Sunday, February 12, 2006

posted by: copernicus on 2/12/2006 05:54:00 PM
Remember last winter the girlfriend & I were "Snowbound in Brooklyn"?


A December Nor'easter dumped over 2 feet of snow on NYC and 3 feet on Boston in 24 hours. It shut down NYC and we holed up with lots of food, vodka and rented movies for 3 days.






A couple of days ago we were lamenting that it had been a mild winter this year, and wondered if we'd get one more good snowstorm before leaving the northeast.

Nature heard us.

Record-Setting Snow Buries Northeast

NEW YORK - A record-breaking storm buried sections of the Northeast under more than 2 feet of snow on Sunday, marooning thousands of air travelers and making even a walk to the corner store treacherous.

The National Weather Service said 26.9 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park, the most since record-keeping started in 1869. The old record was 26.4 inches in December 1947.

Wind gusting as high as 60 mph blew the snow sideways and raised a risk of coastal flooding in New England. And in a rare display, lightning lit up the falling snow before dawn in the New York and Philadelphia areas, producing muffled winter thunder.

We might not see anything like this again in our lifetime."

We're holed-up again, a pot of vegetable soup is bubbling on the stove, the fireplace is glowing with soft heat and the liquor is flowing freely.

Thank you nature.