3-year Anniversary of the "Millennium Snowburst"

[Squall52]

2 Feet of Heavy Wet(Yes, Lake Effect) Snow, most of which fell in 7 hours around rush hour, with frequent thunder and lightning...paralyzing the city of Buffalo, New York.

Read the storm summary, complete with rad/sat images and photos.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/buf/lakeffec ... tormc.html

A brief excerpt...
Snow fell at the rate of 2-4 inches per hour for several hours within this band...and it focused on the most densely populated area of upstate New York. The timing could not have been worse...from about 1 to 9 pm. Most workers tried to leave work early but by 4 pm the city and nearby Amherst and Cheektowaga were clogged with traffic which came to a standstill. Thousands spent the night in autos or stores and many schoolchildren as well as buses became trapped. It was the most disruptive storm in the Buffalo area since the Blizzard of ‘77.

[JCT777]

My brother had just moved to Buffalo a month before this happened, and he got stuck trying to drive home from work that day. What would normally be a 15 to 20 minute drive took him over 4 hours.