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When I was a kid in 1947 in NYC, we had about 26", paralyzing the city for a week. The city plows never came to our neighborhood and the local homeowners ass'n hired a plow. The day (12/26) of the storm my father had to drop off someone at an ocean liner pier and he hardly made it home. Now that 1947 storm is the 3rd highest and I don't have bragging rights anymore. The awful thing was schools were closed anyway and we didn't get any snow days.
Looks like NYC is doing a lot better job of clearing the snow now. DC not so much.
Having lived in Buffalo for 8 years and Colorado for 38 years, feet of snow seems normal to me. In Buffalo in 1976-78, we had 199", mostly between Thanksgiving and the end of January. The plows, never maintained well, broke down and eventually the National Guard had to be brought in. When we lived in Evergreen, Colorado, in the foothills (7-10,000', more than most "foothills") west of Denver, 2 or 3 feet in a day was fairly common. Now we live near Grand Junction at 6,900' and have had less than 30" this winter, more than average here; the city is below us and gets much less. Seems like a vacation all winter here.
Gene
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The Airstream is sold; a 2016 Nash 24M replaced it.
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