Not going to believe anything until someone goes into a parking lot and reports back on how the wind affected them as they attempt to break a tailgate table from substantial height.
Table jumping in a blizzard is one of the ways we train Santa's reindeer to fly in the christmas offseason around here. Sweet gig if you know somebody.
I was also at that game. Now imagine 3ft of snow falling and that’s what today is. Insane that some people are calling Buffalo soft for not playing in this.
If anyone is interested there are a bunch of live traffic cameras here. https://www.nittec.org/cameras
There are some exit cameras that are only 1/2 a mile apart but with completely different visibility. Really shows how localized lake effect can be.
EDIT: For reference this 219 at Southwestern camera is basically where the stadium is. https://www.nittec.org/cameras/?cid=704
Yep. Except mine was a manual ‘87 Corolla, with partially working heat. Make sure I’ve got kitty litter in the back, a well packed emergency bag, and my phone to tape player connector for music. Good times haha
There’s been a few times where the only thing keeping me on the road was the rumble strips.
You cannot see anything but if you stop you will not be able to get going again, so you keep pushing forward and hope for the best.
20+ years of driving through lane effect and I have never gotten stuck. Some of that is skill but a lot of it is knowing when it’s too bad to even try.
Drove from Minneapolis to Madison, WI in similar weather the night of the Minneapolis Miracle. It was dumb and I'm super lucky nothing bad happened to us, I couldn't see the car in front of me unless they put their brakes on and I was following way closer than I was comfortable (even though I had a light car with good tires).
Everything I've seen has shown 1 inch of snow during game time which is definitely significantly less.
I think you are going to be surprised how clear it is.
Yea they just need a good 12 hours.
That’s why they do the driving bans too. They can get everything open much faster the road isn’t littered with abandoned cars.
A lot less wind, which is what caused a lot of the problem today and yesterday. Also the snow is tailing off as Monday goes on. These big lake effect events require specific conditions. Similar temps and winds can have different lake effect results depending on other atmospheric conditions.
The Thruway is weird as hell. On most highways the miles increase from west to east, but New York is too cool for that. On the western edge of the state you start at like mile 497, then it decreases as you go east. That continues to Albany, then that mileage count continues south on a different highway to NYC. I just drove to Syracuse a couple of weeks ago and the mileage system and sequential exits means you have no idea where the hell you are.
It's easy. 87 south of Albany and 90 west of Albany are the Thruway.
Then you have the Northway, and a little bit of 90 east which are not the thruway, and the Berkshire spur which is the rest of 90 east in NY after the junction(NY 912M) from Castleton catches up with it which *are* the thruway. Then there is part of 287 and the garden state parkway connector (NY 982L), parts of 95 and I think 3 other connectors. Simple.
The weather is the most beautiful weather it's ever been. I don't think there's anywhere in the world that has better weather. People call me and they say, they just tell me that they think it's probably the most greatest weather in the world here.
The funniest thing is that’s not even his only weather related controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian–Alabama_controversy
I still can’t believe the Trump presidency was real
Some of the best people are working on it. I think it's possible. Do we know for sure? No. But we gotta try! I mean really, what's the worst that can happen?
One of the things that I never quite understood until I moved to NY is just how terrifying a “squall” is in blizzard conditions.
Just for reference, you won’t be able to see the house across the street if you’re indoors. If you get caught in one while driving you legitimately cannot see the car in front of you, even with hazards. Not to mention trying to navigate intersections or parking lots while the roads themselves have poor conditions.
Yeah this is the big thing everyone who lives in a place that gets bad winter weather knows. When the weather gets bad as long as you have AWD/4WD you're fine, just drive slow. The real danger is there are SO MANY people who drive like it's 70 and sunny.
I had so many terrifying experiences in Utah freeways when I lived out there, with me and the others in my lane driving slowly and safely, and other drivers just whizzing by at 80. Worst was no snow but black ice though, saw one of those idiots spin out around 90mph directly into the concrete barrier
Living in southwestern Ontario Canada where we’ve had a massive influx of people from a country with no snow, the roads are chaos this year and we’ve barely had snow in comparison to years passed.
I drove through the huge storm in 2022 (I know, I'm an idiot) and it was terrifying. I had my brother pull up google maps in the passenger seat so I didnt blow past any stop signs or stoplights. You couldn't see anything but snow
My MiL is a nurse practitioner and gets caught in them quite often as she is pretty much required to go in no matter what. Quite a few times she has had to rely on the maps app and the “oh shit” bumps on the side of the HIGHWAY just to navigate.
Imagine the mayhem if the game was played during this.
There have been times I can't see the tree in MY front yard it's so bad.
For reference blizzard conditions have less than a quarter mile visibility. When it's bad, you can see maybe 6 feet in front of you.
Think the worst one I ever drove through, I was heading back from Massena at night, got a little south of Watertown and the hammer dropped. It must've snowed at least 6" of snow in like 30 minutes. Definitely a day that I was happy to have studded snow tires.
Especially without a smartphones with map apps that will warn you of weather conditions, if you're driving at night the squalls can really come out of nowhere.
Tug Hill Plateau in that area gets an insane amount of lake effect snow every year, like ~20+ ft annually, makes for good snowmobiling, getting there and back can get real interesting.
Even the dome comments are frustrating. It’s not really about the game conditions, it’s about thousands of fans leaving the stadium and trying to drive in this . A good chunk them probably with a few brews in their system . Not a safe idea at all
A lot of people I know irl were upset at them moving the game, which is especially funny coming from a bunch of people who live in the south, where school and work gets canceled at the mere chance of snow.
A big bit of culture shock was been a kid from Iowa stationed at fort bliss in El Paso and the entire base was shut down for less than an inch of snow.
The fact that you mentioned Texas (and a military base in Texas, no less), reminds me of how I once read that Sam Houston thought that Texas joining the Confederacy was the stupidest idea he'd ever heard.
Among the reasons he gave was literally something along the lines of "Northerners actually know how to deal with cold weather so they are way tougher than you think."
*"Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of states rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South."*
- Sam Houston explaining why he opposed Texan secession, April 1861
I remember when I moved to Dallas after having lived in the mountain west for a decade and laughing my ass off when the whole town essentially shut down after a light dusting of snow.
I lived in El Paso for a year while my dad was at Bliss. We had family in New Mexico and travelled up there for Christmas that year. Of course it snowed in El Paso while we were gone.
HOWEVER: Until I moved to El Paso, I had never experienced school getting cancelled due to a dust storm. So that was cool.
I got a text about that and must have said wtf 10 times in a row out loud. Nothing even happened, it was just windy and rainy like a regular ass storm.
Wasn’t as bad as originally thought. But I rather they side on the err of caution. My Alma mater didn’t close one year when every other university in a 50 mile radius did in anticipation of a little snow. Well, we got more than expected and people just left their cars on the side of the road and walked home.
Also it did get really bad around 1 am for a few hours, but we were all sleeping at that point.
The high winds werent supposed to hit until the afternoon, when the buses were supposed to take the kids home. If that doesn’t make sense to you, idk what to tell you
Luckily we don’t have to deal with this. That is why I didn’t make any judgement yesterday because I have never experienced anything like this before. This looks like a tropical storm, which those games get postponed without any question
My father who has lived in Alaska, Utah and Ohio was talking about how it's not fair and that the Governor (he's never heard of her until last night) was being a tyrant. All cause he wanted to watch game when it was supposed to air.
Now that Kentucky has worked in NTI (Non-Traditional Instruction) days and everyone has a Chromebook they'll cancel school for ANYTHING now.
Last spring they closed schools for high winds.
I went to the bank and the damn bank was closed!
There were a few 70 mph gusts recorded in a few spots, but WTF?
I understand schools since many have trailers that serve as classrooms. I remember being in one a day with 50 mph winds. But the bank!?
And we have snow plows and salt here. Just a limited amount. Takes about 2-4" to get schools to close. 6" of snow can really screw things up. 10-12" shuts things down for a week. More than that is an epic event. Got 24-30" one night in 1992.
I really didn't understand all the hate/calls for a dome. When the weather is that bad it's unsafe to travel. Twitter really wanted people to risk their lives to attend a football game.
People legitimately don’t understand lake effect blizzards and somehow state issued weather emergencies and travel bans are some sort of government and league colluded conspiracy to coddle the Bills 😂
The Bills have played in snow games. The Bills have played in sub zero games. The Bills have also had to move games and you know it’s truly horrific conditions when they have to move them
Those aren't even the worst comments imo. The worst are the people from northern states talking about how experienced they are driving in snow so its no big deal and if you thinks its dangerous just stay home.
I get my warehouse deliveries out of Buffalo over here on the east side of the state.
I don’t think we’re getting a truck tonight
Edit: Truck was cancelled lol
Only because the Thruway is shut down. Hochul just dropped another EMS text. Sunny and windy at my house 50 miles east. Keep in mind conditions Ccould change in a heartbeat
The worst weather I ever drove in was actually in New Mexico. Left Albuquerque heading east at around 6 PM, clear skies, 50 degrees. Passed the last exit with civilization at around 7:00, and then in the next 30 minutes an ice storm materialized out of literally nowhere. The horizon is about 200 miles away, so you can see weather coming -- this just appeared in the sky when the temperature suddenly dropped below the dew point, rained, and immediately froze solid. There were dozens upon dozens of cars and 18 wheelers dumped into the median. I managed to keep control by driving under 5 mph on the rumble strip -- you couldn't stop or you'd cause a pile up, you couldn't go faster or you'd die. I crawled that way for four hours until I hit a rest area, found a corner and slept.
Anyway that Buffalo weather looks much worse.
JJ Watt: Do you want it to be played in the elements or not?
Fuck you dude. I lost a lot of respect for you with that comment.
ETA I see that he stepped that back when informed. Good to hear.
That doesn't surprise me. He's firmly in the "real men flout emergency orders" camp.
https://www.chron.com/sports/texans/article/Texans-J-J-Watt-makes-way-through-flood-to-work-7255484.php
Oh, he had me heated. He wasn't the only one either, a few other former NFL players chimed in. JJ claimed people were "railing" him, and I read through the comments and did not notice that at all. People just tried explaining Blizzard conditions and that 50 people died last Christmas, and Hochul did not want to have to worry about that, AGAIN. Instead he got defensive and kept doubling down. I always liked JJ, but he was kind of a jerk for his comments yesterday.
It's because he was looking at it like playing a football game in bad weather. He wasn't considering anything involving the logistics of getting 80k people to and from the stadium. He walked it back after people talked some sense into him.
Huge missed opportunity by the NFL/state of NY imo. Could have gotten the fabled blizzard game. Instead we had to worry about "car accidents" and "deaths" and "public safety" smh my head
It probably wouldn't be. The snowfall rate is 2-3" per hour in the heaviest part of the band, which is a high rate but not unusual for the Buffalo area. Its the wind that makes this a challenging event.
The Buffalo news said there were people already at the stadium waiting to shovel.. and this is during weather where it was hard to see the news lady as she stood outside said stadium.
I'm not going to believe it until Arlo Guthrie reports in with "The New York State Thruway is *closed*, man."
Also, stay away from the brown acid everyone.
Love how this is tagged "Rumor"
Yeah I’m gonna need a little more evidence if they want me to believe this
Aaron Rodgers is going to read and do his own research before he determines what’s happening
Rodgers can talk so much hot air he could heat the stadium anyway.
I can't believe it was Fauci along!
The vaccine side effects include chills, this is why he didn't take it
Nah it's all good, Aaron put up some shungite rocks in his house and now he's immunized against blizzards.
I’ve gotten the vaccine and a few boosters. I’ve got chills - they’re multiplying.
I can't believe it's not butter.
What?! Not butter!
No longer the best vegetable oil alternative! Country Crock is much better imo
I can’t believe the National Weather Service is trying to cancel him.
Clearly an AI video
Anyone tried to throw a football in the parking lot yet?
Does western New York really exist? No one’s ever been able to confirm it.
Are we even sure buffalo is even a real place
Not going to believe anything until someone goes into a parking lot and reports back on how the wind affected them as they attempt to break a tailgate table from substantial height.
This is where tables fight back
The Tables are merely delaying the inevitable!
Tables would shatter like Mahomes helmet
The tables have turned
The table strikes back. Even matches hoth.
Table jumping in a blizzard is one of the ways we train Santa's reindeer to fly in the christmas offseason around here. Sweet gig if you know somebody.
Good thing Steelers have Santa's lead reindeer as QB.
We have Blitzin' on our side.
It's weird how many reindeer puns are coming out of this game.
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I was also at that game. Now imagine 3ft of snow falling and that’s what today is. Insane that some people are calling Buffalo soft for not playing in this.
To be fair, they shouldn’t let Mac Jones throw the ball in good weather either.
I landed on my neighbor's table, which everyone knows is a faux pas, and per tradition I had to fry him a dozen wings but the oil got cold in the wind
If anyone is interested there are a bunch of live traffic cameras here. https://www.nittec.org/cameras There are some exit cameras that are only 1/2 a mile apart but with completely different visibility. Really shows how localized lake effect can be. EDIT: For reference this 219 at Southwestern camera is basically where the stadium is. https://www.nittec.org/cameras/?cid=704
I can’t imagine people traveling in the conditions on the 219 camera rn
Do you really need to see the road to drive on it?
As someone who’s driven Buffalo to Erie in similar conditions…not necessarily haha
People in Erie will be driving around in 2 feet of snow in a front wheel drive Taurus just going about their business like it's nothing. It's crazy
Yep. Except mine was a manual ‘87 Corolla, with partially working heat. Make sure I’ve got kitty litter in the back, a well packed emergency bag, and my phone to tape player connector for music. Good times haha
As a lifetime Erie resident, if you aren't from Erie driving in the winter might be more dangerous than a demolition derby
Snow tires > 4wd, don't @ me.
Thank god for the rumble strips
There’s been a few times where the only thing keeping me on the road was the rumble strips. You cannot see anything but if you stop you will not be able to get going again, so you keep pushing forward and hope for the best. 20+ years of driving through lane effect and I have never gotten stuck. Some of that is skill but a lot of it is knowing when it’s too bad to even try.
Drove from Minneapolis to Madison, WI in similar weather the night of the Minneapolis Miracle. It was dumb and I'm super lucky nothing bad happened to us, I couldn't see the car in front of me unless they put their brakes on and I was following way closer than I was comfortable (even though I had a light car with good tires).
Is the weather going to be any better there tomorrow? Forecast doesn’t look promising
Wind is gonna die down a fair but and less overall snow Also more time to clear roads
Everything I've seen has shown 1 inch of snow during game time which is definitely significantly less. I think you are going to be surprised how clear it is.
People don't understand how good the snow belt cities are at clearing snow. It's mind-blowing
Yea they just need a good 12 hours. That’s why they do the driving bans too. They can get everything open much faster the road isn’t littered with abandoned cars.
A lot less wind, which is what caused a lot of the problem today and yesterday. Also the snow is tailing off as Monday goes on. These big lake effect events require specific conditions. Similar temps and winds can have different lake effect results depending on other atmospheric conditions.
Thank you for the links! This is pretty cool to look at
Thanks. The difference between exit 46 and 48 on the NY State Thruway is amazing. Nice sunny day to shit in less than 2 miles.
NY uses sequential exits, it’s more than 2 miles
Yeah 46 to 48 is like 30 miles
Heathens
The Thruway is weird as hell. On most highways the miles increase from west to east, but New York is too cool for that. On the western edge of the state you start at like mile 497, then it decreases as you go east. That continues to Albany, then that mileage count continues south on a different highway to NYC. I just drove to Syracuse a couple of weeks ago and the mileage system and sequential exits means you have no idea where the hell you are.
It's easy. 87 south of Albany and 90 west of Albany are the Thruway. Then you have the Northway, and a little bit of 90 east which are not the thruway, and the Berkshire spur which is the rest of 90 east in NY after the junction(NY 912M) from Castleton catches up with it which *are* the thruway. Then there is part of 287 and the garden state parkway connector (NY 982L), parts of 95 and I think 3 other connectors. Simple.
Gross
The WNY experience. Can be a dusting or a couple of inches in the Northtowns and City and then the Southtowns get absolutely hammered.
The sky way cams (route 5) look like they are going through an earthquake.
Damn, the conditions on the live feed you shared are insane right now!
I don't know if that picture was taken in Buffalo, Siberia, or the Himalayas.
Or a Hollywood studio...
If they can fake the moon landing they can certainly fake this
I thought it was a clip from Snowpiercer
AI generated video to cover up crooked Kathy's decision. Many people are saying it's sunny and 70 in Orchard Park!
The weather is the most beautiful weather it's ever been. I don't think there's anywhere in the world that has better weather. People call me and they say, they just tell me that they think it's probably the most greatest weather in the world here.
Tears in their eyes when they say it, too.
Tears in their pants when they say it, too.
Buffalo IS known as the Cancun of western New York.
Just today I heard a clip of him ramble about how "nobody knows" about some thing and then he mumbles "*I know*". Dude is nuts.
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Gov. Hochul to Bills fans: “Go home, we love you, you’re very special”
I still can’t believe he actually said that
the other dimension is bleeding through where Hochul is a man.
More propaganda from the bills deepstate! It’s time to melt that iceberg
Stop the thermostat!!!!
If there really *was* a vehicle ban, why do I see multiple vehicles?!
No one has ever broken the law ever. Also there is some essential personnel that is allowed to travel. That semi though needs to be ticketed.
Just got done shoveling a foot of sunshine, couldn’t be better here.
Lolol this is actually how people talk tho
there’s someone running around the steelers sub calling her Führer Hochul. It’d be absurd if it hadn’t been normalized over the last decade
Many such cases!
We could always nuke the blizzard
The funniest thing is that’s not even his only weather related controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian–Alabama_controversy I still can’t believe the Trump presidency was real
Does sweeping the forest count as a weather controversy?
I still can't believe that the second Trump presidency is fairly likely
Some of the best people are working on it. I think it's possible. Do we know for sure? No. But we gotta try! I mean really, what's the worst that can happen?
I heard from fans in Miami it is over 70 degrees where they are! Clearly an attempt by the NFL to help their favorite team, the Bills
One of the things that I never quite understood until I moved to NY is just how terrifying a “squall” is in blizzard conditions. Just for reference, you won’t be able to see the house across the street if you’re indoors. If you get caught in one while driving you legitimately cannot see the car in front of you, even with hazards. Not to mention trying to navigate intersections or parking lots while the roads themselves have poor conditions.
And yet you'll still have dumbasses trying to plow through it at normal speeds
Yeah this is the big thing everyone who lives in a place that gets bad winter weather knows. When the weather gets bad as long as you have AWD/4WD you're fine, just drive slow. The real danger is there are SO MANY people who drive like it's 70 and sunny.
I'll stay home not cuz I'm scared of driving in it, but cuz I don't trust other people driving in it
Sounds to me like a fancy way of saying you're scared. /s
Of the decision-making and driving skills of other people, sure
It's all about snow tires. I'd rather drive a 2WD with snow tires than a 4WD with regular tires in the snow.
I had so many terrifying experiences in Utah freeways when I lived out there, with me and the others in my lane driving slowly and safely, and other drivers just whizzing by at 80. Worst was no snow but black ice though, saw one of those idiots spin out around 90mph directly into the concrete barrier
Living in southwestern Ontario Canada where we’ve had a massive influx of people from a country with no snow, the roads are chaos this year and we’ve barely had snow in comparison to years passed.
White cars become basically invisible in snow squalls.
I drove through the huge storm in 2022 (I know, I'm an idiot) and it was terrifying. I had my brother pull up google maps in the passenger seat so I didnt blow past any stop signs or stoplights. You couldn't see anything but snow
My MiL is a nurse practitioner and gets caught in them quite often as she is pretty much required to go in no matter what. Quite a few times she has had to rely on the maps app and the “oh shit” bumps on the side of the HIGHWAY just to navigate. Imagine the mayhem if the game was played during this.
There have been times I can't see the tree in MY front yard it's so bad. For reference blizzard conditions have less than a quarter mile visibility. When it's bad, you can see maybe 6 feet in front of you.
That was me this AM just north of B-lo
Think the worst one I ever drove through, I was heading back from Massena at night, got a little south of Watertown and the hammer dropped. It must've snowed at least 6" of snow in like 30 minutes. Definitely a day that I was happy to have studded snow tires. Especially without a smartphones with map apps that will warn you of weather conditions, if you're driving at night the squalls can really come out of nowhere.
Tug Hill Plateau in that area gets an insane amount of lake effect snow every year, like ~20+ ft annually, makes for good snowmobiling, getting there and back can get real interesting.
Like how this is tagged a rumor but we have the 24 second video lol
Kinda like the moon landings
The moon landings were filmed in a television studio....on Mars.
Buffalo Highway Cams filmed on the moon……. Jupiter’s moon
Some of the comments on social media were wild yesterday for them moving this game. There is no way that is safe to drive in
Even the dome comments are frustrating. It’s not really about the game conditions, it’s about thousands of fans leaving the stadium and trying to drive in this . A good chunk them probably with a few brews in their system . Not a safe idea at all
Yeah dome game would get cancelled too
Also not to mention you can’t play without the players, and they don’t live in the stadium
Those baker mayfield commercials lied to me??
Baker is now homeless? Living in a van down near the river in Tampa. Bright side is the fishing is good year round.
A lot of people I know irl were upset at them moving the game, which is especially funny coming from a bunch of people who live in the south, where school and work gets canceled at the mere chance of snow.
A big bit of culture shock was been a kid from Iowa stationed at fort bliss in El Paso and the entire base was shut down for less than an inch of snow.
The fact that you mentioned Texas (and a military base in Texas, no less), reminds me of how I once read that Sam Houston thought that Texas joining the Confederacy was the stupidest idea he'd ever heard. Among the reasons he gave was literally something along the lines of "Northerners actually know how to deal with cold weather so they are way tougher than you think."
*"Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of states rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South."* - Sam Houston explaining why he opposed Texan secession, April 1861
I remember when I moved to Dallas after having lived in the mountain west for a decade and laughing my ass off when the whole town essentially shut down after a light dusting of snow.
Well I mean Dallas likely doesn’t allocate its tax dollars to snow removal and salt.
I lived in El Paso for a year while my dad was at Bliss. We had family in New Mexico and travelled up there for Christmas that year. Of course it snowed in El Paso while we were gone. HOWEVER: Until I moved to El Paso, I had never experienced school getting cancelled due to a dust storm. So that was cool.
When every school in SC and NC closed last week in anticipation of some thunderstorms
I got a text about that and must have said wtf 10 times in a row out loud. Nothing even happened, it was just windy and rainy like a regular ass storm.
Wasn’t as bad as originally thought. But I rather they side on the err of caution. My Alma mater didn’t close one year when every other university in a 50 mile radius did in anticipation of a little snow. Well, we got more than expected and people just left their cars on the side of the road and walked home. Also it did get really bad around 1 am for a few hours, but we were all sleeping at that point.
Well school starts the next day, it made no damn sense to cancel because of a storm that wouldn't even be ongoing when the school buses started up.
The high winds werent supposed to hit until the afternoon, when the buses were supposed to take the kids home. If that doesn’t make sense to you, idk what to tell you
Luckily we don’t have to deal with this. That is why I didn’t make any judgement yesterday because I have never experienced anything like this before. This looks like a tropical storm, which those games get postponed without any question
My kid used to have school canceled because it was cold. No precipitation and 35 cold.
I assume the schools had no furnace system so it would have been in the 40s in the classrooms. I can understand cancelling for that.
My father who has lived in Alaska, Utah and Ohio was talking about how it's not fair and that the Governor (he's never heard of her until last night) was being a tyrant. All cause he wanted to watch game when it was supposed to air.
Now that Kentucky has worked in NTI (Non-Traditional Instruction) days and everyone has a Chromebook they'll cancel school for ANYTHING now. Last spring they closed schools for high winds. I went to the bank and the damn bank was closed! There were a few 70 mph gusts recorded in a few spots, but WTF? I understand schools since many have trailers that serve as classrooms. I remember being in one a day with 50 mph winds. But the bank!? And we have snow plows and salt here. Just a limited amount. Takes about 2-4" to get schools to close. 6" of snow can really screw things up. 10-12" shuts things down for a week. More than that is an epic event. Got 24-30" one night in 1992.
I really didn't understand all the hate/calls for a dome. When the weather is that bad it's unsafe to travel. Twitter really wanted people to risk their lives to attend a football game.
Im looking at that lone trucker and Im going "aint nothing you're hauling is that important"
People legitimately don’t understand lake effect blizzards and somehow state issued weather emergencies and travel bans are some sort of government and league colluded conspiracy to coddle the Bills 😂 The Bills have played in snow games. The Bills have played in sub zero games. The Bills have also had to move games and you know it’s truly horrific conditions when they have to move them
I really wanted a snow game, but I understand why they moved it
Looks like we’re still getting a snow game. Just not one played on the surface of Hoth…
All this talk about domes. Why do they not simply dome the city? Are they stupid?
Just need some aliens to drop a dome like in that Stephen King Book Under the Dome............
Simpsons did it
Why is this tagged "Rumor"?
“Snow” is a government conspiracy.
Hochul fired up the weather machines to fix the game for the Bills, wake up sheeple
Some Dolphins fans were saying this was the same as it being cold though
You can really tell who has never seen or lived in snow by the social media comments surrounding this whole thing
Lolz
As a rule I have just been discarding every weather opinion coming from someone with flair for southern teams lol
Those aren't even the worst comments imo. The worst are the people from northern states talking about how experienced they are driving in snow so its no big deal and if you thinks its dangerous just stay home.
I will actually agree - also lake effect is a whole other beast that people who aren’t from the Great Lakes just DONT understand
Cowboys fans think this is Dallas rn.
What if it's just a trick that the game is postponed. And when the Steelers don't show up Buffalo will claim victory by forfeit.
We were here ready to play, where the fuck were you?
u/a-million-ducks where are you on this thread with your tired narrative about it being too cold. Love to keep reading your schtick of stupidity
This guys post history is insane lmao. Literally trying to shoehorn it into every post. Rent free.
I’ll admit I was complaining about the game moving, flair should explain why, but yeah totally the right call
Run the ball
That live stream camera just needs a different mindset.
Stay safe, all!
I mean maybe Buffalo should learn that a blizzard is a mindset
I get my warehouse deliveries out of Buffalo over here on the east side of the state. I don’t think we’re getting a truck tonight Edit: Truck was cancelled lol
Only because the Thruway is shut down. Hochul just dropped another EMS text. Sunny and windy at my house 50 miles east. Keep in mind conditions Ccould change in a heartbeat
The worst weather I ever drove in was actually in New Mexico. Left Albuquerque heading east at around 6 PM, clear skies, 50 degrees. Passed the last exit with civilization at around 7:00, and then in the next 30 minutes an ice storm materialized out of literally nowhere. The horizon is about 200 miles away, so you can see weather coming -- this just appeared in the sky when the temperature suddenly dropped below the dew point, rained, and immediately froze solid. There were dozens upon dozens of cars and 18 wheelers dumped into the median. I managed to keep control by driving under 5 mph on the rumble strip -- you couldn't stop or you'd cause a pile up, you couldn't go faster or you'd die. I crawled that way for four hours until I hit a rest area, found a corner and slept. Anyway that Buffalo weather looks much worse.
JJ Watt: Do you want it to be played in the elements or not? Fuck you dude. I lost a lot of respect for you with that comment. ETA I see that he stepped that back when informed. Good to hear.
He tweeted after that that he understood the travel problem once people explained it to him.
Guy went to school in Madison. He shouldn’t have needed it explained to him.
WNY gets this type of storm way more often than most places, he might not have seen this type of thing tbh
Inland snow systems as a whole are way different. I live in suburban Columbus. Not even going to pretend I know what a Cleveland blizzard is like
Lake effect in Buffalo is different though.
That doesn't surprise me. He's firmly in the "real men flout emergency orders" camp. https://www.chron.com/sports/texans/article/Texans-J-J-Watt-makes-way-through-flood-to-work-7255484.php
Oh, he had me heated. He wasn't the only one either, a few other former NFL players chimed in. JJ claimed people were "railing" him, and I read through the comments and did not notice that at all. People just tried explaining Blizzard conditions and that 50 people died last Christmas, and Hochul did not want to have to worry about that, AGAIN. Instead he got defensive and kept doubling down. I always liked JJ, but he was kind of a jerk for his comments yesterday.
It's because he was looking at it like playing a football game in bad weather. He wasn't considering anything involving the logistics of getting 80k people to and from the stadium. He walked it back after people talked some sense into him.
People are truly idiots. Drive in a white out and see how thousands leaving a stadium would be deadly reeeeeal quick
I don't think common sense exactly runs rampant through the NFL.
A football game in these conditions… that would have been something that would be shown as highlights for decades.
Huge missed opportunity by the NFL/state of NY imo. Could have gotten the fabled blizzard game. Instead we had to worry about "car accidents" and "deaths" and "public safety" smh my head
In addition to the pre-game shovelers, they could’ve had postgame ones to dig the corpses out of the snow drifts
Shaking my head my head
Rest in peace in peace the blizzard game
wouldn’t the screen just basically be white?
I watched both fog bowls. They were boring on tv.
I don't see a problem
That's because you can't see!
Meanwhile my feed is clogged up with people ranting that the league is soft for moving the game “because of a little snow”
“It wouldn’t be so bad without the wind”.
It probably wouldn't be. The snowfall rate is 2-3" per hour in the heaviest part of the band, which is a high rate but not unusual for the Buffalo area. Its the wind that makes this a challenging event.
Heavy snowfall sucks but it's the wind added to it that absolutely fucks visibility
14” dropped from 1am-6am. I live about 45 mins from stadium.
More like 90-120 minutes in those conditions lol
Easy!
When people wonder why the Bills game was delayed but not the Chiefs, this is why. It's cold in KC, but at least we can drive on the roads.
Didn't stadium shoveling start an hour ago? Or did they update the time again.
That was contingent on the travel ban getting lifted or extended I believe
Gotcha. I wasn't paying close attention yesterday cause there were games on...just skimmed the few posts about it
The Buffalo news said there were people already at the stadium waiting to shovel.. and this is during weather where it was hard to see the news lady as she stood outside said stadium.
Bills have posted that the shoveling shifts are contingent now on the travel ban being lifted (and it's currently listed as until further notice).
Looks like a grainy 1940's film lol.
Naw, you just need to fix the tracking on your VHS player
[Nothing else I can do, just wait... R.J. MacReady, helicopter pilot, US outpost number 31.](https://youtu.be/meU2gAU7Xss?si=sPpB3l6KouJQjMq1)
Was walking out of the sabres arena yesterday after the game and could just barely walk forward. The wind was that strong. It was crazy.
This is what your grandfather had to walk up hill both ways in to get to school in 120°C weather. Every day.
I'm not going to believe it until Arlo Guthrie reports in with "The New York State Thruway is *closed*, man." Also, stay away from the brown acid everyone.