Posted February 12, 200619 yr its a winter wonderland this morning in manhattan and the whole region. not many people out. they say airports are buried. path train is not running, but other transportation is muddling along. power outages are building up too. my photo host, imageshack, is out of commission this weekend, but here is a link to my backup, a flickr slideshow. i ventured out to the grocery this morning (the thread title was a grocery worker girl's commentary - heh). wow, its a dangerous looking whiteout, but it is beautiful. yay snow! **** i updated the flickr thread from this morning and added more photos tonight from the rest of the day!****:
February 12, 200619 yr When you don't have to drive anywhere, snow is definitely beautiful...thanks for the live update!
February 12, 200619 yr Nice! Keep those pics coming! I would love to have snow like that, but it's never going to happen in these parts of the Midwest, so pictures will have to suffice. My Dad flew into town yesterday to go to the American International Toy Fair that's going on in the first half of this week; all that snow is probably screwing him up (though at least his flight beat the storm). He stays with his parents in Watchung, NJ and rides a bus to the city, so there may be a change of plans.
February 12, 200619 yr ^you said it! speaking of live updating --- this just in, 22.8 inches on the ground in central park. so they say today just moved in 2nd place as the all-time snowiest blizzard/storm in nyc history (the record was in 1947). we were out until almost midnight last night in the east village and there was nothing -- geesh what a morning!
February 12, 200619 yr the bloggy news and flickr photos are streaming in. its still coming down at 1pm. we are getting out again soon i will take the camera. for more shots see the gothamist blog links below: February 12, 2006 Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Holy bajesus! The snow is coming down. We're assembling team Gothamist to give you full storm coverage all day-- but until we do our "Wonder Twins Activate" thing, please be patient. If you are able to get outside without killing yourselves, we'd love some pictures from around the city-- send them to photos@goth or tag them Gothamist on Flickr-- they will show up in our photo stream on labs. The one above is from our BFF JCN, taken from the balcony of his apartment on Broadway and 8th Street. Some weather links: Heavy snow until 2pm on Weather.com Major Snowstorm Hits New York Area We're Clobbered by the White Stuff Blizzard NYC pix on Flickr Snow tag on Vimeo Beautiful huge Bklyn Bridge shot link: http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/02/12/snow_snow_snow.php
February 12, 200619 yr Its horrible. I hate the snow! :evil: Here are a few bad shots I took infront of my crib before and after I had to shovel...argh! Manual labor.... Pre Shovel Post Shovel
February 12, 200619 yr ^you said it! speaking of live updating --- this just in, 22.8 inches on the ground in central park. so they say today just moved in 2nd place as the all-time snowiest blizzard/storm in nyc history (the record was in 1947). we were out until almost midnight last night in the east village and there was nothing -- geesh what a morning! I was out an about last night as well, at about 2AM there was only a dusting of snow, I thought we'd luck out and the storm would miss us. when I woke up to go the gym at 8AM, I thought I was in Siberia, I couldn't see Clinton's office which is three blocks away. It's 2:40PM and still coming down hard. An amazing sight, to see so little activity and traffic! What an experience! I just went to 125 Street, to get some rock salt, there is nobody out. 125 is usually overrun, especially on weekends, with tourist and vendors and sunday's there are millions of Church groups out. NYC rarely grinds to a halt, but today the city is definitely limping along.
February 13, 200619 yr ^ mts you need to get that camera working more often -- nice! *** ps -- i just updated & added more shots to my flickr thread from the rest of the day.
February 13, 200619 yr ^ mts you need to get that camera working more often -- nice! *** ps -- i just updated & added more shots to my flickr thread from the rest of the day. LOL man, I'm too lazy, the only reason I have those is because I had my PDA. I work the other side of the camera better, well atleast I did back in my younger days. LOL I have my eye on this Casio though.
February 13, 200619 yr well here is the capper. looks like this storm set the record for snowfall in the city: Record-Setting Snow Buries Northeast Feb 12 6:41 PM US/Eastern By KAREN MATTHEWS A record-breaking storm buried sections of the Northeast under more than 2 feet of snow on Sunday, marooning thousands of air travelers and making even a walk to the corner store treacherous. The National Weather Service said 26.9 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park, the most for a single storm since record-keeping started in 1869. The old record was 26.4 inches in December 1947. Wind gusting as high as 60 mph blew the snow sideways and raised a risk of coastal flooding in New England. And in a rare display, lightning lit up the falling snow before dawn in the New York and Philadelphia areas, producing muffled winter thunder. "We might not see anything like this again in our lifetime," Jason Rosenfarb said as he walked with his 5-year-old daughter Haley in Central Park. Just then Haley jumped head first into the snow and said: "Help me out. There's too much snow." The storm came on the heels of an unusually mild January that had people shedding jackets and ski resorts lamenting lost business. "It's sort of crazy because it was so warm a couple of weeks ago and now we have knee-deep snow," said Skye Drynan, walking her dogs Bella and Forest in lower Manhattan. Elsewhere, 21 inches of snow fell at Columbia, Md., between Baltimore and Washington, as well as at East Brunswick, N.J., Hartford, Conn., and West Caln Township west of Philadelphia, the National Weather Service said. Philadelphia's average for an entire winter is about 21 inches. "It's going to be a menace trying to clean it up," said Mayor Scott T. Rumana in Wayne, N.J. New York officials said snow removal costs the city about $1 million per inch. However, the storm's arrival during the weekend meant more people were staying at home instead of trying to drive to work. Churches canceled services, and the Philadelphia Phantoms minor league hockey team postponed Sunday's game because the team couldn't get home from Chicago. The possibility of coastal flooding was a major concern for Massachusetts as wind hit 60 mph, said Peter Judge, spokesman for the state's Emergency Management Agency. Meteorologists predicted 2 1/2- foot storm surges from Cape Ann to Cape Cod with seas off the coast running up to 25 feet. An early Valentine's Day getaway to Massachusetts turned into snowbound jail for Dave Allison and Beth Todzia of southern Connecticut. They stood inside a Dunkin' Donuts in Boston, watching snow rip past the window and "trying to figure out how to get home," Allison said. The storm closed all three of the New York metropolitan area's major airports, and airlines canceled more than 500 inbound and departing flights _ 200 each at LaGuardia and Newark airports and 120 at Kennedy. Delta Air Lines canceled arrivals and departures at Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Providence, R.I., and Hartford, Conn. The airport closures and grounded planes stranded travelers elsewhere across the country. About 7,500 people were stuck just at Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, spokesman Steve Belleme said. "We've been playing cards for two hours. We expect to play a lot more cards," Cliff Jefferson said about nine hours into his stay at the Miami airport. Service in and out of New York's Pennsylvania Station on the Long Island Rail Road was canceled, and Metro North rail service to the northern suburbs was curtailed. New Jersey Transit suspended all bus service statewide. Amtrak reported a few cancelations and delays in the Northeast Corridor but said most trains remained in service. More than 85,000 homes and businesses were blacked out in Maryland, according to Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. spokeswoman Linda Foy. More than 60,000 customers were reported in the dark in northern Virginia, and thousands more lost power in parts of Delaware, New Jersey and on New York's Long Island. Temperatures were mostly in the 20s. Still, many people took the storm in stride, in spite of drifts that made sidewalks tortuous, if not impassable. Lynda Carpentero didn't let the snow keep her away from yoga class at a neighborhood gym in Brooklyn. "We were afraid we would fall on our heads before we stood on them," Carpenter said. Intrepid customers even insisted on going out for everyday essentials. "I love it. It's like Christmas," said John Eaton, who went to Chubby's Deli in suburban Eastchester for his Sunday newspapers and coffee, before returning home to hunker down for the day.
February 13, 200619 yr Amtrak reported a few cancelations and delays in the Northeast Corridor but said most trains remained in service. ahem.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 13, 200619 yr ^LOL- It reminds me of when I got caught in Chicago's blizzard of Christmas of 2000. I was taking Amtrak from Seattle back home to Cleveland. Everything was shut down except the train, which was proceeding slowly because the train had to follow a truck that was heating up the switches. They accomplished this by pouring gas onto the switches and lighting them on fire! Rolling through Chicago's industrial Southside at midnight in the middle of a blizzard, with burnt out factories in the distance and fires on the tracks was one of the most surreal experiences of my life.
February 13, 200619 yr Amazing! And it's hard to believe this storm materialized so fast and somewhat "out-fo-nowhere"
February 13, 200619 yr Amazing! And it's hard to believe this storm materialized so fast and somewhat "out-fo-nowhere" Actually it hit the MidSouth first. I have friends in Memphis that got hit on Friday. It completely shut the region down. Even the few friends I have in Atlanta say, on saturday/early sunday, they got off and on light snow showers as the temperatures dipped to about 30
February 13, 200619 yr Amazing! And it's hard to believe this storm materialized so fast and somewhat "out-fo-nowhere" Actually it hit the MidSouth first. I have friends in Memphis that got hit on Friday. It completely shut the region down. Even the few friends I have in Atlanta say, on saturday/early sunday, they got off and on light snow showers as the temperatures dipped to about 30 The cold front with that storm barreled through Louisiana that night with some serious storms (but no tornados in New Orleans this time, thankfully)
February 13, 200619 yr there was thunder and lightening in this storm. very strange. it even had an "eye" that was clearly visible on some radar shots i saw. the weather people were flipping out. it's already melting up a bit today. they say 50+ degrees and rain later this week. a 100% weird-o of a storm!
February 13, 200619 yr They accomplished this by pouring gas onto the switches and lighting them on fire! Rolling through Chicago's industrial Southside at midnight in the middle of a blizzard, with burnt out factories in the distance and fires on the tracks was one of the most surreal experiences of my life. That must have been a remarkable scene. Back in the old days, railroad employees used to carry around this contraption that worked similar to a flamethrower to thaw out frozen switches. Increasingly, railroads today install a type of heating ducts to switches to keep them from freezing. But they're still pretty rare, and I wouldn't expect Amtrak to be able to afford them! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 13, 200619 yr Amazing! And it's hard to believe this storm materialized so fast and somewhat "out-fo-nowhere" Actually it hit the MidSouth first. I have friends in Memphis that got hit on Friday. It completely shut the region down. Even the few friends I have in Atlanta say, on saturday/early sunday, they got off and on light snow showers as the temperatures dipped to about 30 Yeah the snow started in Arkansas and worked its way northeastward. What I meant was the "nor'easter" effect. The lows that develop off of the coast so rapidly that it is tough to predict such massive snowfalls; there may be a day (or possibly two) at best!!! :)
February 17, 200619 yr post-blizzard its been 50+ degrees here at the end of the week. a little post-script: SLAIN MAN FOUND BURIED BENEATH SNOW ON S.I. By JOE McGURK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 16, 2006 -- The body of a man with two gunshot wounds to the head was discovered yesterday buried in a mountain of snow behind a Staten Island apartment building, police said. Two maintenance workers made the grisly discovery at about 11 a.m. as they cleared snow from the sidewalk at 195 Steuben St., in the Concord section. Police said the body, which has not been identified, had two bullet wounds in the back of the head. Cops described the victim as being in his early 20s. The workers were shoveling the walkway in the rear of the apartment building when one of them noticed part of the...yada. yeesh!
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