I had friends, here in New Jersey, with big dump trucks, who went up to work during that blizzard.
We got a lot of help from other communities.
The most fascinating thing was Toronto sending down their Metro Melter, which was basically a giant snowblower truck with likely propane or oil fuel that chewed up the snowbanks and then melted it and put it down the sewer.
There was nothing else to do with the snow. Buffalo is a very compact city and there was literally nowhere to put the snow. Lake Erie was frozen over and they couldn’t dump it there.