michelleNYC

Well, maybe it's also because I'm in a really tall building right in Midtown, but the WIND!! My building is creaking and it sounds like a jet engine outside my office window!! Crazy!

GoTravel

Michelle, we had 30-40 mile gusts all evening and night last night. My deck furniture was completely scrambled this morning. Some of my deck furniture is really heavy iron furniture that was picked up and moved around.

It is the Nor'easter that is moving up the coast. Hunker down, you are in for a good storm!

michelleNYC

I've experienced lots of high wind in my building but, honestly, this is unlike anything else! It's actually kind of scary. The sound! And I haven't even been outside all day... that's when all the fun will begin.

GoTravel

Ouch!

Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...BRONX NY-ESSEX NJ-HUDSON NJ-KINGS (BROOKLYN) NY-NASSAU NY- NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) NY-NORTHWEST SUFFOLK NY-QUEENS NY- RICHMOND (STATEN IS.) NY-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD CT-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN CT- SOUTHWEST SUFFOLK NY-UNION NJ- 437 PM EST MON FEB 28 2005
... WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...

SNOW WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING... AND MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES... ACCUMULATING AT THE RATE OF AROUND 2 INCHES PER HOUR. TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 10 INCHES ARE LIKELY BY THE TIME THE SNOW TAPERS OFF LATE TONIGHT.

WINDS COULD ALSO BECOME QUITE STRONG DURING THE PERIOD OF HEAVIEST SNOWFALL. NORTHEAST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH MAY CAUSE NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS... WITH CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF SNOW AND SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES.

michelleNYC

Excellent (not)... It's times like these that I'm glad I don't commute. I wish everyone a safe return home and much warmth when you get there.

kopp

Yeah, it's crazy here in Austin, Texas too. Just got back from my daily walk, and I should have put my shorts on. Must be 70 degrees today...

tpatricco

michelleNYC, be glad you don't have to commute far today! In NJ it's snowing & blowing like crazy too. Left the office at 4:30 and was home in 15 mins! A far cry from the hour plus I spent sliding around trying to get home last Thursday night. It's sticking to the roads good now...glad I'm off the road!

AllanNYC

Nice weather you got there Kopp - too bad you're in Texas.

Kal

Wow!!!

I'm feeling almost guilty about the Nor Cal weather right now. I'll prob feel more guilty after I go hit a bucket of golf balls in a bit. >-

Make sure it's all under control by May 19th! ><

LTCM17

In northwest Jersey, it is snowing and blowing!!!
Only 20 days until spring!!!
Honest!

OO

michelleNYC...did you see any palm fronds fly by your windows? That same system came roaring through here (Tampa) yesterday, and I do mean roaring. The wind was so loud I went out to see what the bay was doing. There were big waves breaking with spray against our shore in normally calm Tampa Bay. Part of our dock was underwater from wind driven water building up here.

We were under a tornado watch all afternoon and I heard on the news today that the barometric pressure dropped as low as it normally would with a tropical depression or category 1 hurricane....

I'm sorry our balmy air didn't stay balmy all the way up there! Stay warm and safe.

GoTravel

OO, we had 8-12 foot waves this morning. I've never seen the ocean that angry.

Scarlett

It is windy and getting cold fast in Jacksonville.
michelle, I remember that building swaying feeling, never did like it either!
This sure has been a rough winter for a lot of people~
Wanna move to Florida?

michelleNYC

Wow! That was some freaky wind! Glad it's over. Hope you all faired well or have a nice "snow day" today. Scarlett, Would love to spend substantial time in Fla. but I love "my" city too much.

Scarlett

I don't blame you Michelle

michelleNYC

I would like to get a break from the cold right about now, though. I'm pretty sick of my winter clothes. ;-)

joanna_00

Same thing up here in Toronto. My kids didnt go to school today because someone stole my shovel HAHA..i know, can you believe that?!!!?. And so I couldn't get out of the driveway.But I ended up skipping work today So I'm happy

Anonymous

You only have one shovel? Heck, I have a whole wradrobe -- plastic to shovel off the painted front steps, metal for attacking icy plow pilups, shallow metal for pushing light accumulations, and that's not even counting accessories like the car brush, ice chopper, roof rake (for averting ice dams) and the kiddie size shovels (one plastic, one metal) for detail work.

fairfax

I wasn in NYC yesterday and it was wild. Snow flying everywhere. I got the cabbie to drive me through Central Park on the way to Penn Station and got to see the Gates. They were really fun in the late afternoon with the snow and the blowing.

When I got home, someone had swiped my snow shovel, too! Then my jerk neighbor cleared the main walk, right to my property line, which is only 10 feet wide! Who does he think has been clearing his walk the last couple of storms? Jerk!