MOST of us complain about our snowstorms

[pumba]

My sister lives in upstate New York on Lake Ontario....she has received 4 feet of snow in the last few days......they call it Lake affect snow and she has not been a happy camper......Usually she is in Florida for the winter....but her husband had to have surgury and will be leaving in two weeks.....at least she gets to stay for three months.....and she said three months without NY snow is okey in her book...this has been a banner year for snow all around......

 

[CamColt]

LOL! A friend of mine moved to Rochester NY a while back. One of the first things she said to me was "I finally know what they mean by lake effect snow!". Needless to say she wasnt happy with what she found out. I cant believe shes still there.

 

[debster812]

4 FEET????????

No Thank You. Where on earth do they put it all?

 

[Marla Hellwig]

Yikes - hope they get to Flordia soon - now 3 months in Florida sounds good to me

 

[Saffron]

Four feet!!!!!! ::Faint::

 

[Diane]

Yeah, it's sure been a rough winter around here. Way too much snow and very cold - 8 degrees right now. Yuck! How many days until spring?!

 

[PandyPaws]

EEK!! One storm like that and I would make a hasty exit to Florida and never come back!!!! UGH!!

 

[jsmith]

I know a few million people who would do a happy dance if it snowed 4 feet! Please send it here!

 

[oldkicker]

That snow fell just north of us. The lake effect snow travels in bands off the lake. The bands move up and down over the state, sometimes going south of the Thruway, but often staying north of it.

The Tug Hill Plateau site east of Lake Ontario. Towns in that area holds some interesting state records:

Hooker, with 466.9 inches the winter of 1976-77;

Bennett Bridges, south of Orwell, with 192 inches in January 1978

Montague. From 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, 1997, to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, 1997, Bill Ottoshavett, a snow spotter for the National Weather Service, measured a total of 77 inches. Officials at the weather service in Buffalo certified Ottoshavett's measurements, and said Montague had also broken the New York record for total snowfall in a single storm. From Friday night, Jan. 10, through early Tuesday, Jan. 14. 1997, Ottoshavett measured a total of 95 inches. That trounces the old record for a single storm, which was set Jan. 18 to 22, 1940, in Watertown, with 69 inches.

Dave Zembec, an official with the Tug Hill Commission, said the 2,000-square-mile Tug Hill Plateau is known as "the snowiest place east of the Rockies.''

He guessed Redfield got 400 inches last year. "It's amazing how much they get. People can't fathom it,'' he said. "The snowbanks are up to the telephone wires.''

C'mon spring!

 

[FergieTCat]

I remember going to school in Albany, when we'd have waist-high snowstorms (I'm 5'8"). Of course, I was young and naive then. If I woke up to 4 feet of snow, my next journey would be to a padded cell.