Posted on 11/27/2023 6:50:21 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Lake-Effect Snow Warnings have been issued along the eastern shores of Lakes Erie and Ontario as the region braces for the first significant multiday lake-effect snowstorm of the season that will kick into high gear starting Monday.
The gloomy winter weather comes on the heels of a powerful storm that brought several inches of snow from the Plains states to the Great Lakes region and slowed travel over the Thanksgiving weekend, leaving at least three people dead as a result.
The FOX Forecast Center says cold air being pulled in from Canada will flow over the unfrozen and still relatively warm Great Lakes, resulting in lake-effect snow that will likely last until at least Wednesday.
That places parts of western New York and the Erie, Pennsylvania, area at risk of seeing well over a foot of snow.
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Mrs Vader was 12 at the time and it caused her family to relocate from williamsville to northern VA the next summer
I was in my 20’s for that and by the grace of God, did not go into work that day because the trip home Thursday night was so bad that I decided not to go in but take a vacation day (which I was allowed to do. We had a few call in days we could use a couple times a year.)
My dad went in and it hit just seconds after he walked in the building. He was stuck at work all weekend.
One can only hope.
Fort Drum sometimes has to send out its tanks to pull the snowplows out of drifts of fields where they got stuck.
My mom continued to live in Orchard Park until she passed at the age of 92 a few years ago.
I left in 1985 for NH. Have been here since.
As if Bills fans didn’t have it bad enough.
Every year, the moron media acts as if there’s never been winter storms or lake-effect snow before.
Too funny! Of course the owner might not have thought so.
That year, and the year after we had unusually large snowfalls for us here in Central Kentucky, ~24", and like you, we had huge snow drifts.
There was a tragedy one of those years: a 6-year-old boy went out to play in the snow and after a while his mother thought it was time for him to come back in, but when she went out, she couldn't find him. A big search ensued with cops, firemen, and volunteers but they still couldn't find him. They didn't know if he had wandered off or had been abducted or what. In the spring when the snow drifts melted, they found his body only a few feet from the door.
That is a really sad story.
It makes me think of jumping off the roof of one of my friends house. They had a ranch house with a walk out basement in the back. The snow drifted in there about 10’ deep. We jumped off the roof into the snowbank that winter.
We also set up a snow cross trail where the snowmobile would pull a skier with a rope tow from a water ski boat. The driver of the snowmobile would turn so the skier would swing out and go over a jump. Just a bunch of teenage kids having fun in the snow.
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