The Blizzard of '05: Pictures.

I couldn't resist taking photos, this is the biggest snowstorm of my lifetime, and apparently the 2nd biggest in Massachusetts history, behind the Blizzard of '78. Although those are the official measurements for Boston, out here in the 'burbs we got more. Approx. 34 inches.

Photo of my back porch, snow drifts about 35-40 inches high:
http://www.reidjackson.us/blizzard05/snow%20001.jpg

Another shot of the drift:
http://www.reidjackson.us/blizzard05/snow%20003.jpg

More from the porch:
http://www.reidjackson.us/blizzard05/snow%20004.jpg

A shot of the backdoor entrance to the garage. Yes, that's snow.
http://www.reidjackson.us/blizzard05/snow%20005.jpg

Another from the backdoor:
http://www.reidjackson.us/blizzard05/snow%20006.jpg

The cars:
http://www.reidjackson.us/blizzard05/snow%20007.jpg

Packed snow on the lawn:
http://www.reidjackson.us/blizzard05/snow%20008.jpg

Up the street:
http://reidjackson.us/blizzard05/snow%20009.jpg

Mods, if they're too big, just let me know, I'll put the links instead.

Why are you taking pictures?

GET TO SHOVELING!!!


;)

these are great pics! What's the tempeature?

No snow here in England -- just wind and a touch of rain. :)

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Originally posted by PAlexC
Why are you taking pictures?

GET TO SHOVELING!!!


;)

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Bah, who shovels these days, honestly?

I just got done clearing my neighbors driveway. We use 2 snowblowers (one heavy-duty John Deere, a smaller snowthrower), and then use shovels for the walk. Took about 40 minutes, she paid $100.

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Originally posted by tonytryout
these are great pics! What's the tempeature?

No snow here in England -- just wind and a touch of rain. :)

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At the moment, it's 11 degrees Fahrenheit, but the wind chill is -18. It was a lot worse last night. Snow was coming down at 3 inches/hour, blizzard conditions for 7 hours, winds over 65 MPH. It was like a tropical storm, with snow.

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Originally posted by DigitalOne
At the moment, it's 11 degrees Fahrenheit, but the wind chill is -18. It was a lot worse last night. Snow was coming down at 3 inches/hour, blizzard conditions for 7 hours, winds over 65 MPH. It was like a tropical storm, with snow.

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sounds like fun! Your heating boiler is doing ok? Mine died a few times recently with a 20MPH wind and a chilling temperature of -2degrees.

It was blowing pretty hard for about 12 hours in NJ, maybe more. But we didn't get that much. I'd say maybe a foot and a half.

Then again it's not nearly as cold. 23 F and sunny now.

man, I thought we had it bad....my prediction is snow=win

We got somewhere around 7-8 inches of snow over the weekend. I was at the Dane County Humane Society for my usual volunteer shift yesterday and I noticed that it's kinda hard to walk in some places along the main dog trail because it's deep in those areas.

Man, I'm jealous. :(

god! who left the freezer opened?:p

hehe love the door one :)

Wish it was snowing here :(

Someone at work was saying about us getting the weather from america here, come on snow!

dayum.

Hardly a blizzard (atleast it wasnt that bad here in lower PA) :p

im pretty sure we got way worse here in 94 or around there,

literaly 3 feet of snow in a day, i jumped off my roof laid out and landed safly in the snow, from 2 stories up... it was awesome,

blizard of 96 around here was CRAZY, no school for a week and a half

You should do this:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images/beerfreeze.jpg

I remember the one of 96 even, and i was only 7.

The picture of the cars - no snow surrounding the cars, but snow on top of them? :confused:


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Originally posted by hockyfan
The picture of the cars - no snow surrounding the cars, but snow on top of them? :confused:


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Snowblew (is that the right term) around the cars, Danny-boy.

That snow is great. The closest it ever came to snowing where I live was an intense 30 minutes of hail that left the roads covered in "snow". The neighbourhood kids got bodyboards and surfed down the roads. Haha..

Wow, if it was snowing like that here the first thing I'd do is run, jump and roll through it all! :cool:

Do those of you who get snow still see it as a cool, amazing thing, or has it just become an inconvenince/chore?

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Originally posted by dustar
Do those of you who get snow still see it as a cool, amazing thing, or has it just become an inconvenince/chore?

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I live in the Chicago area and even though we only got around a foot it drifts to deeper levels. But to answer your question...I LOVE it!

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Originally posted by DigitalOne
Snowblew (is that the right term) around the cars, Danny-boy.

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Ah. :)


But once you take the snow off the cars, you're just going to have to do it again. :D

(that's what happened with me)


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:(

Great, now you've made me all homesick...

We finally got some good snow fall here at the end of last week; but I miss the waist-deep trudging...

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Originally posted by japangreg
:(

Great, now you've made me all homesick...

We finally got some good snow fall here at the end of last week; but I miss the waist-deep trudging...

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It'll be here for another 3 months or so. :)