex which is one of the main access roads to downtown Washington. The reports were spotty and frantic but eventually it became clear that there were cars on the middle bridge itself having been crushed as well as airplane parts and dead & still alive people among the chunks of several inch thick ice floating on the river. Very bad situation.
I finally reached the beltway exit and managed to get my rented car parked at the hotel without so much as a ding or scratch through this ordeal and walked into the lobby and saw on the lobby TV, for the first time, images of what was happening at the crash site. A crowd of people had gathered in the lobby and we watched in horror for an hour or so as they tried to use helicopters in the still raging storm to get the survivors out. But it was so cold in the water that they couldn't hang onto the ropes. Many people grabbed the ropes and were being dragged through the water to the river shore but they'd lose their grip, go under and never resurface. All on national TV.
In the background of some of the images of the rescue scene you could see that the location was right in front of the Jefferson Memorial which tended to make the effect of the situation all the more tragic. It was a day I'll never forget.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90
Here in Newfoundland (Saint John's) we have been free of any significant snowfall this year.... reasonably mild really. Last year was bad, the city was closed down in a state of emergency for at least a week, and the army was called in for assistance. I tried to walk down the road two houses to visit my neighbour and the snow was up to my chest. A very iffy time as my Mom had just come home from the hospital from a broken hip, and hip replacement. The media referred to last years storm as "snow-mageddon."
is still snowing
heard the plows going by a couple of times.
Back when I lived in NYC, I used to put chains on the tires of my 72 Pontiac Catalina during bad weather... one day my friend told me that was probably illegal in the city, so the next big storm I didn't put them on... and that happened to be the day the NYC sanitation department decided to pull a "sick-out" to protest for higher wages... the roads were bad, some roads went entirely unplowed or deliberately halfassed plowed, mostly in the outer boroughs like Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
As the snowstorm got worse and turned into an ice storm, headed from work to go pick up my wife (who wasn't even my fiancé yet), I came to the top of a hill in Sunnyside (near where a bunch of the Spider-Man movies take place) on Queens Boulevard and realized that the one plowed lane ended at the crest of the hill... and furthermore although I had come to a slow stop, I was already angled slightly past the point of no return and sitting on a huge sheet of ice... very slowly the car started to slide down the hill, so I aimed for the center island hoping the curb would snag the wheel (the curbs were a wreck there, all broken and jagged) or at least slow the car somewhat... instead the car just climbed the curb and started snapping off sign posts like dandelions under a lawnmower... rotating slowly as it slid... halfway down, it crossed over into the far right lane, but I managed to get the car into reverse gear and slow the now significant momentum as it headed towards a bus shelter full of people... with the horn blaring and no real way of changing course the car locked into a slot or rut in the ice that aimed it straight at the bus stop...
Somehow I managed to slow the car enough that only one wheel mounted the curb as it bounced to a stop sideways in front of the shelter...
The thing that really killed me was that as I headed towards them, not one person moved... they had plenty of opportunity, the sidewalk was clear, they were looking straight at me and as I was a few feet away on one person stepped back... Fittingly enough this was all next to a huge cemetery (Cavalry cemetery, which was also used in lots of movies).
This is how effing belligerent New Yorkers are... nobody bothered to move, like I was trying to cut in line with my car or get on the bus ahead of them with it... either that or they were afraid someone else would take their place in line if they moved out of the way of the deathmobile...
I was furious that the plow drivers would put people's lives in jeopardy during a crisis... and of course nothing ever came of it... a little bad press, some "harsh criticism" from officials, but nobody faced any consequences of what was a very deliberate action.
Not actually my worst snow story, but definitely one of the scariest.
...however Finland gets "real winter" every year unlike Portland where it's usually in the mid to upper 40s (F) with rain. Crikey if teh forcaset even hints at a chance for an inch or two of snow, people think it's "Snowmageddon" and the local media goes into exclusive "Winter Storm 20xx" coverage. .
What I find interesting is in Wisconsin and Minnesota where they get some really harsh winters, studded tyres are illegal (been that way in Wisconsin when I used to live there and I left 40 years ago).
...incredible and tragic story.
..yikes.
So NYC uses the rubbish trucks as ploughs. My old hometown of Milwaukee did the same when I lived there.
Here in Portland rubbish collection is done by private companies which is why streets don't get ploughed as the State DOT only has a few ploughs stationed here, which as I mentioned are primarily used to clear the freeways and major state highways The city has trucks that spread a decier compound on the main streets before a storm but it is pretty useless in a heavy snow conditions,
"Plough": Everytime I see that word I feel like it should be pronounced like it's a word from Klingon or that one is coughing up a fur ball. I find "Plow" to be perfectly acceptable. And yeah, I know I should probably treat "cough" the same way and spell it "coff" or better yet "koff". Give me another 70 years and I might get to it. Join the "Discard the "ough" club. Contributions accepted at local libraries.
Edited to add: At least in Russian, the "c" has one sound and is pronounced as an English "s" as in "silly", or as a "c" in "cillia". So, in Russian if you see a "c" it's an "s". See?
Several commedians were having a laugh contest at a comedy club. The judges awarded 1st prize to contestant #4 because his act was so silly, but the audience thought that contestant #2 was cillia.
Non-complaint: We only received about 2 inches of light fluffy snow as the bulk of the storm passed south of us. Pretty, but non-lethal.
siri says more snow today. is snowblinding out there.
Oh, Oh... It looks like he saw his shadow. Does that mean 6 more weeks of winter?
That only works for groundhogs.
You asked for Koff?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koff_(beer)
If the weather gets bad enough, you could do what we do in Finland;
A reporter asked Kimi Räikkönen about Finnish activities, and his reply was "Well, in summer there’s fishing and shagging, and in winter the fishing is bad."
I know I'd be pissed (or unconscious) if someone poked me in the nose with two feet.
a pic from my working days....