Vicarious

Not sure why the move to discord other then to gatekeep. I was never really a active poster on here but I would come at least once a day to read all the new posts and I'm sure I wasn't the only one.

The guy I sub contract for was plowing back then and today while talking with him over the phone I asked if the conditions were like in 77. He told me the winds and lack of visibility was on par with or maybe worse then 77 but the overall impact of the storm won't nearly come close. He said back in 77 the storm took everyone by surprise for the most part which lead to so many stranded people in cars.

I've pretty much struggled to see across my street for 12+ hours. If it stays this way until saturday night/sunday morning it will be compared to the blizzard of 1977 which was #1 by a pretty big margin

I've snow plowed for almost 10 years now and this is the first time I'm completely unable to leave my house because of the conditions. Even in 2014 I managed to carefully make my way to each parking lot. I've never seen this low of visibility for this long of duration. I'm hoping for the band to push north a bit more for a little while so I can get a small window to try to get to a few places before the snow gets to out of control.

I haven't been able to see across the street for awhile now but I still had someone call me just now asking why I haven't plowed her drive way yet. Some people............ airport now showing 16.8

I live a few miles south of the airport and can confirm 0 visibility. I tried driving 1 block to my grandmas to plow her driveway and i drove off the street several times going only a few mph

Not looking forward to this storm as someone who does snow plowing. To anyone chasing this event please be prepared with full tanks of fuel, shovel, and a snatch strap or recovery rope

nov 2014?

Well i have video of driving in white conditions from lake effect snow from last year mid may, not the normal but my grandma always said never plant before memorial day weekend which I still go by

I've learned that winter still has its share of surprises until we reach memorial day, for buffalo at least lol

Well I always looked at global warming through this lens of "uh guys we are literally changing the earths atompshere with compounds that we can scientifically show their effect". Take humans out of the equation and it makes more sense. I just really hate how the science tends to get lost behind the politics with thing like global warming. We honestly can't look at just temp trends because of the tiny sample size so we have to look at other data try and separate the variance as much as possible

in general people underestimate variance and one of the best things studying no limit holdem was teach me just how much variance you will experience and try to pick out flaws in your strategy vs the variance in outcomes. The sample size we see with winter events is pretty low which makes it insanely hard to try and separate any patterns

the amount of bi-polar here is truly mind boggling when it comes to snow

I don't really remember the last time it was this late into October and all the yards I cut are so dry it resembles more like august. Normally I'd be fighting the weather to get everyone cut for the week but some places I haven't cut since September since we just haven't had the rain+the total sunlight per day is shrinking fast.

I got a slight drizzle in south cheektowaga with all the action staying to the west