Posted on 12/01/2024 9:21:45 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Paralyzing amounts of snow are continuing to smother towns along the eastern shores of the Great Lakes as a record-breaking lake-effect snowstorm blasts the region, prompting major road closures and travel bans.
As of Sunday, snowfall totals have exceeded 3 feet downwind of Lake Erie in parts of northwestern Pennsylvania’s Erie County and western New York south of Buffalo and downwind of Lake Ontario in northern New York, and an additional 1-2 feet of snow is possible before the storm begins to wind down.
With snow falling between 1 and 4 inches an hour, accumulations overwhelmed efforts to keep roads clear under the heaviest bands.
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When I was a kid, we called that “winter”.
I don’t want to hear any crying from the leftist media and politicians about a few snow storms in the north this winter.
After what they have done to WNC and ETN in the aftermath of Helene, I hope Trump denies them any disaster funds for anything over the next 4 years. Or, Trump’s FEMA director can have its employees put a black X on any home that has a Harris, BLM flag, or “Hate has no Home Here” sign and just move on to the next one.
(I’m grumpy this afternoon. After a sleepless night, I finally fell asleep and something woke me up).
Impossible, Al Gore said snow would be a memory by now.
I talked to a friend in Silverthorne, CO. He said they got 3 feet the other day but acted like that was no big deal. I-70 was closed for some hours, I did see that.
I am reminded of the brutal fall and winter of 1976 -1977.
Thanksgiving was super cold with wind. 18 degrees wind chill factor. January of 77 had total cloud cover over the entire continental US.
It was used as proof we were entering THE COMING ICE AGE!
And Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well!
Yes, we have LOTS to be thankful for. I'm 72 with a number of ailments that annoy me: hypertension, enlarged prostate, neuropathy, tinnitus, bad teeth, joint inflammation, etc. BBUT!...
Best FRegards,
Dayglored
God bless 🙏
I believe it was 2 Christmas’ ago...people died in trapped in their cars just trying to get home from work.
I remember, there were 9 feet of snow in Buffalo.
An surprisingly, almost no snow like 30 miles east of it.
Buffalo area is notorious for big dump snowfalls, lying as it does between two of the smaller Great Lakes. Erie is the most shallow of the five large ones (some include Lake St Clair, which would make six).
Some years ago I drove into and through it to visit friends about an hour east of there, on a heels of a bad one. They lived in an older part of town, and the street leading to their apartment building was a sort of canyon, with the occasional end of a bumper or a rear view mirror sticking out on either side. :^)
Lake Effect snow tends to hit early in the winter, while there's still a residue of heat in the waters. Typically a hot summer where the lakes really warm up is followed by a heavy snow year.
Overall, around here we tend to get perhaps three big ones with snowfall in excess of 18 inches. Last winter we had a single bad week, I was still working and slept there after shift change. At 8am there was barely a way to even get down my road out here in The Boonies, and no way to get into the driveway.
My plow guy ran so far behind I had to find something to do until 10:30-11am, two days in a row.
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