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2022-12-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Buffalo battered: National Guard deployed and at least three dead as beleaguered EMT's struggle to cope with 30 feet drifts in one of worst Christmas blizzards in history – as unprecedented bomb cyclone leaves 200m across America shivering
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Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Nat Guard should have been deployed earlier = even one day earlier would have made a difference

- the weather forecasts were not perfect but they certainly had the big picture correct.
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-12-25 00:47||   2022-12-25 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 My darling mother-in-law had 4’ of snow just south of the city as of this afternoon... and a whole-house generator standing by in case the power goes out. Also plenty of food to keep her until the roads are plowed out again.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-12-25 00:51||   2022-12-25 00:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Ok ... this is not Buffalo's 1st Snowaster.
It would seem they would be better prepared.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-12-25 05:46||   2022-12-25 05:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Re: Snow. I was visiting a friend in Steamboat Springs once. I asked what was the most snow they ever got? I was thinking hours. He smiled and said, "We got 22 feet in 21 days and nobody missed work or school."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-25 05:50||   2022-12-25 05:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Over 1.5 Million Without Power on Christmas Eve During Winter Storm

I lived in the front range mountains west of Denver for a while. My best snow story was 5 feet in 3 days. The Dodge PU would go thru it, nice light powdery stuff, but the doors wouldn't open. Had to climb in and out of the sliding rear window from the bed.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-25 06:37||   2022-12-25 06:37|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ My fully fueled 4.6 ltr V8 F-150 sits in a warm garage ready to go. Range, 465 miles.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-25 06:41||   2022-12-25 06:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Range, 465 miles.

Is that far enough away from the coming tsunami?
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-25 07:38||   2022-12-25 07:38|| Front Page Top

#8 

Besoeker, I lived a little north of your neck of the woods. for a few years (Murphy) As you know the variables are mountainous.

eg. a bunch of 1/2 kids one winter, ICE Locked the entrance road to 4 cabins. They thought it would be fun to run water down the entrance road and make a 300 yd. ICE slide.

Even my Chev Trail Blazer 4x4 with 12" lift kit couldn't do it.
But the Guy below me with a C-10 had a set of European studded Ice tires and towed me out.


Posted by NN2N1 2022-12-25 07:50||   2022-12-25 07:50|| Front Page Top

#9 The real danger is the roofs. Hopefully, the area has some good building codes to hold that much up there.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-25 07:51||   2022-12-25 07:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Email from Tractor Supply this morning. Horse boots...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-25 08:48||   2022-12-25 08:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Moose in snow.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-25 09:04||   2022-12-25 09:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes, Ethel, it's wintertime.

But the fear pörn by the media (and retards like Gov. Hochul) only serve to push the climate change/tree-hugging agenda.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-12-25 09:27||   2022-12-25 09:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Meanwhile, here in the North Farthing, the high is forecast to be 68, with 75 down in Hobbiton.
Posted by JHH 2022-12-25 12:15||   2022-12-25 12:15|| Front Page Top

#14 winter of 97 near Colorado Springs. 4ft of snow - spent 3 days in a total station and helped run the cash registers. It a good thing there were lots of snow mobiles. Global Warming is a bear...
Posted by Ho Chi Gurly-Brown5202 2022-12-25 12:23||   2022-12-25 12:23|| Front Page Top

#15 71 here in Tucson; 75 Monday, 76 Tuesday.
Posted by borgboy 2022-12-25 12:46||   2022-12-25 12:46|| Front Page Top

#16 80 - high 70's in San Diego today
*ducks*
But a week of rain starting Tues PM. Watch for us on the STORMWATCH™ news. My jobsite will be flooded if the forecast is right
Posted by Frank G 2022-12-25 14:47||   2022-12-25 14:47|| Front Page Top

#17 I've been in SD when there's been a major downpour Frank, so I don't envy you. It's not fun as everything flows downhill, and the low areas flood like crazy.

Plus too many motorists don't have any tire tread.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-12-25 15:06||   2022-12-25 15:06|| Front Page Top

#18 ^ Amen. Working adjacent to the SD River in Mission Valley. Should be EPIC idiocy
Posted by Frank G 2022-12-25 15:08||   2022-12-25 15:08|| Front Page Top

#19 But how are the Bills doing?
Posted by Betty Protector of the Esquimeaux3938 2022-12-25 16:21||   2022-12-25 16:21|| Front Page Top

#20 The Buffalo News has complete coverage, articles free until one hits their limit, which I did. At any rate, 13 now confirmed dead in Erie and Niagara counties, a combination of carbon monoxide poisoning, frozen outside, and frozen in cars. The snowstorm has passed, now it’s just a matter of digging out.

I can’t imagine this is actually the worst blizzard on record, unless the experts differentiate between blizzards and a really, really bad snowstorm. I s’pose I should read the article to find out.

The Buffalo Bills won something in the AFC and were greeted upon their return by cheering fans — presumably arriving on snowmobiles and cross-country skis... maybe even snowshoes.

And my darling mother-in-law reported herself fine this morning, not even bored at being stuck at home again. Mr. Wife’s niece, a hospital ICU nurse, just got home after being stuck at the hospital for 57 hours — because of the travel ban no-one came to relieve them. Her husband gallantly handled Christmas and the storm while caring for their three very active sons, the oldest all of eight, and an unknown number of equally active dogs.

Procopius2k, any roofs that were going to give way probably did so during the big Thanksgiving storm, and have since been repaired. The current storm dropped less snow, but had higher winds.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-12-25 17:57||   2022-12-25 17:57|| Front Page Top

#21 #19 - Bills won. I have Josh Allen at QB and finally got points out of Dawson Knox...or was that a rhetorical question?
Posted by Frank G 2022-12-25 20:20||   2022-12-25 20:20|| Front Page Top

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18:41 rhodesiafever
17:57 trailing wife
17:38 Shinegum Chusong1572
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17:17 Skidmark
16:34 Canuckistan sniper
16:30 49 Pan
16:21 Betty Protector of the Esquimeaux3938
15:56 Frank G
15:41 Procopius2k
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15:27 Besoeker
15:26 magpie
15:19 Frank G
15:18 NoMoreBS
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