Hatunen wrote:


At the eastern end of Lake Erie around Buffalo they really get a lot of
snow dumped on them. All it does is slow people down a bit. They can get a
foot or two of snow overnight and the roads will be open and everything
keeps running. In other places they aren't bright enough to invest in a few
sanders and snow plows and an inch of snow is a disaster. That's like
getting flooded out in a light rain because you don't have a roof on your
house.

I'm quite familiar with the lake effect snow in Buffalo. There's
a biiig diffrence between a built up area like Buffalo and the
wide open spaces of Montana and North Dakota. And let's face it,
someties a heavy snow actually does shut down Buffalo.

Yes. Once in a while it does happen. What is interesting is that it usually is
the result of 20-30 times more snow to shut down that city than it would some
other places. I saw news reports of "winter storms" in the US midwest thing
winter that didn't even look like winter. It would take about 3 feet of snow to
have the same effect on Buffalo.