[Fredslist] Buffalo Snow

[Sarah Annese]

Ah yes, the 7 foot blizzard of 2001. Myself, my brother, mother and father (Mitch Tobol) were visiting my maternal grandmother for Christmas that year. Dad dutifully went out every couple of hours to shovel the snow. At one point during the day he picked up the shovel, turned around, and realized he had no where to put it, there was so much snow surrounding him. We walked to get pizza on Elmwood the next day through mountains of snow. Unforgettable. 

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> On Jan 4, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Gerald Goldhaber <geraldgoldhaber at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> What an insult to Buffalo!  We don't even count snow accumulation until at least a foot has fallen, and even then, it's hard to get an accurate measurement because the snow crews remove it so fast, the kids barely have enough time to build a snowman.  When I first moved to NYC ten years ago from Buffalo, I thought I'd landed in Miami Beach by mistake.  True Fact:  In the thirty years I lived in Buffalo (1974-2004), I only recall five major storms that shut down the city for more than a day (the blizzard of '77 (during which hurricane winds turned a lake effect storm into a nightmare with drifts over 20 feet high, the '85 storm that hit the whole NE gave us 4 feet to clear (in 1 day…I flew to NYC and the same storm dropped half the snow and it crippled the city for a week), the '93 storm of the century that hit most of the Eastern half of the U.S., the Thanksgiving Storm of 2000 where snow fell at a rate of 4-6"an hour until 3 feet had fallen (it was all gone in a day) and the 7 foot storm of 2001 (that's right…7 FEET OF SNOW).  That was the whitest christmas in history, but alas, all the snow had been cleared within two days.  
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> On Saturday, January 4, 2014 9:26 AM, Fred Klein <FKlein at kleinzelman.com> wrote:
> Mitch felt like he was back in Buffalo yesterday. Click on the below link to read more and stay warm!
> 
> Sent from
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