Snow! Sending good wishes to our TE members east of Lake Ontario

[DeniseGoldberg]

The reports of lake effect snow to the east of Lake Ontario are just blowing my mind. I was listening to the radio as I drove home tonight and heard that storm totals could get to 100 inches. I can't even begin to imagine what 100 inches of new snow looks like.

Curiosity sent me searching for stories, and I found an article in today's Oswego Daily News that confirmed storm totals as of this morning exceeding 70 inches. (If you're interested, here's a link to the article: http://oswegodailynews.com/index.php...eadlines/again.)

My reason for posting wasn't to share this weather news, but to wonder if we have any TE gals in that area. If any of you are buried - I'm sending you wishes for warm houses, sufficient power, and hopes that you have help in digging out of that snow.

--- Denise

[sbctwin]

I was wondering the same thing. My DH's family lives in upstate NY (Rochester, Syracuse) and I know they were hit with cold and snow. How are you doing Lisa? Are you finally getting a chance to try your snowshoes? Hope all is ok with you. We had been in the deep freeze for so much of Jan and now we are balmy (well, sort of). Wishing you are safe and sound in warm houses...

[mimitabby]

ng 70 inches. (If you're interested, here's a link to the article: http://oswegodailynews.com/index.php...eadlines/again.)

My reason for posting wasn't to share this weather news, but to wonder if we have any TE gals in that area. If any of you are buried - I'm sending you wishes for warm houses, sufficient power, and hopes that you have help in digging out of that snow.

--- Denise

what, no pictures??!?

[mimitabby]

this was taken in Lake Oswego, NY today.

[DeniseGoldberg]

this was taken in Lake Oswego, NY today.

Good job!

what, no pictures??!?

Well, if I was there (in the midst of all of those feet of cold white stuff) and not in northeastern Massachusetts, there would be pictures.

I'd love to see more photos too, but none of the articles that I found were accompanied by pictures. And more than my desire to see, I wish I could provide help to the folks who are living through that storm. I guess good wishes will have to do though.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I was wondering the same thing. My DH's family lives in upstate NY (Rochester, Syracuse) and I know they were hit with cold and snow. How are you doing Lisa? Are you finally getting a chance to try your snowshoes? Hope all is ok with you. We had been in the deep freeze for so much of Jan and now we are balmy (well, sort of). Wishing you are safe and sound in warm houses...

Thanks for asking!!
It just seems too weird...but no... yet again we didn't get any snow!!
We left 8 days ago to do a road trip visiting friends down south in MD, SC, and NC. When we left, it still hadn't snowed here at all this winter aside from an occasional 1" flurry. As we drove south, it seemed to get colder and snowier and we drove through some snows. In SC & NC it was unusually cold while we were there (often 15-30 degrees!). Then on our drive back through VA and WVA it was a frigid blizzard! They had 4-5 inches of snow in Roanoke wed. night when we stayed in a motel on the way home! Next day (yesterday) we drove back to upstate NY and home...and as we drove north it got sunnier and more clear. We found it had only snowed about 3" here at home the day after we left on our trip. Not even enough left to plow the driveway.
Thus, here where we are (40 minutes SE of Albany NY) we are STILL not having much snow- certainly not enough to snowshoe on! It's fairly cold...10 to 25 degrees, and breezy, making it too cold to bike.
Spent today catching up on work and errands, plan to do a 3 mile walk hopefully tomorrow to keep from becoming a blob. My virgin snowshows continue to hang in the closet hopefully...

[Eden]

Ah how I love living in Seattle... I went to college in Rochester NY - and yup we got snow like that at times while I was there. Once a friend of mine flew up to go skiing with us, but instead we got snowed into the aparment!! I opened the door in the morning and good thing the door opened in. We had a drift taller than me against the door.... So we got out the shovels and got out of the back yard (somewhere there exists a photo of me standing in a ditch over my head cut in the snow through the back yard). We managed to get out to the car, but alas even if we could drive without sliding around - in a foot or so of driving snow would pile up in front of the car, lift the front wheels off the ground (it was front wheel drive) and we could go no further. Since there was no way we could get anywhere that way we went back in, drank wine, ate chili and played cards. We always had at least a week of that nasty -60 degree wind chill weather every winter I lived there too. I miss it not! It was in the 50's and even a little sunny here today - nice riding weather.

[DeniseGoldberg]

If anyone is interested in following this storm...

As of this morning, the town of Parish had reported 94 inches of snow from this storm, and the snow is continuing. Nearing 100 inches, well beyond what I can imagine seeing.

Interesting articles in the Washington Post and on CNN. The CNN page has a link to some photos.

Hopefully any of our TE family out there are home and warm.