Who is from New York (state)...tell me about your snow!

[ckay87]

OMG, I saw on Good Morning America that parts of New York state got 4 FEET of snow? Are any of you stuck there? How will you ever get out. I can't imagine!

 

[adkkev]

It's just the same areas that usually get dumped on ... so they're pretty used to digging out.

Some parts of Vermont (near Bennington) got over 30 inches of snow over the weekend, more in the mountains.

The Tug Hill Plateau (east of Lake Ontario in NY state) is supposed to get a major dump of snow later on this week. Love that lake effect!!

 

[luvflorida]

I can't speak for upstate New York, but I do know that after living in Maine for over 35 years, you just get used to it. Huge amounts of snow (and sometimes a lot is dumped in a short space of time) are not out of the norm. Also, in states that are used to large amounts of snow, the towns are very good about getting out and clearing the streets and sidewalks. Cold climate states have all the right equipment to handle the snow. Of course, some storms may take longer than others to dig out from, but you always know eventually you'll be out and about.

When you have that much snow, the hardest thing is that after awhile, there isn't any place to put it. Shoveling becomes difficult because you have to really sling that shovelful of snow over towering snowbanks. Snowblowers are great (and necessary in some parts of the country) but they can't be used everywhere. Some places you just have to shovel.

Your yard becomes useless, unless you can snowshoe or sled on it (and sledding would be difficult in most situations) and you pretty much end up following shoveled pathways to get anywhere.

 

[sbell111]

OMG, I saw on Good Morning America that parts of New York state got 4 FEET of snow? Are any of you stuck there? How will you ever get out. I can't imagine!

I wonder if schools were closed. Seriously.

There were plenty of times when I was growing up in western NY when we got hit with a few feet of lake effect snow and still had to go to school.

 

[Silent1CB]

Places that normally get a lot of snow are way better equipped and know how to handle it, say, compared to a place further south that freaks out & closes everything when they get 2" because they don't have the equipment.

I wouldn't worry about them too much.

Ice storms and losing power for days/weeks is a totally different story however.

Burlington, VT got 33". There most ever. That actually surprised me. I thought they would have had 33" before at some point. We got over 30" in northern RI back in the Blizzard of '78.

 

[mrs. magoo]

In Rochester, we have gotten about 12 inches since Saturday and it is still snowing. We have been getting about 3 - 4 inches a night. Certainly not enough to cancel school. In fact we hardly ever close school it would have snow at least 12 inches before school would even think about closing. We are supposed to continue with this trend for the next week so by Saturday we could be at 3 feet on the ground.

I am always amazed down South when schools are closed for 2 inches. Makes me laugh when half of the people living down there are Northeast transplants anyway. I always think they should be able to handle it.

Kathe

 

[swald91]

We're here in central NY & it's been snowing continuously since Saturday night. Had alot of blowing snow but the accumulation has been about maybe 10 inches. It's all lake effect snow. We have enough plows out keeping up the best they can-no schools are closed -but up north they have quite a bit more. I don't see an end anytime soon-hopefully a much slower pace would be better!

 

[swald91]

In Rochester, we have gotten about 12 inches since Saturday and it is still snowing. We have been getting about 3 - 4 inches a night. Certainly not enough to cancel school. In fact we hardly ever close school it would have snow at least 12 inches before school would even think about closing. We are supposed to continue with this trend for the next week so by Saturday we could be at 3 feet on the ground.

I am always amazed down South when schools are closed for 2 inches. Makes me laugh when half of the people living down there are Northeast transplants anyway. I always think they should be able to handle it.

Kathe

I hear you on the northerners who are now southerners!! Problem is they don't have all the plows we do & it takes so much longer there to move it.

 

[Trish Bessette]

33 inches here in Burlington Vermont. Started last Friday and ended late Sunday night. School was in session Monday morning

 

[cntrygal]

we are used to snow in upstate ny. It takes alot to close school around here. Icy closes it faster then snow does. The only reason they close for snow is if the bulk of the storm is going to hit while the buses are on the road.

 

[klacey1]

Currently, in southeast NY, I am sitting with about 6 inches on the ground, waiting for the plumber to come unfreeze my pipes
Our worst snow was a week or so ago. We didn't get too much accumulation this weekend, but the roads were awful on Sunday.

 

[Disnydad]

We are just north of Albany (outside of Saratoga Springs) and got maybe 2" over the weekend. Yep, that's it.

 

[MainStMandy]

I am from just east of Rochester and between Sunday and today we got 36". They said the bands were thin and heavy and they kinda just stopped over our area. The next town over only got 14"!!!

 

[cybrkitn]

The weekend before Christmas we got hit pretty hard with an accumulation of about 27 inches of snow . It even beat out the record we had back in the 70's. That finally melted Christmas weekend. We were hit these last 3-4 days again, but this time only got about 3 inches.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

I wonder if schools were closed. Seriously.

There were plenty of times when I was growing up in western NY when we got hit with a few feet of lake effect snow and still had to go to school.

They've started closing schools more after the huge storm back in... 2002? I don't remember. Most of the time I think it's silly to close them, but it doesn't affect me.

We have a couple feet. (I'm in Buffalo). I hope we get more.... four feet of snow is nothing unless you get it all in a two-hour time span.

I live for this weather. And I'm getting tired of listening to everyone around here complain about it It's Buffalo. It snows. Not nearly as much as it snows in other places, contrary to popular opinion... but what exactly do you EXPECT it to do in January in Buffalo???

 

[C.Ann]

Only a couple of inches here too.. We were supposed to get quite a bit more, but it never materialized.. Phew!

Just very cold temps instead.. Brrrr...

 

[TaraLee4]

We are just north of Albany (outside of Saratoga Springs) and got maybe 2" over the weekend. Yep, that's it.

I'm IN albany and we got about that much too. wind was brutal though. blew all the snow right back into the road. Northway our way was awful.

 

[DVC-Don]

Called my Dad up in Williston, Vermont (just outside Burlington) and he only got 18".