The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[Timberridge]

TGR already closed the Kmart store???

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

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Upstate New York driver gets stuck in car for 10 hours after snow plow covers him with nearly 4 feet of snow


(CNN)A 58-year-old driver from Upstate New York was rescued by police after he was stuck in his car for more than 10 hours during the snowstorm that swept through New York.

Kevin Kresen from Candor, New York, west of Binghamton, ran his car off the road in the town of Owego on Wednesday night just as the storm passing through New York was dumping large amounts of snow, the New York State Police said.
On Thursday morning, Sgt. Jason Cawley contacted Tioga County 911 to see if any emergency calls were pending due to the storm. Dispatchers informed him that they had received a number of 911 calls from a man who had run off the road and needed assistance, but local law enforcement had not located the driver.

Cawley drove to the area, and seeing what appeared to be a row of mailboxes, he waded through the snow to check the addresses, the state patrol statement said.

While digging, he hit Kresen's windshield and saw Kresen sitting in the car.
He told Cawley he had been plowed in by a truck.
Kresen was stranded with no heat due to his car's broken serpentine belt and was suffering from hypothermia and frostbite, the state patrol said.
He was taken to a hospital.

[huckbucket]

That dude looks more like 78 than 58

[Timberridge]

That dude looks more like 78 than 58

Upstate is hard living.

[gravitylover]

I was thinking that too.

[Brownski]

“broken serpentine belt” Is that code for sleeping off a 12 hour drunk?

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

“broken serpentine belt” Is that code for sleeping off a 12 hour drunk?

^This guy gets it^

[Skidog]

“broken serpentine belt” Is that code for sleeping off a 12 hour drunk?

Well it's a damned good thing the serp belt was broken..he would for sure be dead had he started the car with the exhaust buried.

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[BmillsSkier]

Maybe that plow guy from Boston found new work after getting fired from his last gig?

And the responses on this page alone are why this is the TGR Thread of the Year.

[Brownski]

And the responses on this page alone are why this is the TGR Thread of the Year.

76 pages of pure gold if you ask me. And an amazing lack of vitriol. Upstate is a very welcoming place in its own way

[ncskier]

76 pages of pure gold if you ask me. And an amazing lack of vitriol. Upstate is a very welcoming place in its own way

I was thinking as much after posting in the south thread, since those discussions turn into all southerner are all racist posts.


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[Benny Profane]

I'm riding the lift once and the inevitable "where are you from?" comes up and this dude says "the Opak." I'm thinking where the fuck is "the Opak?" Then I'm thinking he said the Ozarks or something. Turns out the dude had a lisp and was from Deer Park, LI. After Boston, LI has some of the worst accents.

Some Chicago grates the ears.

[Benny Profane]

That dude looks more like 78 than 58

I've been noticing that everywhere. People are in godawful shape.

[BC13]

10 miles North of Albany we got between 28-30 inches in a 10 hr span. I grew up in WNY with heavy snow. This was the real deal. Just an enormous amount of snow.

8 weeks after ACL repair I spent 2.5 hours snow blowing the driveway and road frontage. The snow was 6 inches higher than my full sized blower.

I was on a ZOOM today with a bunch of people from the Binghamton area. They got 40 inches. 40 freaking inches.

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[BC13]

I opened my garage door and my stock Silverado looked like the original Bigfoot staring at me.

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[rideit]

10 miles North of Albany we got between 28-30 inches in a 10 hr span. I grew up in WNY with heavy snow. This was the real deal. Just an enormous amount of snow.

8 weeks after ACL repair I spent 2.5 hours snow blowing the driveway and road frontage. The snow was 6 inches higher than my full sized blower.

I was on a ZOOM today with a bunch of people from the Binghamton area. They got 40 inches. 40 freaking inches.

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I bet West Mountain had a rippin’ day...are they still open?

[Brownski]

Beautiful

[riser4]

It's not fair!

[BmillsSkier]

10 miles North of Albany we got between 28-30 inches in a 10 hr span. I grew up in WNY with heavy snow. This was the real deal. Just an enormous amount of snow.

8 weeks after ACL repair I spent 2.5 hours snow blowing the driveway and road frontage. The snow was 6 inches higher than my full sized blower.

I was on a ZOOM today with a bunch of people from the Binghamton area. They got 40 inches. 40 freaking inches.

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That’s what’s up.

[RShea]

10 miles North of Albany we got between 28-30 inches in a 10 hr span. I grew up in WNY with heavy snow. This was the real deal. Just an enormous amount of snow.

8 weeks after ACL repair I spent 2.5 hours snow blowing the driveway and road frontage. The snow was 6 inches higher than my full sized blower.

I was on a ZOOM today with a bunch of people from the Binghamton area. They got 40 inches. 40 freaking inches.

Those are the snows that the old days of a 3 stage snow blower were nice- they had a shaft with a "drift busting" auger wheel on the top ... Do not see many 3 stage snow blowers any more, so have to do a few passes and it takes more muscle no matter how good the drive train is on the blower.

[EWG]

Yup. That’s real snow. When my kids bitch about shoveling the driveway I tell them about this stuff.

They don’t understand.

Until you’ve held a shovel full of snow that weighs 67 pounds, you just can’t grasp the scale of what you are looking at.

[BC13]

I bet West Mountain had a rippin’ day...are they still open?

Yeah, West is open. The kids go there for ski club. The only time I ever skied there was once last season after dropping kids for ski club. Nive little hill. Good food in the bar.

They must have gotten at least 18 inches from the storm. The hardest hit areas were swaths around Albany down through Binghamton. Further north the snow trailed off.

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[BC13]

Those are the snows that the old days of a 3 stage snow blower were nice- they had a shaft with a "drift busting" auger wheel on the top ... Do not see many 3 stage snow blowers any more, so have to do a few passes and it takes more muscle no matter how good the drive train is on the blower.

Yeah, it was a workout helping the blower get through the snow. Just a shitload of back and forth until I smartened up. The best method was to make 10 -12 inch bites on each pass and hip check the overhanging snow. It did away with having to muscle the blower.

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[BC13]

Yup. That’s real snow. When my kids bitch about shoveling the driveway I tell them about this stuff.

They don’t understand.

Until you’ve held a shovel full of snow that weighs 67 pounds, you just can’t grasp the scale of what you are looking at.

A buddy of mine owns three rental homes. His blower died on the first pass in his own driveway. He shoveled four driveways. He is nuts.

I had ZERO intention or will to shovel that snow.

The big storms moving up the coast seem to always hit south of the ADKs. A monster storm like that one with no wind would have put Gore and Whiteface into prime mid season condition on 80% of their runs.

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[gravitylover]

A friend that lives a few minutes from the base of West said 24 at the bottom and up to 30 up top. I saw a pic of 51" at the top of Ascutney and another somewhere near Owego where the guy opened his garage door and the snow was a solid wall up to less than 2' from the top of the doorway.