Over the course of the nearly 50 years I spent in my native New Jersey, there have been some wild weather days. Not just heavy snows, extreme flooding, hurricanes/tropical storms, and very quick switches from very warm/hot days to cold ones. What stands out in my memory are two occasions:

One was a day when I was actually in New York City. It started out a pleasant sunny day, then all of a sudden an extreme wind storm showed up. It was like being in a hurricane! Then suddenly calm again. It was kind a WTF moment.

The second was sometime in the early to mid 1980s. We had a nor'easter blizzard, but what made it extra wild were the extreme snow drifts. I grew up on a semi-rural road. The way the snow drifts formed it was like the road looked like a capital "U" with the lowest part of the "U" even about 2 feet deep. No one could possibly go anywhere, even if they wanted to. It was even much worse than the day, years later, shown in the attached photo my husband took from our then house.