Open thread: February 8, 2013 2 feet of snow!
Well, I am pretty much done for the day with work…I guess a post called Blizzard Musings is coming up!
Relevant and even prescient commentary on news, politics and the economy.
from an email comparing this to the the 1978 storm: “There are four principle differences with this storm — due to the warmer of the atmosphere, there is more water vapor up there to come down as snow; the sea surface temperature is 5 F above normal for this time of year, and that temperature goes down deep; the jet stream is likely to get stuck and let the storm stall and thus dump more snow; and another meteorologist (Paul Douglas) says that he has never seen that much snow predicted over such a large geographic area in the northeast.”
But global warming is a hoax.
Abrupt change of topic to more Krugman truth squadding. Is David Beckworth as wrong as I think he is, or I am off in a cocked hat?
http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-train-has-already-left-station-paul.html
JzB
beckworth believes that monetary policy can move mountains; ive always thought QE was tantamount to pushing on a string…Ben & Co can drop money from helicopters, but they cant keep those who pick it up from hiding it under their mattresses, thus having no effect on demand at all..
and to abruptly switch topics again, here’s a quiz for all you snowed in east coasters to play with…Prof or Hobo? – Quiz
i got 5 out of 10, not better than flipping a coin..
Ok, on topic. I got in at 11pm from plowing since 5. I did my office 3 times (it’s on a 2 lane highway with a hill) my flower shop twice and my mom’s twice including the road as she’s on a dead end street.
I’m going to bed. I’m praying there is not more than a foot more when I get up or my office is going to be a bear.
In 1978 lived in Huntington, Long Island during the winter storms you were talking about. We had an ice storm and 27″ of snow. The power was out for a week. People had to abandon their cars on the L.I.E. The 1978 storms were life threatening. If this storm is worse than those I urge you to be careful.
Dan:
My first year in Upstate NY, we had 180 inches of snow, a somewhat record. Broke out the snowshoes and went out nightly after work for exercise with a dog or two. That was there and in a city, it lacks the fun it could be in places such as where I was.
Be safe and keep a tally of inches.
Well, I’m back at it today. Thank goodness I plowed last night.
I had to hand shovel the end of the drive for the office to get past the highway snow. I’m taking a break, but I’ve gotten up the hill and opened the parking lot.
I was here for the 78 blizzard. This one might have been worse, but this time they made sure everyone stayed home and people complied. Even today they are telling folks to stay off the roads.
I few years ago, when show was light, my sweety and daughter heard snow in Buffalo and said we should move there. I said, are you nuts! They just had 7′ in one week. What do you do with snow like that?
Next stop the flower shop.
i’m in the lake erie snow belt in northeast ohio, & a foot at a time is common…but we’ve never had anything like 7 feet; most ive seen in one event was 33 inches, in early Nov 96, when areas closer to the lake got 6 feet…buffalo, at the lee end of the lake, was a hell of a stupid place to have built a civilization…