Hi friends, welcome back! It’s been a brutal winter in NYC this year! Between the snow and the freezing cold, I didn’t think we’d get another snowstorm this year after getting almost a foot of snow at the end of January. Boy was I wrong and four weeks later a blizzard shut down the city. All the roads and bridges were closed for nonessential travel for 15 hours and we got a total of 19 inches of snow in about 24 hours! So far we’ve got over 42 inches of snow and on average we get about 23 inches. Most of the snow came overnight and when we woke up we couldn’t see much out our window.
This is what it looked like out our window after the blizzard officially ended.
I went outside mid-blizzard and was amazed at how much was already shoveled and cleared. The city offered anyone eligible $30/hour to shovel the sidewalks. They seemed to have learned quickly from the last snowstorm because within two days it barely looked like it had even snowed.
I walked north on Broadway and it was weird seeing no cars on the road. This street is usually bumper to bumper traffic.
You can barely tell, but City Hall is in the background.
It was so quiet out, that is one nice thing about the snow.
I started making my way over to the Oculus and 9/11 Memorial.
The snow gets hauled away in these large trash containers and put into hot tub like machines that can melt snow at a rate of up to 120 tons an hour.
Making my way back home.
Thankfully it’s been warmer so what’s left of the blizzard has basically melted away. This will be my last snow reporting of the season because if we get another, I refuse to participate. I need some spring after this brutal winter!
