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Do you remember that day? I do, I was 7 years old and remember being out of school for a few days. It was fun as a kid making Igloos, snowmen, sleigh riding ect.. but now that I am older I have no patience for this type of storm.
Fast forward, my DH and I love to try to walk to a neighborhood pub on a night like tonight, always a few laughs. Unfortunately, the one in walking distance has closed and if we did venture out the IDIOT tag would be on us as the closest watering hole is a good half a mile from us now.
That's OK, when people went out to get milk, and bread I went for beer and vodka!!!!!!!
YES. WGBB. In fact, my HS was such a distance from my home that several times I got to school and when I got there they had decided to close!!!!
I remember. Couldn't drive to Manhasset LIRR, so I walked to the Sea Cliff LIRR - train to Jamaica, then changed to Penn Sta. Got the Times Sq Shuttle to the eastside, then walked up 2nd to 52nd to the office.
I was the only Long Islander to show up in the office that day!
Senior year in high school and I remember the ice storm. Got a week off and Bay Shore Schools wanted us to make it up but since I was always stoned I remember only Howard Johnson's restaurant in South Shore Mall was open and lines were giant.
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I was working in Manhattan. By early afternoon, the winds and snow were very bad. I left work early and took the subway home to Queens. No problem, BUT when I got out of the subway on Queens Blvd., I still had to get home a mile and a half away. The Queens buses weren't running. Very few cars were able to make in on the roads.
Rather than stand there freezing for who knows how long, I decided to walk home about a mile and a half. The way the snow was blowing sidewalks were impassable by 5 PM. Woodhaven Blvd. at least had been plowed earlier and packed down with some traffic. I walked on the street the mile and and a half, snow, winds, and all. Better MOVING than standing still. People were walking on the street together laughing and joking about this. Fortuantely, I had brought my boot to work since the snow on the street was almost up to my knees.
When I got to my house, after about an hour, I could not get in my front door because of the snow drift halfway up my door. I went to my neighbors house, and the man (National Guard member), shoveled out my stairs and front door so I could get inside.
Difference with this storm? It hasn't been steady snow all day accumulating so much by rush hour. While it CAN overnight, most people will be home from work and in their houses with Saturday off from work.
Sounds to me that New England is getting hit harder and far more mirroring what happened in 78.
I remember that storm. That was a bad winter, we already had a lot of snow on the ground when that one came, and the north shore had had an ice storm a couple weeks earlier.
My sister graduated from HS that year and we had so many snow days they wanted to have her graduation on the 4th of July!!!
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