![]() Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Thursday for parts of western New York, including communities along the eastern ends of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The AAA passed along other drivers' locations to police.Įven before the snow began falling, the NFL announced it would relocate the Buffalo Bills' Sunday home game against the Cleveland Browns from the team's stadium in Orchard Park to Detroit.Ī day later the Bills tweeted photos of Highmark Stadium showing the playing field and its more than 60,000 seats virtually buried in snow, and forecasters warned of an additional foot or more by Sunday.ī A snowy Highmark Stadium, as the Bills traveled to Detroit over the weekend to face Cleveland since Orchard Park was buried by several feet of snow. In some cases, tow trucks followed behind payloaders enlisted to clear the way. A lot of our tow truck drivers kept calling in saying that `police turned me away,'" she said. "The AAA crews were trying to get to people that had called in saying they were broken down or stranded or had gone off the road in their vehicle. "We send our deepest sympathies and remind all that this snow is very heavy and dangerous," he said.īy Friday afternoon, AAA tow truck drivers were having trouble reaching dozens of stranded drivers who defied travel bans and advisories, association spokeswoman Elizebeth Carey said. ![]() The storm was blamed for two deaths, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said, tweeting that they were "associated with cardiac events related to exertion during shoveling/snow blowing." ![]() Numerous flights in and out of Buffalo Niagara International Airport were canceled. Amtrak stations in Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Depew closed Thursday and Friday. There may be some snow showers Sunday and Sunday night. More than 2 feet of snow on a car at an apartment complex in East Aurora on 11/18/22įor the city of Rochester and nearby suburbs, little accumulation is expected. And a few inches all the way out, probably into Western Monroe County. You might see up to a foot in the southwest corner of Orleans (Saturday) morning. “Genesee County we have a report out in Darien Center for 28.3 inches Orleans will probably see a couple inches there. Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties all saw several inches of snow or even higher amounts, according to Jurkowski. “This would probably rank in the top 3 in snowfall amounts the ‘Snowvember’ event was a 7-foot event as well as a Christmas event of 2001, so within my lifetime, I’m now seen 3 events of seven feet,” Jurkowski told WXXI News.Īreas closer to the Rochester metro saw a lot of snow, but not at those levels. Jurkowski said that the recent lake-effect event is among the biggest she has seen in recent years, putting it right up there with the so-called ‘Snowvember’ event that also dumped feet of snow in the Buffalo area in 2014. Areas south of the city of Buffalo got hit hardest at first, and National Weather Service Meteorologist Liz Jurkowski said those snow bands will shift north on Saturday, before drifting south again Saturday night. The frigid winds coming across Lake Erie over the last few days have dumped more than six feet of snow in Orchard Park, and very high amounts in other parts of Erie County. While the Buffalo area and other parts of Western NY are measuring snowfall from the recent lake effect snow event in feet, there’s little accumulation in the immediate Rochester area.
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