Memory Lane

[IrishRob17]

2 hours ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Same here, except that most of the additional area was well away from the Northeast.

I hadn't seen your follow up post when you mentioned those states outside the northeast. Tis odd to call the scale what they did then. 

[coastalplainsnowman]

I am really surprised that there wasn't more discussion on the Blizzard of '96 here today!  30 years ago, so maybe it's just that a lot of posters on here are too young to remember it.  Check out the NESIS score on this bad boy: 11.78.

 

While there were quite a few big storms between 2000-2018 which were similar enough to it around here, it stands out for me if for no other reason that it was the first foot+ storm for most of us in the city on south / east since the Blizzard of '83 nearly 13 years prior (1993 "Storm of the Century" was ruined by sleet for us.)   For many of us who barely remember 1978, there was 1978 and 1983, and that was it, til 1996.

 

I think the last foot+ around here was what, 2018?  Imagine if we didn't have another one til 2031 what this place would be like when it happens.  Seeing >20" snow - and the things that it covered, like Christmas decorations that neighbors had ill-advisedly not taken down -- "the soldiers are covered!!" was unreal.

 

Stuff like that is why I'm here.  Ok that's all I got.