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[Salamandra]

The city has delivered big time so far with snow removal. We're on the corner of a major avenue and a much less traveled street. The plows have been over both several times today. BTW, your old stomping grounds, Bayside, has reported 14.2" of snow from this storm so far. Manhattan is now up to 10.6" as of 7 PM and I bet another 2" has fallen since then.

I transferred from work here as after a time which snowed 2 feet roughly 5 weeks apart I had enough . I lived in a dead end street and just brutal but Summers here bite but Winter temp now high 70s can't be beat.

 

[Salamandra]

The city has delivered big time so far with snow removal. We're on the corner of a major avenue and a much less traveled street. The plows have been over both several times today. BTW, your old stomping grounds, Bayside, has reported 14.2" of snow from this storm so far. Manhattan is now up to 10.6" as of 7 PM and I bet another 2" has fallen since then.

NYC always moved and though was not there much I was taken back by the public transportation .

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

I got another 4-5 inches of snow last night on the backside of the storm. This storm gave me a reach around.

 

[Fishmanic]

Jackpot! We got about 17 inches and another 3 inches coming later today. It’s 16 degrees F. Glad I hired someone to clear me out for this storm.

 

[Magnum Man]

the artic air is as large as the area of moisture... still -14 here this morning... the house is still above freezing but this extended cold is sinking in everywhere... Mrs. is calling around in search of parts for the furnace... windchill is -35 right now... the fire place is a big fieldstone fireplace, much more a mass heater, than an iron wood burner that radiates heat into the house, 3/4 of the stones of the fireplace are outside the house, so not very efficient... gone through about 1.5 cords of wood, since the furnace went out... 48 degrees in the living room right now

 

[Salamandra]

the artic air is as large as the area of moisture... still -14 here this morning... the house is still above freezing but this extended cold is sinking in everywhere... Mrs. is calling around in search of parts for the furnace... windchill is -35 right now... the fire place is a big fieldstone fireplace, much more a mass heater, than an iron wood burner that radiates heat into the house, 3/4 of the stones of the fireplace are outside the house, so not very efficient... gone through about 1.5 cords of wood, since the furnace went out... 48 degrees in the living room right now

Oh that is cold , Are your fish tank heaters holding up ?

I went food shopping and even here with shorts weather and truth is most clueless about rest of the country , people were talking about the cold monster hitting the Northern states .

MN is cold to begin with as you know but -35 is sick , dangerous .

I think this is suppose to pass today get better ?

 

[Magnum Man]

tanks are all holding temperature like little radiant heaters... with the fireplace roaring, living room is now up to 52 degrees...

temps slowing warming this week, but next week looks like normal, or maybe slightly above normal... but I may be a frozen fishcycle, by then...

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

It's still freaking snowing

 

[Fishmanic]

They're now forecasting another big snowstorm likely arriving this coming weekend. Grrrrrrr!

 

[Magnum Man]

so, I have cords of wood cut and into tote cages , I can move around with the tractor... I have emptied 2 of them, that were next to the fireplace... will need to see if the diesel tractor will start, it's outside right now, so I can move a couple fresh piles of wood... news just now said windy all week, so windchills will be below zero all week...

 

[GaryE]

I hope that furnace gets fixed, asap. That's not a good situation.

Here, the forecast was a slowing down of the snow this morning. It sped up. Now it's supposed to have stopped for a couple of hours a couple of hours ago, and it's still tumbling down. A lot of it's drifting across the road and out to sea, which is polite of it. It's quite the sustained fall.
I could go out with the shovel every hour, but it's no use. It just drifts and falls back in. I keep telling myself it's pretty, which it is. The latest forecast is ten more cm before 7AM tomorrow, but at the rate it's falling it could be three times that. It's far from the biggest or worst I've ever seen, but it's the biggest this winter so far. At times, it's flowing through the air horizontally. The world is a snowglobe with a water pump in it....

 

[gwand]

Snow has finally abated. We have over a foot of snow with drifts upward of three feet. My screened in porch has snow on the floor because the weather was blowing horizontally. The temperature is falling and will hover around 10 F for the next week. Old reliable Mr. Sanchez plowed my driveway this morning. It looks like he did a good job. The driveway is about 100 yards long. I’m not looking forward to the bill. I just finished shoveling the walkway from the driveway to the front porch. Time for hot cocoa.

 

[Back in the fold]

How does a city like New York even work with snow that deep and all the cars and all the people ? Where do they put it ? What about the sidewalks ? There was one episode of Barney Miller where they had a snowstorm but it wasn’t like what you guys are getting now .

 

[GaryE]

How does a city like New York even work with snow that deep and all the cars and all the people ? Where do they put it ? What about the sidewalks ? There was one episode of Barney Miller where they had a snowstorm but it wasn’t like what you guys are getting now .

I don't know about NYC, but in Montreal we had little sidewalk tractors with treads like tanks. It was my dream to drive one. I would come out of retirement for that.

We'd get big snowblowers on the streets, and in crowded parts of the city every dumptruck driver in town would line up for a fill of snow. The trucks went in a circuit and the snowblowers kept blowing. In the suburbs, there'd be no trucks, and they'd blow the snow up onto lawns. They could move out a big snowstorm in a day or so, if people followed the parking rules. It went plows, towtrucks, snowblowers and sidewalk tractors.

It's a major expense for northern cities.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

3 pm and it's finally stopped.snowing and the sun wants to make an appearance. Just for show though, no warmth for sure.