My parents moved back to WNY from New Orleans the weekend before the Blizzard of '77
All of our things were delayed because the guys driving the moving truck wouldn't go near Buffalo until it had been cleared up.

My mother wasn't amused...just like you said Schony, you could step out of a 2nd floor window of my house and slide down the snow bank to the ground.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

Back in the day, I thought this game was created just for us in Buffalo. Unfortunately that was just ruined by the damn internet. There was a friggin blizzard game created for several cities up and down the east coast...how depressing

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It was one of the few times my dad canceled an ice fishing weekend!!!! Nuff said

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"I don't feel like Satan, but I am to them"
Neil Young

Being in Rochester, this is how I remember it. We were all sent home from school (I was in 7th grade) because a 'wall of snow' was headed our way. Like all monster storms, though, it decided to back up and hit Buffalo again and never did hit Rochester the way it did Buffalo. So, we got to go home and play in what snow we had with the sun shining.

Can you imagine being blown off the Skyway in a blizzard? Or freezing to death in your buried car? Does anyone know how many people died in the storm?

Scary.

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Its NNYFAN, but you can just call me Kris.

Holy Jesus. Anyone who remembers this must really hate winter. If so, I can see why!

Something like this happened to us in the fall/winder of 2003/04.

We got hit with Hurricane Juan which absolutely crippled the city of Halifax. I was living up there at the time. Literally, buildings were destroyed, cars were picked up and tossed like clothes in a dryer, it was bad. Not even 2 months later, we were hit with what was called, "White Juan". It started off as light snow one night. Then winds picked up and so did the snow. Within an hour of the storm starting, power was gone. This went overnight and into the next day. The city was shut down again. What used to be city streets were soon covered in about 6 foot snow drifts which spanned entire streets. I woke up and ventured out to a friends place as he was the only one I knew that had power. The snow was packed so thick from drifting that you could walk on it. I remember slipping and falling through one section though, that was actually a snow covered car, slipped off the roof. That was scary shit as I was alone and was sure the snow would collapse onto of me.

Thinking back to those days, makes me not like the whole winter thing much, but it did add for excitement and not having to go to work

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If it's a tight squeeze, spit on it! - NyI

He's a middling AHL player who had the good fortune of a drunk arbitrator. - The Squanto re: Tim Kennedy

"The 1977 blizzard began on Jan. 28, and when it ended 4 and a half days later, it had paralyzed the region, causing 29 deaths and an estimated $300 million damage."

I just remember sitting around the weather radio listening to them talk about the wall of snow coming. Egads!

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Its NNYFAN, but you can just call me Kris.

ahhh yes....77' i was 5 and my sister was 3....we both were outside playing in the snow maybe 100 - 200 feet from our house....when all of a sudden it was like an instant white out and you could not see very far at all.....since we couldn't see our house we started crying....

luckily some garbage men found us and returned us home

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"It is more about them than it is about the team...Cannot play with them, cannot win with them, cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win." - Mike Singletary

Tyler Myers - Future captain of the Buffalo Sabres, and future Norris Trophy Winner

Manning the machine gun on the Tyler Myers Bandwagon - just in case any teams have an idea of prying him away from us (3 GM's shot already)

Connolly/Roy - 2 goals in the last 47 playoff games

Hahaha, cute story.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

I know my dad remembers this year, even though he never lived in Buffalo, but I don't know if Salamanca got hit by it.

I would have been -14 years old at this time.

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Ya, keep bragging. We'll remember this when you're trying to give us wisdom too. j/k lol

Hahaha.

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I rememember this well. My brother and I sledded from outside my parents second story bedroom window.

I went over to Amherst, and threw snow in Schony's face. Those rich for tits houses out in Williamsville? I kicked a young ETC's ass in a snowball fight.

This was a tiring endeavor. I was given a hot drink of cocoa by a not so young Bill Schultz on my way home. Bill was perhaps 50 at the time; god he must be getting on.

But yes; as a Sweet Home Student, it rocked getting a few days off. Only negative was that Mom and Pops had no snowblower at the time; and my brother and I still had strong backs and weak minds at the time........

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"I'll rap you with my cane; you pencil necked geek!!"

-Bowler, imitating Freddy Blassie, at the very first M & G.

And we both went and threw snowballs at Vince Gallo telling him he would grow up to be just as weird as he was in high school

Yeah, well, I remember soon afterward Icehound showed up drunk and ornery on his snowmobile all pissed off about how you ran through his yard, and chased you for a good two miles.

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

I was 10 years away from being born at that point.

It's a shame, too. That looks like fun.

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Wheelhouse

Tonight through tomorrow we are suppose to get anywhere from 2-10 inches depending on who you want to listen to.

If we really do get this amount of snow, there will be nothing open, and the state will shut down, or at least the Raleigh area will.

Half the time whenever a meteorologist calls for snow it just rains only. I'll see tomorrow if we actually got any snow or not.

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Yep, but Vince did get an on screen hummer from Chloe Sevigney in The Brown Bunny!

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"I'll rap you with my cane; you pencil necked geek!!"

-Bowler, imitating Freddy Blassie, at the very first M & G.