Finally! A serious Maine Winter... (Portland, Hope: schools, land, photos)

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Well, the topic is indeed "serious Maine winter". Just take a look at the photos you'll see from Calais and Lubec tomorrow. I doubt that the media will go to Lubec, but some of our members will record this historic event.

[Radio Flyer]

On the Today Show this morning, Al Roker mentioned high winds in Eastport.

That's sumthin.

[TerryDactyls]

I'm retiring and moving to Maine in August because I miss winter (I lived most of my life in Minnesota but now I'm in Texas). With my luck, Maine has probably used up the next ten years of winter and it will be warm in Portland all winter long. BAH HUMBUG.

[slyfox2]

Originally Posted by TerryDactyls

I'm retiring and moving to Maine in August because I miss winter (I lived most of my life in Minnesota but now I'm in Texas). With my luck, Maine has probably used up the next ten years of winter and it will be warm in Portland all winter long. BAH HUMBUG.

With both the Atlantic and the Pacific oscillations turning cold at the same time, this is very unlikely and its a lot more likely that the typical winters of 1945-1980 are back!

[Northern Maine Land Man]

I remember those years. In 1948 they had to open the roads with bulldozers because no truck could get through the drifts. The giant old Walker plows could do it, but few towns had them. In 1962 Main Street in Lincoln was one way traffic. The first store that was opened up had a tunnel through the drifts to the door. That was the liquor store.

[kellysmith]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

I remember those years. In 1948 they had to open the roads with bulldozers because no truck could get through the drifts. The giant old Walker plows could do it, but few towns had them. In 1962 Main Street in Lincoln was one way traffic. The first store that was opened up had a tunnel through the drifts to the door. That was the liquor store.

Do you mean Walters?

[slyfox2]

We had a storm in those years in mid atlantic too. 1958 was so bad I ran out of places to put the snow. Later in the 70s, we had a giant road snowblower cut a hole in the road. But a school bus got stuck cause it was too wide and the kids had to be evacuated through the emergency back door. The needed a bus tow truck to get it out.

In the late 70's Time magazine published an article about a possible new ice age.

Right now more than 80% of the great lakes are frozen over which is the largest on record. The Mississippi River in the north is frozen and they are using coast guard ice breakers. Normally the barges are about 200 miles north of where they are now, but the ice on the river there is 30 inches thick.

Its coming back. Its so good we have global warming now. Just imagine how bad it would be if we weren't in the throes of really really bad warming.

[Revi]

We are really cold and snowy, but in California and Oregon they had hardly any winter at all.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Kevin Mannix, the Channel 2 weather guru forecast that tomorrow will be a "delightful spring day". Relish it. Soak it in. Embrace it and get ready for Sunday because here it comes again!

http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacap...1cc8731ff98acd

[maineguy8888]

Gonna have some snow Sunday, but I feel like we are out of the woods. Temps in the upper 30s, stays light until 7:30, and almost April.
Spring is here!