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Jan 9/10 Snow?


rossi

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Just slipped and smacked my head hard on the sidewalk out here on LI. Was not expecting any freezing rain at all since I only saw the advisory up for N & W. Be careful!

Yikes.  Hope you're okay.

 

Looks like the South Shore stayed mainly rain... I had no problem leaving for work this morning, and my wife went to Bayshore and she said it's just rain.  Once you get about to the Northern State Parkway on northward, it's bad, especially on the side roads.

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Yikes.  Hope you're okay.

 

Looks like the South Shore stayed mainly rain... I had no problem leaving for work this morning, and my wife went to Bayshore and she said it's just rain.  Once you get about to the Northern State Parkway on northward, it's bad, especially on the side roads.

 

Yeah just went outside here in FRG and looks like mainly wet rain even though the airport is reporting 32 and light freezing rain...

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http://www.newsday.com/news/weather/freezing-rain-slicks-li-roads-uptick-in-accidents-injuries-1.6771108

In a two-hour span, Suffolk reported 600 ambulance calls, said John Jordan, a deputy commissioner with the county's Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services Department.

Jordan said there were no serious accidents. Officials said that the call volume was about twice what would be seen during a typical day during the same time.

"This just didn't overwhelm the fire service, it overwhelmed the police department," he said.

From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Suffolk, there were at least 250 vehicle crashes and also 300 calls for help, which exclude car accidents but counts slip and falls and medical emergencies, such as heart attacks, Suffolk police reported.

Nassau police said they did not experience response problems.

From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 129 patients were transported to area hospitals, 61 of them by Nassau County police ambulance and 68 by fire department ambulance, said Brian Nevin, a spokesman for County Executive Edward Mangano.

Hospitals in both counties reported increased activity in their emergency rooms because of the weather.

At Stony Brook University Hospital, a spokeswoman said at just about noon that the hospital's emergency department had just received 12 ambulances with patients involved in weather-related accidents.

"We have ambulances unloading as fast as they can -- one after the other, after the other. Some are slip-and-fall, and some are car accidents," Dr. Peter Viccellio, director of emergency medicine at Stony Brook, said during a short, midday break.

"The injuries run the whole gamut: head, back, wrist, ankle. These are absolutely typical injuries for falling on ice," he said, adding that the hospital has called in about 20 to 25 percent more personnel.

At Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, the emergency department had accounted for 30 slip-and-falls because of icy conditions before 1 p.m., a spokeswoman said.

A spokeswoman for Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre said there was a "significant increase in cases" because of the weather but did not have specific numbers.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/weather/freezing-rain-slicks-li-roads-uptick-in-accidents-injuries-1.6771108

In a two-hour span, Suffolk reported 600 ambulance calls, said John Jordan, a deputy commissioner with the county's Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services Department.

Jordan said there were no serious accidents. Officials said that the call volume was about twice what would be seen during a typical day during the same time.

"This just didn't overwhelm the fire service, it overwhelmed the police department," he said.

From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Suffolk, there were at least 250 vehicle crashes and also 300 calls for help, which exclude car accidents but counts slip and falls and medical emergencies, such as heart attacks, Suffolk police reported.

Nassau police said they did not experience response problems.

From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 129 patients were transported to area hospitals, 61 of them by Nassau County police ambulance and 68 by fire department ambulance, said Brian Nevin, a spokesman for County Executive Edward Mangano.

Hospitals in both counties reported increased activity in their emergency rooms because of the weather.

At Stony Brook University Hospital, a spokeswoman said at just about noon that the hospital's emergency department had just received 12 ambulances with patients involved in weather-related accidents.

"We have ambulances unloading as fast as they can -- one after the other, after the other. Some are slip-and-fall, and some are car accidents," Dr. Peter Viccellio, director of emergency medicine at Stony Brook, said during a short, midday break.

"The injuries run the whole gamut: head, back, wrist, ankle. These are absolutely typical injuries for falling on ice," he said, adding that the hospital has called in about 20 to 25 percent more personnel.

At Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, the emergency department had accounted for 30 slip-and-falls because of icy conditions before 1 p.m., a spokeswoman said.

A spokeswoman for Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre said there was a "significant increase in cases" because of the weather but did not have specific numbers.

 

Wow that's crazy! And that was just Suffolk County!!

 

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