QOTD 11/20

minionlover · November 2014

So the talk around here is the ridiculous amount of snow that Buffalo, NY got the other day.

What is the most amount of snow you have seen in one storm?

catwine · November 2014

Oh I'd say maybe 3 feet...honestly, we don't shovel our driveway often and we get a lot of blowing snow so it is hard to keep track of what is fresh snow and what has been there for a while.

brainybrunette · November 2014

My sister-in-law lives in the Buffalo area and has been snowed in. She and her FI are both home and it doesn't look like anyone is going anywhere soon.

The most snow I've seen in one storm was the Christmas snowstorm of 2002, I believe (it was my senior year of high school). I think the Albany, NY area got about 3+ feet on Christmas Day. I've NEVER seen snow come down so quickly and I lived in upstate NY for 29 years!

islandmonkey8 · November 2014

5 feet in one storm, followed by 2 more feet a couple days later back in 2003. Luckily I was in college and living on campus and didn't have to clean any of it!

WillyH19 · November 2014

Back in 2010 when we had Snomageddon. I think we got 18 inches one day and like 36 the next day. It was awesome as I had nowhere to go and nothing to do. Digging out my car was challenging though.

mana8503 · November 2014

WillyH19 said:
Back in 2010 when we had Snomageddon. I think we got 18 inches one day and like 36 the next day. It was awesome as I had nowhere to go and nothing to do. Digging out my car was challenging though.

This! I was in an apartment and watched people try to shovel out without shovels. It was mostly trash cans and tuperware - hilarious. H stayed with me so we could be snowed in together.

goatlady12 · November 2014

It's so hard to say with drifting around here. I'm right next to the twin cities so we don't get as heavy of snow as North of here does. A bad blizzard (Like the great Halloween blizzard of 1991) is 2+ feet. It's so funny because everyone from MN still talks about that blizzard and trying to trick or treat in that weather like it was yesterday. I was four and remember it vividly. lol!
I can't really think of the highest total I've ever seen in one snowfall.

brainybrunette · November 2014

I forgot about the Blizzard of '93! I was only in 2nd grade, but I remember that school was closed for days. My entire family had the flu so we were all snowed in and sick!

ramstein1027 · November 2014

5 feet once when I was still at Purdue--we got 2 snow days--which in college is amazing.

Then last year we had about 5.5 feet with snowpocalypse. It was crazy, I've never seen anything like it. It would snow 12 inches, then stop, then another 12, and did that for what seemed like days. I thought I'd literally never see green grass again.

snuff9861 · November 2014

5+ feet in one go.

consciousdear88 · November 2014

Pretty sure it was close to five feet. Ugh.

xxjen015 · November 2014

Wow, mine was probably around a foot...I'm getting size envy

haha sorry

mrshall1027 · November 2014

When I lived in Colorado growing up, we'd get some pretty crazy snow storms. I don't remember how many feet it was, but I do remember one time it snowed so much that when we opened our front door, it was up to about half way. We eventually made our way outside and built an igloo in the backyard.

sjs1013 · November 2014

When I was in college we got 60 inches in one storm over 3 days. With drifts it was ridiculous amounts of snow. Snow was up to the 2nd floor windows in my house because of drifts. I asked my mom if she needed to shovel it. She thought I meant the path.

pockysquirrel · November 2014

@brainybrunette‌, I remember that Christmas Day storm! My stepdad was outside helping to push cars that had gotten stuck on our street. My mom and my sister went outside and built a snowman. I was just like "y'all are nuts" and stayed inside with a cup of cocoa. :P

There was also a really nasty storm on Valentine's Day in 2007. I was in grad school at the time and I remember EVERYTHING shut down. Class was cancelled, my internship was closed, and the buses stopped running. I've lived in the Albany area for 12 years now, and that's the only time I've seen the buses stop running for a snowstorm. And I was bummed out too because the guy I was dating at the time had to cancel our plans bbecause he couldn't even get his car out of the driveway. We had another really bad storm St. Patrick's Day that same year. That was the worst winter.

ramstein1027 · November 2014

@pockysquirrel that 2007 Valentine's Day storm was the one I was talking about when I was at Purdue! It hit all the way over in Indiana too. I remember that some douche from my dorm had a corvette and the snow COMPLETELY covered it.

brainybrunette · November 2014

I remember the Valentine's Day snowstorm too! It was my senior year of college. Rochester wasn't too bad compared to a lot of other areas...maybe about a foot. I remember asking one of my professors why classes were never cancelled, he said "that's not the Rochester spirit". Ha! If that happened in the DC area, classes would be cancelled for 2 days! Where H went to school, in Oneonta, NY, it was REALLY bad. His classes were cancelled for days!

pockysquirrel · November 2014

@brainybrunette‌, how did I not know your H went to school at Oneonta? That's my hometown!

brainybrunette · November 2014

Yes, he went to Hartwick for undergrad then he went to RIT (and moved in with me) for 2 years to get his physician assistant degree.

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