Originally Posted By: Five_Felonies
have they always named these winter storms?


Can't say for sure when it all started - and I am too lazy to Google anything right now - but I can remember around fifty years ago Hurricane Donna slamming into us. She was one mean beee-yotch! I was living on Long Island at the time, not Brooklyn. So, naming storms must have started at least before that.

Right now it's snowing in Brooklyn. Wet snow, that doesn't appear to be sticking to any of the paved surfaces (yet). It was very rainy earlier, but the changeover appears to have happened within the last hour or two.

The radio reported around an hour or so ago that the wind and the gusts weren't quite as strong as had been originally predicted, but looking out my window, it's still no fun, I can assure you. I can hear the wind howling. I'm also starting to hear a lot of police and fire sirens in my neighborhood.


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