Buffalo is getting hammered!

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killface

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<< hahahahahaha....I'm a Niagara Falls man, but I'm up in Plattsburgh, NY right now and we got nothin! I'm going to call home to the Town of Niagara to laugh at tose poor fools tonight.:) >>


Niagara falls isn't even getting hit bad. People in Grand Island were reporting nice weather. It basically keeps wavering back and forth between Lackawanna (just south of Buffalo) and Tonawanda (just north of the city). I'm more toward the north end, but we seem to be getting hit the hardest.
I just hope we don't run out of beer.
 

gregor7777

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I just hope we don't run out of beer.


I hear ya there. Nothing like getting hammered during a western new york blizzard. :)

 

bjc112

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6 feet... man i wish we get that in Pittsburgh this year,, most likely the biggest we will get is 1 foot. :p

except 93 we got 3 ft over night... i am hoping for that this year, seems like it is gonna be a good year! :p
 

rh71

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I went to school at University at Buffalo for 4.5 years... 9/95 - 12/99... it was a hell of a lot of fun for sure. I thought we had the worst snow storm during one of those years... banned all driving then too. SUVs are fun to drive and I'll laugh at anyone who asked why I owned one. I was prepared for Buffalo... that's why. I did a 180 coming out of a turn and people must have said "that idiot" while I thought it was fun as hell.

I really do miss being there in Buffalo. Down in NY - Long Island now... not a centimeter of snow yet. I like to check in on webcams there once in a while... I miss the environment... the atmosphere... the snow... the UB chicks... etc. ;)
 

gregor7777

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I really do miss being there in Buffalo. Down in NY - Long Island now... not a centimeter of snow yet. I like to check in on webcams there once in a while... I miss the environment... the atmosphere... the snow... the UB chicks... etc.



I agree man. The WNY area is one of the nicest places I've eve lived. It has a rep of being kinda dreary, but the people and the atmosphere there are great.
 

killface

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<< *kat. <-- i love you sampson! >>


Are there any Canadian women you don't know, Sammy? (bastard)
 

jaydee

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Rochester is starting to get some finally. I'm about 20 miles south, and we got I'd say 8-10 inches. It is all fluff though, extremely dry, it won't last long if we have a warm day or two. Roads are real slick, I almost put myself in the ditch twice in a 3 mile drive.
 

ultimatebob

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Meanwhile, southern New York hasn't seen a flake of snow for the past 8 months. Why is this freaking town called WHITE Plains, anyway? :)
 

Yea, were at about 7 feet.

So last night at 11pm when we had 54 or so inches mother nature decides we simply don't have enough yet.
So she unleashed 2 additional feet, give or take a few inches.
I walked home through a parking lot waist deep, again at 4am.


 

Jittles

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Damn you!! I'm jealous. I wish we had that much snow!!!!!!

Right now we just got done with ~35-40 degree temps in ALASKA and all the f00kin snow is melting off the roads and everywhere! GAH! I want more snow.

(Then I can go snowmachining w00t!)
 

AaronP

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I heard that EXACT same statement from a friend of mine back in 1992. But Warren Moon and the Oilers fell apart and Frank Reich helped the Bills circle the wagons and make the biggest comeback in NFL history.
 

Slacker

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I used to live up there, I dont miss it except for christmas eve/day, it would be nice to have snow on those two days :D

I lived in rochester, then leroy, then stafford, stafford was bigtime BOONDOCKS we lived in a freakin double wide trailer totaly exposed for a mile all around by feilds in the winter the snow would try to bury our trailer, there was one next to us with a 100 foot space between them and then there was no other houses for MILES , the snow would drift up to the roof line between the trailers, our pipes froze every winter which wasnt as big a problem as it sounds because you couldnt drink the water any way, it was full of sulphur and natural gas, there was an old man down the road who would come by with his tractor and dig us out so our drive way looked like a bunker with snow piled up ten feet high all around it, people would come around on snowmobiles and take grocery lists for us and they cleared the roads with massive snowblowers in the parts where the drifts would get over 15 feet, I was out in the front yard playing once when it started snowing and blowing HARD for a full minute I could not see anything but white, could not move cause I couldnt see anything, that was seriously freaky, my parents have some pictures, one is a guy standing next to a street sign, it was next to his foot, he was standing on a drift, in another there is a car that parked on top of another car that had been buried in a drift, yeah, I dont miss it so much :D
 

jaydee

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Hey Slacker, you really were out in the boondocks, I live in York, about 5 miles SE of LeRoy, and a little farther from Stafford (it's right next to Alexander right?). It hasn't been too bad down here in my lifetime except of course the blizzard of '94, that was some heavy stuff. Heh, you were here the year of the ice storm (probably '92 or '93)? The power was out for almost a week. That is pretty much my first memory of extreme weather. Icicles that went from the rain gutter down to the ground. It covered everything. Ice, ice, ice everywhere. Those were the days.
 

need4spd

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man... I really miss the snow.

Used to live in upstate Michigan!

Now I am in soggy CA
 

fooshkee

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I work for a call center that hanldes microsoft product activation... we share our calls with another big call center in Buffalo...
They have been closed today and yesterday so we have to handle ALL the calls... its pure hell.. back to back calls for 8 hrs straight.... I can't take it anymore... I'll be glad when this snow is out of the way.
 

Slacker

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I lived in leroy from 1970 to 1975 , then stafford from 1975 to 1980, I am south of the Mason Dixon line now :D
 

Saltin

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It is obvious that Mother Nature's plan is to completely cover Buffalo, thereby allowing us to forget it ever exsisted.
 

jaydee

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Ah slacker, you got all the good stuff my parents talk about 'back in the day'. I (born in '83) really haven't seen more than I can handle, but then again, I'm the kinda guy who likes going out and play with my dog in 3 feet of snow.