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Some of you are from harsher climates than myself, but this was a pretty epic storm for SE Wisconsin...
It lasted more than two and a half days. It sustained the conditions that are shown in the video for more than 13 hours straight. At times, it was dumping 3-4 inches of snow per hour, with wind gusts above 55 MPH. When it was all said and done, we got more than 20 inches of snow, and the wind was causing snow drifts of more than 8 feet to form in spots. The roads were impassable. The entire region was pretty much shut down. My girlfriends dad is a detective, and they were all told they could go home, so even the police were shutting down to some degree.
All schools, state government buildings, a majority of businesses, and just about everything else was closed. The governor declared a state of emergency to get assistance from the National Guard, and when a state of emergency is declared, vehicles that are normally not street legal, like tractors, snowmobiles, an ATV's are all legal to drive on the roads.
It was a lot of fun to play in... although it took a few hours to dig out this morning.
JGON
Some of you are from harsher climates than myself, but this was a pretty epic storm for SE Wisconsin...
It lasted more than two and a half days. It sustained the conditions that are shown in the video for more than 13 hours straight. At times, it was dumping 3-4 inches of snow per hour, with wind gusts above 55 MPH. When it was all said and done, we got more than 20 inches of snow, and the wind was causing snow drifts of more than 8 feet to form in spots. The roads were impassable. The entire region was pretty much shut down. My girlfriends dad is a detective, and they were all told they could go home, so even the police were shutting down to some degree.
All schools, state government buildings, a majority of businesses, and just about everything else was closed. The governor declared a state of emergency to get assistance from the National Guard, and when a state of emergency is declared, vehicles that are normally not street legal, like tractors, snowmobiles, an ATV's are all legal to drive on the roads.
It was a lot of fun to play in... although it took a few hours to dig out this morning.
JGON
We get some wicked deep freezes though.(-30c or more)