Northeast Gardening: How much snow did you get?, 1 by WaterCan2

WaterCan2 wrote:
23", well actually 24" because the ground I was standing on after I shoveled it still had about a 1" sheet of ice that I couldn't break though so my measurement was short by an inch.

I passed 4 cars going to the Train station this am which spun out and were stuck in a 6 foot wall of snow. One of them got stuck right at the entrance to the LI expressway so the cops were there blocking the road, So I had to to go east 3 miles and then west 3 miles so that I could pass the entrance I would have gotten on in, in the first place. On the way back wouldn't luck have it that I passed the same amount of cars spun out on the other side of the road going the opposite way, 8 cars spun out on the highways in all. Some traffic lights are out, so get ready to play Russian roulette, some roads are gone. - period, there is no service road going east on the section of the 495 I was on, (there usually is a two lane there..) Top speed on any side road is 7mph, more than that and you're taking a chance... yep this is winter alright!

Net effect: a 15min drive turns into a 45min drive. Not complaining though, it looks nice and we need the cover, no good for the ground to dry out too much in the winter, takes longer for things to get green again, damages the soil... People have to learn how to use caution driving when conditions are bad it's part of driving, if they don't know it they learn it the hard way. Snow is natural, lack of snow is unnatural at this time of year. ☺

Picture:
- Ronkonkoma train station this am. See the white trucks at the end with the long antennea on the right and the two parked on the left towards the end? Well there's another one parked about 50 feet left of this picture because he couldn't find a parking space near the other three.
- They are Mobile TV trucks! (reporting about how hard it is to go anyplace in this stuff! lol!)