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Subscribe to RSSNBC's Ron Allen joins Lester Holt with the latest from Connecticut, a state that had some of the highest snow totals.
The town of Hamden, Connecticut, saw one of the highest snowfall totals from the storm, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm dumped 40 inches, the weather service said, the highest total recorded. Milford, Connecticut, was nearly as snowy at 38 inches.
Harry Gagliardi Jr., a Hamden district representative, woke to find an “absolutely beautiful” scene.
“I’m just looking outside now. I didn’t realize how much snow there is,” he said, saying it had covered a four-foot wall just outside his house.
“The winds are blowing, but it doesn’t seem to be too bad right now,” he said, adding that the snow appeared to have stopped although it was being picked up by the wind.
Speaking just after 7 a.m. ET, Gagliardi said he lived on a hill and, from that vantage point, said “it doesn’t look like anybody is going up or down.”
He was one of tens of thousands of customers affected by power failures in the region. “We lost power for about two hours last night, then it came back on,” he added.
“It’s beautiful to look at, but it’s going to be a pain to clean up,” he said. “Where are we going to put all this snow?”
In addition to snarling roads and cutting power, the snow has also caused a problem for his dog Heidi, Gagliardi said. “I have a small dog that needs to go out shortly,” he said.
Baby due Sunday
Joe DeMartino and his wife Michelle, of Fairfield, Conn., were hoping they did not experience a rather more serious problem as they are expecting their first baby Sunday, The Associated Press reported.
"It adds an element of excitement,” she said.
Her husband had stocked up on gas and food, got firewood ready and was installing a baby seat in the car. The couple also packed for the hospital. "They say that things should clear up by Sunday. We're hoping that they're right," he said.
NBC station WHDH showed film from Foxboro in Massachusetts, where correspondent Nicole Oliverio filed a report while sitting down as she struggled to walk in snow shoes. There was laughter in the studio when she finally managed to get to her feet.
Some were delighted by the chance to get out in the snow.
When told an estimated 8 to 10 inches of snow was predicted overnight at Elk Mountain in Uniondale, Pennsylvania, eight-year-old skier Sophia Chesner's eyes grew wide, Reuters reported.
"Whoa!" said the 8-year-old from Moorestown, New Jersey, who was on a ski vacation with her family.
Sled race postponed
Her sister, Giuliana, 4, said no matter how good the skiing was, she had other priorities once the snow piled up. "First thing I'm going to do is build a snowman and look for a Sasquatch footprint," Guiliana Chesner said.
But it was too much for organizers of the country's championship sledding race, which had been scheduled to get underway in Camden, Maine, on Saturday.
They postponed the event – which will feature some 400 teams -- by one day.
"As soon as the weather clears on Saturday and it is safe, the toboggan committee will be out at Tobogganville cleaning up the chute as quickly as they can," said Holly Edwards, chairwoman of the U.S. National Toboggan Championships. "It needs to be shoveled out by hand."
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Hartford, Connecticut Mayor Pedro Segarra joins MSNBC's Alex Witt to discuss heavy snows in his city where overnight they saw four inches of snow falling per hour.
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So where is a picture of this beautiful scene??
yes, those of us in Florida would like to see the beautiful scene! Another misleading headline by NBC!
GM Fed Up with Fed and Mudman
Yeah, go figure! I guess NBC would like us to use our imagination. Pictures would have been great!!!
Two days to get it up. See you Monday morning.
I am so glad that MSNBC found it appropriate to add pictures for this story...which would probably be more interesting in braille at this point.
I don't want to see a picture of little Heidi's yellow snow, thank you.
They did that to symbolize that we should use our imaginations.
Pretty soon thats all we will have left and they wanted to foreshadow the affects of it.
Beautiful, No More cars.
I Love Gods Humor in this Multitude of blasphamy we call our totally manipulated marketed and sold to the highest bidder society.
gm cheetah, jack, Fedup
You know, they have pills that will fix that.
that's what i was thinking, where is the pretty picture.. :)
Well, use your imaginations-- 2' 10" of snow in CT looks kinda like this:
(white)
At least that is what it looks like outside my windows this morning here in CT.
EXACTLY!! I wondered the same thing! <ROFL>
standing inside looking out snow is pretty, that said now go shovel it ....or simply take my approach and make a resolution to shovel the walk and drive in say...july. its much lighter, you dont have to bundle up, and you can find the shovel, not to mention its much less likely to induce a heart attack.
Plenty of pictures on the radio, course it helps to have an imagination.
Am I the only one that thinks it's weird to seee alll the complaints that there were no pictures? It struck me as people just have something to complain about or they're not happy.
Ronald Hussein Reagan - well, it seems like you are complaining about people complaining, so how does that make you any different from the other posters. I happen to agree with them. I live in Michigan. I wasn't interested in reading a story about snow in Connecticut, but I clipped on the headline because I wanted to see pictures. However, it should have come as no surprise that there were no pictures because NBCNews.com reporters are the most incompetent in the business. They can barely spell or use correct English, and they don't edit or proofread their articles before publishing.
Stupid article/video! When did the media start telling a mayor that as soon as he gets his snow trucks moving he should start working on getting the power restored? Thank God we have you to tell us what to do!
Denverbill -
I guess no one wanted to "touch" that, but good one . . .
You have to love a quote like that!
@lydiajohnson, why the troll/spam post?
There's no such site. A Google search shows Dave Bang.com, a questionable site.
That being said, what's so beautiful in being trapped in 3 to 4 feet of snow? Innocent lives were lost, one by a hit & run driver who's unlikely to be caught, at least two by carbon monoxide poisoning, another trying to dig out his truck, there were others. They were warned to stay indoors & off the road & didn't listen, but they didn't deserve to die by not heeding the warnings.
Snow is beautiful, however too much of a good thing has proven to be deadly.
Cat
Well Ronald its probably because of Misleading tactics. A Headline that pulls you in to read, and when you get there the story has nothing to do with that topic. It made it sound like there was going to be some beautiful pictures of snow covered yards, fields, houses.. ect ect . Instead it was a new story about people being stuck in snow..
No snow pictures that are beautiful...but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I will stick with my California beach scene as beauty. Forget snow.
Proving once again that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
ya just know someone is saying..."ain't no way im going out in this @!$%# and...we're out of what?...beer?...wheres my coat?"
GA Scooter, I sent you a note or two about the Vine and Friends.
The sand is white her and is at least 6-12" deep too. However, the beer is just inside the fridge!
GM Jack,
got the mail thanks, just haven't dicked with it yet.
My fridge actually had to keep the beer warm this winter. did ya southern boys know that's what happens in an unheated garage up here? I always found that amusing. ...just wondered.
Tramp -
I knew it cause I lived upstate NY when I was a teen.
Meanwhile, down here near Raleigh, it is sunny and in the mid fifties. Connecticut can have that" beautiful (and imaginary) scene.
Oh, and my dogs aren't having "diificulty" outside today.
The storm won't hit us until tomorrow, but we have beer and the makings for some spiced wine...plus I transferred all of the rice, beans, and what-have-you from their plastic bags into my new jars, looked at them and my freezer full of meat, and thought, "What's up with this survivalist kitchen?" So, goodies are simmering on the stove, plus I may bake some homemade bread. Sorry, no photos, but I'm sending thoughts of hot bread to all of you. Be safe!
I would enjoy that "beautiful scene" so much more if I was seeing it on TV from a condo in Maui....instead of outside my window, knowing I have to go out there and clean it up....
@DB -Yeah....me too.
Db....charley......need a roomate?
Maybe it was a whiteout photo.....
it was, before they ran the video over it.
My BFF lives in Hamden and she is hunkered down big time!!
Yeah, where's the pix??
Maybe she needs a lighter boyfriend.
and yeah where is that pix?
OBVIOUSLY, Reporter Ian Johnston was ABSENT in school the day they covered PHOTOS with stories!!! Great Reporting!! Baffles how you could have s story with the heading "ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL" with no pic!!!
Who ya trying to kid? these people don't bother with journalism school anymore, Just the fine arts things like ...copy/paste
No chance of a picture? Is this 1913 or 2013?
scary comparison.
But even in 1913 they had black and WHITE (snow) photos.
What is this, radio? Where's a picture?
I love the perspective shown in this article though. Where it seems most stories are hand wringing and dire warnings of a current disaster from which people will never recover to global warmists screaming "SEE!!" as every flake settles into place, here lies the story of how most people deal with situations like this.
It IS pretty! We WILL be just fine! This too shall pass and life will go on. Enjoy it!
What's that saying... A picture is worth a thousand words?
They gave us the thousand words instead.
Ridiculous to post this headline and then no picture. Goin over to CNN dot com now .
S.O.P.
Bye, when your done at CNN go to Fox and then come back and tell everyone about it. ( im bored)
I live in Cambridge, Mass., and it IS beautiful. I took photos from the front steps this morning while it was still dark. Cars are completely buried under white mounds, trees look like large versions of miniature Christmas decorations, and the snow glitters and sparkles magically. For all its inconvenience, it's gorgeous. Glad I took photos when I did though. A short time later, a snow plow came down the street and left the imprint of humans. Then it got stuck in the snow and caught on fire. No one hurt. Two shows for the price of one.
That's my favorite time during a snowstorm...when the streets are still covered and the beauty has not been marred by snow plows.
My favorite time is when the snow plows are burning.
In sunny So Cal we see snow all the time ... it's thirty miles away on a mountain, but we can still see it.
Yeah and so is Dorner! - according to NBC article, with SB County Sheriffs searching for him! LOL
So Cal or snow? ...now i hate snow but.....yep guess it is pretty. thanks for reminding all of us how wonderful it is.
What? Nobody ever seen snow b4?
before what?
I have to say I was looking forward to some beautiful snow scenes but in my book tow trucks just don't do it. This was a terribly misleading title and the video.
The video did run an ad that showed a paper shredder......kinda looks like that.....
really, really nice pic of a salt truck - you folks at MSNBC must be so proud. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz
They called out the salt trucks...yippee...now come mid-summer they can show a video of the car-lots full of cars and trucks with a "little rust" You can get a good deal on em, course ya gotta scrap off the bumper sticker...but hey its a bargain.
The caption says ...Beautiful scene and they show us the back end of a snow plow/salt truck??? the scene outside my kitchen window in CT is lovely too, use your imaginations again!!
Love N.E. Beautiful place. but glad I am home today.
misleading thread.............
normal thread...........
Just waiting our turn here in the Plains States. Haven't had a good snow for years!
We have beautiful snow from November through April in the Methow Valley of Washington State. We look at it, shovel it, cross country ski on it, and clear it from our ice rinks. Sometimes we get 20 to 30 inches at a time. That is why we drive SUV's and 4 wheel drive pickup trucks, so our lives don't have to go on hold when it snows a lot, which is does and has every winter as long as anyone can remember. Sometimes people lose control of their vehicles on the roads and are killed, but we don't call them storm related deaths. We call it driving too fast for conditions. I'm not sure why this is even a headline story, except that people have gotten so soft on the east coast that almost any weather of magnitude is a major headline story.
OFF SUBJECT BUT
If you don't like the NEWSVINE's new format. please contact them and say so. ( contact us on the bottom of your homepage )....It may be their creation but WE ARE the vine after all.
I don't think this is about Newsvine's new format as much as it appears that many people are aware of MSNBC and it's minimal contribution to truthful reporting along with it's obsession of pushing it's liberal bias agenda.
I live in Wisconsin and we have had measurable snow 9 out of the last 10 days so I don't need a picture.
JonDS - I grew up in and around Boston. In the 60s and 70s, heavy snow falls, the relative rarity of freakish thaws, both helped to make such scenes as people are speaking of, common. Every winter in my childhood neighborhood, they used to put a snow fence to control drifting over a road way near home.
I doubt that happens today.
Wisconsin, like Minnesota and Michigan has legendary cold, snowy winters. I am jealous.
dman - unfortunately, Michigan doesn't have "legendary cold, snowy winters". I live in Ann Arbor. We had virtually no snow last winter. In a normal mid-January, there is usually a foot of snow on the ground and the average high is 31 degrees. In mid-January last year, we had nothing but brown grass on the ground and warmer than normal highs. This winter is almost a copy of last winter. We have had snowfalls that total maybe 3 inches at a time, if we are lucky, and that melts the next day. Very disappointing. I wish we could have gotten 12-18 inches of the snow that Boston got so we could have saved them some of the trouble.
All this whining about pictures. The main NBCNews page has them in plain sight.
Personally I don't need them I'm one of the people snowed in going stir crazy.
I took my wife's snow globe and shook it yesterday so I could be empathetic with all of the snow shovelers today.
Now that, Jwright, is the way to properly celebrate a blizzard!!! And a humanitarian to boot!!
A (sort of) related question:
How come it sucks to have to shovel snow, but chopping/splitting wood is kinda fun?
Chopping wood you can vent frustration. Shoveling snow is work that stinks.