BTW - When are you gonna buy a snowblower?

My side of the Island got hit with about 30" of snow and that doesn't count the drifts! Shoveled from 9:10 this morning to about 3:00 this afternoon and still I was not even able to get to my driveway to shovel it out!!!! My body is aching all over.

The street outside is filled with so much snow! We are really buried here.

Then I have to see the idiot Mayor Bloomberg on television saying that NYC got hit with only 20" of snow, how it is a normal day, everything is going fine with snow salting and plowing, it's business as usual in NYC...etc. etc. Obviously the mayor is going by the measured snow fall in Central Park! Obviously he forgets that there are other boroughs in this city.

So I called 311 and got the mayor's office on the line and asked them to have mayor Bloomberg come out to my side of Staten Island so that I could show him what 30" of snow looks like and how it really is NOT business as usual in the borough that got him elected! The guy on the line said that he would relay my message to the appropriate person and also said that he will be sure to inform them that my area of Staten Island was hit hard and that we need plowing and salting done.

I don't know why I didn't after last winter, which was the worst in recent memory. I probably figured if I did buy one, it wouldn't snow like that again. Hmm, maybe that'd be a good investment after all.

I own one. It is great when you have 12" - 16" of snow or less. Once you start getting into the 20" or more area, the blower is useless.

Jeez!!

That may be even too deep for a snow blower* -- that's really gotta suck!

I was out from 1-3pm, and the kid finished up the last bit by 3:20pm. And this doesn't count my awesome neighbor (with the snowblower) who always does half my sidewalk and one row up my driveway for me. That would've added another 30 mins AT LEAST. I'm definitely getting one now!

Edit: Guess I was right

I think when JG heard he was getting 20" he volunteered to be the snowblower

We got over 22" here, snowblower did nothing. Spent 4 hours outside and cleared off about 1/3 of my driveway.

I've never seen snow over the hood or up to the car's windows.
That's my unplowed street.

Wow.... THAT'S bad, JL.

As I type this, my landlord and next door neighbor are clearing out my car with snowblower and shovel.

Life is good sometimes.

My neighbor cleared my sidewalk with what has to be the world's largest snowblower. I have a small one, but it's useless with this much snow.

If memory serves me correctly Lou, you do not live that far from me. The picture you posted above could very easily have been taken on my street.

Just unbelievable!

OMG!! That's horrible. Even poor Frosty is buried up to his head.



TIS

It was pretty nasty. It took my husband about 3 hours with the snowblower and then the girls finished off the walks and the steps. We even had to clear a path for the damn dog!

My daughter is just totally pissed that it happened during the Christmas break from school!

OK. At least hat made me laugh.

I'm over in Bay Terrace. Have they plowed by you yet? They haven't done anything by me except Hylan Blvd and Amboy Rd..

So JL, Cardi, are most businesses closed today? What about mail?




TIS

Definitely no mail, but not sure what else is closed.

at least you are lucky. A house by me had an ambulance trying to get in, one person was out there shoveling the driveway, 4 PEOPLE WITH SNOWBLOWERS stood there and watched.

Times like these bring out the best & worst in people. God bless you all out east. It looks horrible out there.

My sympathies to youse north of me. We got about 15" here in south Joisey (Sorry Geoff), but the drifting is worse than last year. My driveway had an almost bare patch and a 25" drift. I was shoveling a path on my driveway and the wind was brutal (3:30pm). First time in 45 years of driving that I got stuck in the snow; a flat, straight street, but I bottomed out on a snow drift. Had to call a tow truck. I wish the Giants were posponed.

That photo posted above could also just as easily be my street. (Except for a little bit more foot traffic down the middle of the road.)

For the first time in my memory - and I've lived in this neighborhood a long time - the Sanitation Dept. really screwed up and left many major neighborhoods in Brooklyn untouched by their plows. Usually by this time, the city plows would have been down the side streets at least once, possibly twice. Not this year. Even emergency vehicles could not get down my block. It's simply impassable to any and all traffic.

Earlier this afternoon, around 12:30 (IIRC), one of the TV newscasts had a telephone interview with our weasely Borough President Marty Markowitz. When pressed by the newscaster as to whether the 400 workers laid off from the Dept. of Sanitation (thanks to Mayor Bloomberg) could have had anything whatsoever to do with why so many Brooklyn neighborhoods had not yet seen a snow plow, Markowitz kept stammering "I don't know! I don't know! You'll have to ask the Mayor! He'll sort everything out! He'll answer that question!"

Yeah, ask The Great Oz. The Wizard knows...

Meanwhile, the wind howls outside, the cat howls inside, but at least we have electricity and enough food to last for a few days.

Guess it could be a lot worse.

Signor V.

Do you remember the big storm from February, 1969? It got to be known as the "Mayor Lindsay" storm after the Sanitation Dept. did a TERRIBLE job of clearing the snow away. The then mayor, John Lindsay, took the blame for the poor effort of the City's Sanitation Dept. and it ended up costing him a lot of backing in political circles.

Streets remained unplowed for days... it's beginning to look like this storm will be a repeat of that.

My street's now only accessible by one car per direction at a time. I got lucky the few times I was out, but my friend took a less-plowed street to avoid an on-coming car and got stuck (and of course I had to walk a couple blocks to push him). Even the main streets are bad. Pathetic here, too.

We didn't get a single flake of snow in Harrisburg even though York (30 minutes south) and Lancaster (30 minutes east) got buried.

Here are some pix from my window:

About 10:30 a.m. Sunday ... just getting back from the food store when it started:





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Later in the day:



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Just before getting the car shoveled out:





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KiKi checking out the snow:

The Bundy mobile.

Kiki looks purrfectly delightful looking at the white stuff. She's saying, "Let me out to play, dad".

How many of you New Yawkers are going shopping and seeing a Broadway play like Bloomie's telling you to?

I hope all "youse" are doing better this morning. Check in so we know all is good...

Here's one New Yawkah who won't be driving to Broadway... it's a video (shot from someone's apartment window) of a New York City Sanitation Dept. tow truck dragging a front-end loader out of a snowbank. In the process, a parked Ford Explorer gets creamed.

It happened in downtown Brooklyn on Sunday. The "commentary" by the photographer is particularly funny.

Enjoy:

What a retard. WTF! haha.

Who's paying for the damage to that car?

Ya betta believe that it won't be the guy who could most afford to pay for it (Bloomberg).