America snowed in.

Started by ONeill, February 06, 2010, 06:07:07 PM

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ONeill

February 06, 2010, 06:07:07 PM
I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

Oraisteach

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February 06, 2010, 06:33:07 PM
Snowmageddon?  More like, Snowma-ged-on-with it.  For those of us in the Midwest, this is fairly typical, especially if you live in an area known as the Show Belt.  To listen to reports from the Mid-Atlantic states, you'd think it was a meteorological event of Apocalyptic proportions.

mylestheslasher

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February 06, 2010, 06:52:07 PM
Quote from: Oraisteach on February 06, 2010, 06:33:07 PM
Snowmageddon?  More like, Snowma-ged-on-with it.  For those of us in the Midwest, this is fairly typical, especially if you live in an area known as the Show Belt.  To listen to reports from the Mid-Atlantic states, you'd think it was a meteorological event of Apocalyptic proportions.

Sounds a bit here in January - as soon as the dubs got snow it was declared a national emergency even though half the country had already spent a week dealing with it.

RMDrive

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February 06, 2010, 09:04:30 PM
Flying to SFO via Newark tomorrow. I presume all the airports are operating?

wicked

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February 06, 2010, 09:13:01 PM Last Edit: February 06, 2010, 09:15:26 PM by wicked
Newark should be fine to get into. Forecasts are calling for only a couple inches up there. The air traffic network could be clogged on the East Coast, though, with the backlog coming out of the Washington, Philly and Pittsburgh airports, among others. That could affect your connection to San Fran. (Sunday's always a mess getting out of the New York area airports, anyway.)

I'm outside D.C. and there is close to 30 inches (75 cm, if I'm doing the math right) in some spots in the metro area, closer to 20 inches where I'm at in northern Virginia. Even in the snow belt, this would grind things to a halt. Yes, any snowfall here of more than 3 inches is problematic, but I don't think anywhere can pretend to be prepared for upwards of 2 feet.

(Just stumbled upon this board recently. Hope you don't mind a Yank interloping amongst your clique ... )

Square Ball

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February 06, 2010, 09:31:13 PM
Quote from: wicked on February 06, 2010, 09:13:01 PM
Newark should be fine to get into. Forecasts are calling for only a couple inches up there. The air traffic network could be clogged on the East Coast, though, with the backlog coming out of the Washington, Philly and Pittsburgh airports, among others. That could affect your connection to San Fran. (Sunday's always a mess getting out of the New York area airports, anyway.)

I'm outside D.C. and there is close to 30 inches (75 cm, if I'm doing the math right) in some spots in the metro area, closer to 20 inches where I'm at in northern Virginia. Even in the snow belt, this would grind things to a halt. Yes, any snowfall here of more than 3 inches is problematic, but I don't think anywhere can pretend to be prepared for upwards of 2 feet.

(Just stumbled upon this board recently. Hope you don't mind a Yank interloping amongst your clique ... )

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February 06, 2010, 10:06:21 PM
Welcome Wicked.  Hoprfully you enjoy the miriade of subjects debated or ranted on here.  All points welcomed even if we don't agree with them. 
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that says what he means and
means what he says...

J70

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February 07, 2010, 12:29:38 AM Last Edit: February 07, 2010, 12:33:47 AM by J70
Quote from: RMDrive on February 06, 2010, 09:04:30 PM
Flying to SFO via Newark tomorrow. I presume all the airports are operating?

There was barely anything in NYC. Newark is a few miles closer to the storm, but I doubt if there was much there either. Besides, with the equipment at the NYC airports (snowblowers that can operate at 35 mph), it takes a major storm to shut them down and even then they would only be closed for as long as the very heavy stuff keeps falling. Where you may run into problems is in the knock-on effects from the Philly-DC corridor airports closing - if your plane was due to pass through any of those airports on flights last night or today, it may cause delays. If your entire trip is on Continental, you should be all right, unless Cleveland (another of their hubs) got hit bad too.

wicked

#8
February 07, 2010, 01:20:39 AM
Cleveland got a foot, but that should be cleared out by tomorrow since they're used to it.

We're probably getting more snow here Tuesday and Wednesday, and there's talk that it will take until late next week to completely dig out.

heganboy

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February 07, 2010, 02:53:14 AM
Quote from: J70 on February 07, 2010, 12:29:38 AM
Quote from: RMDrive on February 06, 2010, 09:04:30 PM
Flying to SFO via Newark tomorrow. I presume all the airports are operating?
There was barely anything in NYC. Newark is a few miles closer to the storm, but I doubt if there was much there either.

Less than an inch at newark- snow didn't affect any flights
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mannix

#10
February 07, 2010, 03:51:02 AM
nothing like the great snow of 75 in mayo, we were snowed in from december until june and then we lost to roscommon in the ould football, a terrible year by any standards.

ONeill

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February 07, 2010, 10:51:38 AM
I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

RMDrive

#12
February 07, 2010, 06:01:28 PM
Sitting in Newark now and can confirm that it's grand!!  ;D
Thanks for the help lads.

wicked

#13
February 09, 2010, 02:38:34 AM
RM, when do you come back? You may have a harder time getting out. We're getting another 10 to 20 inches tomorrow in D.C., and another storm could be coming through the northeast (including Newark) on the weekend. Grew up in Boston and I don't recall any stretch of weather like this, ever.
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