SHOVELING ROOFS!

[Okla-homey]

Snow totals so far:

PARISH, NY: 94"
MEXICO, NY: 88"
NORTH OSCEOLA, NY: 85"
OSWEGO, NY: 71"
SCRIBA, NY: 70"
PULASKI, NY: 59"
WEST MONROE, NY: 54"

Frankly, there are few things more horrid than the need to shovel one's already deeply pitched roof to avoid a catastrophic cave-in which would surely crush your supply of Cheezy-poofs and your wife and kids.

Blessings and mercies to those poor bastages in central and upstate NY. They don't deserve this. No one does...except maybe the ones downstate who elected Hillary.;)

Global warming is a beyotch!

[IronSooner]

I honestly have no concept for what that must be like. We got 5 inches here. 85 just doesn't make sense.

Global warming doesn't sound so bad right about now.

[OUHOMER]

what the hell do you with it. you cann't shovel it all and if you did what would you do with it.. I can not rap my mind around it at all.

[Okla-homey]

what the hell do you with it. you cann't shovel it all and if you did what would you do with it.. I can not rap my mind around it at all.

No kidding. I heard today that multilane boulvards are often down to a single lane each way now. At intersections, folks do the "pray and dash" because there's no way to see what's coming until you're already in the middle of the dang intersection. Its literally like an intersection of two one-car-wide, 10' trenches.

[proud gonzo]

obviously, naming a town in NY "Mexico" does not have any effect on the weather :D

[Okla-homey]

obviously, naming a town in NY "Mexico" does not have any effect on the weather :D

If you'll let me don my History geek robe in the p.m., I will explain there are lots of places back east named for places evocative of our (then) young republic's defeat of Santy Anny in the Mexican War (1846-49.)

People went nuts after our trouncing of those folks. Thus, there are places named Buena Vista, Monterey, Vera Cruz, Mexico, etc. in most of the states east of the Big Muddy in commemoration of important US victories.

[SoonerInKCMO]

Those amounts aren't all that unusual. In 2001, Buffalo got 81.5 inches in five days. :shrug:

[Okla-homey]

Those amounts aren't all that unusual. In 2001, Buffalo got 81.5 inches in five days. :shrug:

:les: LAKE EFFECT SNOW SUX!

or so I hear.

[SoonerTerry]

I thought this was gonna be a roofing thread... and being the unedicated hillbally I am... thought mabey there was a thread I knew something about... thanks for crushing my dreams

[AlbqSooner]

Redfield,NY according to the Weather channel has now received 131 inches of snow.

[Okla-homey]

Honey, please clear the driveway so I can get the car out. There's a sale at the mall.;)

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[Jerk]

Honey, please clear the driveway so I can get the car out. There's a sale at the mall.;)

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That is soooo awesome! :D

[WILBURJIM]

Being in West Michigan we get our share of Lake effect, but not anything like western NY is getting. The fun part of roof shoveling, when you were done, was jumping off into the snow bank, and getting stuck and having to be dug out. It looks like Oswego and the other towns got so much that it is not so big of a jump to the "ground."

[fadada1]

i grew up in rochester (and will be moving back there in 3 1/2 weeks). rochester usually won't get those kinds of numbers just because the wing doesn't come directly from the north all the time. the eastern side of lake ontario is usually the worst of all the great lakes because of the way the lake lies east-to-west.

lake effect snow is crazy stuff. i grew up about 15 miles south of the lake. i could go a mile north some days and see an addition foot of snow. the thing is, this IS a lot of snow, but it's part of life up there. you learn to deal with it. oh, and the county i grew up in probably has more snow plows than the entire state of oklahoma.