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The river was moved. It's not the only time or place that has happened. Can you take a boat between the mainland and the island? Yes, therefore it doesn't matter (anymore). Heck, back in the 17th and early 18th centuries you could walk from the Lower East Side to Brooklyn at low tide until it was dredged out. The East River is an estuary not a river so there's another connection that's not a connection anymore. Meh... It's an island.

What part of Manhattan isn't an island?

While surrounded by water on LI it's hard to access (during the summer when you most want to) without paying to do so. That drives me nuts.

I don't like that map, I think I'll ignore it

Yeah but we don't have anywhere near the maritime influence up here unless the wind is just right. I do see quite a bit on an ESE wind but I think a lot of that is due to being on the eastern aspect of the lower Taconics, I'll also be affected by backdoor fronts a lot more than they are 10 miles west of me.. If the prevailing winds are W, NW or NE my weather will be more continental than coastal. I'm ~10 miles north of Mt Kisco and a few hundred feet up.

I had my suv towed to a shop this morning, been waiting since last Saturday for a local guy to be able to do it. He said that since Sunday he's been pulling between 10 and 16 cars a day off 684 with broken wheels, snapped tie rods and control arms or two blown tires.

I'll tell you when you don't want to see thundersnow, when you're sitting on a chairlift 40 feet off the ground in a whiteout. Scary shit! edit for typos

There's a section of I 684 by exit 6 southbound that's taking out 30+ cars a day since last Thursday so the HELP truck just sits there. It's amazing how many cars have to be towed because real spare tires are a rare breed on newer cars. A can of fix-a-flat or run flats is what they get but that's useless when the wheel is cracked. Low profile tires on big wheels for the win Julian, I've been getting very light flurries for quite a while now, I'm surprised you're not.

It's amazing how quickly things freeze back up when the sun goes down and the ground is frozen. I hit the ground hard getting out of the car.

Yeah that January storm turned into a memory too quickly but I was able to live vicariously through the LE reports out of Buffalo. They got dumped on a couple of times a week from early Jan through mid Feb when the lake finally froze. I even wrote a paper for school titled "If I had 16 feet of snow" and got a really good grade (for a change).

Yay rain The driveway is melting off pretty quickly now. Hopefully things don't freeze up again overnight.

The snowfall is getting showery now, a few minutes ago it had stopped but it's back to big flakes again. Nice wintry appeal morning. Rooting for a three day torch

This mornings snow has been surprising long lived. I figured maybe some flakes to start while it was still cold before it started transitioning but it has now been snowing for hours. While it was up to about a half inch it melted off most hard surfaces even though it has not stopped snowing the whole time, sun angle , and it stopped accumulating elsewhere but isn't melting off the pre-existing icepack and has put a nice coating on exposed surfaces. It appears to be letting up now, the sky has brightened and the temp popped to 33 a few minutes ago, maybe we avoid the wet stuff up here? 33/32/SE 0-1

Well that was a nice way to start the day, a half inch of fresh fluff making the dirty ice at least look nice for a little while. I sure hope the temp goes up and we get at least a few hours of warm rain. My driveway is a glacial disaster that's nearly impassable and that's after 40 pounds of salt and 50 pounds of sand.

30/30/ENE2/SN- Flake size is much smaller and it's falling very lightly now, temp is up 2* and there's a nice new .5" on the ground that did a good job of refreshing the dirty ice piles.

LB, how old were you in 1978? You can't just go off numbers, the impact was tremendous, my neighbor didn't get home for two days after and my street didn't get plowed for 4 days. We were all out there shoveling so people could get home after being stranded for a day or two. We had a two rail fence in our front yard, the top rail was about 32" off the ground and the snow nearly covered the upper section while the lower, more exposed section, had about 3" of post exposed below the top rail. It was a massive storm that really beat the place up.

Moderate snow that started with big flakes and it's accumulating nicely. The flake size got a little smaller fairly quickly and it's falling steadily now. 27/27/N to ENE light and variable

37 years ago that wasn't the way it was taught. Nassau Community College didn't even have computers the students could use. You would do your calculations on paper, type it into a card punch machine then feed the formula into a reader and it would print out (slowly) on a map blank in a dot matrix printer.

^^ Ditto. I took one met class and barely passed. The prof told me I had all sorts of potential and was the best map reader and creator he had for years but the fact that I got every math question wrong all semester pretty much meant that I should find another profession.

In many mountain resort regions there are also six and sometimes even seven seasons. You add in mud season, black fly season and stick season (the period between when there are leaves on the trees and snow on the ground.

For Ant there's an opportunity that many of us don't have,the steady income an LEO pulls in takes away so many of the issues that many folks face in places like that. IMO one of the best ways to live in a high snow zone is to live in the low snow area for the zone saving you some of the effort that goes into living in high snow areas but giving you access to the goods. I totally agree that it's pretty far out of the way though but there is medical care, businesses that have much (some?) of what you need, the schools are actually pretty good considering the remoteness and from the folks I know that live there and have steady incomes they sure do seem to like it. I also agree that the economy pretty much sucks up there so go into it knowing that if your good gig falls apart you may have to leave (like you did Matt).

Every week? Constantly Lowville is the county seat, last time I was up there they had signs advertising for LEO's for the town, county and at the jail. The peak snowfall areas for the east coast surround that town. You should look into it.

They started replacing the poles in my area recently and all of the new ones are 75+ feet tall so are generally higher than the trees. I have to wonder though how many huge trees are left to harvest to keep keep upgrading to the taller poles.

Are you paying for it?

All over this area there are 50+ foot trees within 30 feet of power lines leaning towards them. Every time it's windy, icy or snowy I just wait for the power to go out.