We enjoyed a beautiful weekend and started this Tuesday with heavy down pours. The temperature was relatively warm all week but very wet. Then we heard about the perfect storm scenario.
This is Flushing Ave near Ridgewood in Queens NY at around 0720 this morning. Started with big heavy wet flakes and continued to snow all day I heard. But where I worked in Rosedale near JFK was raining pretty much all day until late in the afternoon.
The whole day I heard about Southern Brooklyn getting heavy snow. Then the sales guy called from Jersey said they are running scared and can't wait to go home.
Once again, Flushing Ave but at 0600pm. Stuck in traffic with wheels deep in the 6 inches of slush. It's so slushy and wet, I felt like walking in the water but with extreme precaution since it was very hard to walk. My ABS constantly hammered below my feet and the TCS keep the wheel from spinning out of control.
Almost home, at the traffic light I decided to open the window and shined a flash on to the fallen snow.
My friend on Facebook asked how's the snow we are getting and told her very small amount. But little did I realize how much I was missing out from too much internet tonight that when I open the blinds I found myself inside THE PERFECT STORM.
0730AM 02/26/2010. NYC schools are closed on an emergency schedule this morning at 5AM. I phoned in to work and told my boss after 30minutes of digging the car is no where near coming out of my spot with brand new tires. So I'm going to try mass transit however both the L and M runs above ground at one point so they are really slow. Plus the buses are no where to be seen. One just pass by but packed as HELL. I'm trying to hitch a ride with somebody's SUV. 2 weeks ago we closed office for a storm that was only packing just fraction of the power compare to this one. I highly doubt I can make it and besides coming back home is another story.
This is the pavement I have to walk on and this is considered OK, the other block seems the owners are just too lazy to come out and fight a losing battle.
Pretty sight I must admit
This stuff really sticks. Yesterday's rain, sleet, and wet snow packed in overnight due to drop in temperature. This snow came during the middle of a huge crisis at work. We are so busy these days. The problem we have, god, don't know how to describe. Now the snow. Oh well, look at the bright side, it's Beautiful.
I couldn't just stay home all day while the fun resides just subway stops away. With that in mind, I hopped on the L line and here I am exiting off Union Sq station. I wanted to do some general street shots. All shots are composed from my 18-200 lens on A mode.
Snowing bloody murder here in NYC. This was on 4th Ave just down below Union SQ.
Astor Place, the spot of the famous Cube. Here I met up my boy TL and head down to St Marks for some quality Ramen and hot Sake. He was obviously late on the train thanks to multiple delays due to the wet wet weather we've been getting for the whole week. I've never seen day time blizzards like this before. The snow was coming down hard. On the weather map the storm system system spins counter clock and rotating moistures just like a hurricane.
Scrambling for umbrella, the temp was just above freezing so the precipitation was anywhere from sleet snow to rain and ice. 
There were buses running but just very very slow. Plus the city cut the number of buses to accommodate the decline in customers today since many of them stayed home. 
雨過天青, This spinning storm is very tropical storm like. Matter of fact on Thursday when this all started we were high in the 40's and I even heard thunders. The blue sky you see here is probably the center of the storm or the eye. What we have to worry now is the spring like temp the next whole week. All these snow will melt and flash floods are imminent.
You can actually see the dark clouds coming and instantly the a Sunny day transforms back into a wintry blizzards. I walk around with my DSLR exposed to the element. As soon as the blizzard starts I reach for my plastic cover and wrap it around my camera body.
New York's Finest.
This morning when I woke up and up to the point I gave up trying to go to work this storm was a steady phenomenon that punished the Greater New York area with full power wintry windstorm. But during course of my 3 hour walk so far, that weather has changed several times. This is by the edge of the Hudson and the weather became once again scenic and pretty with white clouds floating in a sea of blue and the earth is white too.
We left the pier and headed back to the "civilization" however a few blocks away we were astonished by how quickly entered blizzard again, wow, this weather is so unpredictable with this thing spinning above us.
Peace on earth finally, the storm seems to have stop short. But I trust the weather map, that thing is still spinning. (matter of fact few hours after this photo at around 0700pm, the storm whipped some craziness again) Broadway and 12 street Downtown Manhattan
The kids enjoyed the end of 2nd and hopefully the last or maybe another soon, snow day with some old fashion urban warfare.
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