12 Feet
The snow just won't stop. Intense lake-effect snow squalls that buried communities along eastern Lake Ontario for nine straight days diminished Sunday — then started up again early Monday.
According to the AP, nine days of snow squalls have dumped 12 feet of snow onto Redfield, New York.
12 Feet.
Look up. Most of us work and live in places with 12 foot ceilings.
That's a lot of freakin' snow.
"It's snow. We get a lot of it. So what?" said Allan Babcock, a lifelong resident who owns Shar's Country Diner, a popular eatery in this village of 650 people.
Hee! Love the attitude.
Really glad I don't live there! My parents and I lived in Gloversville, New York, between 1972 and 1975. I swear to the baby Jebus it started snowing in September and ended in May. It's a beautiful part of the world - especially if you love snow.
It's the 198th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. It will be celebrated next Monday together with George Washington's birth in proper Merkin fashion - spending spree!
sigh
Other Lincoln sites include:
The White House - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Research Site
The History Place presents Abraham Lincoln
5 comments:
That's a lot of snow. I like wintry conditions up to a point -- but that's a lot of snow.
It's been snowing in the Lakes region for around 10 days. I'm with you, I like snow, but 10 days and 12 feet... I'd be headed for the Bahamas by now!
I was stationed at Ft. Drum, NY, before moving to CT, and most of the base is located within the snowbelt area. This was part of our typical daily winter routine:
Wake up in the morning and shovel the car out the driveway so that my wife and myself could leave for work. At the end of the day we would return from work, park the car on the street, and shovel the driveway out so we could park the car.
You could leave to go shopping for an hour or two and have to shovel the driveway out in order to park again. A foot dropping in an hour was not uncommon. And Ft. Drum was on the outer edges of one of the worst snowbelts in the country (between Syracuse, NY and Watertown, NY) so we did not live in the worst of it, though my wife did commute to Syracuse through all of that snow everyday.
I grew up in Montreal, where winter and snow is just a way of life, and even I was surprised at how much "lake effect" snow they would get there. It is unreal.
I know Ft. Drum well :D You're right, unless you live with it you really can't get what it's like to live in that neck of the woods.
I'll never forget the first winter after my parents and I moved back from New York to Connecticut - school got cancelled because two inches of snow had fallen with more expected! I think we needed no heat and several inches of snow before school got cancelled in Gloversville.
When we first moved to CT we moved to Greenwich... For two years I didn't even have to touch a snow shovel. Sort of a weather culture shock!
The funny thing about Ft. Drum? Southerners that would get stationed there would see their first snowfall and assume that work would be cancelled for the day. A few inches of snow and they were thinking "It's an emergency situtation!" We would always warn them that it would take at least a foot of snow for them to consider letting you be late for work up there. We would also offer to pick up, and drive in, the newbies into work/formation until they were used to driving in that kind of snow.
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