Snowfall in NYS What?

[EddyR]

NYC missed the big one but the town I use to live in Port Crane NY got 36"+ on the 14th and they are over 135" for the year. My Brother in law still lives there.
 We use to have a ski resort named Innsbruck USA went out of business for lack of snow in early 1970's
Ed

[Steve Helmick]

Can't you just blame it on "Global Warming"?  Steve

[Chuck_Smith]

We got about 2 feet. Meh. The driving is sucky because of the wind causing whiteouts, but we're equipped to handle it here in Rochester.

[Geoff Goodworth]

But Steve, the early seventies was when the high priests of the Church of Climatology were preaching global cooling.

Something doesn't add up.

[EddyR]

Chuck    I went to school there in Rochester, RIT,, and remember the Lake effect snow falls. Friday afternoon a foot of snow in the parking lot but 15 miles south of Rochester no snow at all. Seemed like every friday when I was going home we had a big lake effect snow fall. That was in the 1960's.
EddyR

[Steve Helmick]

But Steve, the early seventies was when the high priests of the Church of Climatology were preaching global cooling.

Something doesn't add up.

Yeah, when I was in grade school or Jr. High, they were warning of another ice age. Maybe this is the start of it? Was it extra hot this summer in Ozzie?  Steve

[Jim Kraft]

As the sun has gone down in the middle of Kansas we are enjoying a balmy 74 degrees. We have had a very mild winter. Lots of days 60 and above. We have had an inch or two of snow but it is always gone within a few hours. We have had our share of wind though. But that is just Kansas. We use a log chain for a wind sock, and as long as it is not blowing links off we go fly. Winding up in maneuvers is just normal everyday flying here. We do not know any different. I have watched Jim Lee fly out a whole tank of air wind flying. It saves on fuel costs he says.

[John Rist]

We had one snow flake last Sunday in north Alabama and the stores sold out of milk and bread!   

[FLOYD CARTER]

Winter in Oregon wasn't nearly as bad as other parts of the country.  Still, 6 months of cold, rain, some snow, conspired to make Oregon not very C/L-friendly. (could be worse).

[john e. holliday]

Well March is not done yet and I'm waiting for the big snow.   I still remember one year when we had a wet heavy snow before the leaves were off the trees.   When the limbs and such were moved to the street had wood piles both sides of the even though I volunteered to help neighbors cut wood they still gave me money.  Hope to never see anopther like that year as we were without power for a week.

[FLOYD CARTER]

Our electric power lines traverse forested land before getting to us.  Consequently, our big ice-storm in Jan. brought the lines down for a week.  Without A.C., we can't survive because our water well is electric-powered, as is heat and lighting.  We moved to a Motel for a few days.

[John Rist]

Our electric power lines traverse forested land before getting to us.  Consequently, our big ice-storm in Jan. brought the lines down for a week.  Without A.C., we can't survive because our water well is electric-powered, as is heat and lighting.  We moved to a Motel for a few days.

For the price of a motel you might want to buy a generator.  This is the one I have.  However It does not provide 220 v.   If you need 220 v it takes a bigger one.  I store mine with all of the gas drained.  It has never failed to start.

http://www.campingworld.com/shopping/item/champion-4000-watt-portable-generator-49-state-model/67293

[Matt Colan]

My girlfriend and I showed up at my parents house to a fresh 30" of snow in northern Vermont. I have never seen that much snow from one single storm in at least 10 years, and with her being from Oklahoma probably hasn't seen that much snow combined in her life. It's been an Interesting past few days

[Pat Chewning]

Please send winter and snow to Mt Hood in Oregon.  I'm not done skiing yet (35 days skiing this season, I've been to every area in Oregon).

I finally had to ski in the rain on "Ski Patrick's Day" because it's getting too warm here to snow for the past week.

And yes, our rain and snow (and my skiing) has cut into the CL flying time.  

It got really deep a few times this year:    

[Will Hinton]

I have never forgotten the winter in '62/63 in Syracuse when I stepped out on the elevated porh where I rented and my '57 MGA was a tiny bump in the snow!  The only part showing above the overnight snow was the top 4 inches of the ragtop!  That was my only wiinter there as I left that airport for Toledo.  HA!  What in the wolrd was I thinking??  We get almost as much lake effect here as we did there.

[Jim Kraft]

Back in 79 we put a wood stove in our basement fireplace. Within a few weeks we had an ice storm that killed the power for almost 10 days. We heated and cooked on that stove, and since we are on city water we had plenty of water. That stove paid for itself by a long way. My kids lived in town and had to come stay with us as they had no heat. I try to keep enough wood to heat for at least a month. Otherwise we are all electric.