How's it going in the Northeast?

[jimsmegos]

Never trusting the media... how is it going up there in the snow pounded part of the country?

[weshightower21]

We got between 6-8 in. of the white stuff here in Pa. alittle early for snow but i love it. Mostly all melted now

[Apositive]

It's funny but my town missed most of the big storm and we usually get a lot. We had some fall Thursday but no real accumulation- just enough to be a surprise before Halloween.

[megoapesnut]

Not bad now. Saturday was a mess. My son was working in Mt. Gretna, which is a small "resort" community in the mountains near where we live. He was stranded there overnight at a friend's house with no power. I attempted to get there to pick him up and couldn't do it and I have a Hummer. At one point, I was sliding sideways down the mountain road waiting to smash into a tree or another car trying to make it up the road. Luckily I was able to get enough traction to gain control and make it down the road. Needless to say, I gave up at that point and told him he would have to wait it out.

[megoapesnut]

Here's an interesting tidbit I heard. The last time we had snow this early in the year was right after the flood from hurricane Agnes back in the 70's. Very interesting that we had an early snow again after this year's flooding, which was by far the worst since Agnes.

[doctor09210]

NYC had snow for 8 hours, by morning there was an accessional puddle.Since by night it was 45 degrees.

[z3zep]

A lot of limbs and trees down in my town. I would say about 90% of the town had no power for most of Saturday and Sunday. Some are still out.

It was the downed trees that were bad (not really the snow).

[Mikey]

In the south east Poconos we got like 4 inches

Jersey got it way worse than us

[megoapesnut]

Downed trees were everywhere around here. Due to the fact that the leaves were still on the trees and the snow was very wet and heavy, caused a double whammy and had trees and limbs down everywhere. I heard some poor guy was sitting in his recliner and a tree fell on his house and killed him.

[Adam West]

That was the case in Maryland. Not really large accumulations of snow (about 2 or 3 inches) but it was that heavy, snowball making snow. It caused a lot of trees with leaves still on them to snap and hit power lines, leaving a lot of folks without electricity. In the 13 years we have lived in our house, our electricity has never gone out since our electrical lines are below ground but Saturday we were out from mid morning until 9 pm or so. Must have hit a main line or transformer. Cell phone reception was also spotty. I had plenty of bars and would call my mom to see if she was ok and just lose connection after talking for a few minutes.

[Adam West]

I did see on the local news where live wires hit the ground, idiots were taking it upon themselves to saw away the limbs while the electric companies were begging people to stay away because these lines were on the ground and would kill you if you went near it.

[Nostalgiabuff]

it was pretty bad. state of emergency from saturday until about 1pm on Sunday. lost power for 24 hours and man was it cold in the house Sunday morning, we are back in business now though and luckily had no dmg to the house....big tree limb came down in the yard though

[bobws]

About 8" of snow and been without power since saturday about 4pm. it's a shame i look forward to work so i can come in early and use the showers. and then get online and watch showes i'm missing. had to fire up the wood burning stoive for the first time in 14 years as my dad is stuck at home and his sitter is trying to keep the fire going at nighty while i'm here.