Well, it has been a while since we had one that qualifies as a Blizzard. And while this is not looking like it is going to be a 4' snow fall or more like we sometimes had many many years ago, at 5:30 AM we have already surpassed the maximum prediction of 9 inches, and we are only 1/2 way through this one and it's coming down fast and showing no sign of letting up, and it's supposed to keep coming down until 7 PM.
I remember one we had when I was a kid where we dug a short tunnel from my front yard to the neighbors, and when one of the neighbor kids who was playing king of the mountain was standing on top of the snow pile in the back alley and sunk in up to his armpits and we all had to dig him out.
This one is not going to be like we use to get, but I ain't a kid or even 21 anymore, and have been using a big push broom every hour to keep the walk and parking clean enough. I have been here before doing the same. Pushing a boom often is a lot easier on the back then shoveling. At least tomorrow is a holiday. People will be spending a lot of time just digging out their vehicles and cleaning off walkways and steps. It's for sure not much regular getting around will happen this day. And of course, there are always those who have moved to this area recently and have no idea about having to have good winter tires on their vehicles. Or just for some other reason are driving around on bald or not suitable tires, and usually they are also the ones who do not know to drive slower than normal when there is snow on the road. We get those every first of the year snowfall, and I am sure this one the snow and ice will be plenty deep enough to weed out those again. And the local news will show their wrecked vehicles. Hopefully none of them take out innocent victims like sometimes happens.
So, while this one would not have qualified for the B word when I was a kid, now days with all the people who do not know what a big snowstorm is, and considering how poorly people now days handle such events, I have to say that on today's scale, this one qualifies as a Blizzard at least for this part of the country with today's younger generation of drivers, and the way the cities snow removal crews handles things now days.
I remember one we had when I was a kid where we dug a short tunnel from my front yard to the neighbors, and when one of the neighbor kids who was playing king of the mountain was standing on top of the snow pile in the back alley and sunk in up to his armpits and we all had to dig him out.
This one is not going to be like we use to get, but I ain't a kid or even 21 anymore, and have been using a big push broom every hour to keep the walk and parking clean enough. I have been here before doing the same. Pushing a boom often is a lot easier on the back then shoveling. At least tomorrow is a holiday. People will be spending a lot of time just digging out their vehicles and cleaning off walkways and steps. It's for sure not much regular getting around will happen this day. And of course, there are always those who have moved to this area recently and have no idea about having to have good winter tires on their vehicles. Or just for some other reason are driving around on bald or not suitable tires, and usually they are also the ones who do not know to drive slower than normal when there is snow on the road. We get those every first of the year snowfall, and I am sure this one the snow and ice will be plenty deep enough to weed out those again. And the local news will show their wrecked vehicles. Hopefully none of them take out innocent victims like sometimes happens.
So, while this one would not have qualified for the B word when I was a kid, now days with all the people who do not know what a big snowstorm is, and considering how poorly people now days handle such events, I have to say that on today's scale, this one qualifies as a Blizzard at least for this part of the country with today's younger generation of drivers, and the way the cities snow removal crews handles things now days.
