A picture from Cheektowaga that describes the Buffalo snowstorm perfectly

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Remarkable photo of Buffalo snowstorm.

A picture from cheektowaga that describes this storm perfectly.

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[sarge43]

1. Looks like a Hieronymus Bosch painting n/t

[newbedford35]

6. Spot on sarge43: Aggregation of the Snow-fly

[sinkingfeeling]

2. That's some awesome drifting.

[rubbersole]

3. So, we should cancel our tee time?

Holy crap.

[ret5hd]

4. Maybe you shoulda thought ahead...

and bought some of those trump NFT’s and been invited down to MAL!!!

[rubbersole]

12. What did I do to piss you off 🤪?

[infullview]

5. Seen worse.

Now, if you couldn't see the tops of the cars.... As a kid I used a snow scoop to move mountains of snow. I remember opening the door from the mud room and just seeing a wall of white where the door was. I poked a hole through the snow at the top and just started shoveling. Fortunately is was just a big drift, but I remember the snow on either side path to the driveway was way taller than I was.

[wnylib]

7. There are many places in and around Buffalo where

you can't see the cars. 4 feet of snow were dumped during 70 mph winds and below zero temps.

So far, there are 27 deaths in Buffalo and suburbs from the blizzard and the numbers are still rising as people are found in buried cars, in snow banks, and in homes where power was off for 3 days.

A power station was cut off behind an 18 foot wall of snow.

[infullview]

8. If you live in a place like this you stay prepared for the worst.

I don't want to diminish the the tragic deaths, but if you live in an area like this you have to be prepared for extreme weather because it is inevitable.

[NBachers]

9. Sounds like diminishing the tragic deaths to me.

[wnylib]

10. Sounds like it to me, too.

[wnylib]

11. Some things are beyond people's control

no matter how prepared they are.

You can have layers of warm clothing and blankets, flashlights, etc. and stay inside your own home, but when the power goes off for 3 full days while 70 mph winds are creating drifts as high as 18 feet while 4 feet of snow are falling, windows are blown out by the wind, and emergency agencies can't respond, there will be deaths.

We don't know why some people were buried in their cars or on foot in snow drifts because we don't have the details on the deaths yet. Maybe they were desperately seeking help for themselves or someone else when ambulances and fire trucks could not get to people. Maybe they were on their way to help someone else in a desperate situation. Maybe they just got off work and thought they could get home to ride out the blizzard.

No doubt that some were foolish to think that they could go somewhere in a blizzard this bad. They might have been over confident about their ability to handle it precisely because they were used to bad Buffalo winters. At the beginning of the blizzard they might have thought, like some posters here have said about the current conditions in Buffalo, "Oh I've seen worse" not knowing just how bad it would get in a short time.

I lived through a similar blizzard in Cleveland in 1978, so I have an idea just how bad this one got. This is the worst blizzard in Buffalo history, exceeding even what Buffalonians are used to dealing with.

[asiliveandbreathe]

13. Feb 6, 1978..worked in Braintree Ma..I was an observer of calls for

NETCO.."okay, you can all leave at 3PM.."..N on RT128..S RT 95..N RT 495.to my rural town of Holliston..my little Gremlin got me home..I could feel and hear the snow on the under carriage of the car..5 days later the kiddos and I made our way to the end of the driveway..the front end loader came through..we shoveled a path out to the road..We had a snowmobile so my 14 year old went door to door for what they might need..milk, bread etc..short ride to our little village store..not much left but managed to get something for everyone..

When I think back on that evening ride, and following tire tracks and rear lights..I made it 3 hours..normally 1 hour ride, I was able to get the car just up the driveway enough ..off the road..I was on call, having a CD (civil Defense) license, but way down the list, because of the children..co-workers phoned around making sure everyone was okay..

Just one of many Where Were You Stories..but, you don't forget..be well all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..

http://archive.boston.com/news/weather/gallery/013108_78blizzard?pg=6