Buffalo members are you ok?

[M-technik-3]

4 feet of snow before the end of November is just plain insane. Hope nobody destroyed their E30 yet.

[Andy.B]

I'm a few miles away from the worst of the snow, but we've got a decent amount here. I've got studded snow tires on the e30, and it drives great in the snow. Made it to work and back OK yesterday, but had to take a long detour home around some closed roads and towns with driving bans.

I actually moved out of the area that got hit the worst a few weeks ago. Talk about good timing!

[M-technik-3]

That is crazy, I like snow but not that much.

[Andy.B]

My girlfriend took the day off yesterday, since all of the roads she takes to get to work in the city were closed. She made it in today, but with more snow in the forecast, may need to bail early.

I let her dive the e30 today, and I was planning on driving my vw bus with BF Goodrich All Terrain tires, but as luck would have it, it wouldn't start this morning.

Instead, I put all the dead batteries I had laying sounds around the garage in the trunk of my Miata, and drove that. It did amazingly well, and I made it to work with without any issues.

My co worker in my department lives in an area that still had a driving ban, so she is working from home. I was able to make it in, which leaves me doing all of hands on tasks while she handles the behind the scenes work.

[chadthestampede]

My work is in the one of the worst areas, my boss said he has 6 feet at his house. Been off for two days now.

[chadthestampede]

Incidentally I drove to work in the lowered e34 wagon, found no one there and drove home past about 12 abandoned semis and buses, and several ditched cars. It was actually really bad out driving, had fireman speeding by on snowmobiles and utvs down the road, and at one intersection in particular probably 50-60 cars just sitting with people waiting to get past stuck vehicles.

I'm astounded the e34 made it to be honest.

[Andy.B]

Incidentally I drove to work in the lowered e34 wagon, found no one there and drove home past about 12 abandoned semis and buses, and several ditched cars. It was actually really bad out driving, had fireman speeding by on snowmobiles and utvs down the road, and at one intersection in particular probably 50-60 cars just sitting with people waiting to get past stuck vehicles.

I'm astounded the e34 made it to be honest.

What neighborhood do you live in? I'm in Clarence now (just moved out of Depew), and we only have any 6 inches.

[jhaurimn]

Give us some please. The snow from our first storm has melted on most streets, so the drifting must be put on hold. :(

[blunttech]

Give us some please. The snow from our first storm has melted on most streets, so the drifting must be put on hold. :(

Keep your ridiculous requests to yourself dude. We dont want any of that shit. If you must drift come do it in my parking lot... its glare ice

[E30_Pare]

Saw this pic this morning. Blew my mind at the amount of snow. If California ever snowed over like this it really would be hell freezing over.

[mrsleeve]

Will come close in localized areas but this still does not surpass the blizzard of 76, ( much more wide spread and up to a 100 inches in 48 hours) I know this was 20 years before most kiddos on here were even contemplated, (I remember being very little an people still talking about this every big winter storm was on the out look but little snow fall predicted) but this is not out of the ordinary for western NY and happens form time to time.

Hope you all stay safe and warm dont need to venture out too much. This looks like its going to be another LONG 1970's style winter.

[ForcedFirebird]

Comes close in localized areas but this still does not surpass the blizzard of 78

I remember that, was living in New England at the time. My mum was preggo with my little brother and one of her maternity friends had to be transported to the hospital on a snowmobile to have her baby.

EDIT: You had it right the first time, it was 1978 ;)

[mrsleeve]

Well yeah there was the blizzard of 78 was a "nor-easter" that whipped the ass of the NE and upper mid west, but the blizzard of 76 was a western/Northern NY Ontario deal that was even worse for that area. Had Low pressures at the heart of the storm normally only seen in sever hurricanes and shit. Yeah I had to go look all this shit up ;) both were a couple of years before my time

[85e325]

I'm from the southtowns area myself, my family still lives in Elma. My mom measured the snow fall in her driveway yesterday morning. 5.5 feet of snow!!

[ForcedFirebird]

Well yeah there was the blizzard of 78 was a "nor-easter" that whipped the ass of the NE and upper mid west, but the blizzard of 76 was a western/Northern NY Ontario deal that was even worse for that area. Had Low pressures at the heart of the storm normally only seen in sever hurricanes and shit. Yeah I had to go look all this shit up ;) both were a couple of years before my time

Just glad I moved to FL in 1989, and it just so happened to snow in Tampa Bay that year lol. Hadn't seen snow since up until a death in the family last May had me up in Boston and it snowed while I was there. Yup, was reminded that I didn't miss it.

Sitting in shorts now at the shop, 62 degrees and cloudy.