Damn that 'global warming': ‘Bomb’ blizzard buried cars and homes with more than 12 feet of snow in parts of Newfoundland

The historic blizzard that slammed Canada’s easternmost province is headed for Greenland — but it left snow-buried neighborhoods, a slew of power outages and shattered records in its wake.
St. John’s superseded its record for the most snow in 24 hours, recording 30 inches, as the storm hit Newfoundland and Labrador on Friday. A state of emergency continued in the provincial capital and elsewhere on Saturday as businesses were ordered closed and only emergency vehicles were allowed on the roads. Snow drifts rose 12 to 15 feet high on some highways, officials said.
“Newfoundlanders are going to be talking about this for a very, very long time,” said Ashley Brauweiler, a meteorologist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in the province. Her station lost power during the storm and had to stop broadcasting. At one point, she told The Washington Post, people there couldn’t even open the door because of the snow that had piled up on the other side.
St. John’s International Airport measured 30 inches of snowfall Friday, its snowiest single day in records dating to 1942. The previous record of 26.9 inches was set in April 1999. Totals in other areas were higher, and wind speeds of 100 mph or greater made it difficult to measure the snow amid blowing and drifting.
Hurricane-force winds piled snow against homes, and residents woke Saturday to drifts that completely covered their cars and blocked first floors.
As one person put it on Twitter atop a picture of icy white pushing all the way up their windows: “All we can do now is hibernate!”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/01/18/newfoundland-historic-snow-blizzard/

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Damn that 'global warming': ‘Bomb’ blizzard buried cars and homes with more than 12 feet of snow in parts of Newfoundland

Damn that 'global warming': ‘Bomb’ blizzard buried cars and homes with more than 12 feet of snow in parts of Newfoundland

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