[TheForge] OT - Snow in NJ

[Dave Mudge]

South Eastern Louisiana, 50 miles north of New Orleans:
High temp today was 37 deg. with 15 to 20 mph wind from the north west.
Had about 50 to 100 snow flakes (that's a lot for us)
Expected overnight low of 20 degrees. (that's really cold for us)
dave m

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Bruce Freeman <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Phlip,
>
> You're describing what happened here, except for the timing.  At 10 AM
> we had maybe 1/2" -- just enough to make the sidewalks white.  By 5 PM
> I'd shoveled three times -- it had blown back each time -- the last
> time being about 8" deep. About 2 hours ago was at least 18" out
> there.  Now there's three feet on my patio (part of which might be
> drift) and at least two feet in the back yard.  And it's still
> snowing.
>
> So, park your car near the street if you still can (so you won't have
> to dig out the whole driveway), and don't plan on going anywhere
> tomorrow morning.
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
> > They kept telling us it was going to hit, but it didn't and it didn't
> > and it didn't until it finally did, starting this afternoon. Still
> > isn't half what they'd said it would be- maybe 6 inches now- they were
> > predicting more than a foot. Was funny, though- the snow trucks were
> > all out last night. We could hear them running up and down the road,
> > with enough of a dusting of show that you wondered if maybe it had
> > snowed last night, then, once it DID start snowing, they vanished. I
> > figured they'd run out of fuel, running around last night ;-) They've
> > finally started back up.
> >
> > We're getting a little more snow, I think, but it's so windy it's hard
> > to tell if it's snowing or just blowing. Was amused though- my
> > guineas, who HATE being chased into the coop at night, didn't give me
> > any argument this evening ;-)
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Bruce Freeman <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Well we didn't have a white Christmas, but the day after Christmas is
> >> white enough!  It started snowing at maybe 10 AM, and hasn't stopped.
> >> I think we've got about 18" now, though it's hard to tell because the
> >> wind is making it drift.
> >>
> >> How's by the rest of youse guys?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bruce
> >> NJ
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> > --
> > Saint Phlip
> >
> > So, you think your data is safe?
> > http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html?hpt=T2
> >
> > Heat it up
> > Hit it hard
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> >
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