goetylsd

4 inches is nothing for us Wisconsinites. 4 inches is a dusting. Here 8-12 inches is a real storm. Hope you have good tires on your HHR. I guess snow traction probably isn't the first thing you guys down south think of when buying tires.

843de

It dropped about four inches here, very pretty, at least it didn't do it on Monday....the commute can be a big enough pain in the butt.

Mowgli

It hasn't started here yet but we're only expecting 1-2 feet.
At least it's not a real blizzard.

Route 128, the inner (Interstate) ring around Boston (10 miles out), in the Blizzard of '78




33 hours of snow fall
3,500 cars stranded on 128
3 inches of snow per hour
79 mph winds in Boston
27" of snowfall in Foxboro
15ft snow drifts reported
1 week to open roads
2 weeks to open schools

The towns along the coast didn't make out so well



I better go get some gas for the snow thrower

goetylsd

I think just last year there were cars stranded on I-94 here in Wisconsin. They're cars became stuck when the snow started getting too thick during rush hour traffic. The Wisconsin State Patrol went up and down the highway on snowmobiles and 4-wheelers making sure people were faring okay.

djr1973

I was just a lil guy(turned 4 in sept of 77) when in febuary of 78 the blizzard hit northwest ohio. I remember a week after the blizzard hit us riding in my Dads 4x4 International Scout and looking out the windows and seeing the snow piled beside the roadways as high as the power lines on the telephone poles.

Mowgli

I read that Ohio got blasted too when I was searching for New England Blizzard of 78

I was 17 and in a boarding school on Boston's North Shore when the blizzard hit.
They said you can go home if you want or stay here.
Boarding school.
I got a ride to the Beverly town line (Beverly was closed to traffic already), train to Boston, subway out to Newton, hitchhiked out to Natick and walked home from Route 9.
I lived in a neighborhood of mostly ranch houses with a few colonials.
The snowbanks in my hood were already 6-8' high and I couldn't even see the houses behind them.
I partied with my friends at the arcade all week.
That was better than getting trapped at school. Just probably

Here's the wiki page for the Ohio Valley Great Blizzard of 1978

Sunflowerhippi

Woww that is horrible for that storm in 78. I was negative 8 years old at the time.

Last year was fun for us down here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_A...izzard_of_2009 - 23 inches
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_N...izzard_of_2010 - 28 inches
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_...izzard_of_2010 - 26 inches
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_N...izzard_of_2010 -29 inches


So they are idiots here, they salted the roads 7 hours ago, and have yet to plow. They have turned into solid sheets of ice now. You think they would have learned after 93' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century) and 96' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_1996) here locally not to pull this **** where they salt hoping it will all melt and all it does is turn into an ice cube.

HillsdaleHHR

Me too with the exception of I turned 4 in November and lived in Michigan. We lived out in the country at the time and I remember that my dad had to use the snowmobile to ride into town (more like a general store in the middle of nowhere) to get needed supplies. When we went outside we sunk in the snow way past our heads.

sleeper

Patience.....I think you will get your share soon..

Sunflowerhippi

Nope we only got 3-6 here but with the fun they got in philly they havn't cleaned our roads yet. Just tried to go to work got 3/4 miles from my house and went to go to the only road to the highway from my house and it wasn't cleaned yet. So back to my house I went.