ExiledInIllinois

Yeah. Of course you're there. What about outsiders? Not in the middle of natural disaster. Bush League. And I went to WS schools. Grew up there. You expect cops to be serious especially when you got loved ones there dealing with it and you're worried.

Yeah. I was pranked and really shouldn't have. That's a ridiculous amount of snow. I wonder how many outsiders will actually never know that they were pranked? Just not a good look from the outside. IMO. They should be serious more professional. It took 'em two days to explain it. Has to drive other more professional agencies a bit crazy. If they are going to joke... At least spill beans right away.

At first it looked fake... But I thought it can't be, the police are posting it. I was duped. No wonder people can't take them seriously. For real. Law Enforcement should NOT really shouldn't wait days to say it was FakeNews. It's plausible and a very good Photoshop. People out of town don't know if it's Japan (the real place the snow was shot in) or the horror they hear from Buffalo. 6' of snow drifted and cut & blown with a rotary machine could be that high. I mean really... I hope it spread and many people don't get the correction. It's your government spreading FakeNews. They really shouldn't be in the comedy business if they want the citizenry to trust them, not be cynical of everything they do. Maybe I need to lighten up, but that's a PR fail. From the cops? Really. Outsiders don't know that's fake. Yeah, more you think about it... Looks unreal... But that seal up at the corner should make you think that your local law enforcement isn't pranking you. Can I prank them with a DUI? How many people actually missed the punchline. Indictments make front pages, acquittal the back page. /JustSayingItWillBeMeltedInADay. The snowiest city on earth gets around 300" a year. That's where the photo was shot. BFLo is 33% there and it's not even the end of December!

Agree. And basically everyone drove rear wheel drive. Basically one whee, no limited slip, traction control. Few with Fwd back then, even fewer with 4x4. Sure people put snows on... But simple inclines would get you stuck. One gets stuck. They all do behind them. IMO, we are much more invincible today. The bigger the 4x4, the bigger you get stuck. AND... Just lack of winterizing a vehicle. Shovel, traction pads, sleeping bag, some non-perishable provisions, Carhartts, hat, work/warm gloves. Etc... I eat my stored Snickers Bars in Spring, replenish in Fall. 😆 🤣 You don't see skinny animals in the Arctic!

Confused and disoriented. When hypothermia sets in, it ain't pretty. Look at some of us posters here! 😉

I don't have a Twitter or FB account. Never have. It just makes people mistrust them even more. Oh well...

Yeah. My thoughts at first too... But coming from the police....You'd think they wouldn't do this stuff. They aren't helping the trust factor. Crazy... But almost plausible. Why social media is an issue. Problematic when the police do this stuff. They are their own worst enemy. /StickInTheMudInIllinois.

LoL... Too close to reality! Actually, very good Photoshop! It's a road somewhere (Japan), why not WNY?

Cook goes by: "Himbo" Motor & Himbo!

But his team sucks. Where's he gonna go if nobody wants to pay him? Thank You... +1

And even after they opened it, did you see... OMG!

BFLo is mostly on street parking too.

It is. Geography term. I just spelled it wrong and noticed it, catch it in your reply!

My wife went to school, same class as Poloncarz in Lackawanna. He's right, come get your vehicle.

Bad year for "system snow." I THINK that was the year of 82" for the all time season record in Chicago. Or it might have been 1978? We came close a few years ago AND these babies here were throwing a conniption. 😆... We had 9 straight days of plowable snow in February that year and guys at work were coming to blows.🙄

Was it measured accurately? The Blizzard had it blowing off the frozen Lake. The Lake froze over that year in mid-Decemeber... But.... Had to come from some where? The 1970s... When we were actually worried about "Global Cooling." Ever read about the "Lost Squadron?" 5 P-38s & 2 B-17s that ditched on Greenland 🇬🇱 during WWII, 1942. By the time they located them in the early 1990s they were under +30 feet of ice. 1992 first one recovered from ice. Just wait, Greenland is now melting. https://lost-squadron.org/wp/en/

In 10,000 years when Niagara Falls finally erodes to the mouth of Lake Erie 8 miles upstream on the Niagara River from where the present day Falls is... ...Lake Huron and Michigan will also drop 150 feet. We can just use Lake Ontario as the swimming hole. 😉😜

How does this happen? Treated like a ragdoll...

Yeah... When you replied, I caught my misspelling!

Exactly....OR at least keep populations levels that can be sustainable. It's NOT about climate change, etc....That's always happening... It's keeping sustainable populations in the problem areas. Way too over-populated on coasts and in the Southwest. I get, people want to live in areas that have nice weather....BUT there has to be economic checks on these population. Discourage population growth, people... Put state income taxes, higher cost building codes, etc... for these areas. If we don't we are just repeating same cycle. The taxpayers who subsidize this will just want a return... That comes mostly in the form of industry and economic product. IMO, tourism is not self-sustaining.

You caught my typo! 😆

Yeah... Kinda. Probably cheaper just to desalination and pump it up to Lake Mead.

BFLo is in an exorheic region. Melted snow, water runoff goes into the ground water table (like rain) and drains, stays in basin depending on which continental water divide dictates the flow. Here's a graphical representation. Each line is a continental divide. Water will drain to each side of it. BFLo is near the St.Lawrence Divide. PINK line. Everything on the BFLo side will drain to Great Lakes, St.Lawrence, then Atlantic. Everything on other side will drain straight towards Atlantic, Eastern Seaboard. Everything between the PINK/ORANGE/GREEN/RED divide will go to Gulf of Mexico. And so on with other divides draining to Pacific, Arctic, etc... The Great Basin in Nevada, Oregon, California, Arizona, Utah, and smidgen of Idaho/Wyoming is an endorheic basin, having no outlet... Basically closed. "Endorheic: A drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but drainage converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation. They are also called closed or terminal basins, internal drainage systems, or simply basins. Endorheic regions contrast with exorheic regions." ENJOY! [ @BringBackFergy @Mike in Horseheads @Gugny @Beerball et al! 😏] Sorry for the quick Wiki graph. Just makes it easier and quick. You can see the up and down elevation issues posed with getting water from the East to the West...

And Bills players have to brush off their own vehicles when they get back into town after a flight... I bet Russell Wilson gets his vehicle cleared of snow. Anyway... DIYing it with others builds comradery... Glad the Bills have it: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/buffalo-bills-dig-cars-out-of-snow-on-christmas-after-storm-delays-return-home/4014163/

Agree. The word "blizzard" is the formidable, key word and it really doesn't have to do with quantity of snow, but intensity.