{"id":29165,"date":"2017-12-27T10:25:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T15:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29165"},"modified":"2017-12-27T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T15:25:35","slug":"snowmageddon-dumps-record-60-inches-of-snow-on-erie-pa-declaration-of-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29165","title":{"rendered":"Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches Of Snow On Erie, PA; “Declaration Of Disaster”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches Of Snow On Erie, PA; “Declaration Of Disaster”<\/a><\/h3>\n
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On Tuesday, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania signed a declaration of disaster emergency, after a two-day storm dumped 5-feet of snow. Heavy lake-effect snow set record-setting snowfall totals in the snow belts to the east of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.<\/p>\n

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From 7 p.m. on Dec. 24 to 6:02 p.m. Dec. 26, Erie had received 60.0
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AccuWeather Meteorologist Bill Deger said, \u201cthis is now the biggest two-day snow total on record for Pennsylvania, besting the old record of 44 inches, which was set in Morgantown from March 20-21, 1958.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dale Robinson, the county\u2019s emergency management coordinator, said that the declaration will allow the National Guard to respond to the paralyzed region. Robinson adds the National Guard deployment is \u201creally for precautionary measures for the additional amount of snow we think we\u2019re going to get.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Images posted on social networks showed a world covered in several feet of snow:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nErie, PA: One resident\u2019s house is barely recognizable with over 5-feet of snow.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nErie, PA: Brave man dreams about baseball in the chest-high snow.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nErie, PA: Resident is trapped within the home upon opening the door to over 5-feet of snow.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches Of Snow On Erie, PA; “Declaration Of Disaster” On Tuesday, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania signed a declaration of disaster emergency, after a two-day storm dumped 5-feet of snow. Heavy lake-effect snow set record-setting snowfall totals in the snow belts to the east of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. From […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3316,2924,17667,288,619,3367,17668,4318],"class_list":["post-29165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-disaster","tag-emergency","tag-erie","tag-extreme-weather","tag-pennsylvania","tag-snow","tag-snowmageddon","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29166,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165\/revisions\/29166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}