Cold Miser Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 I'm guessing the main reason for me not remembering this was due to the fact that I was at college in Bristol R.I. where this storm was more than likely a rainfest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Always like reading (and now seeing/hearing) about this event, even though it was a clean though windy whiff for central Maine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan76 Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Was sking at SR during that storm and didn't get a drop,but when we hit ORH on the way home it was wtf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 That storm was the ultimate on Long Island until sandy. The winds were insane. Until sandys complete blow downs I knew exactly where the trees that the 92 nor'easter blew down. What it did have that even sandy dId not was major coastal flooding over many many high tide cycles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I hadn’t seen this thread until I Googled the storm. Lol. Great video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 21 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: I hadn’t seen this thread until I Googled the storm. Lol. Great video Thanks...seems like such a long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan76 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 21 minutes ago, MetHerb said: Thanks...seems like such a long time ago. No cell phones yet lol...we've come a long way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connecticut Appleman Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Was living in Norfolk at the time and was trying to plow at the place I was working and it was immovable and topping over the plow. Had to get someone with a front end loader to move the snow from the parking lot. Don't remember how much snow we had - but it was a lot. We also lost power for two days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostonseminole Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 On 5/7/2015 at 10:56 AM, Ginx snewx said: i thought about it but the 2 times a year I use toll roads I didn't bother hope you switchted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 16 minutes ago, Bostonseminole said: hope you switchted Like 3 years ago, 20 bucks in my account, 2.75 used. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Great video, thanks for sharing, brings back memories. I was living at 40 Sarah Ave in Lowell (I think Dave lived in the same house on the first floor). It started as rain for me, so I jumped in my Toyota Celica and drove west along 113 to Townsend where it turned to snow. Turned around and the R/S line more or less followed me east. I stopped in the Blue Moon in Tyngsoboro for a couple beers, lol. A friend was taking the LSAT's the next day and they didn't cancel! He came up form the Cape early Sat. morning and said it was rain the whole way until he got only about a mile south of 495 on Rt. 3 where apparently the R/S line held for much of the storm. I think we ended up with somewhere in the 18-24" range, but just a few miles south the amounts were significantly lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 On 5/7/2015 at 10:56 AM, Ginx snewx said: i thought about it but the 2 times a year I use toll roads I didn't bother Living in VT, there are no tolls. When I go to Mass or somewhere else with tolls, I’ll just drive through the EZ Pass lane anyway. They’ll send you a bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 4" Taunton, 12" Franklin, 18" Marlborough 495 gradient iirc. Brutal inside of I95 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 10 hours ago, Dan76 said: No cell phones yet lol...we've come a long way Maybe you didn't have one... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I was living in Auburn, NH at the time and recall about 8" or so of snow followed by torrential rain. It was a gloppy mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stash Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 46 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: One of the more extreme examples of downsloping that you’ll ever see around here. I was living a little NE of Danbury, CT at the time, and received over a foot of heavy wet snow. the difference in weather in the relatively short distance between Danbury and the coast was always staggering. My grandparents lived in Norwalk then and saw very little snow, but took video of impressive coastal flooding. ORH had it worse certainly, and Mar ‘93 would soon eclipse it for me, but at the time it was the heaviest snow i’d seen since Feb ‘83. I was a little young to remember much about that one however. Mid ‘80s until that winter had some very lean years in SNE for big winter storms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 20 minutes ago, Stash said: One of the more extreme examples of downsloping that you’ll ever see around here. I was living a little NE of Danbury, CT at the time, and received over a foot of heavy wet snow. the difference in weather in the relatively short distance between Danbury and the coast was always staggering. My grandparents lived in Norwalk then and saw very little snow, but took video of impressive coastal flooding. ORH had it worse certainly, and Mar ‘93 would soon eclipse it for me, but at the time it was the heaviest snow i’d seen since Feb ‘83. I was a little young to remember much about that one however. Mid ‘80s until that winter had some very lean years in SNE for big winter storms. It was the first storm over 8 or 9" I saw since moving back to ORH in 1988 when I was 7. I experienced 4 consecutive winters without a double digit snowfall....ORH previously had not ever had even 3 consecutive winters without a double digit snowfall before that....or since. I timed it perfectly! But that storm was a true drought buster for me. Here's a pic of me (and my grandfather) on top of a snow pile in the driveway at my grandfathers house the day after it ended. We had about 35 inches there in Holden, MA. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said: It was the first storm over 8 or 9" I saw since moving back to ORH in 1988 when I was 7. I experienced 4 consecutive winters without a double digit snowfall....ORH previously had not ever had even 3 consecutive winters without a double digit snowfall before that....or since. I timed it perfectly! But that storm was a true drought buster for me. Here's a pic of me (and my grandfather) on top of a snow pile in the driveway at my grandfathers house the day after it ended. We had about 35 inches there in Holden, MA. That's awesome. Even for me it was a real chapter turner for me too. Before that we would have occasional events but winters were nothing like they were after that (save for a couple). Heck, the cold of December 1989 was a big event! You can just feel my brother and I's excitement in the video in chasing down reports of the snow in Worcester and waves in Hull. I had never seen so much snow fall at once and so close to my house! After that I could compare storms to that one like some of you do for the Blizzard of 78 which wasn't that big for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 3 hours ago, ORH_wxman said: It was the first storm over 8 or 9" I saw since moving back to ORH in 1988 when I was 7. I experienced 4 consecutive winters without a double digit snowfall....ORH previously had not ever had even 3 consecutive winters without a double digit snowfall before that....or since. I timed it perfectly! But that storm was a true drought buster for me. We had the same underwhelming "welcome" when we moved from NNJ to BGR in Jan. 1973. Saw lots of snow piles from their huge Dec. '72 but did not see even one 8" snowstorm in met winter until the 11.5" on Dec. 18, 1975, two weeks before our move to Ft. Kent. We did have 8.5" in Nov.'74, 8.6" in April '74 and 12.0" in April '75. Then, despite frequent snows and good pack, FK had no storms greater than 8.2" for nearly a year, until late Dec. '76 when 24"and 12" dumps came Dec. 26-31. Of course we were in NJ for Christmas then, missing the 2-footer entirely though we got to drive the length of Maine (after dark) during the 12-incher. (Later winters there, and at my present location, have certainly made up for that.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Strangely, I have no recollection of that storm living in Lexington. The video of Nantasket Beach reminded me of a storm my father drove me down to when I was a young kid - probably early 70's - standing right around where the waves were breaking over the sea wall in the video and the storm surge was almost to the top of the wall. I can recall being both in awe and a little frightened. My grandparents had a summer home on the other side of the hill on Atlantic Ave in Hull towards Cohasset. There was a hurricane in the late 60's which resulted in the fortification and essentially the destruction of a beach that ran parallel to Atlantic Ave called Crescent Beach. I dimly recall the beach but it now all rock and cement. This area is a favorite for the Boston news media to capture waves breaking over rooftops during big storms. Great video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalloweenGale Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 My dad took me to see the houses/cottages getting washed into the ocean on the east end of ACK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 I was working in Springfield at the time and commuting, I remember telling the people I worked with about the snow and my ride on Route 20 to Auburn and they didn't believe it, the days before internet were different than today. I had some good pics of Dresser Hill in Charlton to show them, drifts were 5 foot, speed limit sign was almost buried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnitedWx Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Thanks for sharing that! I remember this one well. It closed the Christmas tree farm in Riverton ct where we got our trees because of the accumulation and insane drifts. We had about 18 inches in Granby but right over the ridge into Bloomfield there was practically nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 On 5/7/2015 at 9:38 AM, CTValleySnowMan said: Digging up old wounds. That ride from Enfield to Union on 190 had about a 20 inch snowfall difference. I was in Amherst and it was a nothing burger relatively speaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 On 1/21/2020 at 10:33 AM, ORH_wxman said: Perhaps the greatest valley screw job of all time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 14 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: Perhaps the greatest valley screw job of all time? I'm not a historian but in my lifetime definitely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted March 4, 2020 Author Share Posted March 4, 2020 9 minutes ago, CTValleySnowMan said: I'm not a historian but in my lifetime definitely. Yeah, I had never seen anything like that before or after. Even the amount of snow in Stafford/Union was something I had never seen before or since. 30"+ snowfalls are pretty rare. That whole day was pretty special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 On 1/21/2020 at 11:47 AM, ORH_wxman said: It was the first storm over 8 or 9" I saw since moving back to ORH in 1988 when I was 7. I experienced 4 consecutive winters without a double digit snowfall....ORH previously had not ever had even 3 consecutive winters without a double digit snowfall before that....or since. I timed it perfectly! But that storm was a true drought buster for me. Here's a pic of me (and my grandfather) on top of a snow pile in the driveway at my grandfathers house the day after it ended. We had about 35 inches there in Holden, MA. Your son looks like you. Great weenie pic, wish I didn't lose my 78 pics to a flood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I was on Long Island at the time. We had a lot of wind damage and coastal flooding. There was snow on the back end which I believe resulted in 2 or 3 inches or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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