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JRSutton · Feb 10, 2015

Worcester MA is supposedly the snowiest city in the US this year.

(I'm in Worcester county)

It just keeps on coming. More later this week.

To be honest, it's really not a big deal. Lots of people complaining, but it's just snow. 6' in the past few weeks, but there's only a little over 2 feet, maybe 3 feet on the ground.

People sure do love to whine about it though.

I will say there IS a lot of ice damming going on. The ice builds on the bottom roof line over the gutter, then all the snow melt pools up behind that ice and flows back under the shingles and floods the house. That's worth whining about, but otherwise I don't think the snow is a big deal.

charlespretzer · Feb 10, 2015

Wow,6 ft. I've never seen that much snow in a decade.I'm in eastern Ks.

Dave H (MI) · Feb 10, 2015

This is going back about 37 years but I lived here with my mom and dad was living in Worcester where he was able to get work for a time. Had an apartment. Lost his job there and needed to get home on the cheap so he gave away almost everything he owned and I flew out there and drove him back in his car. It is a beautiful area and I took the time to drive up into New Hampshire and visit folks I knew but had never met who had common interests with me. Nice place.

pete 23 · Feb 10, 2015

Have friends who live right outside of Warren. I have been through Worcester a few times when visiting them back in the late 50's when in the Army. I will have to send them an e-mail picture of the bare ground we have here in Minn. The thing I noticed while living out there, shoveling snow every morning to get to work, was that it always warmed up much faster during the day and the snow disappeared much faster than it does when we get it here. Also, their snow plowing was quite lacking. Had to put chains on the car to get through the roads around Shirley to Fort Devons. We have a little sleet today and might get some snow out of it .

JRSutton · Feb 10, 2015

Snow removal around here has improved significantly since the 50's. More specifically, after what's known as the blizzard of '78. Much more money gets spent to avoid the enormous quagmire a storm like that could caused.

again, it sounds like a lot of snow, but - I guess it compresses quite a bit. It doesn't really look like what you'd think.

To listen to the news you'd think it was the end of the world. And of course everybody posts pictures of huge snow drifts, which aren't really typical. OR of mountains of snow where it's been collected across a large parking lot. But for the most part, it looks more like we got 2, maybe 3 feet of snow.

Of course, when your wife borrows your truck and leaves a window open overnight during a big snow storm - THAT I can tell you looks like a lot of snow when you find it in the morning and have to shovel it out... But that's a different story.

Vito · Feb 10, 2015

Worcester a pretty area? Maybe the area but the city is a pit.

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sms · Feb 10, 2015

Didn't Buffalo get 7' back in October? But that was last year already. SIL and family got 7' in about 4 days a few years back, lost a quonset hut fabric building and son's mobile home collapsed on one end. I saw 5 buildings down in less then 10 miles on one road. NY Catskills. Back in the 90's they had 52 inches in one day, just over the mountains from us, I skied in it that day.

showcrop · Feb 10, 2015

I had to tackle ice dams today. I have been raking snow every storm, and putting up roof melt pucks, but the drain vents coupled with alleys in two places, along with a lot of snow fall resulted in a drip on the table next to wear I sit and go through YT. I had to add a hose bib to the outlet of my new water heater before I could go after the worst of it.

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