Good News:
Good News:
1. Thruway is open between Buffalo and Rochester.
2. You can get on it going from Buffalo south to Pennsylvania, but you cannot get off of it between Buffalo and Pennsylvania.
3. Almost all the other major highways are open.
4. This is important, because with no highways open, there was no way to truck in food for the grocery stores, or gas for the cars and snow removal equipment and generators, etc. Yes, some places were starting to run low.
(Yeah, they removed all the refineries and terminals years ago. Which is why our gas is still well above $3/gal. The closest place we get it from is Akron, OH. Wtf, government. P.S. Good plan! That whole section of I-90 runs along the eastern side of Lake Erie. FYI, that would be the part where they get Lake Effect snow. All winter, every winter. Good strategic planning.)
Bad News:
1. Roofs are collapsing all over the place. And we haven't gotten the melt and rain, yet.
2. A lot of communities are days away from being reached by the snow removal. It can't just be plowed.
3. There will be flooding. They are attempting to calculate and pre-plan. Which is kinda cool if you think meteorology and hydrology are cool.
#snowboob2014
1. Thruway is open between Buffalo and Rochester.
2. You can get on it going from Buffalo south to Pennsylvania, but you cannot get off of it between Buffalo and Pennsylvania.
3. Almost all the other major highways are open.
4. This is important, because with no highways open, there was no way to truck in food for the grocery stores, or gas for the cars and snow removal equipment and generators, etc. Yes, some places were starting to run low.
(Yeah, they removed all the refineries and terminals years ago. Which is why our gas is still well above $3/gal. The closest place we get it from is Akron, OH. Wtf, government. P.S. Good plan! That whole section of I-90 runs along the eastern side of Lake Erie. FYI, that would be the part where they get Lake Effect snow. All winter, every winter. Good strategic planning.)
Bad News:
1. Roofs are collapsing all over the place. And we haven't gotten the melt and rain, yet.
2. A lot of communities are days away from being reached by the snow removal. It can't just be plowed.
3. There will be flooding. They are attempting to calculate and pre-plan. Which is kinda cool if you think meteorology and hydrology are cool.
#snowboob2014
I can't help but think of Les Nesman at WKRP warning the citizens of Cincinnati of the invasion of "the godless tornadoes." The planet has plenty of ways to attack us too. So yeah, meteorology: cool stuff!
ReplyDeleteI had never thought of the concept of "snow loading" until reading some of your posts. Any estimate on the number of structures compromised?
Thus far, there are at least 90 reported compromised or actually collapsed, and there will be more. It ranges from mobile homes, to car ports, to warehouses, to factories, etc. The worst so far was a nursing home. They recognized the problem before any actual cave in, so were able to get the residents safely moved, but one died shortly thereafter and they really don't know if it was from the stress of the move or not.
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