CapturedNature

I was living in Somers at the time....had nothing Saturday morning and the drive up the hill by no more than a mile or so changed that to 13" of snow. Union doubled that but that storm changed me from someone that would get upset at that to just accepting what I had. A few years later there was a Norlun that dumped 13-17" over my house in a couple of hours and I missed it trying to chase it elsewhere....d'oh!

lol....it's Dave (or as everyone hear calls me 'Herb') but I'm the guy with the hat. I have no idea why I brought that hat because I remember it being really hot and you needed temps below zero to make it work. I bought it in Canada when I was living in Lyndonville.

What amazes me is the change in technology since then. Here we were driving around and only had a scanner and AM radio to know what was happening. I remember stopping at a phone booth and calling a colleague to get some info which is why we decided to go to the coast. The video doesn't do that justice because of the focus and the fact that the tide had started to go out by the time that we got there but I had never seen such a caldron before or since. I kind of chuckled at the comment I made saying I had never seen anything like it but you have to remember that since my birth I had never seen a 2' snow storm and since it all happened in less than 24 hours the impact was even more impressive. I've seen several storms since then and that storm seem to be a game changer as there was winters before that and winters after that in terms of storms.

I found a video that my brother and I shot of the December '92 Nor'easter and I wanted to share it for those that didn't get to fully experience it. We drove from Stafford, CT through Union and then downtown Worcester before going to Hull and downtown Boston. Outside of some goofball/awkward moments, it gives you a real sense of the conditions on that Saturday about 24 hours into the storm. You can tell by the comments that we had never seen anything like it and were really amazed by the conditions. At one point you can can hear the NOAA weather radio guy and how impressed he is as well. Enjoy!

Probably. I was at Lyndon at the time and it was an awesome show. I think it was visible down to Florida on that one. Just came in from taking a look and didn't see anything. I don't have the best view to the north due to hills though. The wind makes it tougher to stay out too long unless you're dressed for it.

It might be a media thing. It gives the television media time to start the newscast and intro the segment before going live to the governor.

That's my thought. I'm liking my call of 20" ±2" for MBY but I'd like to see where that band sets up (as I know everyone would!).

I kinda like the color enhanced WV loop: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/flash-wv.html It makes the clouds pop....

I have concerns of us winding up between the two bands. We still do well, but we'll have to see how things setup once everything gets going.

I wish there was a way that access could be limited to members at times like this. There are 80+ people using this particular forum at the time and the majority are guests. It would certainly help lighten the load.

I actually never made it to the CT coast because I didn't think the wave action would be that good. We went to Hull, a place I had never been before, and it turned out to be great place to see the ocean swells and huge waves crashing right on the sea wall. This was the first real big storm that happened after I got out of college and I remember everyone looking to me for info and I spent a lot of time gathering data in the pre-Internet days (even though I went to school for Met I've always worked in the IT business). I had an old radio fax machine that I dusted off so I could get charts. I was up late on Saturday looking at data and my brother came home from work and wanted to do some storm chasing so we headed out. It was great storm to chase....better than the March '93 storm I think.

I couldn't see the new and improved version of this, but I was living in Somers, CT around 300' at the time and this truely had the greatest gradient I've seen. I had 3.2" by the time everything was done but just a few miles east of me there was 12-14" around 900'. The amounts rose dramatically from there in Union, CT and I remember measuring 32-35" in the morning as my brother and I drove to the coast to check out the waves there. I'd have to check my weather record but I thought I had measured around 37" in Union when we were driving back home in the afternoon. I rank this as one of my favorite storms even though I got screwed at my house.