A Little Snow Doesn't Bring New York To A Stand Still.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4318908/Train-pulls-New-York-station-sending-snow-EVERYWHERE.html

How come New York can carry on with the amount of snow they have had, yet if we get a sprinkling of snow our transport etc virtually come to a stand still?

[emmie]

because we don't get it very often, they do,,

[Bazile]

Because New York ( and other locations with frequent heavy snow fall ) have invested in equipment and systems in order to operate near normally .
In Britain this type of severe weather does not occur frequently enough , to warrant the huge expense in equipment , which will be used very infrequently

[Mamyalynne]

Some great images and love the Video - there has been a lot of disruption but they are more geared up for it.

[Bazile]

Why did those commuters stay put , even though they could see what was happening , before the train reached the platform ?

[emmie]

see if this works

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=picture+of+house+covered+in+ice+2017&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei

[emmie]

yes they are real images from a house in NY, we don't get that sort of snow here, perhaps the further north of the UK, but its almost of unheard of these days.

[RandyMarsh]

Yes it did, no trains ran until 18.00

[mikey4444]

This question gets asked very now and then, and also answered.

My friends live in the mountains of New Hampshire. The roads are kept open and usable in everything others than ice storms and its that way because the snow ploughs are out 24 hours a day, for days on end. And they pay for that with their version of the rates.

[hereIam]

I remember we used to have snow like that when I was a kid ...

[ladybirder]

Me too. And ice on the inside of my bedroom window:-)

[Eleena]

Snow & New York!!
I'd love to!

[emmie]

did anyone look at my link. as that is the extreme end of things.

[Eleena]

Not loading for me at the moment emmie, Ill try later x

[Eleena]

Bliley!! Just got it!

[Mamyalynne]

That's a remote house on the shores of Lake Ontario, so little protection from the driving winds.


My Sister in Law lives upstate New York and most winters she is isolated for months, but has generators and log fires and always well stocked up through years of experience.

[vulcan42]

They don't always get it right :o)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39295857

[emmie]

vulcan
that is in AOG's link, why they didn't get out of the way is anyone's guess.

[pastafreak]

My brother ( 35 miles east of NYC ) woke to freezing rain and sleet. No snow for him.
Rhinecliff...the location of the photo...is 110 miles north and is on the Hudson river. The weather is often more extreme as you head north.

[DTCwordfan]

Vermont and Stowe, take a 3ft fall and they had not only the main roads cleared but also community roads - we then had hot oil piping underlay under the drive (2 houses combined) to keep our drives free of snow and ice. It's a bigger factor up there but they handle it well, as they do in Scandinavia.

[Meg]

I lived in Toronto in the 1950's we had heavy snow every winter but everything carried on as usual. Everyone got to work and school. Couldn't understand when we moved to England how a bit of snow caused chaos. As others have said people in those regions are better equipped to deal with extreme weather.