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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoly Moly. Buffalo has 3 feet of snow and could get up to 6 feet
Western New York is getting buried in a lake effect snow storm, and more white stuff is on the way.
The National Weather Service said Tuesday afternoon that some parts could get nearly 6 feet of snow by Thursday. Some areas, including south Buffalo, Lancaster and West Seneca, have already reported more than 3 feet of accumulation, and the "incredible" weather could bring a total of 70 inches to the hardest hit towns.
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pics at link:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/buffalo_snow_photos_video_lake_effect.html
louis-t
(23,292 posts)Where I'm at, there's nothing. Yet.
msongs
(67,395 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)which is regularly and often, I console myself by repeating "at least I don't live in Buffalo."
cali
(114,904 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The night before I left for the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas it was a nice, brisk -26. Warmed all the way up to -17 by the time I sprinted from the front door to the cab. But a few thousand people got completely snowed in from Chicago and points northeast, especially from NYC north and never made it to Vegas at all. Airports were closed up and down the eastern seaboard from Boston to Philly.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)But I'm too broke and I heard that Las Vegas cabbies are greedy ass-holes who intentionally take the long way so they can charge you more.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)covering high-end audio for going on 20 years. January will mark my 15th CES, IIRC. The cabbies I've had have been cool and I've never been given the run around.
Fortunately high-end audio has never been down at the Vegas Convention Center (aka "the Zoo" . For years we were at a little motel called the Alexis Park off the Strip and for the last ten years it has been mostly at the Venetian, with a few outliers at the Mirage and the Flamingo.
My editor-in-chief picks me up at McCarran and we stay at a dirt cheap Extended Stay place out on Flamingo and drive in to the Strip every day. It's within walking distance of a great Asian buffet, a Carl's Jr and a 7-11 that sells beer. And we're less than a mile away from a liquor store that has tons of killer good craft beers and Zia, one of the best record stores I have ever seen. We park in the ramp at the Mirage, right across from the Venetian, and I spend the rest of the day running around listening to demo rooms. For me it is very much a working vacation, but I love it. I get to see all my hifi friends and line up new stuff to review.
The Zoo is a horror, with (100,000+) people and all their bugs and viruses from all corners of the world. Every year I had to go down there to meet someone I was always sick within two days. No problems since I stopped that.
Best part is getting taken out to 3 and 4 star restaurants for dinner and every once in a while a hole in the wall place, like Lotus of Siam, where I had what is universally acclaimed by both chefs and foodies as the best Thai food outside of Thailand. For five of us the food and beer tab for a feast fit for the King of Thailand was about $300, including tip. I've drank bottles of wine at CES dinners - on the tab of manufacturers, natch - that cost twice what that whole meal cost. CES is fun!
At least until I get home and have to write my 5000-6000 word long-form show report.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)When I was a kid I was ALWAYS confused when I saw beer commercials showing a guy getting a case of Bud Light at a gas station of grocery store, because that's not legal up here!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)Can't say I miss the snow though.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)We used to live in Buffalo, many moons ago (1979-1986), so I know lake-effect snow. We also lived in Minneapolis for 14 years. I know snow. But this is SNOW!! I can't even imagine if the wind whips up the kind of drifts that will occur. And where are they going to put it all?
I hope the weather warms up after all is said and done so they don't have to live with mountains of snow for the next five months!
cali
(114,904 posts)helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)counties in the Buffalo area have declared an emergency
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Not one snowflake.
Just killer cold.
If we're really lucky housefly season is over.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)when I wrote the comment yesterday I as talking to my sister who lives just outside of Buffalo and typing what she was telling me, today she has a snow day off and is snuggling with her kitties and hubby
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Whenever I hear about a snownami on the way I hit the grocery store and the liquor store before it hits and stay the hell inside for the duration.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Steaks, red wine, homemade bread, coq au vin, polenta ( 3 days snowed in). Nothing to do but cook, eat and drink. Oh, some jamon serrano and monchego to remind me of summer.
Good times. Get up, shovel, big breakfast, shovel, lunch with soup and sammys, nap, cook, shovel, etc.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)There's never a bad time for Spanish jamon and manchego.
I used to always cook up a pot of "empty the fridge" curry and some saffron rice. That, a bottle of good red wine and I am set. Cat sleeps on the couch and I listen to something appropriately wintry - Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky always set the right mood for a snowstorm.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)it was 47 degrees and windy. All our snow is melted (which wasn't much to begin with, maybe 2 inches on 10/20), and we're not expecting any until after Thanksgivng.
It's just so wrong. Normal temperature for this time of year here is 16.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)The walkers from TWD are frozen
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)Though they're accustomed to a lot of snow it still really sucks especially when it seems like a whole winter's load plops down all at once like this.
Blah.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)But not to worry! No climate change to be seen here.