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Paralyzing amounts of snow are continuing to smother towns along the eastern shores of the Great Lakes as a record-breaking lake-effect snowstorm blasts the region, prompting major road closures ...
In Erie, Pennsylvania, treacherous conditions on Sunday caused some of the city’s plow drivers to get stuck while removing snow, city officials said on Facebook. Erie County is working on ...
The Jefferson County, New York, sheriff’s office, near Lake Ontario, which is under a state of emergency, issued a “no unnecessary travel” advisory urging travelers to stay off the roads.
The morning of December 23, the city of Niagara Falls, New York, issued a travel ban with exceptions for essential travel. [118] Erie County, NY, which includes the city of Buffalo, followed suit shortly afterwards. [119] As of the morning of December 27, the travel ban remained in effect only for Buffalo. [120]
A full commercial travel ban was issued for multiple highways in New York. [25] [26] Thundersnow was also recorded when the snowstorm hit, with several cars and trucks stuck in the snow. [27] At 66 inches (170 cm) in a single day, Orchard Park set a record for most snow in a single day, [28] with the total snowfall being 77 in (200 cm). [1]
Some Erie-area schools have called off classes for Dec. 4 because of snow and travel conditions
An intense lake effect is forecast to bring bands of snow from Lake Erie and Lake Ontario into the Buffalo, New York, region through the rest of the weekend, causing as much as 1 to 2 feet of ...
The total death toll for the state was 47. A travel ban was put in effect for the Buffalo area on December 23 at 9:30 a.m. and remained in effect until December 29 at 12:01 a.m. [23] [24] On December 27, state and military police were sent to Buffalo to enforce the driving ban to enable snow-clearing efforts to progress. [25]