# But...but... it was 70 DEGREES OUT two days ago! (Northeastern winter storm) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268 "2007-03-16T22:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/1 "2007-03-16T22:00:32Z")
So I’m looking at the [weather.com](http://weather.com) forecast for tonight. **6 to 10 additional inches of snow expected!** I just went outside with a ruler. We already have 6.5" on the ground! It’s been going for twelve freaking hours now (or something like that - it’s hard to tell when you’re working third shift in a windowless datacenter). To make matters worse, nobody I’ve talked to has seen _one damned plow yet_. People here are still reaming out PennDOT for inadequate response time in what some punny folks have dubbed the St. Valentine’s Day Mass-a-Car, the day-long 45-mile backup of traffic on I-78 last month. Now we’ve got another major winter storm on another minor holiday (my favorite holiday, at that). To make matters even worse for me, I have a mission critical job (they’re up 24/7/365, no exceptions) in a State building. I _need_ to show up for second shift tomorrow even if I have to walk to Harrisburg. I was planning to have a friend come over tonight, but the way it’s looking, I’m going to be drinking alone (or not at all) for my St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Bah. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/2 "2007-03-16T22:09:04Z")
I was stoked to go to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Cleveland this year. Every other time I went it was desperately cold. So I was pretty excited when I had my furnace off and windows open the other day. When it was warm. The next day…snow. Not as much as you’re getting but yeah…sucks ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/3 "2007-03-16T22:35:10Z")
I’m hating it. I can’t even go anywhere and I’m hating it. (I had surgery last week and am not allowed to drive.) ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/4 "2007-03-16T23:23:53Z")
Here it NYC its been snowing – the sort ski slopes charitably call “loose granular” but I prefer to call “unflavored slushie” – since 10 am. It is truly vile out. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/5 "2007-03-16T23:53:43Z")
**neutron star** , same story in Lancaster, just like last month. No plows yet. It’s going to freeze into a block and we’re going to have washboard roads again for two weeks. You’d think having such a disastrous storm response just a month ago would have made someone in SOME city office say “Hey! Maybe we should retool our procedures so we actually have some sort of response before everything’s been sitting there for 24 hours…” It’s my birthday. We had plans to go out tonight and Saturday night. Pffft. I’ve spent a goodly portion of today shoveling snow and we’re likely not going ANYWHERE all weekend. Some birthday…Thanks, Ma Nature… ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/6 "2007-03-17T00:00:34Z")
ah yes, nothing like the sound of gaupple or grapple or how ever you spell it, hitting the window. there seems to be 3 inches of the stuff in center city philly. i’m looking into hibernation with a nice hot bath upon waking. got quite a few books at the ready. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/7 "2007-03-17T00:20:37Z")
I work in downtown Harrisburg. To get home, I simply drive over the State Street Bridge, make a couple of turns, and presto-chango I’m home in about seven minutes max. Today it took me **53 minutes** to get home. :mad: I hate snow. No, I _ **really** _ hate snow. Forget Spring, I want Summer and I want it NOW. Now, I tell you! Are you listening Mother Nature, 'cause right now I’m really pissed at you! Could you melt the snow tomorrow please Mother Nature? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/8 "2007-03-17T00:34:42Z")
Five inches or so and counting here in Beantown. Enough to ruin post-exam lunch with the girl and prevent me from traipsing off to Brighton tonight. And I was wearing SHORTS yesterday. Anger. ANGER. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/9 "2007-03-17T01:20:25Z")
Dayum. I awoke at 4:00 am, got the **Fem-Bot** ™ into the car by 5:30 and started driving the 65 miles from the Hudson Valley into NYC today. The SECOND I hit the Thruway it started lightly snowing. By the time I got into NYC, it was that granular hoo-hah. Worked a few hours. Took the aforementioned daughter to breakfast at one of my fave diners. ( around 101 and B’way, northwest corner,…Metro? ), and headed out. The drive home took me **three and a half fucking hours**. What a mess. Since we had a wicked falling out a few days ago with next-door neighbor who is a landscaper and has plowed us out for years, we are left hoping the fellow I called three days ago does come and plow us out. We’re about 10 inches in and I just shoveled the front walk. It’s freezing rain now but will switch back in a few hours. I’m guessing we’ll see 14-16 inches by tomorrow afternoon. The sound of the ice pinging off of the windows in front of me is romantic. Like Siberia is romantic, that is. :rolleyes: Mom’s in Philly and she said she’s gotten the granular globular crap all day. Feh. I hate the winters. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/10 "2007-03-17T01:23:26Z")
We’re having a good old fashioned nor’easter up here. They’re saying anywhere between 8-12" for the Boston area, with more points west and north, while south and the Cape gets rain. Tomorrow all the snow’s supposedly turning to sleet/freezing rain, then to torrential downpours worthy of building an ark :eek: They just put the plows out now. Mind you, the snow started around noontime :rolleyes: I’m debating whether or not to go into work tomorrow. My shift starts at 4AM. Last snowstorm it took me over an hour to get there (it’s a 15-20 minute ride), and many of my coworkers called in. The Powers That Be told the night crew not to come in. Thing is, I have nobody to take my call, as my manager doesn’t arrive until mid-morning. Hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/11 "2007-03-17T01:31:25Z")
I’m home in NJ for spring break. It’s 70 and sunny out where I go to school right now. And if that weren’t enough, the public library’s book sale started today, and I didn’t dare venture out to it. I do not approve. ---
**Author:** ![HelenTroy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helentroy/32/86_2.png) [@HelenTroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenTroy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/12 "2007-03-17T01:36:03Z")
[QUOTE=phall0106] I work in downtown Harrisburg. To get home, I simply drive over the State Street Bridge, make a couple of turns, and presto-chango I’m home in about seven minutes max. Today it took me **53 minutes** to get home. :mad: I hate snow. No, I _ **really** _ hate snow. Forget Spring, I want Summer and I want it NOW. Now, I tell you! Are you listening Mother Nature, 'cause right now I’m really pissed at you! [QUOTE] Another State employee here. My boss let me roll out at 1 to work from home. It took about an hour for my normal 20 minute ride home. I live by the Hershey Med Center so we are plowed every 5 minutes it seems. There are benefits to living in Stepford. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/13 "2007-03-17T01:44:14Z")
I’m just wondering what’s coming next. The 50 degree temperature drop and change in barometric pressure in a single day had my bad back in agony to the point I could barely move. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/14 "2007-03-17T01:49:16Z")
[QUOTE=Gorgon Heap] I’m just wondering what’s coming next. [/QUOTE] Heh. _The Day After Tomorrow_ was on the TVs at the gym when we went on Tuesday. If I only knew… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/15 "2007-03-17T01:59:30Z")
I heard Boston has an awesome St. Paddy’s Day parade and I wanted to go! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/16 "2007-03-17T02:02:02Z")
I don’t live or work in Harrisburg, but 81 between Carlisle and Shippensburg this afternoon was just ugly. It’s not that PennDOT didn’t clear the road (they did), but there were a lot of truckers trying to do the speed limit. Between the splashing slush and the sheer aggressiveness, it was a scary trip home. Robin ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/17 "2007-03-17T02:06:39Z")
Yeah, PennDot seems to actually be pretty good at road clearance this year. Last month when it did this (it snowed on a Tuesday/Wednesday) we had plans to visit a friend in Idaville (in the Boonies between York and Carlisle) on the weekend. Once you got out of Lancaster, the roads (even the little country roads) were clean as a whistle. It was just in Lancaster (and Harrisburg, where we went for Bear Happy Hour that same night) that the streets were for shit. It’s the city departments that suck, not PennDot\*. \*Well, for road-clearing, anyway. There are other reasons PennDot, _in toto_, sucks. But road-clearing isn’t one of them. ---
**Author:** ![frog\_princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@frog\_princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frog_princess)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/18 "2007-03-17T02:10:24Z")
It’s been snowing here for 12 hours and not one plow or sand truck has gone by. Wednesday it was 70! My 35 minute commute took 90 minutes today. I hate winter. ---
**Author:** ![HelenTroy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helentroy/32/86_2.png) [@HelenTroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenTroy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/19 "2007-03-17T02:20:12Z")
It is a real disgrace how badly the streets are maintained in Harrisburg. My drive in is smooth sailing until I hit Cameron and the arctic tundra. I rounded a corner after the last snow and was faced with a 20 foot high snow pile blocking 3 of 4 lanes on the road infront of the Capitol! ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268/20 "2007-03-17T02:20:47Z")
God is fucking with us. “What do I have behind my back? Right, a beautiful springlike day! Oh what’s this in my other hand…icy sleet. Bwahahaha.” And apparently his amusment is complete as, yes, they seem to have people putting all plowing etc equitment in storage the minute it got over 50. So Even though it’s only a couple of inches here you still can’t leave your house. It’s like living in Florida; Ahhhh, snow! Everything grinds to a halt. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-but-it-was-70-degrees-out-two-days-ago-northeastern-winter-storm/396268.md?page=2)