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PARISH, N.Y. - Blue skies turned gray in the blink of an eye as another severe snowstorm brought snow to an area already inundated by more than 8 feet.

It wasn’t good news for this winter-weary region when the flakes began to fall again Saturday. A warning in effect until Monday morning said 2 to 4 more feet of snow was possible with wind gusting up to 24 mph.

“That’s all we need,” Mike ***** said as he took a brief break from loading dump trucks with snow to be hauled to a pile outside town. “It’s getting monotonous.”



Persistent bands of lake-effect snow squalls fed by moisture from Lake Ontario have been swinging up and down this part of central New York along the lake’s eastern shore since last Sunday.

The National Weather Service said Parish — about 25 miles northeast of Syracuse — reached a milestone early Saturday with 100 inches of snow during the past seven days. That was pushed to 110 inches by early Sunday with fresh snowfall.

Unofficial reports put snowfall totals at 123 inches in Orwell and 131 in Redfield, but the weather service said those numbers included snow from a storm a couple of days before the latest run. All three towns are in Oswego County.

Reinforcements brought in
The fluffy new snow was a magnet for snowmobilers, and stopping was out of the question.

“You can’t stop or you’re done,” said Dan Hojnacki, 23, of Syracuse, after he ground to a halt in a field. “I never got stuck until today, and I’ve been snowmobiling for 10 years.”

Residents of the nearby town of Mexico see 5- to 6-foot snowfalls every two or three years, but this time even hardened locals are amazed.





The only sign of parked SUVs are their radio antennas or roof racks sticking up above the snow. Front doors are buried and footprints lead to second-story windows. Sidewalks that have been dug out look like miniature canyons.

The state transportation department said 125 workers from elsewhere in the state had been sent in with snow equipment to help.

The region is located along the Tug Hill Plateau, the snowiest region this side of the Rocky Mountains. It’s a 50-mile wedge of land that rises 2,100 feet from the eastern shore of Lake Ontario. It usually gets about 300 inches — roughly 25 feet — of snow a year.

The hamlet of Hooker, near the boundaries of Jefferson, Lewis, and Oswego counties, holds the state’s one-year record with 466.9 inches, about 39 feet, in the winter of 1976-77.

Still, less than a month ago it seemed more like spring.

“Gosh, three weeks ago there was green on the ground. We got spoiled,” Parish Mayor Leon Heagle said. “This just came fast. This is not normal. God, we can’t catch a break. I feel like getting right in the car and driving south, but I’d probably get in trouble.”

The intense blast of snow hasn’t been blamed for any deaths in Oswego County. Elsewhere, however, more than a week of bitter cold and slippery roads have contributed to at least 20 deaths across the northeastern quarter of the nation — five in Ohio, four in Illinois, four in Indiana, two in Kentucky, two in Michigan, and one each in Wisconsin, and Maryland and elsewhere in New York, authorities said.

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cpbaby

HOLY CHIT!


I am SO proud I live in Kentucky..........if somebody throws a tray of ice cubes on the road, schools are closed for two days. :

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dob. 01/09/04

loveswolfs

We where talking about this at work yesterday & which we would rather have our very cold weather or thier snow..we decided on the cold. I sure hope you all get to see summer or at least have one...

tljohn123

bwahahahahaa my brother lives in KY ver southern part, and they have a picture of him when he was about 14 building his first snowman lol.
He's my half brother---we have different mothers...

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teenies*mom

we got about six inches last night - its not doing anything outside right now - just "gray" looking -
on our local news last night they were showing the snowbanks (which are up to 75 FEET high) and they said it all won't melt till around August - thats what happened a few years back too when we got alot of snow.......

Shancopp

We used to live in Prestonsburg when I was about 9 or 10 and my mom (who's from Northern IN) would get so mad when they'd send us home from school cuz a snowflake fell. Then she'd send us out to play in a sweater! lol!

THat and lots of bomb threats are what I remember about that school.

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cpbaby

What city? Im about 1/2 hour from the TN line.



Shancopp, I grew up here so I know no different, but my best friend in junior high school moved here from Chicago......Her mom would almost SCREAM at the days of school they would miss here. She was the only woman I saw drive on the snow until I was grown.

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tljohn123

He lives in Gilbertsville.....I think. I do remember they live extremely close to Kentucky Lake. My stepmother took me there last spring at sunset and omg it was the best thing I'd seen all year it was soooo pretty.

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Shancopp

ONe winter, we got a bad ice storm. Well, we needed groceries and all piled in the car to go to the store. We ended up going over the side of the mountain we lived on. That was so scary. We were all ok, just banged up.
People probably wondered what the heck we were doing out! lol!

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nanajoanie

And the grocery stores are out of bread and milk. We go thru this a few times each winter. It's automatic to close up everything when the weather stations mention the "S" word.

So thankful I don't live in the snow anymore.

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teenies*mom

woo hoo - the snow is finally supposed to stop by tomorrow -
and our County might lift the State of Emergency too -

maybe we can get everything cleaned up now - it is so hard to drive - the streets are so narrow - the snowbanks so high - you cant see to turn a corner or leave your driveway -

maybe the weather will get above freezing so this crap can start melting - it hasn't been above 30 in about a month and a half.