News Cut: December 27, 2010 Archive

One picture: The cigarette break

Posted at 10:19 AM on December 27, 2010 by Bob Collins (3 Comments)
Filed under: Weather

Weizhi Rong sent this photo to us today from the mean streets of Manhattan.

It would appear a couple of half-hearted swipes of the rear side window area necessitated a break.

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Blizzard wars: Time-lapse video

Posted at 11:49 AM on December 27, 2010 by Bob Collins (6 Comments)
Filed under: Weather

We continue the comparisons of the East Coast vs. Midwest blizzards.

The category is: time-lapse video.

Here's one shot yesterday in New Jersey. And, yes, that is serious accumulation.

December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.

And here's the best one (yes, it's a subjective assessment) from St. Paul's big blizzard earlier this month.

Your turn:

By the way, the record for the East Coast snowfall seems to be in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, where 29 inches fell. If that were the Twin Cities, it would be the largest snowstorm recorded.

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Blizzard wars: The snarl

Posted at 2:02 PM on December 27, 2010 by Bob Collins (5 Comments)
Filed under: Weather

The East Coast had a slight edge in the "we feel sorry for you" category in today's News Cut Blizzard War. That evaporated the minute we saw this in the "handling the snarl" category:

That photo was tweeted by Brian Elmquist who noted, "Note to self. "When I'm elected office in a major metropolitan area. Prepare the plows before blizzard."

Come on, now, East Coast, you're not even trying here. First of all, there's not even that much snow in this picture and then you went all Kuwait-to-Basra-1991.

Secondly, check the car just below the bus. That car has been swept clean and shoveled out. That's his (or her) parking place.

How does Minnesota handle this? Observe:

Your turn:

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