Feb 3rd 2014 nearly real-time snow reports

[steamboat1]

Especially now, with a mayor whose home turf is Brooklyn.

He's got nothing to do with it. I'd attribute it more to the fact that one of the sanitation guys who plow my area lives down the block.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Just went out for another shoveling and bird feeder run. I'm thinking 8.5 (new) inches.

Those birds sure eat like pigs when it's snowing.

 

[Wavewheeler]

Traffic must be paralyzed down there...

Coating on the cars here in Burlington, Mass. Nothing on the main roads but this afternoon's commute is sure to be crappy.

Supposedly the major roads are fine and all the schools and a lot of businesses are closed. I've been home so I have no idea how the roads are and hope they are clear by tomorrow.

I'm still waiting for my apartment complex to clear stuff so I can get my work truck shoveled out. This is a wet, heavy, slushy snow. The absolute WORST kind IMO.

This type of snowfall amount are quite common. I'm on the central NJ shoreline, around Sandy Hook. They laid the brine stuff down last night so it should be good, especially since it's close to the freezing mark.

The 2011 post Christmas storm was the worst I remember. Almost 3' of snow and many major highways were impassable. I've never seen it that bad before or since. Another stupid southern coastal storm if I recall correctly.

 

[hammer]

The 2011 post Christmas storm was the worst I remember. Almost 3' of snow and many major highways were impassable. I've never seen it that bad before or since. Another stupid southern coastal storm if I recall correctly.

That was the one where the parkway wasn't completely plowed. Would be going down the road and you would lose a lane without warning. Pretty bad situation.

 

[abc]

I like this thread. Gives a sense of what the ground condition in various places are like, traffic too.

 

[Wavewheeler]

That was the one where the parkway wasn't completely plowed. Would be going down the road and you would lose a lane without warning. Pretty bad situation.

Yeah, it was bad. I have lived here all my life and never saw it that bad. I couldn't even get my Jeep out of the garage. There were 6' drifts on my garage door. Two days after I had to pay $300 to get my driveway and sidewalk shoveled out because I was moving the next day. Couldn't find anyone the first day after the storm. I get to my new apartment and the walkway to IT wasn't shoveled.

 

[Wavewheeler]

Anyway, the snow here is so wet and heavy it's like mashed potatoes. Would suck for skiing but good for a base. Packs nicely.