88 inches of snow in 5 days. And it's not over.
 

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That doesn't include the 8-12 inches Parish will get tonight, plus the 6-10+ inches they'll get tomorrow, and they're forecasted for snow 8 of the next 10 days. Their temperatures aren't any higher than 25 for the next 9 days.

OUT-FUCKING-RAGEOUS. 7 feet of snow in 5 days and they may see 10 feet in 7 days.

Hey, New Yorkers. If you don't want it, we kind of do over here in New England.

Haha good ol' bordering-the-lakes upstate New York. We would never get lake effect quite like that where I grew up, but we got 3-4 feet a few times. 7-10 is ridiculous. That shuts everything down, even when you're supposed to be able to cope with it. How do you plow? Or shovel the driveway? Even if you keep up with the snow, it gets tiresome throwing it up over the 6 foot mounds on the sides, and it would be worse with 7-10 feet because if you were strong enough, the mounds would be more like 15 feet high.

I'm expecting some major state of emergency stuff from over there. =x

I sure do wish they'd send some of that stuff my way. So jealous. When you live in a place where you get lots of snow it does get annoying, but trust me, you miss it when you don't have any.

Send some my way. Only had a tiny bit of snow today and it didn't even settle. We are forecast some more tonight, but I doubt that it will be anywhere near that sort of volume of snow, if we get any at all.

I wanna go play in the snow.

No shit, right? We are slowly going insane and getting profoundly confused with no substantial snowfall. The drivers are getting worse, the cold is a lot more unbearable without the pretty white stuff, and we need a few days of school being shut down before APRIL, please.

I love snow. I wish we had that much in Philly right now.

I wish that snow would move to New Jersey... Then I would have more time to work on my homework...

It's all yours, New England. I'm pretty tired of this lake-effect snow already. Hell, I was sick of it back on October 13th, when that freak snowstorm paralyzed Buffalo with a foot of snow in less than 24 hours.

Luckily, I'm in a small area of Western New York, half an hour north of Buffalo, that isn't usually hit by the brunt of the lake-effect weather. This isn't to say that we don't get nailed now and then, however. The heavy snows tend to hit further south of my town, but we get more freezing rain on average.

Either way, I feel for those guys over in Oswego. I know what they're dealing with and there's nothing they can do but hunker down and shovel themselves out once the skies clear up.

I'll take some too. Here in NH we've gotten a little, but it's not lasting long enough to do any good. Not that the winter hasnt given our fair share of cold... what with the wind chills, I've decided that there is no point to anything below 20 degrees, when its too cold to snow. :(

As a Western New Yorker, (ignore all the stuff from my brother's mouth, for he does not count!) I can say this: they're used to it. When you live near the lakes, you accept the fact that you're going to get pounded by lake effect snow. Don't like it? Get away from the lakes!

But from the looks of it (at least, if you base what's happening on Lake Erie to Lake Ontario,) the lakes are freezing up pretty quickly because of this cold shot, so once they get entirely frozen, a lot of the snow just stops.

Seconded; hopefully England gets some more snow tonight but I bet we don't. It's all black ice and sleet :(

AtW this isn't the worst they've seen. Parish, NY got 86 inches of snow from 28 January 2004 to 31 January 2004. 2.3 feet PER DAY FOR THREE DAYS. Why don't I live there?

Well, at least it's not a random ice storm like the one that we had here in 98. Montreal was more or less crippled by that. It was crazy.

On Thursday the Canterbury area got the first real snowfall of the season - Close to five inches overnight, and it was all gone within twelve hours. :( Very sad.

We had alot of snow a few weeks ago, but nothing like this! I feel bad for the people who do not have snow-blowers.

Hmm, I don't seem to remember hearing about snow in that volume in such as small area before. But this is sort of impressive, even with the lake effect and all that.

I bet the volume of snow put down could pave the entire state of New York an inch high.

Living near bodies of water tends to increase the chances of precipitation. I should know having to deal with Houston's proximity to the Gulf Mexico where freak rainstorms occur and flare up out of nothing.

And to think how warm it is over here.

I was just about to open my door and let some of the warm air out.

PERFECT CALIFORNIA WEATHER

I could never imagine what it would be like to get THAT much snow. I mean its not even heard of where I am from. I mean, we get a lot of snow, except for this past year, but it happens over time... not in two days... I think most we had in one day was maybe one foot or almost two. I can never understand how you could survive that much shoveling. Right now in my hometown, we have less than 10 inches of snow on the ground.... and -40C (-40F) temperatures.

Its hard to imagine that your getting that much snow in such a small period of time. I hope it doesn't play too much of a hazard. It kind of reminds me of the horrific snow storms especially living on the northern peninsula in newfoundland.

I can remember one snowstorm in which I was 16 years old. It happened at the end of the easter holidays. I don't remember the exact amount of snowfall, but it was a storm that lasted continously for about three days.

The most I can remember from that snowstorm, is that it practically buried houses, it shut down the road to our community for over a week because the snow had built up so much it took over a week for the snow plows to plow the 8 kilometres between our community and the larger community right next to us. When they plowed there was only enough room in some places for a one lane highway going both ways.

To give you an example of how high the snow built up. When there was enough room in the road for the schoolbus to go through, our bus driver did a photograph with the local paper. He stood on top of the school bus and raised his hand, and he still couldn't reach the height of some of the areas where the snow built up.

I couldn't imagine that much snow. I've always lived in more southern states (though I'm living in the mountains for University now, so there is quite a bit more snow here), and the most I remember was around a foot maybe.

I've been to New York and areas close to there when I was younger, but it was always during fall or when it didn't snow.