Tagged: northeast snowfall

23:11 • 1 year ago

East Coast snowstorm bad for staying warm, good for ghost stories

3 million people still without power in the northeast after snowstorms source

» At least five states reported major outages this morning. With record-setting snowfalls snapping tree limbs, power lines were severed cutting power off for millions. The official winter season doesn’t start for 52 more days, so start preparing now. Worst. Halloween. Ever.

09:34 • 1 year ago

Didya guys hear about all this snow in the friggin’ Northeast?

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22″ the amount of snow that fell in one Massachusetts town on Saturday — one of the highest points for the major storm
2.3M the number of people that lost power during the storm, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (oh no!)
three the number of deaths reported from the storm, including an 84-year-old hit by a tree that fell into his home source

» A Halloween surprise? For many people, the dramatic change in weather was surprising, to say the least. “This is absolutely a lot more snow than I expected to see today,” said New Jersey resident and driveway-shoveler Carole Shepherd. ”I can’t believe it’s not even Halloween and it’s snowing already.” (Edit: We’re idiots, we put a single prime instead of a double prime on the first number. Our bad. Fixed.)

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