Next time a big snowstorm hits this area hopefully next year around the same time I'm not going to wait at all I'm going to head up there the day after it stops snowing or maybe better yet sleep there a few days during. Thanks for watching
Hey, this is my neck of the woods! Don't worry about the Mohawk too much. Yes, it's low, but part of that is (I believe) because of the lock system. This time of year the locks are wide open and the water doesn't pool. From Spring to Fall the water is artificially high because the locks are closed and the water flow is restricted.
Much of the snow has melted. Also note that life felt is highly local . A place with 2 feet might have 6 feet a few blocks away. The 7 foot snow was in the higher elevations of Orchard Park and Hamburg, aka the Boston Hills.
Give Upstaters 3 days and they can move a lot of snow. That comes from experience, proper equipment and a lake to dump the snow into. Early storms are bad because the lake isn’t frozen over yet. It’s hard to explain to people that lake effect isnt a proper snowstorm. It’s closer to how a sand storm works.
right. snow will compact and just because 80" fell in total, you'll have a hard time sticking a tape measure in a couple days later coming up with 80" still. and at the time he went, we had just gotten a bunch of rain and warmer weather, which lead to a bunch of the snow melting. also the ground isn't frozen really, it takes time for it to freeze up, and heat will still radiate up from below and melt snow. to me, it seems like a waste of a trip going there so long after the snow fell.
Thanks for the memories! I used to live in upstate NY and spent many winters clearing lake effect snow. It usually hit the Watertown area the worst, as the westerly winds got a good run across the length of Lake Ontario. Yes I've lifted shovel loads over my head to clear sidewalk and driveway, and well remember dump trucks being loaded with it to take down and dump in the Genesee river. Where I live now we don't get so much snow, but it can be -40 in the winter - and on fire in the summer. Oh well.
Great footage. Heads up, those crews are absolutely killing it, and there's no dispute on the actual snowfall amount. Btw if the cities immediately clear lanes and block driveways/lots, they shut everything back down (hence, the loaders and dump trucks). Everyone is working together to dig out.
Reed Timmer chased that storm. Check out his channel. He went there and caught the storm live. Pretty epic snow storm imho and I'm from Colorado, so I am used to blizzards and feet of snow. Thanks for a great video!
I was hoping your curiosity got the better of ya! We rarely get snow in my area of the states. Seven feet of snow is just crazy. We got 63 inches of rain during hurricane Harvey. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us. Stay safe.🙏🏼❤️
Whoa, 63" of rain in an area where it is cold enough to snow would be around 600" of snow, 50' If we weren't in another drought in Ca. 63" would be around 5 years of average rain, right now maybe ten or more years' worth.
This is something I would do. Road trip to see some awesome snow! You're always doing stuff that I would do for fun! Your channel is the best!!! I hope one day you will go to West Point. I love it there!
The area of Buffalo that you went through by those garbage cans in the st. is my neighborhood. You should've come through a few days before. Was beyond worse than what you've seen. Even after payloaders went down our st. there was still at least 20 inches left on the street itself. Also, Buffalo and it's surrounding areas don't have industrial snow blowers. All the clean up was done by plows and payloaders filling dump trucks. I enjoy watching your videos so I was definitely excited to see you around my area.
And also, We were in the 40s with a lot of “sun” so yes, a lot of the snow did melt throughout the week. Wish you could of came here when it happened it was insane!
I live in Rochester 80 or so miles east on the thruway. No snow here at all but i got shipped off to buffalo to go help with snow clearing. Sent me to the cheektowaga/sloan area and there were neighborhoods still full of snow when i got there on the 21st. Under the snow was 4 inches of ice so we were tasked with not only clearing snow but busting up and removing the ice. I should have taken pictures but got caught up in moment of gotta get it done. The streets were like a warzone where the ice had melted in certain spot but not others so you could only go 5 or so mph before the road knocked the fillings outta ur head. Appreciate your content and coverage! Keep up the good work!
Here in Finland when I was a kid, I didn't need to buy hockey pucks because in the spring I would go t places where people played ice hockey and collect bunch of hockey pucks from the snow and ice. Once I managed to gather about 20 from one place alone.
I remember after the Blizzard of 1978 they reported Buffalo was putting the snow into rail hoppers and shipping it south until it melted. All electronic tolling in the US was supposed to be compatible by 2016. It is a work in progress but it is getting closer each year. I read several toll roads in FLA and all of GA have joined the EZ-Pass network as of 2021. EZ-Pass is the predominant technology being used and I can use my NJ EZ-Pass (CT has no tolls so had to get NJ) from Illinois to Maine to NC.
I live in Orchard Park, which got 80 inches last week. Ooof! (There's a culvert on my street that always makes me think of you when I cross it while walking our dog.) Luckily we don't get storms like this all THAT often, our national reputation aside!
There very well could have been 7 feet or more of snow. Perhaps the temperature near the ground was warmer. Some snow may have melted as it touched the ground.
Yea there was 6-7 in Orchard park, we had 40-51 degrees right after the snow hit with the sun (surprisingly) most of it did melt very quickly, thankfully lol
When I lived on the East Coast, I had an elderly client who had 250feet of public sidewalk in front of her house. The town required her to clear it within 24 hours after a snowstorm. That job fell to me. I miss her dearly but I don’t miss the work. I had no snowblower so it took hours to get it done.
Keep on eye on the region where Lake effect from Niagara falls intersects with Lake effect from Lake Ontario. Niagara falls throws a lot of moisture into the atmosphere. I grew up in that area.
Back in 1972 my Dad was offered a promotion at work and was given a choice of moving to either North Carolina or Buffalo, NY. For 50 years I've been celebrating that he didn't choose Buffalo.
Where I grew up is a big power plant with a cooling tower and often times we had granular "power plant snow" when the rest of the town had nil. It was nothing compared to this but still funny that those effects do exist. In different scales.
The house around 25:25 sort of looks like the house in The Amityville Horror! It's got those unique windows up at the top which must've been popular in the northeast back in the 1920s (when the Amityville house was built apparently).
In February of last year, we in Memphis got 4 inches of snow. We were put on hold until it all melted off 2-3 days later. We would be put in shock getting that much snow here in a southern city.
Beautiful scenery, I laughed at you saying they only got 3 or 4 feet of snow here in SoCal we don't get any. I found your channel on the redwood forest I enjoy your videos.
we have a "snowfarm" by our landfill here in Fargo ND, and last year in the middle of summer as late as july or august, after weeks of 80 and 90 degree heat there was still snow there! it was so dirty the sun reflected and the deep piles were so insulated it didn't melt
11:35 Thank you very much to show me Hamburg, NY. What a wonderful church they have there. If they have yearly the snow effect why they not put the power and internet cable inside the earth same the gas and water pipes too? So they never loose the power and internet inside a snow blizzard. It is a good time to sit together with the own family and drink hot tea or coffee.
From me here in Australia we are just about to start summer, and where I live it only snow very rarely in winter and then only in the mountains. So I enjoyed watching your trip through the Snow 🌨️ and I can't imagine living in it. Thanks for your interesting video
We call them snow dumps in Canada, and they are usually near a river or large creek. A highly polluting run off in the spring into waterways. That's city living ! Great video as well.
in the south, they have those gates on the exit ramps on some highways because they'll direct all lanes (both sides of the highway) going the same directions for hurricane evacuation. the gates prevent people from getting on the side that's temporarily going the other way
Omg your near buffalo !!!!! I was homeless there in 05 and 06 08 ish I had so many good friends there too I miss it there so much I might go there soon enough here in my camper van
Here's my idea of what to do with all that snow, came up with this idea years ago. Put it in train cars and send it out west where they need water. That would work right?🤔 Sure, some of it would melt on the way but at this point, every little bit helps. Even Canada could do it, closer ,less melting.
I lived in a small town south of Buffalo called Dunkirk. Our house was a block away from the shores of Lake Erie. Those were some brutal winters because of the lake effect.
The official total in Orchard park was 78" I mean I watched several storm chasers where they were in chest and neck deep snow. But I wouldn't think it would have melted so fast either but I guess its bc it had fallen on ground that wasn't very cold and frozen so you got the warmth of the ground plus the warmth of the air melting it super fast
If the area gets quite hot in summer, snow farms are kind of a waste considering that you can dump the snow into a basin and cover it and use it for cooling, especially larger buildings. One of the airports in my country has snow until august or something to use for cooling.
I lived in NW Pa and lake effects sucked. We used get a lot of snow. Lots of snowmobile,cross country skiing sand downhill skiing. Kids still had school with usually 2 hour delay. Roads were usually clean right of way.
I was watching that storm on Ryan Hall. It was like fire hose just shooting up right along the eastern edge of the lake, so yeah, snowfall would have been very narrowly deposited. The "localized accumulation" is weird to me, too; when it snows out here, it blankets everything for miles and miles and MILES around. Ja, if you're gonna go storm chasing, go get dug in ahead of the storm.
Lake effect is just like that, its a curtain of insanely heavy snowfall and less than a mile away from 2-4in/hr is a blue sky. The weird thing about this storm is that the bands usually wander alot, and in this storm/event that didn't move at all for like 3days straight.
The WalMart you stayed at, not too far from me... sorta. Town where my son went to school. I'm a transplant from Long Island 1992. It still amazes me how tight Lake Effect can be. And KUDOS to the snow removal crews! They do an amazing job. And only 3 fatalities.
I live in Northeastern Ohio And The Lake Erie Snow machine is very interesting I can go driving sometimes in a complete Whiteout dumping Inch's in a very short time, And a Mile down the road There will be nothing Then hit another Snow band. I enjoy the Lake effect snow. I snow plowed for years Sidewalks.. Sure beats those 96° temps 🥵
Friend, you literally passed within one hundred yards of my house, so wished you could have stopped for a coffee , a meal and or a crash pad. You make your way past CNY again, gimme a shoutout Dude. Happy Trails!
Here in west MI (we are about 7 miles from Lake MI) we only got about 10" of snow but it was gone in a couple days because the day after Thanksgiving it was in the high 40's and that Saturday it was 53°. I want another blizzard like we had in Jan. of 78. We were snowed in from Wednesday night until Monday afternoon. Our son was born 9 months later (and yes, he was planned).
I was there a few years ago and took the Seneca St exit ! And went to the nfta greyhound station to see who was around and stayed the night on Niagara falls Blvd near the mall and fed ex office formerly Kinkos copies not far from main street university station and webt to see a friend that same afternoon
The most I had seen from the NWS was 77 inches in Orchard Park. That would be with the fluff factor. It would quickly get compacted with the warmer temps.
I live in Canada in a town called Whitby which is on the north shore of Lake Ontario and we don’t even have any snow here yet. We got a light dusting but it didn’t stick around
25:00 Wow! That is an incredible play ground for young kids! I saw same in the south of FRG in RL too! Thank you for found this place. It is allowed to steal snow from this place? Why they not build big places with heated ground for melting and cleaning the water to reuse it and sell it into places with less water e.g. at salt lake or on farmer ground? Clean snow is drinkable direct in your hand. 🥰🤑
the toll cost across the bridge into NYC...20 yrs ago was around $20 by the time we got off of it. Glad we had cash but it took hours to get across it. I had little kids and no dinner. Connecticut was a welcome site to finally relax. I've been to Buffalo area at least 4 times. Always in the summer thank goodness!
