http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/six-feet-of-snow-blankets-upstate-new/20070208094109990001. There are two "Snow Belts" in upstate NY. The first is southeast of Buffalo where the NW wind howls over Lake Erie and dumps 4 inches a night onto places like Wyoming County. That is where I grew up -- 110 to 135 inches of snow a year back in the 1970s.
Then there is the snowbelt north of Rochester and Syracuse, right by Lake Ontario. Believe it or not, this is worse. You can get 150-300 inches of snow there in a winter. Oswego (mentioned in the link) is also the place where my first girlfriend was attending college when she unceremoniously dropped me like a bad habit in 1983. So, in a way, I guess Oswego deserves all of what it is getting for the pain that it inflicted upon me 24 years ago. I almost drank myself into unconsciousness the night of the dumping, including a bad decision to drink champagne and 7 ounce pony beers after starting with blackberry brandy and 7-Up -- and I am sorry to the young Jewish co-ed whom I threw up on as I was running out of the bar that night (the bathroom was full). My bad.........
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HM, your girlfriend stories may be your finest content. Thank god you didn't mix in your usual nightcap of Nyquil that evening. PAR
A co-worker told me you guys got hit bad...is there anyway you could send it to Connecticut. All we have gotten is dustings...It doesn't look like we will be getting any snow any time soon. :(
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