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October 29/30 Snowstorm OBS thread


ChrisM

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Great report, got a genny?

no but was able to stay at a friends in Turners Falls.

Interestingly up here they had the same amount of snow but they had a lot less foliage on the trees and it made all the difference. Walking around here there are quite a few branches and a few large limbs down but nothing like the carnage in the lower PV valley and down into central and northern Ct.

Interestingly enough talking to a friend of mine who lives in an elevated part of Bristol Ct she measured 22 inches on her picnic table. Even in Bristol elevation made a big difference between fifteen inches and nearly two feet!

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How many has ORH had?

Since '07-'08...they had zero in '07-'08 (many close calls though)....but since then

12/19/08, 3/2/09, 2/24/10, 12/26/10, 1/12/11, 1/27/11, 2/1/11, 10/28/11

Same amount...but ORH kills them in 8"+ events which is where most of the difference comes in that time. BOS has actually done better relative to climo than ORH the past 4 winters. If you extend it back to the beginning of the decade, I'm sure the number of 10"+ events will start separating very quickly...esp since years like '02-'03 and '00-'01 had big interior gradient.

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Since '07-'08...they had zero in '07-'08 (many close calls though)....but since then

12/19/08, 3/2/09, 2/24/10, 12/26/10, 1/12/11, 1/27/11, 2/1/11, 10/28/11

Same amount...but ORH kills them in 8"+ events which is where most of the difference comes in that time. BOS has actually done better relative to climo than ORH the past 4 winters. If you extend it back to the beginning of the decade, I'm sure the number of 10"+ events will start separating very quickly...esp since years like '02-'03 and '00-'01 had big interior gradient.

Yeah, I was trying to think of more for ORH and got completely stumped and that's why I asked.

I can think of some 7-8" ones though as you said....12/16/07, 1/21/11, 1/18/11, 12/9/09 (t-storm at the end?), and probably many more.

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Yeah, I was trying to think of more for ORH and got completely stumped and that's why I asked.

I can think of some 7-8" ones though as you said....12/16/07, 1/21/11, 1/18/11, 12/9/09 (t-storm at the end?), and probably many more.

They didn't break 8" in 1/18/11...they came in with that outrageous 3.6" measurement.

Other 8"+ events are 2/22/08, 12/13/07, 12/21/08, 1/18/09, 1/3/10

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3 , none on homes rest in cars and one on ATV hit wires.

That's sad but it actually could have been much worse than that I suppose.

My friend told me yesterday that he and another of my friends were driving around during the storm. I told him he's a fooking moron and that's how people die.

I seriously don't understand why people would have to drive around in a situation like that, unless of course there is some sort of emergency but it's just asking for trouble.

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It's cool..that's what I figured.

I freaking talcum powdered my way to 10" in 12/13/07..lol.

That sh** was like baking powder. I remember Ekster in Attleboro posting about it while he was snow blowing his driveway. He said it was like someone was shaking a box of arm and hammer baking powder down to 1/4 mile vis, lol.

If we had good snow growth in that storm, someone would have probably gotten 18", lol.

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They didn't break 8" in 1/18/11...they came in with that outrageous 3.6" measurement.

Other 8"+ events are 2/22/08, 12/13/07, 12/21/08, 1/18/09, 1/3/10

LOL, I remember that. They never fixed that?

I'd have to look at my totals from last year but I think I had 6.4" or 6.7" from that....maybe I got to 7"...I don't know.

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That sh** was like baking powder. I remember Ekster in Attleboro posting about it while he was snow blowing his driveway. He said it was like someone was shaking a box of arm and hammer baking powder down to 1/4 mile vis, lol.

If we had good snow growth in that storm, someone would have probably gotten 18", lol.

Yeah I got to watch the whole thing in my car. FTL.

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He has thousands of mice in hamster wheels.

:lmao:

I enjoy tracking this actually...I refresh the page every 20-30 minutes and write down the number if it's different.

Since I began doing this at 8:28 PM there were 494,385 (39%) of CL&P customers w/o power. As of 11:31 PM the number is down to 469,759 (37%).

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