When Hell Freezes Over: Upstate South Carolina. (PHOTOS)
Alternate title: "What About Your Global Warming Now (You Prius-Driving-Pointy-Head Liberal)?"
The alternate title, is, BTW 
Woke up to an 8-inch "dusting" after a night of howling blizzard. This is on Caesar's Head mountain in upstate SC, near the NC line.
Fall or winter. How about "Finter?" Next week "Fummer" will be back.
Oh, look at the stand of White Birch! Wrong! These are mixed hardwoods, snow-blasted during the 0430-0630 blizzard. They got blasted from the east first, then from the northwest. Must have been wet snow that froze as the temp dropped, because it stayed around all day (even in our 50+ mph winds).
Color amongst the Rhodys.
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Oct 29, 2011 was a large snowstorm here in CT that knocked out power for weeks in some places. The trees still had leaves and the heavy wet snow dropped many branches.
It came just months after Hurricane Irene, which wrecked the grid in SE Conn.
... and #4 and #1). Thanks for sharing! 
Blizzard
(abbrev. BLZD)- A blizzard means that the following conditions are expected to prevail for a period of 3 hours or longer:
Sustained wind or frequent gusts to 35 miles an hour or greater; and
Considerable falling and/or blowing snow (i.e., reducing visibility frequently to less than a ¼ mile)
http://w1.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?letter=b
What it looks like to me is a wet snow fall reportedly accompanied by high winds. That kind of storm, especially with leaves still on the trees, can be more devastating than a blizzard if the weight of the wet snow starts breaking tree limbs and taking down power wires. But just because it's more snow than a particular area usually gets doesn't mean it's a blizzard.
And for other Duer's living in places with generally moderate winters - a "white out" isn't a lot of snow falling or blowing around, it's so much snow falling or blowing around that you literally can't see through your windshield.
See the houses, cars and telephone wires in that photo? The Washington Post may think that's a whiteout, but people around here would call that heavy snow. Because you can still see the houses, cars and telephone wires.
and - "Lake effect" - that is a name assigned exclusively to storms in areas downwind of the Great Lakes. Again, maybe your area got more snow than usual, but that doesn't make it Lake effect.
