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It's barely started and we have at least 4-5" in most places in Suffolk already. At a projected 3"/hr it doesn't take long to accumulate as much as 2 ft or more...
Let's see what we find when we get up tomorrow morning
It's pretty bad out there from what I can see with half open eyes. The 15 mins of shoveling I did earlier was for naught... drifts evening everything out again.
Pretty bad here right now! Can hardly see the canal behind the house. High tide too! Can tell it went over the bulkhead probably flooding the next block over.
The blizzard warning for NYC has been canceled meaning there is only a winter storm warning there now. But there are still blizzard warnings in effect for Long Island.
The inital forecast had the storm at being in the top three biggest storms in the 140+ years the records have been kept, that is pretty historic. At this point it doesn't look like it will be quite that bad, especially in the city, but the potential was certainly there. Not to mention when you have incidents that we have had a few years ago (hundreds of cars stranded on the Northern State, train stuck with passengers stranded for hours) its better to be overly cautious.
Yes I agree. They should tell people to be prepared and better safe than sorry. However there is a difference between calming preparing and complete hysteria. I remember the ice storm of 1978. Would have been nice to get some warning of that and prepare. And the whole region is affected by mass transit so the whole thing needs to be shut down. I get it. But the breathless reporting is what leads dumb people to ignore the warning next time - as if the effect is cumulative.
Yes I agree. They should tell people to be prepared and better safe than sorry. However there is a difference between calming preparing and complete hysteria. I remember the ice storm of 1978. Would have been nice to get some warning of that and prepare. And the whole region is affected by mass transit so the whole thing needs to be shut down. I get it. But the breathless reporting is what leads dumb people to ignore the warning next time - as if the effect is cumulative.
Unfortunately with social media at our fingertips now, EVERYTHING gets hyped up, and blown out of proportion. Its the world we live in now.
HAY guess what news media. It is WINTER yes winter. It gets really cold , freezing rain, snow storms and ice conditions. Yes you have to dress for the weather. But what is worse , the news media or the crazy people at the grocery stores? I have never been in Nyc when I wasn't able to get to a store if needed. EVEN in the crazy 70's black out. 96 snow storm I drove to wk from the island.
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