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Lake Effect Snow!

That lake effect snow is no BS. It really does dump a lot of snow. When my daughter attended Cornell she would always talk about it!! Soon we will be hit in the NYC area. :cool:
 
MY MIL lived in Sawyer, Michigan, man talk about snow. The lake effect was the name of about half the businesses in the area. Lake Effect flowers, Lake Effect plumbing, you get the idea. Guess it was a mark of pride to live under those conditions. Give me normal weather, like 10 degrees below in the winter and 95 in the summer. That's what i'm talking about! :laugh:
 
I've been thru my share of Nor'Easter's, but looking at the video there isn't anything like lake effect snow...


C&R
 
I am in Indiana now. I know the snow is not as bad as that, but it is keeping me at work all night. At least I am getting paid!
 
Yikes,

I'll take the regular variety any day. There's nothing quite like driving under a snow covered canopy in the winter...but lake effect seems like the novelty would wear off in a hurry.

Wilkey
 
Lake effect snow, BFD! Until you've experienced a Nor'easter, essentially a hurricane with snow, you don't know what a snow storm is.


doc
 
Devil Doc said:
Lake effect snow, BFD! Until you've experienced a Nor'easter, essentially a hurricane with snow, you don't know what a snow storm is.

doc
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True. Getting hit in the face with water in any form traveling at 40 MPH sucks-and-a-half.

Wilkey
 
I miss lake effect snow... hell, I miss snow period. I'm a MI boy and 5 yrs in Okinawa and now NC without snow sucks.

Ginseng said:
True. Getting hit in the face with water in any form traveling at 40 MPH sucks-and-a-half.

Wilkey
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40mph is nothing!

I had to work through Typhoon Sinlaku in Okinawa (Sep 4-6 2002) and during the three days I was locked in at work, we had some flooding on the second floor of the building. I had to go outside to re-barricade the door with sandbags. Well, I always thought the cartoons of people walking in wind with their nose near the ground was a joke until I went outside. The entrance was leeward, so as I passed the building edge to go to the door I was picked up and thrown about 10-15 feet (I'm roughly 250lbs at 5' 10") then had to walk into the wind, and I was struggling to move, angled about 30 deg from the ground and fought for every step. When all was said and done and I returned to the building, I found out we had topped 120 knots while I was out and the stormed was over 150 knots before it was all over. Happy I lived through that and even happier that Okinawans build with these storms in mind. I bet a loose penny would've broke my skull in those winds....

Sinlaku

-K-
 
Treamayne said:
I miss lake effect snow... hell, I miss snow period. I'm a MI boy and 5 yrs in Okinawa and now NC without snow sucks.

Ginseng said:
True. Getting hit in the face with water in any form traveling at 40 MPH sucks-and-a-half.

Wilkey
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40mph is nothing!

I had to work through Typhoon Sinlaku in Okinawa (Sep 4-6 2002) and during the three days I was locked in at work, we had some flooding on the second floor of the building. I had to go outside to re-barricade the door with sandbags. Well, I always thought the cartoons of people walking in wind with their nose near the ground was a joke until I went outside. The entrance was leeward, so as I passed the building edge to go to the door I was picked up and thrown about 10-15 feet (I'm roughly 250lbs at 5' 10") then had to walk into the wind, and I was struggling to move, angled about 30 deg from the ground and fought for every step. When all was said and done and I returned to the building, I found out we had topped 120 knots while I was out and the stormed was over 150 knots before it was all over. Happy I lived through that and even happier that Okinawans build with these storms in mind. I bet a loose penny would've broke my skull in those winds....

Sinlaku

-K-
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Wow. You win. :D

Wilkey
 
Devil Doc said:
Lake effect snow, BFD! Until you've experienced a Nor'easter, essentially a hurricane with snow, you don't know what a snow storm is.


doc
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On volume of snow, I feel lake effect win's hands down. I've been thru the 78' Nor Easter(white hurricane) and the Blizzard of '96 and it was nothing like what I saw in the video.

MCK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp-3kq-5EvU

Quite a surprise if your not ready...
 
Been there, done that. Called itself The Blizzard of 77. Remember that? Some 30 years ago when Ma Nature decided to bitchslap Western NY/Buffalo with a shit load of the white crap for a week -INCLUDING high winds.

I survived it and think its funny when others get a dusting and complain. (not insinuating its anyone here) :D

Ever tunnel out of your front door (as the only means to escape the inside of your house) and sled down from your roof? :whistling: Gotta love it!

Darren


Devil Doc said:
Lake effect snow, BFD! Until you've experienced a Nor'easter, essentially a hurricane with snow, you don't know what a snow storm is.


doc
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