On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:13:25 -0500, John Lemke wrote:

"Woodswun" <woodswun@tepidmail.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.02.15.00.55.56.119347@tepidmail.com...

I spent some time watching The Weather Channel today during the
blizzard (didn't think it was such a hot idea to drive 40 miles to and
40 miles from work during a blizzard, so I didn't go in - 15 miles for
some shopping was more like it, LOL!). Anyway, TWC had this ridiculous
banner, "February Fury!", and have people in Syracuse to show how bad
the storm is. They had some moron standing in the road demonstrating
"snow", while traffic is moving behind him and visibility is clearly
not an issue. It's like they forgot they were just a few miles away
and saw 120 inch snowfall! (Also seemed to be the only weather people
who didn't realize Syracuse was not going to be getting the full
force). They are turning into huge drama queens, it's getting
embarrassing to watch them.

(23" and counting where I am. During the heaviest snow/wind, visiblity
was 200 feet or less. Next town over got 30". One of the cars we saw
off in a ditch was a state trooper - wonder if he'll give himself a
ticket for 'speed not reasonable'? ;-).

John must have had some of this, I'd be interested to know what it was
like in your neck of the woods.

Woods

This storm slid to the south of here but sounds like it gathered
strength after sweeping by us. Y'all got clobbered.

Well, we barely hit blizzard conditions windwise, so it wasn't all that
bad. Wind is kicking up now and it should be a bear tomorrow with the
drifting.

About 40 miles south of here they "only" got 15-18 inches. 6-8 here but
lots of wind. People didn't start digging out til late this afternoon.

We've dodged a couple if serious bullets in my neck of the woods this
year. Winter didn't really begin until the middle of last month. Like
Syracuse and Oswego lake effect is the main problem for us. The last
week of January we got about 3 feet and it's only been spitting an inch
or two a day since then. It all just depends on where you live and how
the wind's blowing.

We're fortunate that we usually don't get much lake effect snow. That
wasn't the case here, though, it was just a typical nor'easter. There
were times when I couldn't see the trees at the end of the yard, about
200 feet away. We had a far more spectacular snowstorm back a couple of
years ago on Christmas - got 6 inches an hour for a while. Went to my
mom's house 10 miles away, stayed for about an hour, came back and the
"shoveled" driveway had enough snow on it to blow over the top of the
car as we plowed through it to pull in. (Only pulled in enough to get
off the road and left the digging it out until morning). That was
something! ^_^

The cold has been a bit unusual. The highs have only been above 20 3
or 4 times in the last 3 weeks. Had a few days where the overnight
low's were steady -5 to -10. I've been telling people we haven't had a
real Michigan winter in ten years and nothing really serious in almost
30. Winters have been unusually mild for a long time but we got half a
real one this year.

Isn't that typical for this time of year? Can't say what our lows/highs
have been, I haven't been paying all that close attention. I'm guessing
nothing below -10, because that's when I really need to put a hat on,
and I haven't had to yet (except today to keep my head from getting
soaking wet, but not due to temps).

Wonder how Randy's been doing in Denver? They still have snow there,
Randy?

Didn't they have some kind of massive snowfalls out there that led to
some bad avalanches?

Woods