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Post by Cher on Feb 9, 2007 21:15:35 GMT -5
She sure does. While she was up on the roof, I was on the ground shoveling it away from the house. I had already banked it to her windows so had to start tossing it out into the yard. Should have taken a pic of that when I was done. ;D We had a huge snowbank there, so big she could barely look out her window.
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junerev
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Post by junerev on Feb 9, 2007 21:22:40 GMT -5
i can't see out of my kitchen window right now, it's piled there.....the front window is level but since it's a picture window it'll take a while to fill that one up. the snow is up to the top of my 4 ft fence in back except where i've been blowing the snow, that's higher.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Feb 10, 2007 9:45:04 GMT -5
ok dummy here with questions! what happens if it completely covers your house? in that pic with the boy with his mouth open and snow way high outside the door - how do you get out? do you even want out? what are the chances of your power going out in this?
this is why all the elderly folks are down in florida!
kim
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junerev
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Post by junerev on Feb 10, 2007 9:58:15 GMT -5
I have never had my house completely covered and I don't think it would happen, but I have a 2 story home. We keep our shovels on the enclosed porch and the door opens to the inside in front, so we could dig out. One time, when we lived in a mobile home the snow truly blocked us in. I popped the screen out of the screen door and dug my way out. I didn't want to go anywhere but I wanted to be able to get out. The back door didn't have any steps. Power outages happen. In fact, down closer to Syracuse they did have an outage. When it's extended, one of the local schools sets up a shelter. A couple years ago we had a bad ice storm and we personally lost power for 24 hours. We have a gas fireplace and although the blower didn't work, it put enough heat in the lower section of the house for my daughter and I to stay warm at night (hubby was at work). I have 5 hurricane lamps and a bunch of candles. My father in law lives north of us and he lost power for 3 weeks. he runs a generator when that happens. We could hook one up in the garage to feed back in the house, have talked about getting one, but never really got around to it. since we live in the city within a mile of the hospital, our grid is generally one of the first back on.
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Post by junerev on Feb 10, 2007 10:05:01 GMT -5
Funny snow story: One time, when I was in college (older student) it started snowing REALLY hard, by 10 am we'd gotten 2 ft and they shut down the college. I worked my way through 2 feet of snow to the daycare to pick up my daughter. When I got there they said I couldn't leave, the city was shut down and there was to be NO driving at all. Even the snowplows couldn't go out. I sat there for a couple hours and finally I asked one of the teachers what would happen if they didn't open the roads. She said "well you'll spend the night here with the rest of us" I guess I must have looked pretty funny, everyone burst out laughing. I, on the other hand, not really being a "kid" person was terrified at the prospect of spending the night with 65 children who were not mine......At 5 pm, they finally let us go. Talk about being relieved.
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Post by chassroc on Feb 10, 2007 15:29:41 GMT -5
Danggg...
You Western N.Y.ers got all the luck...we still dont have any snow in Bedford.
csroc
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Post by MichiganRocks on Feb 11, 2007 15:22:01 GMT -5
N.Y. lake effect snow hits 9.5-feet deep
By JOHN KEKIS, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago
The snow got even deeper Sunday but the end was in sight after a weeklong series of squalls that have buried towns on one corner of Lake Ontario.
By early Sunday, the persistent streams of squalls fueled by moisture from the lake had piled snow 115 inches deep at the Oswego County town of Parish, about 25 miles northeast of Syracuse.
But as efforts to dig out Parish and surrounding towns was ramping up, the weather system was winding down.
The squalls shifted northward to the Watertown area Sunday morning, and were expected to die down before drifting back to the south again, said meteorologist Steve McLaughlin at the National Weather Service in Buffalo.
"We have a sharp front coming in Monday that's going to kick all this out. We may get one more burst of snow, but then it's over. Finally, some mercy," McLaughlin said.
Residents of the nearby town of Mexico see 5- to 6-foot snowfalls every two or three years, but this time even hardened locals are amazed.
The only signs of parked SUVs are their radio antennas or roof racks sticking up above the snow. Front doors are buried and footprints lead to second-story windows. Sidewalks that have been dug out look like miniature canyons.
The state transportation department said 125 workers from elsewhere in the state had been sent in with snow equipment to help.
The region is located along the Tug Hill Plateau, the snowiest region this side of the Rocky Mountains. It's a 50-mile wedge of land that rises 2,100 feet from the eastern shore of Lake Ontario. It usually gets about 300 inches — roughly 25 feet — of snow a year. The hamlet of Hooker, near the boundaries of Jefferson, Lewis, and Oswego counties, holds the state's one-year record with 466.9 inches, about 39 feet, in the winter of 1976-77.
Less than a month ago it seemed more like spring.
"Gosh, three weeks ago there was green on the ground. We got spoiled," Parish Mayor Leon Heagle said. "This just came fast. This is not normal. God, we can't catch a break. I feel like getting right in the car and driving south, but I'd probably get in trouble."
The intense blast of snow hasn't been blamed for any deaths in Oswego County. Elsewhere, however, more than a week of bitter cold and slippery roads have contributed to at least 25 deaths across the northeastern quarter of the nation — five in Ohio, four in Illinois, four in Indiana, two in Kentucky, seven in Michigan, and one each in Wisconsin, and Maryland and elsewhere in New York, authorities said.
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