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11 minutes ago, Simon said:

 Got this so far, but predicting this kind of event is a bit of a lark, imo.

 

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If I was a betting man, I would project those totals to rise upward over the next 24 hours

 

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5 minutes ago, Mojo44 said:

Nobody’s trembling in their boots here. It’s a legit discussion about some severe weather. Maybe you should step outside and suck in some of those nice hot Santa Ana winds and get over yourself. 

You might want to look through all 18 pages of this thread. I'm seeing quite a few people beyond trembling in their boots and a couple that I think might have filled them already.

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1 hour ago, VaMilBill said:

Is that 6” throughout the day or later in the day happening?


Mine says 6" Saturday but most of that looks like it's really Friday night, so it could be cleared Saturday... but then again Saturday shows 55mph wind gusts... so who knows where the snow will actually end up... The accuweather link above shows even worse weather for Orchard Park https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/orchard-park/14127/daily-weather-forecast/2128285?day=3 

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10 minutes ago, RichStadiumGuy said:

You might want to look through all 18 pages of this thread. I'm seeing quite a few people beyond trembling in their boots and a couple that I think might have filled them already.

I just did go through all 18 pages. Nobody is trembling in their boots. There is a distinction between that and legitimate concern. My guess is you know the difference. Apply it here.You’re just misinterpreting in my opinion.

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10 minutes ago, RichStadiumGuy said:

You might want to look through all 18 pages of this thread. I'm seeing quite a few people beyond trembling in their boots and a couple that I think might have filled them already.

Probably what's being unsaid here is that a lot of us are trying to figure out if we'd be able to make our 90 minute or 2 hour drives into Orchard Park safely and in time to make the game.  So it's a mix of how would the game experience be and can I even make it to the stadium. 

 

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There’s the idea.  Folks at OBD read this page.  The forecast is nuts and, if those winds and that snow come to pass, it’s a public safety issue.  So there’s the plan.  CBS gets a holiday game on Monday, we get some reasonable weather, nobody’s at risk of dying in a snowbank, and there we go. 

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Just now, Just Jack said:

No

Do you live in the Southtowns?  I do.  Have my whole life.  Decades-long STH.  This is not a good idea, both for football reasons and (much more importantly) public safety reasons.  It is profoundly stupid to invite 70k+ people to OP with that forecast. 

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8 minutes ago, GottaRun said:


Mine says 6" Saturday but most of that looks like it's really Friday night, so it could be cleared Saturday... but then again Saturday shows 55mph wind gusts... so who knows where the snow will actually end up... The accuweather link above shows even worse weather for Orchard Park https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/orchard-park/14127/daily-weather-forecast/2128285?day=3 

 

Stop looking at anything that is not NWS Buffalo or Donn Paul. Those forecasts are meaningless. 

 

This is a localized event and they don't have the ability to forecast those.

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Just now, Bleeding Bills Blue said:

I'm planning on going - more annoyed about getting out in traffic than anything else since i live in the north towns.

I don’t care about sitting in the stadium.  I’ll be there, and I don’t mind the snow or the cold, and I’ll have a great time no matter the weather.  I’m just telling everyone - the idea of trying to park all of these people, and then get them out of there, in a blizzard is insane.  Particularly after 47 people died in a similar storm in 2022.  

Just now, SoonerBillsFan said:

We have become so pathetically weak as a society. 

Apparently you didn’t live through the 2022 storm.  

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3 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

Do you live in the Southtowns?  I do.  Have my whole life.  Decades-long STH.  This is not a good idea, both for football reasons and (much more importantly) public safety reasons.  It is profoundly stupid to invite 70k+ people to OP with that forecast. 

 

Syracuse currently, grew up on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario, the foothills of Tug Hill.  

 

Tug Hill: Surviving winter in the snowiest place in the East - syracuse.com

 

I'll survive.  

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7 minutes ago, GottaRun said:

Probably what's being unsaid here is that a lot of us are trying to figure out if we'd be able to make our 90 minute or 2 hour drives into Orchard Park safely and in time to make the game.  So it's a mix of how would the game experience be and can I even make it to the stadium. 

 

You can make it.  It’s going to take forever and a day.  Parking is going to be a huge issue, too.  And good luck getting out of there. 

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I thought it could have been done last week when they announced the matchups.  They could have swapped KC and Buffalo games which would have avoided both weather issues.

 

At this time though, it is too late.  If they declare a SOE then we will see what happens but I don't know that will happen with a small band of lake effect.

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Just now, Just Jack said:

 

Syracuse currently, grew up on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario, the foothills of Tug Hill.  

 

Tug Hill: Surviving winter in the snowiest place in the East - syracuse.com

 

I'll survive.  

I’ll survive, too.  OP’er.  I can handle it.  But can all of the knuckleheads who go handle it?  Doubtful.  And who is going to fish them out of the snow?  

 

Beyond that, does any Bills fan really want this game played in blizzard?  I sure don’t.  So use public safety as the excuse to move it to Monday, we’ll smoke the Steelers in reasonable weather, and be at the Stadium again next Sunday. 

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