This place is shut sown. Twenty Seven Degrees, Windchill 15, had on Glacier Perfect Curves over silk liners, lasted 30 minutes.
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And ice hockey on Canal St in the Big Freezy.
New Orleans has never see anything like this, they said snow and I was expecting a little dusting like always happens, this was a Driving snow storm with snow drifts. Bundled up the best I could, hands were aching after 30 minutes with Glacier Perfect Curves over Silk Liners and had on Kinetic Compression Leggings under Helly Hansen Odin Skarstind Pant and the wind knifed right though it. Have to find me some wool leggings.
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Wow-------- -well, there’s something you seldom see.
Snow in New Orleans! Take pictures ---- because kids in the future will hardly believe it.
My bet is that snow tires, winter coats, snow boots and snow-plows on trucks are rare down there.
My wife was in Dalles Texas a few years back snowed in at the airport and told me the whole place was paralyzed. And I think snow in Dalles is probably less odd then snow in New Orleans.
I’m a little jealous we only got 2-3 inches here in Fayetteville, NC
Totally paralyzed. Never seen anything like it, driving snow,deep snow drifts. I feel like a Yankee.
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That is what I was expecting when they forecasted snow, looked out the window, a driving snow storm with snow piling up in drifts, totally shutting down the ciity.
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Knowing southern cities, 2 or 3 inches would probably have shut it down too.
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Mjac, how long have you been there. Have you always lived there?
Dude, this is ain’t no 2 or 3 inches. This an Avalanche. It has Totally shut down the city.
You mean New Orleans?…Lifelong.
Understood, just saying that it takes much less than an “avalanche” to shut down most southern cities. I’m not minimizing how bad it is, but saying 10 inches of snow is an avalanche emphasizes the point. It seems like a lot because NOLA simply doesn’t have the infrastructure and resources to deal with it, but many areas wouldn’t blink at 10 inches of snow.
Even 2 or 3 inches would shut down a southern city to some extent as you say and this was way over two or three inches. It was a driving snowstorm, piling up deep drifts which has absolutely paralyzed this city. I have never seen anything like it.
No doubt, has this happened in NOLA in the last hundred years?
I would have to look it up, but I doubt this has ever happened in New Orleans, Louisiana. I was being sensational and joking around about the Avalanche, but what I was saying, if 2 or 3 inches can shut down a southern city to some extent, imagine what 10 inches (I haven’t seen any official reports of depth) would do to a city like New Orleans
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Okay, looked it up, not 100% sure about this but it appears there is only one snowstorm in the history of New Orleans that even approaches this storm and it was in 1895 and this storm has already tied that record and there is more snow on the way. The thing about it is that appears to be the only other storm in New Orleans history anywhere near this size and this one is going to beat it.
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Hard to be prepared for and deal with such a rare occurrence. Hopefully, your power stays on, and you have plenty of food to get you through.
You just reminded me to check the outages in my area. This area of the city’s grid appears to be pretty solid, there will be pretty substantial outages in other parts of the city but this area would be intact. I am going to bundle up and test my cold weather gear and gontake a walk up on the levee. Need some apacla wool glove liners and long johns.
Don’t tell anyone but I have a scheme to tap into the building’s emergency generator circuit to run the refrigertor, freezer and maybe a space heater. I am all set.
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. . . and more is yet to come!
Yeah, there is supposed to be more snow… Bring It On.