Interesting. I lived about 25 miles from North East, PA, at that time. I remember a bit of news about that, but I didn't have time to cogitate on it, much - as noted, we had a vicious winter that year, and I was working overtime with the DPW, doing snow removal - roofs off public historic wood-framed Carpenter Gothic structues; digging out fire hydrants - most of the village was summer residents. We had about twenty elderly homeowners, and the foreman would do wellness calls and visits - and have us dig out their walks, too. Even if they couldn't walk outside in the three feet of snow on the ground, family and emergency crews needed to do so.
A few of our guys made some pocket money shoveling off some of their roofs, too, on their own time.
Reading that article, I noticed how they had to use Climb Bate Change as a hook on the story. Oh, woe is us...WE'RE GONNA BURN UP, TOO MANY SUVs! They note that was a hard winter...but, COMPARED TO WHAT.
Compared to the 1960s, of which I remember well...? Yes. After a hard winter, 1963-64, we went about eight years in Cleveland with hardly any snow. North East is about 100 miles northeast of Cleveland...the weather is more severe, different weather pattern, but not that different. They'd get as much snow as Lake County, Ohio - and it would average about five degrees colder.
They doubtless had the same snow-less winters we had in Cleveland, when I was in the first grade and not able to check national weather maps in the newspaper.
Later weather patterns follow...what they always follow. A few mild winters; then a few hard ones. Up and down. I remember a photo of Chautauqua Lake, 1952 - that was the lake my resort village was on. Typically it would freeze over about December 1.
It never froze in 1952. Were there too many SUVs at that time? Maybe it was all the coal steam locomotives. But if they solved it, why did the problem return after emissions standards in the 1970s?
Or, maybe they're counting on their readers to have neither critical-thinking skills nor personal perspectives?
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