[TheForge] OT - Snow in NJ

[John Allen]

I'm in south jersey and I do all the welding for the Salem county road dept
and we have about 6 inches plus drifts. Lucky it is all powder. The winds
down here are horrible since we are 75% farm fields. Just getting to the
county road dept in just 6 miles, I passed 4 cars stranded. I wish I could
have helped them but just meeting to work and helping getting the salt
trucks back on the road is better.
On Dec 27, 2010 2:48 AM, "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca> 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...
>>
>> How's by the rest of youse guys?
>
> Well, your storm got here to SW Nova Scotia sometime after dark. Now,
> in the wee hours, there's about 4" of very wet, clingy stuff down
> and it's turned to steady, drizzly rain.
>
> One brief power outage already because a decade or so ago the newly
> privatized powerco decided it was more profitable to fire all the
> crews that went around in daytime good weather trimming or removing
> trees that grew up into or over the power lines and rely on emergency
> repair crews that have to go out in nasty weather, night or day, to
> repair the lines when ice- or snow-laden trees and wind combine to
> knock them down.. I guess it's good for the economy because
> everybody, especially those who have freezers full of stored food or
> no backup heat source have to buy and maintain a generator.
>
> Looks like the snow is going to be rained off by next nightfall or at
> least reduced to a little slush.
>
>
> - Mike
>
> --
> Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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