“while Syracuse – America’s snowiest city – typically receives 127.8 inches of snow.”
Snowiest city? That’s either a lie or just plain ignorant. 127” is just a warm-up for countless places in MI and that’s just one state.
Yes,there are places that get more snow, but as far as the category of cities is concerned, that is true for Syracuse.
Adam’s Center, north of Syracuse, is actually the snowiest place in the US. They regularly see snowfall rates from lake effect of 5”/hour.
Syracuse (I went to SU) gets a lot of lake effect snow because Lake Ontario never freezes over.
Whereas Erie typically freezes over every January.
However, during the Blizzard of 77 Erie had frozen over the earliest ever on record.
So a whole lot of snow had piled up on the ice west of Buffalo.
The wind picked up to 75 mph and blew it off the frozen lake and east onto WNY.
There were snow drifts over 10’ high.
A couple months later in March we had an ice storm. It was even worse. Broken trees, no power and no school for a week.
We hung out at my friend’s house about a mile away because his house was on a power line that never lost juice.
What sucked though was bailing water out of the sump pump hole in the basement and dumping it in the stationary tub all night long to prevent the basement from flooding.
We still ended up with about 2” of water in the basement.
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