This is just for fun! I live in Erie, PA. By Monday we expect to have almost 7 feet of snow on the ground and broke just about every snowfall record ever! It's been pretty exciting to see German and UK media report on it. As well, this kind of event really brings neighborhoods together, we're all helping each other out. We're used to a lot of snow but this week has been epic! Tell me a story about your town making headlines :)
OOH WOW!!! Seven FEET!?!? wow!! Hope you have fun!!
Los Angeles makes international headlines every so often! But not for good stuff like you've got!!
Yes.
I survived The Blizzard of 77 in the south towns of Buffalo NY.
I was in 10th grade at the time.
President Carter declared us a disaster area and we had the National Guard called in to help with snow removal.
My mom had a 22 foot snow drift in her back yard (she has a single story house and the drift was taller).
When the snow was falling and blowing you could not see your own hand at the end of your arm - it really was a total white out.
It took weeks for people to dig out .
We were glad when we could go back to school because we could finally stop digging.
It was hard because you couldn't throw the snow high enough to move it anywhere.
Lake Erie had frozen over - dump trucks were driving out onto the ice to dump snow there and south bound empty train coal cars were filled with snow so it could melt away as they traveled.
Once dug out the streets looked like canyons for months.
I really feel for what you guys are dealing with in Erie, PA.
If you have a lot of snow on your roof - try to knock that down so your roof isn't holding all that weight.
It's one of the reasons I moved south and away from the area when I finished college and went looking for work.
When ever there's a really bad winter - the spring will find a lot of 'for sale' signs popping up with the tulips.
I was just listening to reports about your area. I think you were at 56 inches at the time!
My little town wasn't in the news for anything momentous, although we did get a "mention" at the Winter Olympics when residents Nikki Stone (aerial skiing) and Ashley Hayden (luge) competed. Doesn't quite compare to 7 feet though!
Our area was famous in 1978 with the famous Boston area blizzard and the resulting week-long state of emergency. The big "snow pile" where the plows and dump trucks piled everything in South Boston didn't fully melt until June that year.
And of course our area had the Boston Marathon bombing - my son was less than 2 blocks away on that black day. So we've made the news for bad stuff.
I used to live near Erie PA so I have been watching the news about you guys. Good luck with digging out!
I currently live in Anchorage Alaska so we are used to massive amounts of snow. I've never experienced anything here like what just happened to you, though! Anchorage has made the news many times. We have bad earthquakes all the time. We have the Iditarod every year which usually makes national news. My daughter also attend the second most diverse elementary school in the entire USA here. So her school has made the news also.
It's usually better to make national news for good things though. Sorry you guys made the news for the terrible snow storm you are now dealing with. Good luck!
DC is in the news every day - isn't it? LOL!! Someone from the Hill gets their face in the paper daily!
I'd LOVE to have even a FOOT of snow!! We got 1/4 of an INCH last night!! I don't think I've ever seen 7 feet of snow in one sitting!! We got 36 inches in Jan 2016...shut DC down for a few days it did! :)
I hope you haven't lost electricity or gas!! plenty of food too!! Good luck!
Well I live in New York City, we have been in a few headlines!
I hope everyone is safe in your snow...if by any chance it means 7 feet of great sledding hills, that sounds okay to me! ;-)
sharpsburg is pretty much only famous for the battlefield. but nearby hagerstown had a winner in the Next Food Network Star series a while back. there was some sort of drama and he never actually got his show, which was such a shame. he was really a cutie, and a nice young man. boo on the Food Network.
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Our very small town made headlines recently, but for something not to be proud of :( As far as weather goes, we have been running right around -20 ambient and -35 real feel since Friday, but that isn't really "news worthy" as that happens here every few years. One year, not so long ago, it got to -50 below and I think our area was in the news then, but not just our little town as the lower 1/2 of our state was pretty much all pretty frigid temps.
Oh, the town listed is not where I live - when I re-set up my account after being hacked, there was a glitch in Mamapedia and that was the only town I could choose to live it. Mamapedia has since fixed the issue, but for the most part, where I live is pretty irrelevant so I never bothered to change it.
Stay safe!
