I'm back from vacation, and working on gathering up items for reports. Unfortunately, because of the season and weather (yeah, we did get a little snow these past few days), posts will be limited until closer to spring. Both Western New York and the Lancaster County area run on a April to December tourism season, but there are places still open.
The post could be entitled: I survived the Blizzard of 2014! According to the local weather folks, this is the first blizzard we've had since 1993. After twenty years up in NY, I am finally experiencing and "authentic New York winter." We came away with around a foot plus of snow; it's hard to tell what with the wind blowing the snow into the neighbor's yard. The good news being we had very little shoveling to do.
Genesee County, where I live, rarely receives much in the way of snowfall, all things considered. To our south (the Southern Tier snow country) and to our north (Ontario Lake Shore) receives more snow, on average. The Blizzard of 2014 (sounds cool, doesn't it), instigated lake effect that swept over Erie County (Buffalo) and Genesee County. While we received a foot plus, the towns and villages to our south received maybe six inches. Ah, lake effect, you have to enjoy it.
On a side note, apparently the American Falls in Niagara have frozen. While it is known to happen, it doesn't happen all that often so we're planning to take a drive up tomorrow to see what we can see. We're expecting a warm spell next week (fifties!), so the falls might be unfrozen, but I'll take my camera with me anyway.
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