# New England Dopers Will Soon Get Historic Blizzard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2015, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911 "2015-01-26T07:53:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/101 "2015-01-28T00:22:25Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Those readings aren’t really far from normal for Mt Washington in winter. This storm didn’t have a huge impact up there. Winds of 100 MPH+ and temps below zero are pretty common. Yeah… any place where they [chain the buildings to the ground](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_(New_Hampshire)) is one that gets a lot of wind on a regular basis. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/102 "2015-01-28T02:14:21Z")
It’s still snowing. It might be still snowing in 6-9 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/103 "2015-01-28T16:10:34Z")
24’ total where I am I went for a drive after I cleared my driveway; the roads are cleared, but still snowy and slippery. If I didn’t drive a Jeep I don’t think I would have been comfortable driving. More snow coming in a couple days! #Blizzardof2015 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/104 "2015-01-28T16:17:23Z")
> [@Winston\_Smith](#): > > 24’ total where I am That’s … what, over 7m of snow? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/105 "2015-01-28T16:50:23Z")
Wow! He wins. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/106 "2015-01-28T18:29:53Z")
> [@Winston\_Smith](#): > > 24’ total where I am > > I went for a drive after I cleared my driveway; the roads are cleared, but still snowy and slippery. If I didn’t drive a Jeep I don’t think I would have been comfortable driving. > > More snow coming in a couple days! #Blizzardof2015 🙂 We ended up with less than a foot, but, yeah, more coming. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/107 "2015-01-28T19:16:03Z")
We ended up with about 24" of snow at my home in eastern Connecticut, with drifts of 3-4 feet up against our garage doors and back door. It was a lot of snow, but wasn’t too hard to clear because it was very dry, light, and powdery. [shrug] I’ve seen much worse, like February 2011 when we got so much heavy, wet snow that people’s roofs were collapsing, and I had to buy a roof rake. For comparison, it took me and my son about 3-4 hours to clear everything yesterday. We got a storm in February 2011 that took 9 hours to clear, and had walls of snow lining the driveway that were so high (6-8 ft), the snowblower couldn’t shoot above them. I had to get a stepladder to push the snow back. All in all, I wouldn’t call yesterday’s storm “historic.” That being said, I still missed a day of work yesterday due to the travel ban and the fact that our street wasn’t plowed until yesterday afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/108 "2015-01-29T00:23:15Z")
> [@Winston\_Smith](#): > > 24’ total where I am > [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](#): > > That’s … what, over 7m of snow? 😃 You may also want to check his drafts for the Stonehenge replica. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/109 "2015-01-29T03:59:32Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > You may also want to check his drafts for the Stonehenge replica. That’s probably the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a movie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/110 "2015-02-10T02:33:58Z")
> [@](#): > > The third major storm in two weeks blasted a wide swath of beleaguered New England with more than 2 feet of snow Monday, again smashing records and paralyzing travel in hard-hit Boston. > **[Snowstorm wallops Boston with 20 more inches; records fall](https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/02/09/boston-new-england-snow-records/23109017/)** > > Third major snowstorm in two weeks. Wow! Smashing records!! I suppose Boston Dopers are excited about this! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/111 "2015-02-10T04:00:09Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Wow! Smashing records!! I suppose Boston Dopers are excited about this! “Excited” doesn’t even begin to cover it. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/112 "2015-02-10T05:23:51Z")
It has been snowing off and on since Saturday. I don’t even know how much we got this time. Over a foot for sure, but not sure how much. This is on top of the 3 feet, 2 feet and 5.5" we got in the last three storms (in the last two weeks). So a good 6.5 feet now (maybe 7, I can’t keep track any more) and there are predictions of another storm Thursday night and a potentially worse one on Saturday night. I’m in North Central, MA. We have been the “jackpot” in all but the current storm. My front stairs are buried. The snowbanks are already ridiculous. All but the main roads are incredibly narrow to the point where two cars can barely pass and the school buses are having a difficult time getting around - not that we’ve had much school lately. And after a slight warm up tomorrow (enough to cause the snow to get wet and heavy), the temps are then going to plummet for the next week. My SO will be up on the roof all day tomorrow trying to get the snow off and keep the ice dams from forming. Where we are going to put more snow, I don’t know. I barely have a driveway as it is. This is disheartening. We were going to try to go to Florida for a week at the end of the month, but at this point, I don’t dare leave the house for that long. There’s just too much that can go wrong with this much snow. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/113 "2015-02-10T13:32:09Z")
Of course there’d be historic levels of snow my first winter in New England. Why wouldn’t there? I’m so happy my wife’s job is understanding and she’s able to work from home. She already got the car stuck once and had to be towed out. I’m glad our daughter wasn’t with her. I’m behind in school. These closures have really screwed up my routine. My professors sure are unhappy. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/114 "2015-02-10T14:14:44Z")
You and me both. I figured Boston would give me a special welcome this winter, I just didn’t expect it to be quite this enthusiastic. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/115 "2015-02-10T14:21:45Z")
> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#): > > You and me both. I figured Boston would give me a special welcome this winter, I just didn’t expect it to be quite this enthusiastic. I probably deserve it after being so cocky in January. “This is it? It’s not so bad. I don’t get why everyone says winter is horrible.” I just wish I could magically send all this snow to Sacramento. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/116 "2015-02-10T14:27:32Z")
I shoveled twice yesterday and once this morning. The snow is up to my porch on the side (4 feet above ground level). That’s not drifts – that’s the uniform level of the snow. It hasn’t been that high since the big storm 20 years ago. And we’re set for more snow on Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/117 "2015-02-10T15:20:20Z")
My niece was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. She’s as American as it gets, but she has never lived in the US. She is a Boston University freshman this year. Talk about culture shock! ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/118 "2015-02-10T17:28:58Z")
> [@Salem](#): > > Where we are going to put more snow, I don’t know. I barely have a driveway as it is. This is disheartening. We were going to try to go to Florida for a week at the end of the month, but at this point, I don’t dare leave the house for that long. There’s just too much that can go wrong with this much snow. _sigh_ Wait, what can go wrong? Why can’t you just leave and come back when everything melts? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/119 "2015-02-10T18:14:51Z")
I moved to Orlando just in time. Except my stuff is still up north, 'cause the moving trucks can’t get to my house. Plenty of cheap housing left for the rest of you down here, ya know. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911/120 "2015-02-10T18:57:39Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Of course there’d be historic levels of snow my first winter in New England. Why wouldn’t there? > [@oft\_wears\_hats](#): > > You and me both. I figured Boston would give me a special welcome this winter, I just didn’t expect it to be quite this enthusiastic. I moved here from Florida in 2008. Had this much snow been my first exposure to real winter weather, I probably would have moved back. > [@RandMcnally](#): > > I’m so happy my wife’s job is understanding and she’s able to work from home. She already got the car stuck once and had to be towed out. I work from home during this crazy weather as well. I imagine there’s a liability issue for employers who can have employees WFH but don’t. Does your car have winter tires and/or AWD/4WD? If not, consider winter tires, and some more practice with driving in slush and snow. It really is something you have to get used to! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers-will-soon-get-historic-blizzard/710911.md?page=7)