powderfreak

What did you end up with in that after all those 2-4" or 3-5" TV forecasts? Up here I remember no one talking about that... I don't even think I was really paying attention until later that evening when I started seeing 1.5" QPF amounts showing up but still didn't believe it. Even that was a little low though as like NZucker I had around 20" of absolute tree breaking, power-out cement. I still remember trees down scattered all along RT 2 between Burlington and Waterbury. The evergreens took a beating in that storm.

Thanks for posting that... that smoked a lot of folks in a very surprising way. There was no indication that much of the interior was going to get 1-2 feet and some higher terrain spots more. That was when the Catskills, Logan11, and Southern VT got like 5 feet in a couple days.

Yeah that was a sick couple of days, even with the mixed crap that fell after the 24th... the summit of Mansfield had like 5-6" of liquid in a 72 hour period, with a net gain of 3 feet of snowpack. We got over 30" on the 23-24th (due to colder temps up high, better ratios, only 22-24" of cement down lower) followed by another 10" on the 25th then like 2" of freezing rain. It was like a storm cycle out of the Cascades or Sierra with tight snow levels and mixed precip but generally just a very moist flow.

Haha, yeah if you want to kill a couple hours really quickly, spend some time reading through that stuff. I did that one night this past summer...just crack a cold one and live vicariously through the posts.

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?/topic/15964-historic-east-coast-storm-sne-blizzard-of-2005/page__p__160393__hl__walt+drag+blizzard__fromsearch__1#entry160393 Check out the above link for EUSWX posts from the Blizz of 2005... there's some great stuff from Walt Drag in there.