CoastalWx Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Right about now I was in Medford, chewing on my steering wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Give it a chew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 NARR image from this time (7 p.m.) five years ago: Courtesy PSU Meteorology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 Fire up some radar images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 A better event for you guys. It started as snow here but was mostly a sleet fest with a ZR capper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 You may ask why a professional met such as myself was stuck. I prepared for a 4 hour commute, thinking it may be like a 10-20mph ride home. Not 2mph. It was forecasted well, models had a good handle on timing. Never did I think it would be 8-9hr drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 You may ask why a professional met such as myself was stuck. I prepared for a 4 hour commute, thinking it may be like a 10-20mph ride home. Not 2mph. It was forecasted well, models had a good handle on timing. Never did I think it would be 8-9hr drive. ....part of the problem is all the offices let everyone go at the same time right at the height of the storm and it's gridlick city-almost better to wait a couple of hours and then head out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 You may ask why a professional met such as myself was stuck. I prepared for a 4 hour commute, thinking it may be like a 10-20mph ride home. Not 2mph. It was forecasted well, models had a good handle on timing. Never did I think it would be 8-9hr drive. Why wouldn't you take the day off? Most folks take those kinds of days off or work from home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 This is all I saved for radar, but it doesn't do much good for most here. I had about 5", but with a temp in the 10s it was a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Why wouldn't you take the day off? Most folks take those kinds of days off or work from home I had my wisdom teeth out that day lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I had my wisdom teeth out that day lol LOL..was it early enough to beat the disaster home? I had friends in the office that took 8+ hours to get home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Our district closed a bit early. Drove Rte 2 in heavy heavy, but not much traffic Took 45 min instead of the usual 30 But people I know had 8 hour rides home. Some were glad they had empty containers in the car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 It was also a Thursday like this year. While shoveling at 10pm, I observed a stuck bus on Harvard Street spinning around. A great system that had 1-3 in the progs until the afternoon package on Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 Why wouldn't you take the day off? Most folks take those kinds of days off or work from home I had to work, I can't just take the day off like the country club you work at. Winter storms are when we need people, not take time off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Best sugar worst snow growth snow ever but what a dumper. Wall of snow that at first quickly melted on the roads then quickly froze. That is why the entire region was gridlocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowMan Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Nuff said.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 The one thing great about this storm, was watching the 10" that fell. The Mitchell report was released too, listened to that on air. Eventually, I had to turn the radio off and I had my wife put her phone to the TV so I at least could hear Seinfeld reruns through my cell phone on speaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowMan Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 The one thing great about this storm, was watching the 10" that fell. The Mitchell report was released too, listened to that on air. Eventually, I had to turn the radio off and I had my wife put her phone to the TV so I at least could hear Seinfeld reruns through my cell phone on speaker. :weenie: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 One thing I remember was getting home and my daughter (then 8) wanted to go sledding and of course I happily obliged. We were riding down to go over a little ski jump hill we made. Rushing down the big hill it was as if I was 9. Going over the ski jump weeeee...and then hitting my tail bone when we landed.....me realizing I was 61....lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 i drove from home in that...leaving from Derry NH...93s in NH to 495s in MA all the way to exit 19 milford, MA...i think it was a 5 hr drive when it's usually 1hr15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherMA Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 8th grade...got let out at noon. Flurries came down last period that day and by the time I got home there was an inch down and +SN. I was only reading accuweather forums in those days, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 :weenie: No a real weenie would have the wife put on TWC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SlantStickers Anonymous Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 8th grade...got let out at noon. Flurries came down last period that day and by the time I got home there was an inch down and +SN. I was only reading accuweather forums in those days, lol. Same here, I remember getting out early and pretty much having the house to my self for the night because my nanna was in traffic for hours and my grandfather plowed. Fun times, especially because I didn't drive yet lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma blizzard Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 terrible, terrible snow growth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 terrible, terrible snow growth 10" of dense snow though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruinsyear Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 It took me 7 hours to come into the city on a reverse commute. A ride that normally takes 35-40 mins. I remember peeing in a Sam Adams pint glass twice and dumping it out on the Tobin. I was jammed up on that bridge for 2.5 hours. Awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma blizzard Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 10" of dense snow though. oh i can't complain. especially with the "cold tuck" in the evening hours and the light snow (OES enhanced?) continuing into Sat. As well as the snow event that Sunday. It was defintely a very underated 3 day period Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma blizzard Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I don't have my snowfall records handy atm, but imby (shrewsbury) def saw between 16"-20" that weekend .. I remember being out Friday afternoon in the snow and I was a little surprised at how cool it was .. must have been in the teens to near 20 for the duration of the event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 One thing I remember was getting home and my daughter (then 8) wanted to go sledding and of course I happily obliged. We were riding down to go over a little ski jump hill we made. Rushing down the big hill it was as if I was 9. Going over the ski jump weeeee...and then hitting my tail bone when we landed.....me realizing I was 61....lol. Your daughter and one of my sons are the same age. They might have met a few years ago at the SNE Wx conf at Dexter S, but I don't believe she was there. Anywho, 12/13/07 was an interesting storm around here, but as often happens, we were on the outside looking in for the good snows. Now 12/13/88...that was one where we were inside the snow globe. Better than a foot from a Norlun over parts of central LI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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