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HalobenderFWT t1_j2ci44h wrote

It’s a lot like people that live in a flood plain. When it floods you get the people that are like, “Why would this happen here!?!?”. But…people still choose to live there.

Buffalo is no different. It’s a perfect recipe for lake effect snow bomb disasters every. Winter. - but, they’ve made it long…why change what’s not broken, I guess?

It’s terrible what has happened. This isn’t the first time, or the last time - but all the same: know your neighbors, know your weather, and do the right thing.

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Eudaimonics t1_j2dm266 wrote

Except this is a once in a lifetime storm. You have to look back 50 years for anything even remotely similar.

In most storms if you get stuck you can either dig yourself out or wait for a tow.

The hurricane force winds and frostbite laden temperatures meant people couldn’t dig out and it was too dangerous for rescue teams.

Once you get a car stuck, that road becomes impassable including for plows which are 90% of the tools used to keep roads clear. The city wasn’t prepared for the amount of stuck vehicles that had to be dug out and towed before plows could get down streets.

If you live somewhere warm, maybe all snow storms seem like they’re the same, but that’s not the case.

This was the difference between a bad tropical storm and a category 3 hurricane.

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PenguinSunday t1_j2e9ya8 wrote

We keep hearing "once in a lifetime storm" after every major weather event in the past decade. At some point people need to pay attention.

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Time-Guess6600 t1_j2dq9gg wrote

I've lived in Buffalo for decades. We do expect snow storms. But this was like a category 1 hurricane, and hurricanes are not usually a part of living in Western NY.

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