Please keep Buffalo, the surrounding area, and other areas affected in your thoughts.
The pictures of the carnage in Buffalo do not do justice to the situation. For those who have never experienced heavy snow, simple pictures can not give you a feel for what it is like, and the anxiety that it produces.
I'll attach a few pictures of my house from a few years ago. This was only about 40 inches of snow.
The square area that I cleared with a shovel around my back deck so my dog had a place to pee took me about 6 hours to do. But you can't tell that from the picture.
The back of my house by the cherry tree...I had to trudge through that to clear my furnace vents. You do not walk through snow like that, but rather, you swim through it. Thought I was going to have a heart attack by the time I made it back to the deck. The picture can't convey that.
The opened garage door shows the snow dwarfing my snow blower. My friend came over with a bigger snow blower, but the pull start was broken. So to get a 100 ft. extension cord to his wife, who was in the street, I had to rig up a rope system to an overturned garbage can lid, and after several tries, his wife was able to catch the rope and pull the lid with the extension cord on top of it over the snow to the road where the snow blower was located.
Last pic is the snow when I opened my back door.
And all of this is with only 40 inches.
Buffalo and other areas are having a bad time right now. Not to mention that emergency vehicles can't get through to help you. The pictures out of Buffalo are bad enough, but it's about 10 times worse when you're actually in that stuff.
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It was saying "I'M NOT GOING OUT THERE"!
and I don't have photos of the worst of them, the kind where it takes days to dig out. There was one snowstorm where we were getting around on cross-country skis until the city plows could get out. If you have an emergency you might not be able to get help when you need it. A couple of years ago we got this one, where the sidewalks and streets were more like canyons.
I really do feel for the people of Buffalo.
On Dec. 23, the rain turned to sleet and snow. Eventually the winds kicked up to 60 to 79 mph sometime in the afternoon, but I wasn't paying attention to the time when the winds picked up.
On Dec. 24, the wind gusts were still awful at 2pm. I could barely get out the front door since snow was blocking it. I took a snow shovel and stabbed the snow in front of the door using my right hand/arm. When I was able to squeeze out the door, I dug out the front porch. It took me about a half hour in blowing winds to do that. I went back in to warm up.
I went back out at 4pm, and was able to dig from the front porch to the city sidewalk. I did that for a half hour in still blowing winds and white out conditions. I went back inside and didn't go back out.
Dec. 25, we dug out with the snow blower and snow shovel starting before sunrise. We helped our neighbors out as well since we live in a friendly street. Christmas was a sunny day for us.
