12-26-2012, 08:27 PM
TeeJay, Buffalo sits on the east end of Erie, and can be a bad place to be when it snows, but worse yet is Watertown NY.
When I was training to operate a hydro plant there in 1983 it was one of the least snowiest winters they had ever had. I only saw one snow that was 21 inches, the rest were just 2-4, with nothing hanging around long because of warm spells.
The following year between the shop and the office there there was 108 inches at Christmas.
I remember coming home from there for the weekend one Friday and I saw a tiny snow flurry when we hit the east side of Buffalo. My buddy was driving, and he started making fun of me saying I saw a snow flake. 20 minutes later there were 6 inches of "snow flakes" and he didn't think it was so funny any more.
10 miles west of Buffalo it was clear and dry, but we hit it again just east of Erie so we decided to take 79 south instead of going west to Ohio 11 like we usually did.
Charlie
When I was training to operate a hydro plant there in 1983 it was one of the least snowiest winters they had ever had. I only saw one snow that was 21 inches, the rest were just 2-4, with nothing hanging around long because of warm spells.
The following year between the shop and the office there there was 108 inches at Christmas.
I remember coming home from there for the weekend one Friday and I saw a tiny snow flurry when we hit the east side of Buffalo. My buddy was driving, and he started making fun of me saying I saw a snow flake. 20 minutes later there were 6 inches of "snow flakes" and he didn't think it was so funny any more.
10 miles west of Buffalo it was clear and dry, but we hit it again just east of Erie so we decided to take 79 south instead of going west to Ohio 11 like we usually did.
Charlie