On Saturday, February 9, 2013 4:49:38 PM UTC, Lawrence13 wrote:

Would you at least conceed that in the main Yahoo weather feature in that video I linked, that 'Storm of the Decade' looked a frigtening beast indeed....,if you have a morbid fear of wet snow flakes and damp roads that is.

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Indeed. Why Yahoo chose to feature that particular video when there are so many others that properly represent this storm (storm of much more than a decade, I'd suggest - at least on a par with February 1978) is anybody's guess.

At that particular spot at that particular time during the early stages on the periphery of the storm near the rain/snow boundary, where roads had been treated and heavy traffic was aiding the melting process - it didn't look much. But just ten miles to the east Islip, Long Island, was reporting 15cm at 19:00 ET then 64cm at 07:00 ET - 49cm in 12 hours, and that's nowhere near the worst in the Northeast/New England.

Stephen.