Rainshadow Posted March 11, 2018 Report Share Posted March 11, 2018 Amazing storm from how well it was modeled 5 to 6 days in advance across the board and its impacts up and down the East Coast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainshadow Posted March 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2018 https://www.weather.gov/jan/superstorm_march_1993 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonel_kurtz Posted March 11, 2018 Report Share Posted March 11, 2018 I always have a special place in my heart for Rosenbluth Travel as they somehow got me on the last flight from RDU to PHL on the FRI prior to that storm. I was scheduled to fly back on SAT & was seriously bummed I was not only going to miss the storm but be stuck down there for days. I had just started this job so I didn't want ask to leave a day early however my boss came through, told me to call the travel agency & head to the airport to see if they could change my flight & get me out early. RDU was complete chaos, all the flights back to Philly were severely overbooked and as afternoon turned into evening the crowd at the gate continued to grow. Patience was in short supply & at one point tempers flared & a fight nearly broke out. I was never so relieved when they called me up to counter from stand-by & told me I had a seat on the last flight out that evening. It was a middle seat the that didn't recline in the last row in front of the bathroom & I could care less, just happy to be going home & experiencing a real storm as it had been 6 years since the last big snows of JAN / FEB 1987. Driving home up I-95 I can still remember Elliot forecasting 4-8 for the city & 12 for the N & W burbs. Also glad I pulled an all-nighter as the heavy snow has changed over to a driving sleet fest around lunch time. Only disappointment was the 2-4" backside forecast never materialized. Churchville, PA 3/13/1993, finished with 13" of cement which you could walk on top of the next day in the record cold 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainshadow Posted March 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2018 I had to walk backward to work at 30 Rock that day because the sleet hurt so much. I ended staying in Midtown from that Saturday thru Monday morning. I was lucky to have a four wheel drive vehicle. We had nearly two feet of snow in Yorktown, would never had made it home. As it was I had to dig myself out of the parking space at Croton Harmon and pass a plethora of stuck vehicles on Underhill Avenue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainshadow Posted March 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2018 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/1993-snow-storm-of-the-century 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainshadow Posted March 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2018 http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/NARR/1993/us0312.php http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/NARR/1993/us0313.php http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/NARR/1993/us0314.php 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubbs Posted March 12, 2018 Report Share Posted March 12, 2018 Still remember the wind driven heavy sleet. Here a foot of snow and an inch of sleet froze into rutted concrete on the roads. I tried to get to work in Jersey the day after the storm but gave up after a half a mile and took a vacation day. Sun angle ftl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted March 12, 2018 Report Share Posted March 12, 2018 Other than the 89'(?) Thanksgiving snow event as a kid, the Superstorm stands out as my most memorable winter event in the earlier years of my life. Sort of (an expected) disappointment on Long Island...under 10" of snow, sleet and then rain that refroze super quick. I remember my brother and I shooting rubber hockey pucks around the yard standing on top of an iceberg snowpack. We didn't sink at all into it. It was literally a sheet of ice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainshadow Posted March 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Parsley said: Other than the 89'(?) Thanksgiving snow event as a kid, the Superstorm stands out as my most memorable winter event in the earlier years of my life. Sort of (an expected) disappointment on Long Island...under 10" of snow, sleet and then rain that refroze super quick. I remember my brother and I shooting rubber hockey pucks around the yard standing on top of an iceberg snowpack. We didn't sink at all into it. It was literally a sheet of ice. I remember Long Island changing to rain (NYC did too) later that Saturday. I remember we called the NYC Sanitation Dept to let them know that the temps were going to fall off a cliff once the low passed, to which they said, gee thanks. The logistics were what they were back then/there; we had rooms rented at a midtown hotel to sleep between shifts, slightly better than the electronics unit maintenance building that is now used. That was quite the bookend winter with the December '92 nor'easter also. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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