winter storm season

[otpig2]

Well I see in the new New York area is hit hard
News station reports 100000 out of power :eek:
Sounds like a foot of the white stuff in your area
Souds like the winter of 1986
we tied the record for low for today at 18
in the Hill to the west it was low of 11
to damn early for this

You guys in the east be carefull and work safe

[loodvig]

Well we sent 12 to 15 crews to upstate N.Y. today. It sounds like they got hit with heavy wet snow. I agree it does seem a little early!

[loodvig]

Snow in October around Buffalo, New York, is not unheard of, but 1 to 2 feet with locally higher amounts of snow around the region this time of year is definitely unprecedented. The snow began Thursday afternoon as a band of lake-effect rain changed over to snow as temperatures plummeted into the 30s. Despite warm grounds, the snow fell hard enough that 22 inches blanketed the Buffalo airport through Friday morning! Before midnight EDT, 8.3 inches had fallen, making Thursday the snowiest day on record for the month of October, it was also the earliest that that amount of snow has fallen. That record was quickly broken again Friday morning as the airport received over ten inches of snow in just five hours.

[Viperexaf]

old man winter raisin his ugly head early this yr

[loodvig]

ya no sh!t, we won't see topgroove on here for a bit. I imagine he's out there makin a difference!

[loodvig]

Hundreds of thousands of area residents spent a third cold night without heat and electricity and woke this morning learning that it could be another week or more before power returns.
Just a day after promising service would be restored in three to four days, National Grid reversed itself and said the massive restoration effort may take until next weekend.

Officials from National Grid and NYSEG told county leaders that all customers cannot expect to be back on line until midnight a week from today. More than 1,000 workers in the field are doing everything they can to restore power as quickly as possible, utility executives said, but they emphasized again the extent of the power failure is unlike anything they have ever seen here.

"By any measure, it's the most significant storm damage we've ever experienced in Western New York . . . and that goes back well over a hundred years," William F. Edwards, National Grid distribution president, told reporters.

That was not welcome news for hundreds of thousands living in homes without heat, enduring three nights of mid-30-degree temperatures and facing at least two upcoming nights with similar forecasts.

The dismal outlook for homeowners came just hours after utility executives expressed hope that as many as half of the 240,000 National Grid customers still without power could see it restored by sometime today.

Later in the day, that hopeful forecast turned gloomy.

"We know that's a huge inconvenience," Edwards said of the nine to 10 days some people may wait before electricity is restored.