Yes, It Snows Alot in Western New York

Since we found out that we were moving to Buffalo, and the whole time that we have been here, there has been one big question on our minds: Does it really snow a lot in Buffalo? We have spent a lot of time looking up the answer online and asking our new friends and neighbors. We have gotten a variety of answers. But now, we have discovered the answer for ourselves.

Yes. It snows a LOT in Buffalo.

The good news is that the city does an amazing job at clearing the streets and highways during and after the storms. I have never seen such a good job done in any city I've even been in during a snow storm. It is impressive. We are even able to get around in our Honda Civic shortly after the storm is done and even while it is still storming because they clear the streets and parking lots so well.

In the weeks before Christmas, we got a lot of snow. We got over four feet. Here are some pictures around our house of our own Winter Wonderland.







Even our apartment complex does an excellent job of clearing off the snow as soon as possible. They spend the whole day clearing snow during the storms. It's nice not to have to do it.



The dogs of course love the snow. We have been taking them out to play in it. They love to eat the snow and bound through it. The only real problem is that Mia does not like to go to the bathroom in the snow. It's hard enough to find conditions that are satisfactory for her to do her deed, but in fresh snow, it is a lost cause.



Mia looks like the Abominable Snowman when the snow flakes are flying and they stick to her face. It's really cute.



One morning we awoke to this disaster. Yeah. It was like three and a half feet of snow all overnight. Awesome!




We were nearly snowed in. It took a lot of shoveling to get out.




Then we had to figure out how to get our cars out of the snow. Here is our new car. Thank goodness we got it before all of this snow. We would not have survived well without it. I definitely would have been snowed in at work at least once and I would have had to stay at the hospital overnight. Ugh! Again thank goodness for the new car.







Here is our poor little snowed in Honda. It took a long time to get him out of the snow drifts.

I thought that the icicles on our house were so pretty....until...

They turned into the icicles of death! These are icicles on our roof. They form cold jaws of sharp icicle teeth that can come crashing down at any minute. They are all connected and when it starts to warm up, the pieces of ice and snow come crashing down off of the roof. It makes a horrible noise when you are inside. It scares Mia to death. And if you are outside, you'd better watch out. It could cause some serious damage.

The snow isn't all that horrible. There is a lot of lake-affect snow, but it's not so bad that you can't get to work. And it's kind of fun. It reminds me of when we were little and used to get a ton of snow back home.