20" of snow...

Luckily, you can't really extrapolate from that early snowfall
that there will be a bad winter. One year we had a big storm
early in the season (well, before the season) and virtually
nothing thereafter.

Chakolate...

Lou...

Uh If a two story building is swaying I might consider looking for a
new place to live.

Lou (Who's first memory is of a hurricane sweeping over NYC in the
summer of 1944)

Yup. Last year we had a cold snap to start the winter then the rest of
it was quite moderate.

in Buffalo, NY this morning. The main interstate going east and west

Michael Fanner...

Oh man, (or woman) that's scary. ;-(

was/is closed for 105 miles. We just missed that one! :-)
Yippee!!!

Paco.,.,...

CNN Is saying that hundreds of thousands are without electricity!

JerryD\(upstateNY\)...

They said 70% of Buffalo was without power.
That's about a Ľ million people with no power.

**Dalin**...

Jean B....

Gee, Dalin, I was just hearing about this while driving this
morning, and I was gonna check on you guys. I'm really glad
to hear you missed that. I gather it was a very heavy, and
hence, destructive, snow.

NOspam...

That's WAY early for them with the white stuff isn't it?
We got about 1/2 and inch!
It melted by this morning.

Yes. :-( I did learn later it really was hundreds of thousands!

Joy...

Yikes! That is major!

**Dalin**...

Jerry they said the thruway was closed to Rochester. So did you get
any of it?

**Dalin**...

I think it's probably more like thousands, but I don't know for sure.
Blizzard winds blew down a lot of trees and lines. We sure are lucky
it missed us. We're just having high winds here.

Paco.,.,...

I think the destruction is mostly because many leaves are still on the
trees, increasing the accummulation on the trees and then breaking
powelines, etc.