Update from the Blizzard - 28 inches down and snow still falling!

[NutmegYankee]

Last edited Sat Feb 9, 2013, 10:37 AM - Edit history (1)

That's a lot of freaking snow! It may approach the 3 foot mark before this thing blows over.

The snow is so high I can't even use a snow blower.

Edit to add a weather.com photo - I'm in the dark purple area.

[Skittles]

1. stay safe NutmegYankee

and keep us posted!

[octoberlib]

2. That's more snow than they were calling for, isn't it?

Hope it ends soon. Stay warm!

[NutmegYankee]

3. They have been revising it upward for awhile.

CTZ005>012-091700-
/O.EXT.KOKX.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-130209T1700Z/
NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-
NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-
SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-
358 AM EST SAT FEB 9 2013

...BLIZZARD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY...

* LOCATIONS...SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT.

* HAZARD TYPES...HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS.

* ACCUMULATIONS...20 TO 36 INCHES.

* WINDS...NORTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH.

* TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 20S.

* TIMING...THE STRONGEST WINDS AND HEAVIEST SNOW WILL OCCUR
THROUGH DAYBREAK.

* IMPACTS...TRAVEL IS NOT RECOMMENDED THIS MORNING AS MANY ROADS
ARE IMPASSABLE...WITH NUMEROUS REPORTS OF CLOSED ROADS AND
STRANDED CARS. HEAVY SNOW AND WINDS WILL MAKE FOR DANGEROUS
DRIVING CONDITIONS WITH VISIBILITIES NEAR ZERO IN WHITE-OUT
CONDITIONS. IN ADDITION...SOME TREES AND POWER LINES WILL BE
DOWNED...CAUSING POWER OUTAGES.




I live in Northern New London County.

[PCIntern]

4. Wow...

Keep warm and stay safe!

[dipsydoodle]

5. Is that where the wind is causing it to drift

or straight forward downward fall ? Just asking - I'm remote from this in the UK.

[Victor_c3]

11. nope, that is probably straight downward fall they are talking about

I live about an hour north of New York City and I only got 16 inches here. I'm probably about 2-3 hours drive from where the really heavy snow hit. I just wish this would have happened wednesday or thursday so that work would be canceled for a couple of days.

However, it'll cleaned up by the end of the weekend here and I'll have to go back to work as usual on monday.

I just woke up my two daughters (aged 2 and 4). The sleep in a room with the curtains closed so, until I lift the shades and open the curtains, they have no idea what it looks like outside. I spent the last 30 minutes trying to convince my daughter that all the snow that she say before she went to bed melted and that the flowers were blooming and birds were flying around everywhere. Then I opened the curtains and showed her what it looked like outside and she was shocked. We are cooking pancakes right now and, after we eat them, we're going to be spending the morning outside playing in the snow. We didn't get as much as some of the guys here did, but the snow is easily up to my oldest daugter's waist. She's going to have a blast!

[NutmegYankee]

15. straight down fall depth.

It is drifting in places (including against my doors).

[AsahinaKimi]

6. Any chance you can take some photos?

Would like to see this..

[Atman]

7. I'm not sure how we're getting out!

My front storm door opens out, but it is blocked by a 4' drift. The AWD vehicle is in the garage, our other car is completely buried. Can't even tell there is a car there. The driveway is over 300'...still have to make it to the Bobcat and dig it out. But first I'll have to climb out a window or hope the basement door will open. And we still have six more hours of snow! This is crazy!

Be safe out, my friends!

[Ellipsis]

8. They are predicting 30 to 50 inches for Province Town

another 5 to 8 for Boston

[malaise]

9. How's the power situation?

Hope you have a nice pot of soup.

[NutmegYankee]

14. There's a lot down just South and East of me, but I only suffered brownouts.

http://outage.cl-p.com/outage/outagemap.aspx

Looking at the roads out there, no one is going anywhere for a while.

[Jennicut]

10. About 30 inches here in Terryville

It's crazy. I don' t really remember the '78 blizzard as I was 3 at the time but I suppose this is rivals it. This is a lot of shoveling. My 7 and 8 year olds won't be complaining for more snow after this. I'm glad we have power still. Stay safe.

[Useless in FL]

12. Be safe and stay warm! I remember the blizzard of '78.

I worked in New Haven and lived in Old Saybrook. Our company dismissed us early from work that day ... but so did all the other companies and it seemed like we were all on I-95 at the same time....crawling. Cars were abandoned all along the interstate, especially around the tolls (there were tolls on 95 then). I was fortunate to get behind a slow-moving semi that created a path for me to stay in and we kept moving and luckily they were waving us through the tolls so we didn't have to stop. If you stopped, you couldn't get moving again. My normal 45 minute commute took 3 hours but I made it home safely - even made it up the steep hill to my home. I got out and kissed my little Datsun 5 speed 710 wagon for getting me home in one piece. We decided to move south soon after!

[etherealtruth]

13. OMG

I can't even imagine what I would do.

Be safe