I’d bet on the under for this storm. It was looking pretty wimpy last night and while it’s been cranking for a couple hours now, it ain’t getting to 20 inches, that’s fo-sho. I think that forecasters become emboldened by success. I think they start changing their thinking such that now, eh, 18 inches, no biggie. Well, for around here it is. You can go 5 years without an 18 inch snow, heck, you can go 10 years without one. The fact that we’ve had 2 in one year does mean it’s more likely to have it this year than normal ones (because these are not independent random events), but it is still no mean feat.
Whatever the case, we had about 3.5 inches as of 11 PM last night. Then, over night we got some freezing rain/sleet, which seems to have tamped down that 3.5 inches to 1 inch. Now we have 3 or 4 inches again. I guess that puts our total at something like 6 inches. Maybe 12 is possible. I dunno, I kind of even doubt that, though it is snowing pretty hard right now.
NYC, your fun starts soon.
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We’re getting buffeted by winds.
This just in — there’s snow on the ground in manhattan.
4 out of 5 commuters agree: its snowing.
Look out the window now, though, Matt: it actually just now REALLY started to snow.
The building is totally buried.
Good thing I stocked up on provisions.
We have something like a foot and it’s snowing tons at the moment. It looks like we have about three more hours. I think that we officially have more snow on the ground here than I’ve ever been around. I’d guess we were somewhere around 30-34 inches in the last storm, and now probably something like 16 here – it compresses, but good grief. There are 6 foot piles of snow in about 10 different places around my house. There’s a 12 foot wall of it ringing the parking lot at work. We might not break the Goshen record for yearly snow, but this has been the snowiest two weeks I’ve ever been a part of.
My boss left early. She was afraid she might not be able to get home — TO BROOKLYN — later. She was seriously entertaining all sorts of doomsday scenarios about having to sleep on Manhattanites’ couches; it was hysterical.
Im not convinced people understand that the subway is an underground system invulnerable to the elements.
Or that giant impenetrable steel walls don’t shoot up out of the rivers to enclose Manhattan in a locked fortress when there’s a drop of precipitation outside.
This just in – my local coffee shop still dominated by hipsters w/ crazy hair, despite the snow.