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SNOW HITS NEW ENGLAND FOR 3RD DAY (A USA TODAY Article)

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Snow fell across parts of New England for the third day in a row Wednesday, adding to last month's record accumulations and closing schools.
Flurries also extended into the Ohio Valley, and some children had an extra holiday as classes were canceled in parts of West Virginia and Ohio.

Temperatures fell to freezing levels as far south as the Florida Panhandle, and wind chill readings were below zero in parts of northern Kentucky.

Following the snowiest December on record, many areas of New Hampshire got about a foot of snow on New Year's Day, with a couple of inches added during the night and a couple more likely Wednesday. Storm totals could reach 18 inches in parts of Maine and New Hampshire and up to a foot in Vermont. The latest snowfall in New England followed a storm on Monday that made for the area's snowiest December in decades.


(Insert: So, I can get to the hospital by 7AM to round on my patients, where by the way, I saw many nurses, medical students, residents, et. al. also working all through the storm, but our elected officials can't make it to their legislative session. If they are paid by the hour, then that's fine. And, we wonder why nothing gets accomplished. Of course, maybe that's a good thing.)

"This will be a memorable storm for the amount of snow it dumped in such a short amount of time," weather service meteorologist David Shuler said. He said it was the region's heaviest New Year's Day snowstorm on record.

There were no immediate reports of deaths blamed on the weather...
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However, the snow did help one of my patients who burned his hand frying eggs while inebriated. He told the ED physician he immediately plunged his hand into a snowbank.

There's that old Yankee know-how applied in a very useful way. BTW, it's a balmy 56 here in sunny Northern Calif today, but I hear we're getting a hellish NorWester late tommorrow. Might even RAIN!! (Sorry, all you eastern snow bunnies)

Yes, but if you got two feet of snow, the schools would probably stay open. Yet, here in Maine, snow country, the schools close down even at the mention of snow. Crazy.

Sounds like D.C. They are such snow wimps down there. As a tax payer in the Great Lakes, NorthEast, it drives me crazy that many of these non-snow areas will get all sorts of assistance for a once in a while freak big snow of a foot or more. But we here get about 150 inches a year and can frequently get a foot or two in a 24 hour period and we don't get a dime of federal money for our clean ups. And because it is so freeze thaw here it really beats the CCHIT out of our roads too and we don't get any extra for that either....
WIMPS!!!

Actually, if we got 2 INCHES of snow, everything would shut down! Nobody knows how to drive in it! I used to work in Paradise CA (just below the place where that family got lost in the snow). Everytime it snowed, all the old folks jammed to the store to stock up--lots of fender benders! We're on the Sacramento Valley floor, so snow is a real big deal, but we'll never get enough to make a snow angel, just dirty wet gravel angels!

And you would be amazed at how many storms would close schools even here, and yet it's "Game on" for hockey that night with families traveling sometimes hours to get there as the visiting team. Very scary at times. And that is why I drive a Jeep with really top quality AT tires... I've got a men's game tonight and the Lake Effect might be starting to kick up in our area just about when I need to travel home. It's all according to what direction the winds blow, as to who gets clobbered and who has clear blue skies.

Way back when I lived in Seattle, there was this one huge snow storm. I was driving north on I5. Cars were blowing off the road. And, of course, you have the hills and the two snow plow trucks. Almost every bus was stuck on the side of the road.

But, I still don't think they closed the schools. And, certainly not the legislature.

Bert oh Bert....

A snow flurry in the PNW just about puts everyone into a panic. Everyone rushes to the store to get "supplies" to last the winter and children are expected to be home from school and adults from work. Unless of course, you work in the hospital...then you had to get there no matter what. Didn't matter which hill you needed to climb and how many inches of snow was there. One year (in Seattle)...I couldn't make it, the cab couldn't make it, and I kept falling trying to walk the hill. (Masochistic are we not?)

When I lived in Buffalo, NY...it was just the opposite...even a foot of snow was just a bit of "lake effect". You continued through your day as if nothing happned...until were pulled into a snowball fight that is.

Barbara ~ who prefers a bit of snow if she can stay home and watch the silly people try and make it up her hill (though she has been known to go out and assist an assorted few in their attempts to get home).

Oh...there is only one plow - the other went to Portland

I love this snow! We got a foot! :-)

Still opened the office on time today.. funny, but I think the snow plow was invented, and they have this stuff called SALT and this other stuff called SAND. Amazing stuff!

Hey, the legislature couldn't open.. be happy. Be happy we don't get all the government we pay for.

V.

My thoughts exactly!

Why is it when there is sand and salt in the south, they call it a beach; but when there is sand and salt in the northeast, it's a snow storm?

Bert,
The really sad thing is that if the snow were to affect major league baseball, the legislators would be there with bear skins and snow shoes on so they could pass some stupid legislation like mandating it should be against the law for MLB players to wear long johns. Really important stuff.

Leslie