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  1. weatherpruf
    I used to be flounder fishing the Shrewsbury River the last week of Feb in the 80s. Sadly they are nearly extirpated and scientists don't think they will recover, but I caught one in LI Sound last fall while porgy fishing.
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    The infamous 2/6/10.
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    I hope it won't be as lame as this one. God, people are snow starved here. it never even covered the grass here and, turned to rain, for a prolonged period. I consider it garbage, like dozens of events in the 90s. And the rain is making walkways hazardous. At least I used some of the salt I've had on hand for 3 years.....I don't expect much these days but boy was this disappointing. Hope it was better where you are.
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    Send them a thank you note. Worst accident I ever had was in half inch of snow in 98 in March, when no one bothered to salt or plow. Live in a place with low taxes, get low services. Taxes are the price of civilization.
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    Couldn't get the grass covered here in NJ. Not a huge bust but my son had a conference moved to Zoom today. I should have worked for the state....anyway looks nice out, gonna take a walk and then decide if it is worth shoveling/ snow blowing or not ( it isn't now ). Dogs don't like the snow; the old guy has arthritis and the new pup is a fair weather dog.
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    Big snows!
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    Don't even think about taking up ice fishing.
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    Too dry, too warm, to north, too east, too south, suppressed.....I mean there is always some reason to expect less than forecast. I can count on one hand the number of times my area jackpotted or got more than expected. I don't get worked up over anything less than 5 inches. My only worry is people haven't driven in snow for a few years now and they are likely to be bad at it.
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    I gotta disagree here. We know better now, and nothing is so important that it can't wait, except for medical and essential workers. School can wait, can be done online, can be made up. Yes we drove in the bad weather in the past. I got stuck in the heavy dump in Jan 87 that was not well modeled; I never saw snow come down like that. I drove a Chevy Monza, rear wheel drive on an 8th of a tank. I could have died. They let us out at 10 am from Piscataway. Took me 4 hours to get to Woodbridge. In Dec 92 I got stuck teaching a class all day with no power because they didn't think to cancel classes with a huge storm coming. And, we also have demonstrably worse weather now, witness the pics above in Metuchen. Nothing personal here, I just don't think the risks are worth it.
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    Which is a good reason it was rightfully canceled. It's a kid's game, and not important enough to risk lives for.
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    They might not make sense but I would bet against snow at this point. I'm not getting excited for 1-3 anyway. Those types of events often don't deliver even that much. Need something better, Ant. This is getting ridiculous. Might as well be living in Atlanta. Cheaper living at least.
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    Haven't seen a foot of snow in 3 years. Haven't seen more than 6 inches.
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    I never break out the equipment for 1-3 around here; totals here are almost always on the low end so I'd expect a little more than a dusting. Just can't get it together the last few years, and it is on here that I have always read to throw in the towel after Jan 15. Well, we got two days....there was a recent article in Nature that said snow loss is nonlinear; when the tipping point comes you just lose it. Are we there? Don't know. The person who summed up the article talked about this then turned around and said the article was mostly about snowpack, which is different. Whatever the case may be, there are parts of my 2019 Craftsman that are dry rotting already. Not sure if its worth replacing at this point.
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    I haven't seen 8 inches here in years.
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    You can see those prices at Bloomie's in the Short Hills Mall....I remember reading about a working class kid who went to Harvard....they gave him 100 bucks to buy a coat, as he didn't have one. It's apparently a Harvard thing. The other students said like, dude, just go into town and get a Canada Goose...he said he didn't have the money; they said dude they take Venmo...they thought he just didn't have cash.....you can get a coat for 100 bucks or even less to handle winters at Harvard, but probably not for the temps in Edmonton.....
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    Frank was an eye doctor, hence the Dr Frank Fields....making it sound like he was some sort of PhD in weather. Dude lived to 100. Even son Storm is retired at 76.
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    I always saw some of the older crowd here telling folks back in the aughts that they would have pissed on a spark plug in the 80's for an 8 inch storm.....I'm guessing these days there are a lot of wet spark plugs around.....
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    Maybe we get our first decent event in 2 years. Figures, I get an offer to come out of retirement and now we'll get the snow....
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    Well, just poured the generator gas into the cars and left a bit for the smaller snowblower in case it snows sometime before April ( it started! But the prime pump is dry rotting ). Guess I should have waited. Gotta fill up the tanks again I guess.
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    Seems like the places that used to be the bullseye for snow in the recent past are the same ones....glad to be out of it for a change! Did a a few trips in the Sound this year.Wonder what the wave heights are running there.
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    Hoping to maintain power. When we go down here its for days. On same grid as Menlo Mall.
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    This is awful. When should we be out of the worst of it in Middlesex County NJ?
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    I was teaching 7th grade. Just turned 30. The lights went out around 9 am and we sat in the dark til 3. An old building, it got dark. Tuna sandwiches were provided. Many chose to starve.....
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    It's happened before: March 2007. Schools flood.
  25. weatherpruf
    We were really close on that last one; less than an hour from good accumulations.
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