Okay you know the area. this one came right off the lake with Buffalo in the direct line - which means Cheektowaga, Lancaster and Depew should be (and was) in the direct line of fire.
They are open. The city is not, I know its harder to get the snow off the smaller streets, but here’s my point: You have a travel ban - while most of the help the city needs are coming from outside of the city.
Fortunately, it’s warming up. It’ll be more manageable soon.
But there are a LOT of lessons from this storm - for everyone.
OKAY, I will say it. The people who live in the city are LAZY.
They expect the city to come and clear the streets.
In a situation like this you have to take care of yourself and your neighborhood.
IF you are waiting on the town road crew to come to your rescue you could be waiting a long time.
We had thousands of trees come down here in NH since Friday.
You go out with your chainsaw and cut it up. You push the logs out of the way with a tractor.
You go out in the street and you clear it with snow blowers and shovels.
I can't imagine any significant changes. I live in New York, and its such a one-party, bureaucratic state, nothing changes without money from Fed.gov, union buy-in, directives from Albany, and several court cases. Its created a mentality of complete stasis among government and population.
Storms will continue to hit Buffalo, and people will continue to complain about snow plowing. Its an iron law.