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Several warm days are in store this week. Except for tomorrow, when it will only be ten degrees above normal, our high temperatures should reach into the 50s
What were you doing ten years ago this past weekend? Gothamist was reminded after the fact that this weekend was the anniversary of the Blizzard of 1996. The blizzard is notable for the prodigious amounts of snow that fell. Central Park received 20.6 inches, Staten Island and Newark got 27 inches, and Philadelphians had over 30 inches of snow dumped upon them. Even more snow fell in the Appalachians. Rain and a rapid warming after the storm led to flash floods. In all, the storm and associated flooding killed nearly 200 people and caused an estimated 3.5 billion dollars in damage.
Blizzard of 1996 in Brooklyn photo by Barry Bloom via the Digital Snow Museum
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man, the blizzard of '96 was awesome! the damage and the deaths, not so much. but for the kids in the city at the time, whew, was that dope. not only did they cancel all public schools (first time in decades!) but there were people cross-country skiing on the avenues, kids throwing snowballs left and right, snowmen, snowangels, snowforts (snow-everything!) and the city just seemed like the nicest place on earth... ah, weather nostalgia.
Man, Blizzard of '96 was awesome. I was in junior high school at the time, and we actually got a snow day. fun times...fun times...
The snow in Philly caused center city to have a blackout in my apartment building which seemed like days and days with no electric..everyone seemed to hibernate...candles..peanut butter & jelly..and lots of reading/doodlefests/and coffeeshops
that snow-dump was amazing! my eldest daughter bo was one-and-a-half and i took her out onto 87th street all bundled up in a one-piece snow-suit and threw her as high as i could--like maybe 8 to 10 feet in the air--and caught her under her arms and she was laughing and laughing. i did this probably twenty times and she was going so high passers-by were gasping in alarm. yeah it was undoubtedly stupid (later, watching the video which her mom took from the 4th-story window confirms the stupidity) but the snow was so deep and the air so clear and the city so quiet... it all felt
safe.
that blizzard was the best! the piles of snow were HUGE. i remember walking around in ski pants and ski goggles. and some people cross country skiing.
The 1996 blizzard was one of the better blizzards, although I don't recall where I was for it, so my guess is at home watching the fools out in it on TV. The 1993 one I had the misfortune of being in DC for. They go into panic down there for flurries, so it was like the end of the world. Somehow I managed to get the hell out of there on an epic Amtrak journey which took about 6-8 hours.