Blizzard of 2006

[womzilla]

Last Sunday, the New York City area got its heaviest one-day snowfall ever--26"+. We stayed inside--fortunately none of us had to work that day; mostly we paid other people to shovel, though I did get out and shovel some myself, but only long enough to attract the attention of a passing band of professional shovelers who finished the job for me.

Navigating was a little tricky the next couple of days. It's worth noting that although this was the heaviest single snowfall on record, a few years back we received something like 36" in a short period with no melting in between. This was a light, powdery snow which was easy to shovel and which melted quickly: the freakishly warm weather returned by mid-week to remove most of what remains of the snow. Still, quite a sight while it lasted.



I took these with my fairly crappy phone camera.


Monday.



For contrast, Friday.

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Many many years ago, Boskone was held a week after Boston got socked with a 24" snowstorm. The city recovered enough to clear the main thoroughfares, but it was very weird driving down the wide streets seeing the alleys with two stories of snow cached out of the way.

Here in Mpls, it snows significantly less than in NYC but tends to be colder and the snow sticks around. That's changing; even though the temp has risen to 6, there's hardly any snow on the ground.