Damn news media...

[MoonCat]

...As usual, telling the whole world that it snowed up here. "Buffalo is digging out..."

Um, no. We're not. Yeah, some of the suburbs are, but the pics they've been showing are from up on the thruway (the thruway authorities apparently had a brain melt and didn't send the plows out early enough) and a few of the outlying towns. I haven't even brought my snow shovels up out of the basement yet!

The city has almost nothing. Streets are mostly dry and the only snow I've seen in the city has been on lawns or on cars passing through from the suburbs.

Just sayin'.

[telecom_goddess]

From what I remember Buffalo has a history of being snowed under so....it may still come

[MoonCat]

From what I remember Buffalo has a history of being snowed under so....it may still come

Oh, it will indeed. In 2001 we had 7 ft. Yeah. 7 feet of snow. A storm cell got stuck over the city and sat there for a week, starting on Christmas Eve. My mother was snowed in at a friend's house right through Christmas.

We've also had winters with very little snow. One year they had to truck snow in for a Winter Festival. Another time the Weather Channel or somebody came to do a broadcast and again...no snow. If El Nino is acting up we don't get much.

And then there's Watertown, NY, which gets in one month about the same total we get for the whole winter. They send the snowplow drivers up there to practice.