haZethew0rld
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Methuen, MA over here, it's crazy outside right now.
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Major East Coast Storm to Hit Mid-Atlantic and New England Tuesday
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Nemesis121
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I happy to shovel 3-5inches of snow and I have power, i live in the burbs and I have lived without Power after Sandy for almost 2 weeks, it was fucking brutal, no power, no heat, i don't feel like freezing for days..
Basileus777
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Yep, the same happened to me in Sandy. I wouldn't care to relive the experience. And driving to work on shitty roads is no fun.
Did you look at a fucking map at all? It went a bit to the East. There are plenty of areas getting fucked right now.
Precipitation is localized and patchy. There are plenty of places not far from you (presumably) that got a lot. NJ and Philly were a bit to far to the West. Long Island and Boston are seeing the worst of it.
EDIT: Sorry to sound testy, but people being doofuses about weather patterns missing the mark by tens of miles and then whining is climate-denialism's little cousin.
Suffolk County bro! I'm in Dix Hills.
Still snowing. Gonna go out and start shoveling soon. It looks to be a little over a foot? It's hard to say with tall the wind blowing around.
Ace Harding
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Whatever happened to making decisions about schools and stuff very early in the morning? As a kid, we never had schools announce closure the night before unless there was already a bunch of snow on the ground.
Is it really that difficult to make the announcement at like 5:30am? Same with transit. Trains here are operating on a Saturday schedule for no reason other than they already announced it yesterday afternoon.
Is it really that difficult to make the announcement at like 5:30am? Same with transit. Trains here are operating on a Saturday schedule for no reason other than they already announced it yesterday afternoon.
Me too although it kind of feels like we did in Suffolk County, NY
Yeah but now people in Philadelphia and NYC have to go to work instead of die.
Where are your priorities man?
Takamura-San
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Hasn't stopped snowing here. Fairfield county CT.
whatever77
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talking to work now, fuck
forgeforsaken
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Almost 2 ft here....
It's still snowing.
shit was all "blew by a few dozen miles to the East.
Delicious Waffles
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Not every child has a stay-at-home parent these days. Announcing something the night before gives those parents the opportunity to plan accordingly if they still have to work.
teruterubozu
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My neighbor is snowblowing like an idiot in the blizzard. He's just creating a snow tornado of futility.
TarpitCarnivore
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Ours was up and snowblowing at 5:30 and shooting it directly at our house where our bedroom is located.
spindashing
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Damn. Queens NY here. It is really coming down...
VeryGooster
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Looking at 6 inches at most outside. I still have power. That's all that matters.
Yea, I just shoveled a whopping two inches in Mt Laurel, oh well.
Still snowing in Nashua, NH. My car's pretty much buried, gonna be a blast getting that cleaned off later.
I live in an apartment complex and there's a parking lot right outside my bedroom window. Can't see out of it due to the 8-10 foot-high snow mound there. Sadness, forever.
I live in an apartment complex and there's a parking lot right outside my bedroom window. Can't see out of it due to the 8-10 foot-high snow mound there. Sadness, forever.
Takamura-San
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Cleaned like 4" last night.
Another 5" this morning. Checked now and have 2-3" more and the day is not over and still snowing .
Another 5" this morning. Checked now and have 2-3" more and the day is not over and still snowing .
I christened the snow blower this morning. I am so glad I bought one. Took me 15 min to do my entire driveway covered in an average of 12 inches.
TarpitCarnivore
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My first purchase if we ever buy a house is going to be a snowblower. I'm going to buy the most obnoxious one too. Something like this.
ThatStupidLion
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Its still snowing but to where any of it will accumulate to more than an inch or so over the day in williamsburg, bk
BronsonLee
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Philly didn't get much snow and we don't want no mo snow
A friend of mine is a meteorologist for a wind energy company and he was accurately describing to me what would happen since early Sunday. He's not a genius or meteorology savant by any stretch.
Being right isn't hard.
Howdy neighbor...
We are over 2ft in Nashua, snowing sideways. You can't see unless you go outside cause the window screens are all white washed.
Sorry for those that got the shaft, we are getting the full effect here.
Ummm, good for him... as stated weather isn't 100% predictable and situations change. Just because NYC/Philly/NJ are being bitchy because they missed the mark, not everyone is as lucky.
teruterubozu
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weather.com turned out to be the accurate forecast. NAS, Euro, NWS, etc. got the weather nerds too excited.
Yeah the storm shifted east but they still shut down all of NYC and NJ freaked out because of the forecast, it was most definitely a bust. Here on central LI we got a foot maybe, it's still snowing but I can't see it accumulating much more. I'm happy since I'm shoveling my in-laws out but this stuff doesn't help the public heed warnings for the next storm since this was such a miss.
Lol
What did he say would happen?
teruterubozu
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First city snowplow just drove by, now I have a 4 foot wall at the end of my driveway.
There's even less than that here. An inch at most in University City.
For my personal forecasts, to expect 8 inches in central NJ on the high end, a foot in NYC as the worst case but to expect a good deal less, and for New England to get buried.
When I asked what caused the disparity in that versus the news, the shorthand he provided was that it's tracking more northeast than their forecasts are claiming.
The point is he's not lucky nor is he above and beyond the weather community. There's articles now detailing the models that had the storm pegged that were ignored.
Shutting down an area like NYC NJ Philly for nothing won't help things the next time there's a storm that is actually massive in this area.
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