Banter your New Years resolutions

[CoastalWx]

It's been pretty much epicosity all over the globe except here. 

[powderfreak]

It's been pretty much epicosity all over the globe except here.

Ha sounds like the opposite of last year when 95% of the globe was torching but it was ass-cold in the Northeast.

[powderfreak]

Pure banter, so good thread for it, but saw this posted on a Facebook status from Philly.

 

4 Days after the Storm...snow melting rapidly...and Trader Joes ran out of product before the storm that has yet to be replenished.

 

Still empty Supermarkets now days after it stopped snowing.  Man life really does stop in the Mid-Atlantic when these storms hit.

 

 

 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Looks and feels like early November here.

[Ginx snewx]

Ha sounds like the opposite of last year when 95% of the globe was torching but it was ass-cold in the Northeast.

remember that island we were on, yea we are still on it only its a Caribbean island not Arctic. Still can not believe I only averaged 15 degrees for all of last Feb

[backedgeapproaching]

Pure banter, so good thread for it, but saw this posted on a Facebook status from Philly.

 

4 Days after the Storm...snow melting rapidly...and Trader Joes ran out of product before the storm that has yet to be replenished.

 

Still empty Supermarkets now days after it stopped snowing.  Man life really does stop in the Mid-Atlantic when these storms hit.

 

 

 

Yea, you have the mindset of someone who grew up in the Northeast, so it seems absurd really.

The problem down there is they don't have the manpower or equipment to keep up(especially getting further south in VA amd MD)Read the mid atl thread and some people are still snowed in 4 days later.

Issue with a 2-3ft storm is, if they are not consistently plowing during the storm in all the neighborhoods,etc then at the end Joe the plow guy with his F150 won't be able to get through 2-3ft, only the big equipment can do that.

Even down in PA I didn't get plowed out until Monday and they had to bring in this beast....

[eekuasepinniW]

An EEK special https://twitter.com/EricBlake12/status/690599721732292608

Omg.  Right into my lightning bookmarks.

 

Check out that blast of steam shooting up off to the right of the main strike.

 

So much better than snow.  So so much.

[Ginx snewx]

Omg.  Right into my lightning bookmarks.

 

Check out that blast of steam shooting up off to the right of the main strike.

 

So much better than snow.  So so much.

that was one of the best I have seen, knew you like that one. the explosion actually sways the big trees in the back

[tamarack]

Yea, you have the mindset of someone who grew up in the Northeast, so it seems absurd really.

The problem down there is they don't have the manpower or equipment to keep up(especially getting further south in VA amd MD)Read the mid atl thread and some people are still snowed in 4 days later.

Issue with a 2-3ft storm is, if they are not consistently plowing during the storm in all the neighborhoods,etc then at the end Joe the plow guy with his F150 won't be able to get through 2-3ft, only the big equipment can do that.

Even down in PA I didn't get plowed out until Monday and they had to bring in this beast....

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I grew up in North Jersey, and though it's been 43 years since I moved to Maine, I think it was the 1960 census in which NJ passed RI as the most densely populated state - Jersey's always had lots of people.  However, I don't ever recall stores being stripped pre-storm, and especially none remaining stripped half a week after the last flakes.  My years in NJ included 3 storms in the 24" range, 3/56, 3/58, and 2/61, plus about a half dozen in the 15-20" range.  That last 2-footer fell atop a 20"+ snowpack and brought depths into the 40s over much of NNJ outside of places within 10-15 miles of NYC, yet we never saw the empty shelves so frequently seen today as a result of big snowstorms.   Whether folks kept more non-perishables around, or otherwise prepared better (or whether this is just a "Get off my lawn!" comment), I can't say.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

Hey, it's not my fault that the last week of January is 1/25/16 - 1/31/16.

Maybe you guys could take the psychoanalysis of me to PM, I already tried to move the conversation to banter.

Your posts have increased this winter. I think you have kids, right? Function of them being older and more self sufficient?

I ask because my first one is on the way in April and I don't know how I'll manage to be the Uber weenie while raising him. My wife says I have an addiction, I need to see a therapist. And if I'm too busy on my phone posting about a d5 snowstorm while she isn't home, I'll neglect the baby she claims.

I don't know how CoastalWx did it but it must be possible.

[backedgeapproaching]

I grew up in North Jersey, and though it's been 43 years since I moved to Maine, I think it was the 1960 census in which NJ passed RI as the most densely populated state - Jersey's always had lots of people.  However, I don't ever recall stores being stripped pre-storm, and especially none remaining stripped half a week after the last flakes.  My years in NJ included 3 storms in the 24" range, 3/56, 3/58, and 2/61, plus about a half dozen in the 15-20" range.  That last 2-footer fell atop a 20"+ snowpack and brought depths into the 40s over much of NNJ outside of places within 10-15 miles of NYC, yet we never saw the empty shelves so frequently seen today as a result of big snowstorms.   Whether folks kept more non-perishables around, or otherwise prepared better (or whether this is just a "Get off my lawn!" comment), I can't say.

 

Yea, I don't know. Maybe its the age of social media and ensuing wide spread panic that overtakes populated regions. 

[JC-CT]

Your posts have increased this winter. I think you have kids, right? Function of them being older and more self sufficient?

I ask because my first one is on the way in April and I don't know how I'll manage to be the Uber weenie while raising him. My wife says I have an addiction, I need to see a therapist. And if I'm too busy on my phone posting about a d5 snowstorm while she isn't home, I'll neglect the baby she claims.

I don't know how CoastalWx did it but it must be possible.

 

Many of us, myself included, post what I consider to be an unhealthy amount.

 

My best advice is to say listen to your wife. Nobody here is going to give you what she can.

[CoastalWx]

Eh, when you sit back, at work sometimes, phone etc....you have time. I enjoy weather and it's a passion of mine. Probably unhealthy, but it is what it is. I haven't really had much time for in-depth posts...only once in awhile, so quality goes down a bit...but I manage. You got people who have multiple monitors up to keep en eye on twitter and have 100k tweets....what's the difference? They aren't weenies? 

[Ginx snewx]

I grew up in North Jersey, and though it's been 43 years since I moved to Maine, I think it was the 1960 census in which NJ passed RI as the most densely populated state - Jersey's always had lots of people.  However, I don't ever recall stores being stripped pre-storm, and especially none remaining stripped half a week after the last flakes.  My years in NJ included 3 storms in the 24" range, 3/56, 3/58, and 2/61, plus about a half dozen in the 15-20" range.  That last 2-footer fell atop a 20"+ snowpack and brought depths into the 40s over much of NNJ outside of places within 10-15 miles of NYC, yet we never saw the empty shelves so frequently seen today as a result of big snowstorms.   Whether folks kept more non-perishables around, or otherwise prepared better (or whether this is just a "Get off my lawn!" comment), I can't say.

millennials 

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

Nobody here is going to give you what she can.

But a 30" snowstorm may come very close.

[JC-CT]

They aren't weenies? 

 

of course they are

[JC-CT]

http://brightside.me/article/a-thought-provoking-experiment-showed-what-happens-when-children-dont-have-the-internet-for-a-whole-day-42855/

[tamarack]

Yea, I don't know. Maybe its the age of social media and ensuing wide spread panic that overtakes populated regions. 

 

Add "mainstream media hype" and the set is complete.  Tex Antoine never got anywhere near as excited as the current crop of newsies.

[forkyfork]

millennials

link

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

Eh, when you sit back, at work sometimes, phone etc....you have time. I enjoy weather and it's a passion of mine. Probably unhealthy, but it is what it is. I haven't really had much time for in-depth posts...only once in awhile, so quality goes down a bit...but I manage. You got people who have multiple monitors up to keep en eye on twitter and have 100k tweets....what's the difference? They aren't weenies?

True. A big part of why I'm on here is the passion for weather obv but also the learning amongst fellow weather nerds. I think if I just stopped the minimal contributions that I make storms just wouldn't as fun. A big part of me enjoys the chase on here and various opinions during it.

I'll get through this though aND manage. I'll still be lurking in the bushes come april.

[forkyfork]

Your posts have increased this winter. I think you have kids, right? Function of them being older and more self sufficient?

I ask because my first one is on the way in April and I don't know how I'll manage to be the Uber weenie while raising him. My wife says I have an addiction, I need to see a therapist. And if I'm too busy on my phone posting about a d5 snowstorm while she isn't home, I'll neglect the baby she claims.

I don't know how CoastalWx did it but it must be possible.

"accidentally" leave a sock or two at the top of the stairs and enjoy your snow!

[Ginx snewx]

link

Drama queens

[forkyfork]

Drama queens

i hardly saw anyone my age raiding the stores. see, i can use anecdotes too!

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

"accidentally" leave a sock or two at the top of the stairs and enjoy your snow!

Smh. I tried a sock 7 months ago but it didn't work.

[forkyfork]

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/01/why_do_we_buy_bread_milk_and_e.html

[Ginx snewx]

i hardly saw anyone my age raiding the stores. see, i can use anecdotes too!

Lol 

[powderfreak]

Yea, you have the mindset of someone who grew up in the Northeast, so it seems absurd really.

The problem down there is they don't have the manpower or equipment to keep up(especially getting further south in VA amd MD)Read the mid atl thread and some people are still snowed in 4 days later.

Issue with a 2-3ft storm is, if they are not consistently plowing during the storm in all the neighborhoods,etc then at the end Joe the plow guy with his F150 won't be able to get through 2-3ft, only the big equipment can do that.

Even down in PA I didn't get plowed out until Monday and they had to bring in this beast....

2016-01-24 14.46.53.jpg

 

True, I'm looking at this through a lens of I've witnessed numerous 20-30" storms (a couple in Albany, a couple in Burlington, and a couple in Stowe) and no matter how dense or wind-packed the snow is (say Valentines Day with like 30" of dense wind-packed storm snow), the streets are cleared a day later and we move on.  Maybe it takes two days for all the sidewalks. 

 

The thought of having entire neighborhoods unplowed days after a storm is not something I can really grasp, lol.  But you are right in that if they don't keep up with it during the storm and only attack it after the snow stops, the local contract pick-up truck guys aren't going to be able to move that snow.  As I'm sure that's most of their plows are of the smaller variety, as opposed to the small-house sized orange monstrosities of plows you see around these parts.  And they have a lot fewer of them. 

 

Even in the ALB suburbs, during the Christmas Day 2002 two-footer or when the same thing happened a few days later on January 4, 2003...our cul-de-sac was getting plowed once every few hours, and we were usually last on the hit list.  I think in both of those storms, as well as when I lived in Burlington for Valentines Day, you'd never see more than 8-10" of snow on a road at once.

[forkyfork]

Lol

those are all millennials?

[OceanStWx]

True, I'm looking at this through a lens of I've witnessed numerous 20-30" storms (a couple in Albany, a couple in Burlington, and a couple in Stowe) and no matter how dense or wind-packed the snow is (say Valentines Day with like 30" of dense wind-packed storm snow), the streets are cleared a day later and we move on.  Maybe it takes two days for all the sidewalks. 

 

The thought of having entire neighborhoods unplowed days after a storm is not something I can really grasp, lol.  But you are right in that if they don't keep up with it during the storm and only attack it after the snow stops, the local contract pick-up truck guys aren't going to be able to move that snow.  As I'm sure that's most of their plows are of the smaller variety, as opposed to the small-house sized orange monstrosities of plows you see around these parts.  And they have a lot fewer of them. 

 

Even in the ALB suburbs, during the Christmas Day 2002 two-footer or when the same thing happened a few days later on January 4, 2003...our cul-de-sac was getting plowed once every few hours, and we were usually last on the hit list.  I think in both of those storms, as well as when I lived in Burlington for Valentines Day, you'd never see more than 8-10" of snow on a road at once.

 

I'm pretty sure I saw quoted that NYC was operating about 2000 plows during the storm, by comparison I think DC only has 400 plows (according to a very unscientific Google search).

[Ginx snewx]

those are all millennials?

Never seen or read so much whiny drama in my life . OMG we are stuck forever, please some one plow my road. Soft soft soft. When the real sh it hits the fan from a Cat 3 and whole infrastructures are wiped out, oh the humanity