Mundo, I read about that in the paper. It’s very sad.
Hey I had no idea there were this many locals on the board 
The storm as overnight Thursday to Friday. The radio says there are still 180,000 people without power. The rain today slowed down a lot of the work. Over 600 crews are from several states away working around the clock.
So far no real flooding to speak of. The ground is saturated. I left muddy footprints on my grass tonight taking pictures.
Like so many said, snow is no big deal to us. Two feet of snow overnight? I sigh and leave for work a few minutes early. Officials come from all over the world to the Buffalo airport to learn how well they are at removing snow and keeping the runways open. It’s the crippling amout of branches and downed trees that are causing all the chaos.
I have a pretty good supply of canned goods and water, gas to run the generators days on end was the issue. That’s the big lesson learned right now.
I spent the last two days at work in a cold dark wharehouse to deal with the customers picking up orders and getting UPS deliveries and crap. The rest of the crew went to Rochester to the home office to work. It’s so weird how the power grids work. Driving from my house to near the airport it light, dark, light, dark. Yesterday morning imagine the Genesee and Transit road intersection road as a giant four way stop! (Both are four travel lanes with turning lanes. State law says without a working signal all intersections are a four way stop.)
Whee!
I just turned on the TV, and apparently we get all your news up here for some reason, and wow. Holy crud.
Stay safe, guys! And make lots of snow angels.