How bad can a snowfall be?

[Salty]

Upstate New York driver gets stuck in car for 10 hours after snow plow covers him with nearly 4 feet of snow

 

[Roy]

Incredible.

 

[Alcott]

How bad can a snowfall be?

Probably not as bad as a snowwinter.

 

[kathleenmariekg]

I had a snow incident when I could have died. I was saved by another child. I do not know how he found me. I cannot believe an adult sent that child out to find me. Maybe that adult rightly knew the child was more competent than that adult. Both of us survived and I am very grateful to that child and to God.

 

[just-want-peace]

10 hours under 4ft of snow????????
Hard to believe he would not have suffocated in that time period!?
Need Paul Harvey now! (Rest of the story etc!)

 

[Scott Downey]

When I was six, 55 years ago, I was playing in the deep snow and legs got trapped in wet heavy snow, some kind of thing happened, like I was completely stuck in deep and could not move, and the mailman walking by yanked me out, my boots get left behind. We used to dig long snow tunnels having several feet of heavy snow over us. We lived in Buffalo and would wake up to overnight snow falls up to 5 feet deep. The street plows would pile up mountains of snow so high you could climb way up and touch the street lights on wood poles. 4 lane roads turned into 2 lanes, and cars would be buried by the snow plows for months sometimes. Often the snow piles would last till spring,

The front door would get buried in huge drifts from the wind blizzards, and you would have to climb out a window to shovel free and open the door.

The snow looks pretty and clean but only for a time, and then it turns ugly, yellow, black, dirty, and hangs around, till another storm. Air pollution soot in the air would settle on the white snow. Animals would pee on it.

 

[Salty]

... We lived in Buffalo and would wake up to overnight snow falls up to 5 feet deep. ...

So do you remember the blizzard of 66?

 

[Scott Downey]

So do you remember the blizzard of 66?

I remember lots of them and sure, I was there in Buffalo 1966.
That is likely what I recall about having to go out the window to exit the house.
When in 1973 we moved to Fairfax County Annandale VA, it shocked me to see how an inch of snow would cause such trouble, close schools, etc...

We would get feet of snow and still have to go to school. We had lots of snow days for school on the calendar, and did not use very many of them!

 

[Salty]

I remember lots of them and sure, I was there in Buffalo 1966.
That is likely what I recall about having to go out the window to exit the house.
When in 1973 we moved to Fairfax County Annandale VA, it shocked me to see how an inch of snow would cause such trouble, close schools, etc...

We would get feet of snow and still have to go to school. We had lots of snow days for school on the calendar, and did not use very many of them!

I remember, virtually every school district in the county would close - but West Genesee would still be open!
Then I moved to NC - became a district manger of the Newspaper district - had a papergirl (60 years old) she was afraid to drive
with that great big snowfall we had - (2 inches) , so I had to help her do her route!