“993 Storm of the Century aka March Superstorm of 1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century";
I remember that one: After it was over and the roads got cleared enough we could start getting around I was struck by something I had never seen before or since:
On 104 (Which runs near Lake Ontario) just east of Rochester NY I saw several snowplow trucks (The big ones made out of dump trucks with salt spreaders on the back) stuck here and there... some were nearly on their side and some were buried nearly up to the roof. It was a few days before they were able to recover them. They were attempting to plow the highway during the storm and were overwhelmed. The ones I saw were off in the median. I presume they had recovered the ones stuck in the road as part of reopening it.
I’m familiar with 104.
Rumor has it that up in the Watertown area, when the lake effect is bad enough that the plows go off the road and get stuck, they get out the tanks from Fort Drumm and pull them out.