What's even more scary is that trees landed on houses, garages, cars, fences our fence fell victim to the collapse of a smaller tree and destroyed A LOT of property. Besides the whole electric inconvenience of not having electricity, the places where people lived got damaged- and that let in even more cold. Fortunately, my family invested in a generator after Hurricane Irene two summers ago.
Thank goodness we did that. Although the summertime is generally warm, with slight chills in the night, the generator during Irene helped a lot.
And now, especially that Nemo took place during the wintertime, the generator provided much needed heat to our home when our fireplace couldn't do the job. So, as a word of advice, I recommend purchasing a generator for the next time there's a power outage. With that generator, make sure you buy gas to fuel it we had to refill ours two or three times before we got power back. And if you plan on investing in one, be sure to do it sooner rather than later. Imagine all the people who think about purchasing generators immediately before storms, and then imagine the stores being out-of-stock when it's your turn to purchase.
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For a detailed analysis of the Blizzard of see my blog on the subject posted last year. New Haven picked up There is a car buried in that driveway! Photo courtesy of Tom Crispino. Long Island, New York has reported a peak snow accumulation of Some snowfall statistics comparing the Blizzard of to Nemo on Long Island and Connecticut this table represents sites that we have records for from both storms : It would therefore appear that the Blizzard of remains the worst blizzard in Connecticut and Long Island history with Nemo probably taking 2nd place.
Comparison to the great February Blizzard of Again the blizzard of February , followed a similar synoptic pattern as both the blizzard and the blizzard a trough from west merging with a mid-Atlantic low and bombing out south of Long Island. However, in the case and with Nemo Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island received much greater snowfall totals than occurred in the blizzard of Surface synoptic chart at the peak intensity of the Blizzard of You may be aware that Dr.
For the residents of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the Blizzard of February has been the benchmark winter storm of record. See Jeff Masters blog on the details of how the storm has affected the Boston area. It is curious that most of these storms have occurred in relatively recent years.
It seems that Boston Logan Airport official weather site for the city received a total of The storm surge at Boston from Nemo was just shy of that in 4.
Before that storm, she had stocked up on gas and plenty of extra food, and this morning, she was out doing the same routine. Already Thursday night, lines for gas stretched at least a quarter-mile down the Long Island Expressway just east of New York City; Friday morning, much the same scene was repeated across New Jersey, just as flakes started to fall.
Lineas para gasolina en NJ ante tormenta invernal. In anticipation of being snowed in, people rushed to fill up gas tanks, for both cars and generators. Ryan Ames from Maplewood set out early Friday to stockpile fuel for his generator.
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