{"id":5796,"date":"2011-02-02T08:26:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2011-02-02T08:26:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:26:03","slug":"the-groundhog-day-blizzard-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/the-groundhog-day-blizzard-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i looked up &#8220;blizzard&#8221; on wikipedia and found that yep, it is (was) a blizzard, PLUS, and MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY, the blizzard ALREADY HAS A NAME!!!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>blizzard<\/strong> is a severe <a title=\"Storm\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Storm\">storm<\/a> condition characterized by strong winds and reduced visibility. By definition, the difference between blizzard and a <a title=\"Winter storm\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winter_storm#Snow\">snowstorm<\/a> is the strength of the wind. To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have  winds in excess of 56\u00a0km\/h (35 mph) with blowing or drifting snow which  reduces visibility to 400 meters or \u00bc mile or less and must last for a  prolonged period of time \u2014 typically three hours or more.<sup id=\"cite_ref-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blizzard#cite_note-0\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> <\/em><em>Ground blizzards require high winds to stir up already fallen snow. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Blizzards can bring near-whiteout conditions, and can paralyze  regions for days at a time, particularly where snowfall is unusual or  rare. The <a title=\"1972 Iran blizzard\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1972_Iran_blizzard\">1972 Iran blizzard<\/a>, which caused approximately 4000 deaths, was the deadliest in recorded history.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t mention in that last post that they closed a huge stretch of the highway I-55, which of course is a huge deal.<\/p>\n<p>but hmm, should it really be called the groundhog day blizzard, since technically, didn&#8217;t most of it happen yesterday, the day BEFORE groundhog day?\u00a0 but then again, &#8220;The Day Before Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011&#8221; doesn&#8217;t roll so nicely off the tongue, does it?\u00a0 plus probably a lot of the east coast is still getting hammered (in a snow-and-wind-blizzard hammering kind of way, not in a getting drunk kind of way).<\/p>\n<p>now i&#8217;m really being a slacker not helping with all the snow, so here i gooooooo&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>ok then,<\/p>\n<p>mrs. GROUNDHOG DAY BLIZZARD OF 2011 hughes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i looked up &#8220;blizzard&#8221; on wikipedia and found that yep, it is (was) a blizzard, PLUS, and MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY, the blizzard ALREADY HAS A NAME!!! blizzard is a severe storm condition characterized by strong winds and reduced visibility. By definition, the difference between blizzard and a snowstorm is the strength of the wind. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blizzard-of-11"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JLYy-1vu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}