Go get em Charlie

[JJZ 109]

Unless you have seen it your-self;it's hard to believe how much it can snow in central NY.I worked in the area for ten years off and on.Pulaski to Watertown can be unbelievable!

It sure can. I'm not far from there or Tug Hill. Rode many miles on snowmobiles on the Hill in years past.
But even the Hill didn't get much snow last winter. The worst snowmobile season in years for them.

 

[Labrat]

It's amazing when you drive down the road and all you can see is the top few feet of the power poles and the power lines disappear into the snow banks. A friend of mine lives in West Lyden, he was going home one night after working second shift, the snow was coming down pretty good so he dropped the plow on his pickup truck. The truck stopped moving when the snow got up over the mirrors. He sat in the truck until the plows came through the next morning.. this was before cell phones..

 

[orezok]

The worst I ever saw was in the 80's in Lake Tahoe. I was scheduled for a week long ski trip. They had a monster storm that dropped 26' at slope level. The storm had an avalanche that wiped out the main power lines to the Nevada side and the main gas line on the California side broke underneath the river. The snow was so deep that they had to dig trenches underneath the lift lines until the lifts got above snow level.

All the casino's were on emergency power and every marquee was dark. They were warning people to stay away, but being young and foolish, we went anyway.

There were so few people there that in the evening you could walk up to any show and they would let you just walk in and sit where you wanted with no charge. It was strange to walk into a casino and see 80% of the tables just covered.

It was the greatest week of skiing I ever had with no lines and powder all week!

 

[dstig1]

Looks like maybe they should have plowed a bit more frequently before the snow turned to pack ice. Lots of work to plow 5 to 8 feet of snow when they could have ran 40 MPH in 2-3 foot or loose snow. I guess budget constraints from politicians wouldnt allow it so they waited for a month to plow once and take 50 times longer.

No offense Gary, but if you have lived in Arkansas all your life, you have no idea what Lake Effect Snow in Upstate NY is like... I grew up near Lake Erie in the LE zone. The guys in the video probably came out the very next morning after the storm. Those were mainly drift areas they were bashing through. Nowadays it would be the giant snowblowers or large front end loaders that would do the work much faster and better. The big storms can be brutal to clean up after...