How Much Snow in Buffalo? Imagine 6 SUVs Parked on Your Roof, All 22K Pounds of Them (only 8.17 years left)

NBC New York ^ | 11/18/22 | Storm Team 4

[Billthedrill]

There’s a lesson in here for all of us: don’t allow SUVs to park on your roof.

[al baby]

loved that show when i was a kid

[dayglored]

> Roof snow removal in Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRbsso-XtpY

That was fascinating. Thanks for posting.

[LeoTDB69]

Just another reason to go green...My roof could handle 6 Smart cars. /sarc

[FreeReign]

None of that matters, the weight of snow is fairly consistent, lake affect just means the snow developed by cold air passing over a lake as opposed to moving in a storm over land.

Lake effect snow is dry. Snow-to-water ratios are anywhere from from 20 to 1 to as much as 50 to 1.

Non lake effect snows tend to have snow-to-water rations of around 10 to 1.

Dry snow weighs less than wet snow.

As I said, Storm Team 4 is exaggerating the weight problem. Lake effect snow is not your "average" snow.

[Major Matt Mason]

We had about 5"-6" here - a decent snowfall, but in the end, not a big deal. Tonight is supposed to be the brunt of it, but it wouldn't surprise me if this ends up being mostly a nothingburger.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A man I knew who live in Buffalo said that traditionally, apartment dwellers would throw their beer cans out the window onto the snow. I’m not quite sure what the purpose of doing so would be.

[ConservativeInPA]

I didn’t think about that. If everybody had an EV there wouldn’t be a need for snow removal. Just think of the cost savings!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Isn’t that why most houses in the area have steep roofs?

[Professional Engineer]

Those eeeee-ville SUVs weight the same as a Mazda 6 sedan.

[Gay State Conservative]

According to the Weather Channel there’s at least one town that’s already gotten 5 feet!

[nascarnation]

At that point you park plow trucks and switch to earthmoving equipment.

[jjotto]

Orchard Park, where the NFL Bills play, was at 54” snow a few hours ago and expected to keep snowing tonight and tomorrow.

[Gay State Conservative]

There’s a town/region in Japan that routinely gets something like 600 inches a year.

[moovova]

I’ve driven thru Buffalo twice, coming down from Canada....both times winter. It wasn’t snowing, but there was a TON of snow on the ground. The roads were clear, thankfully. But I could see how snow could be a problem there.

[AZJeep]

Not really historic.
I remember 9 feet around 1995?!

[MayflowerMadam]

“potentially historic winter storm dumping more than 3 feet on spots”

Three feet of snow in that area isn’t potentially historic, or even historic. That happened every winter in the ‘50s and ‘60s when I lived there. How did people become so wussy?

I used to run barefoot between buildings on our property when snow was only three feet. My aunt teased me about that until the day she died in 2019.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Dry snow weighs less than wet snow.

Anyone who's skied in fluffy powder snow understands the difference.

We got about 5" of snow last night. Fluffy powder. I was able to use my leaf blower to clean off my sidewalk and driveway. Took about 15 minutes.

[metmom]

One year in CNY, we had 5 feet of snow in 3 weeks.

The Fulton, NY DPW did not have the foresight to snowblow their flat roof off.

It collapsed on them.

It was not the only roof collapse either. The Fulton Town Sport was roof shoveling. Happened a couple times a year.

[metmom]

Been there, done that, too.