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Talk about a "snow job". In 2014, what was arguably the "Epic Snow Storm" overwhelmed Upstate New York. For 3 days, from the 17th to the 19th, Buffalo experienced a blitzkrieg of lake effect snow that buried the region with 3 to 5.5 feet. Areas just east of Buffalo were overwhelmed by 5 to 5.5 feet. There were hundreds of roof collapses and other structural failures, thousands of stranded motorists, and scattered gas and food shortages. Thirteen people died in the disaster. In 1981, an early season snowstorm struck the Twin Cities with up to 1 foot of snow. The weight of the heavy snow caused the newly inflated fabric of the Metrodome in Minneapolis to tear and eventually collapse.

 


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