Snow!

[benhall.1]

It is being reported over here that 16m Americans have been affected by the severe and unusually early snow in Eastern parts. I'm not quite sure where though.

I guess a fair few of our members here are affected.

So, what's it like, chaps?

[MTGuru]

Seems pretty clear here in the Eastern parts of San Diego.

[kkrell]

I'm even farther North than MTGuru, and there's no snow here.

[mutepointe]

[Innocent Bystander]

The snippet I saw said Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Strictly East Coast. Did it happen?

[Denny]

here's a meteorologist's explanation of an east coast nor'easters...

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/

[Tunborough]

Eastern Canada may get a bit of rain now and then, but mostly we're expecting sun and clouds, with no snow in sight. http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/canada_e.html

Sounds like your media are giving you a snow job.

[dwest]

The mountains in western Virginia got snow and I saw numerous vehicles in that part of the state with upwards to four inches still on top. Parts of Massachusetts got over 19 inches.

[robert schuler]

I was looking forward to a little snow here in the southern bowels of New Jersey. Just got pelted with alot of sleet. Winter is my favorite time of the year... Bob.

[Seonachan]

This corner of Connecticut was lucky, just getting an inch or so of slushy snow. Most of Connecticut lost power, though - high winds and heavy, wet snow exacerbated by trees still full of leaves, so lots of trees falling on power lines. I heard it may be till Friday before everyone gets their power back (especially bad for those who heat with electricity, since it's stayed cold since the storm). Friends in New Hampshire and in western and northeastern Massachusetts also lost power.

[ancientfifer]

Colorado got hit last week. 8-12 inches of wet heavy snow in the foothills corridor. Brought down many trees. $1.6 million clean up costs in my little town of Fort Collins alone.

[BeansTasteFine]

Massachusetts got nailed pretty well, particularly in the western part. Boston's fine.

[chas]

I saw on the TV that the town my niece lives in in New Hampshire got 32". That's a whole lotta snow for October. My brother recently moved from there to NW Connecticut, so "only" got like 16". We didn't get anything noticeable here, but less than 40 miles away, there was up to a foot.

[benhall.1]

Colorado got hit last week. 8-12 inches of wet heavy snow in the foothills corridor. Brought down many trees. $1.6 million clean up costs in my little town of Fort Collins alone.

How on earth does it cost that much? I suppose it's the tree clearance, plus restoration of power lines, where the money gets soaked up.

[dwest]

Colorado got hit last week. 8-12 inches of wet heavy snow in the foothills corridor. Brought down many trees. $1.6 million clean up costs in my little town of Fort Collins alone.

How on earth does it cost that much? I suppose it's the tree clearance, plus restoration of power lines, where the money gets soaked up.

Localities could possibly begin to recoup some of that loss if they established urban tree milling to help handle all that bio-mass that has fallen. When Irene hit here we had over 100,000 cubic yards of tree material to dispose of. Much of it was mill-able either for dimensional lumber or firewood, but instead it was mass burned, mulched, or landfilled. The mulch will be sold by the city but likely before it is properly composted so it will cause more damage than help to residential landscapes. We had to get trucks from all over the USA just to transport the waste in a reasonable amount of time. Our citywide(pop. 180,000) damage cost was one life of a child and 7.9 million dollars.