How's it going in New York, and the rest of the Northeast?

[tjwash]

It looks pretty brutal out there with the blizzard.

[mdmc]

1. we only got 4 inches 60 mile north of nyc

but brooklyn had over 14 inches!

[tjwash]

2. Man that sucks. Did Philly get it pretty bad?

[Patiod]

11. We got 18", but major roads are open

City schools are closed, as are some suburban schools. Other schools opened 2 hours late.

SEPTA is running on time, so it felt like a normal day today for me...

Thanks for asking!
:hi:

[GalleryGod]

12. We're Cool. South Jersey and our little hamlet got about 14"

BASEBALL.SOON. HOPEFULLY.

[LynneSin]

13. It was pretty mild down here in Wilmington

about 6-8 inches but by yesterday afternoon it was warm enough to melt a few away. I didn't even have to shovel to get my car out.

[sir_captain]

5. 14 inches nothing!

Try over two feet!

[Redstone]

3. We ended up with only about a foot, and it was nice and fluffy, so no

big deal to clean up (Connecticut shoreline).

Of course, when it gets to be this much, this late in the year, we just shovel out a path for Mrs R's car to get out, and leave mine where it is until the snow melts. (Her car has AWD, and mine is damn dangerous to try to drive in the snow. I've been driving in the show for 26 years without ever getting stuck, but driving my car in the snow just once was enough.)

Redstone

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

4. lots of snow, but things are moving!

26.9" inches in central park! damnz!

[sir_captain]

6. Things are fine

NYC is pretty amazingly competent at dealing with this kind of stuff. Everything, including schools, are open as normal today, and the morning commute was just about normal as well. 24 hours before the snow even started coming down, every city bus had chains on the tires, and thousands of garbage trucks had been fitted with snow-plows and salters.

[tjwash]

7. New Yorkers amaze the hell out of me sometimes.

Out here in So-Cal, if we get a half an inch of rain in a day, the roads get so snarled up it almost brings the city to a standstill. New York City gets 14 inches of snow, and things just go on as usual...

[sir_captain]

23. 26.9 inches!

Don't sell us short! ;-)

[mdmc]

8. where does the snow go? The Hudson or East river?

My sis lives on 7th Street - cars on both sides...buildings everywhere...where does the snow go?

NYC is amazing to me!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

10. As a new-ish resident, I was curious about this too

I heard this morning that they used to just push it all into the rivers -- however, this is illegal now.

The modern technique uses a device called a snowmelter which is essentially a gigantic tub of hot water that they push all the snow into. They place the tub over EPA approved sewers and just melt it all and drain it into the sewage system. They said that one of these tubs can process something like 200 tons of snow/ice per hour.

Pretty amazing indeed.

[mdmc]

15. someone post a pic of that

please!

wIlDtOwN!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

17. Here you go

Not quite as impressive as you would think, though. (The datasheet on this one says it'll do 350 tons/hr)

[mdmc]

19. awesome

that thing is pretty impressive!

[tigereye]

14. yeah I was impressed at how clean the streets looked

and so quickly. They must have very good public works there. Nice planning, NYC!

When we got that much here in the 90s things were down for what seemed like days.

[KurtNYC]

9. I'm in the city and it looks a lot more like 12 inches than 27

I'm just judging by what is on the cars (untouched, undrifted) and by the fact that cars have some ground clearance in the street which they wouldn't if it really was 27 inches. 27 inches would put the snow roughly up to the door handles of most cars.

Where does it go? We pile it up on the curbs; basically any where between the middle of the sidewalk and the parked cars.

[MANative]

16. We got 27 inches of the fluffy stuff in Danbury

CT. I went out to shovel the walk, and the snow came halfway between my knee and my hip! Damn cold too. 3 below 0 when I got up at 6:00 this morning.

Yikes!

[DS1]

18. Thuper, thanks for asking!

[trogdor]

20. For once, central NY was untouched by this.

We were watching the NYC blizzard on TV while the tops of the blades of last year's grass still peek out over the paltry amount of snow we have on the ground. Let that sink for a minute. 45 miles from Syracuse, and we got ZERO inches of snow this weekend. Bwahahahahahaha!

[mvd]

21. We got about 15 inches

But the sun is stronger than it was in Dec. and Jan., so there has been noticeable melting already. Schools here only delayed 2 hours today.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

22. What blizzard?

We got 5 inches here, just south of Portland, Maine....

:eyes:

:D :D

[ThomCat]

24. 18 inches, but no big deal

Grew up north of Syracuse, then lived in Buffalo for a decade. Compared to that, NYC gets nothing.

I broke out my winter coat for the first time in 2 years and found out it's too warm. it's all melting already.