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How I got into meteorology: Alex Sosnowski
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2/5/2024
AccuWeather Flooding Expert Alex Sosnowksi shares how Hurricane Agnes sparked his interest in weather, in celebration of National Weatherperson's Day.
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It's National Weather Person's Day, so we need to know,
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what got you interested in the weather and when?
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Yeah, but Bob, we'll give you about 45 seconds.
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- All right, well, that's an easy one.
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It was Agnes 1972, Hurricane Agnes 1972.
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I lived in Wyoming Valley in a town called Kingston,
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which was down in the flats there,
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which is the lower part as far as elevation goes.
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So we had a lot of water on our street.
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We had 30 feet of water on our street
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and having a ranch home at the time,
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it was pretty dramatic event.
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I remember heading over the river,
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the Marcus Street Bridge that morning during the evacuation
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and seeing the water level already climbing
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pretty far up on the levee system there.
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But that's probably the linchpin.
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There's been some other factors, of course.
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I got interested with some of the big snow storms
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in the 1960s occurring around the holidays and that.
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And then an accident I had on icy conditions
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when I was in college,
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well, that just solidified the whole thing.
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That was after snow squalls went through
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and there was a flash freeze on Interstate 80
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near Cunningham, which is that canyon through there,
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which doesn't get a lot of sun.
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It was in March.
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So as soon as the sun went down,
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that froze and it was pretty scary for me.
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But that made my mind up right there.
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