Small New York Town Buried Under 12 Feet Of Non-Stop Snow
Posted February 12, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Toronto may be expecting its first major snowstorm of the winter, Barrie has been buried in flakes for the past week and cottage country is coated in frozen powder, but none of them can hold a candle to what’s going on in the little town of Redfield, New York.
Snow has barely stopped falling there for nine straight days and folks have been forced to shovel not only their driveways and front walks endlessly, but their roofs as well.
An unbelievable 12 feet 2 inches – or several metres – is said to be on the ground and more could be coming.
Weather experts will be going to the small town – if they can get there – measuring the total fall, which could break a state record. And that’s no small feat – remember, Buffalo, isn’t all that far away.
The tiny town has only 650 people and gets about 22 feet of snow in an average winter. But even veterans admit this is unprecedented.
Jim Bevridge drove to Redfield from Maryland for a long weekend of snowmobiling. “In all my life, I mean my entire life combined, I’ve never seen this much snow at once,” he marvels.
He certainly got his money’s worth.
For now, clearing the roads isn’t even a major priority. Instead, it’s trimming down the size of the snow banks crews have piled up getting all those frosted flakes off the streets. Some measure as high as 12 feet.
And the same storm that’s heading our way could drop another 6-12 inches on the stricken city.
Still, not everyone is taken aback by the sheer volume of the winter fall, which has made headlines across North America.
“It’s snow. We get a lot of it,” shrugs diner owner Allan Babcock. “So what?”
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