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Northeast to get hit hard by snow.

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purbeast0 said:
think weatherman has to be the easiest job in the world...

all they do is read computer predictions.

if you are right, you get paid.

if you are wrong, you still get paid and keep your job and have absolutely no repurcussions!

it was 'supposed' to snow xmas eve starting around 8pm. as of now we still have gotten absolutely nothing more than flurries.

i'm not complaining by any means, i'm just sayin...
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the weatherman is usually the highest paid person on the news. weather is what gets the ratings.
 
Dominato3r said:
Snow.
Making news.


Only in America
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Don't throw stones when your house is made of glass too. Here in Toronto they issue "cold weather alerts" when the temps hit, wait for it, -12 C, that's about 10 F. WTF? Also when 5 cm of snow (2 inches) fall "snow condition" alerts are issued, pathetic isn't it?

What's wrong with these idiots? -12C is normal in this city, we get that about 80 times a winter, and we have snowstorms all the time, about 5-6 a year, so why all this noise with this petty stuff?
 
6-8" outside, still coming down slowly, but the weather people blew their projections badly. A half or a third, depending on exactly which show you wanted to watch.
 
vi edit said:
When Canada has a snowfall that impacts 50 million people and the economy surrounding those people, let me know.
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This. It's newsworthy because when places like NYC get hit, shit gets bad quick. There isn't even any place to put the snow. It needs to be actually placed in dump trucks and moved. I remember living down there when we got 2 feet at once, some businesses were closed for 2 or 3 days because people couldn't get off of their streets to get to work.

Upstate we need more than 3 feet in a relatively short time before things really get too bad.
 
Wyndru said:
This. It's newsworthy because when places like NYC get hit, shit gets bad quick. There isn't even any place to put the snow. It needs to be actually placed in dump trucks and moved. I remember living down there when we got 2 feet at once, some businesses were closed for 2 or 3 days because people couldn't get off of their streets to get to work.

Upstate we need more than 3 feet in a relatively short time before things really get too bad.
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it's surrounded by water, just shovel it into the river.
 
ElFenix said:
it's surrounded by water, just shovel it into the river.
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Can't do that. You know how much salt that would dump into freshwater sources from all the road salting? Not to mention all the other assorted shit that finds it's way from leaky cars to the road.
 
crownjules said:
Can't do that. You know how much salt that would dump into freshwater sources from all the road salting? Not to mention all the other assorted shit that finds it's way from leaky cars to the road.
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Good point, I guess NYC stopped doing this as of 1996. I didn't realize that.

In New York City, Department of Sanitation spokesman Vito Turso said the department stopped dumping snow into the East and Hudson rivers and New York harbor after a 1996 blizzard because of worries over pollution from rock salt and debris.
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http://www.uswaternews.com/archives/arcquality/3dumsno3.html
 
Wyndru said:
This. It's newsworthy because when places like NYC get hit, shit gets bad quick. There isn't even any place to put the snow. It needs to be actually placed in dump trucks and moved. I remember living down there when we got 2 feet at once, some businesses were closed for 2 or 3 days because people couldn't get off of their streets to get to work.

Upstate we need more than 3 feet in a relatively short time before things really get too bad.
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This even happens in Minneapolis and surrounding burbs ... it's probably a bit larger scale in NYC though, place being so dense and all.
 
Another storm they coined "snowmadgedon" and yet no more than half what they predicted fell. Though I do remember them calling a moderate storm a few years back and we got clobbered with over 2 feet of snow.

Meteorologists are so full of BS. I give them credit for trying to predict a storm track that is historically difficult to predict, but then to coin phrases to scare the crap out of people so that they could tune into the report and channel is another matter.

Granted, this storm was a little more than "moderate" , as in, there is more than 6 inches that fell. But nothing like they made it seem in the beginning.
 
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crownjules said:
Can't do that. You know how much salt that would dump into freshwater sources from all the road salting? Not to mention all the other assorted shit that finds it's way from leaky cars to the road.
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The Hudson is not a fresh water source. NYC get's their water from the Catskills up north and is fed through aqueducts using mostly gravity.

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with the amount of boat traffic surrounding Manhattan, I'd have to assume that dropping giant mounds of ice into the river wouldn't be a great idea.

where do they think all that stuff goes when the snow melts?
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rock salt and debris? I'd imagine much of it stays on the ground or gets carried into the sewer system.
 
in brooklyn, and no street has been cleaned, the mta bus is stuck and the driver left it in the middle of the road with snow covering up till the tires end.
 
2 guys in 2 Jeeps have an identity crisis, think they are humvees, and are booth stuck. Would go help but am watching my one year old.
 
loki8481 said:
with the amount of boat traffic surrounding Manhattan, I'd have to assume that dropping giant mounds of ice into the river wouldn't be a great idea.



rock salt and debris? I'd imagine much of it stays on the ground or gets carried into the sewer system.
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Correct. Didn't Manhattan buy some of those huge mobile snow melters?
 
Damn. I should have shoveled more lastnight. Shoveling 9 inches twice would have been much easier than 18 inches at once. At least, I'm getting a good workout.
 
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this is what I've got to 100% clear out before I can think about leaving my apartment.

FML, I've been bitching about the fact that we don't have a usable front door since August.

(it's a deadbolt lock and the landlord doesn't have a key... so you can lock it from the inside, but not the outside. eg: the only way to leave the apartment and have it locked behind you is to go through the back door and through the alleyway, which is now covered in 6' of snow)
 
So change the lock already. As long it is in the open position, which it seems you can do from the inside, it can be removed. Go to Home Depot or Lowes or if you really can't do it yourself, call in a locksmith to do it. All you need to know is the Backspace (distance from edge of door to center of large hole in the door)
Note: Any competent locksmith can easily make a key for your existing lock, with very little trouble.
 
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