On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:46:38 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 12/18/20 6:19 PM, Wayne B wrote:
On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:34:30 -0000 (UTC), "Justan O."
wrote:

On 12/18/20 4:17 PM, Wayne B wrote:
Scroll down a little:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9062541/The-big-freeze-follows-big-storm-Northeast-rushes-clear-deadly-black-ice-roads.html

Beautiful pics. Almost makes me want to drive up there and play in the snow.

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Yes, and then I remember what it was like to actually live there and
deal with it all winter. :-)


I spent a winter in Albany when I started working for the NEA. My
parents were going to drive up fron New Haven to see me that
Thanksgiving. It started snowing the night before and by the next
morning, there were 24" on the ground. Our street was impassable but the
power was on. County sent a dump truck with plow to clean the street. It
got stuck in a snowbank. County then sent an articulated earth mover
with a blade to get the truck loose. It got it loose and then the truck
banged into the electric utility pole and knocked it over. No power
until the next day, when it was repaired.

The streets in downtown Albany usually have so much snow from regular
plowing that the snow banks were 10' along the curbs and some cars were
buried in them.

We had heavy snow in New Haven when I was growing up there, but not like
the snow in Albany.

Around here, a skiff of snow shuts down everything. An inch or two and
life comes to a halt.

I would rather just have it snow than have the sleet and freezing rain
DC usually gets in these things. It is wet all day and icy all night.
That is pretty scary stuff if you work nights. You can be driving
along on a dry road and suddenly hit a quarter mile or more of black
ice that nobody has had the thought to salt down.