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On 2/24/2026 4:20 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:
On 2/24/2026 7:10 AM, AMuzi wrote:
WPRO Providence reports 37 inches of fresh snow, "Worse than 1978."
Your report?
Clearly Mr Z is snowed in and nothing is happening.
lol...not really. I went to work yesterday, but pretty much the state
east of Worcestor (that's pronounced 'wistah) was shut down on Monday.
It was most certainly a classic New England Nor' Easter.
Haverhill is in north eastern MA, right on the NH border close to rtes
495, 95, and 93. Official reports in my area vary greatly but that's due
to the snow drifts. Just in my driveway there was a 30" drift about 20
feet away from about an inch deep in another section. Realistically we probably got about a foot of fine, dry, heavily packed powder. It had
subsided by Monday afternoon to the point where I was finished with
clean-up by 7 PM.
Providence did get hammered. They're ~100 miles due south of me and
weather conditions there often are quite different from here. I have a
friend in Providence who said they had 33 inches, which seems pretty consistent from other less-sensationalist reports. I don't doubt there
were likely local amounts close to 3 feet.
We didn't lose power but there were a allegedly over 250,000 people who
lost power along the south coast areas areas (Eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, Cape Cod). I saw two groups of large tree service vehicles and
one group of electric utility trucks headed south on my way to work
yesterday (I head south for work as well), they were all from Maine.
Maine was spared from the Storm by and large with the snow only reaching
the southern 3rd of the state, and even then much more of a typical non-newsworthy snow event for them. My son lives/works in Bangor, he
reported sunny skies for part of the day.
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