As the blizzard continued into Saturday morning, with a further 4 feet predicted to hit by Monday, the NYS Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services urged residents to avoid overexerting themselves when shoveling snow. 'Take it slow!... don't work to the point of exhaustion,' the department warned following the deaths of two unidentified men who suffered heart attacks in separate incidents while trying to shovel the snow away. The Starke County Sheriff's Department confirmed that a third person had died on Friday, a snowplow driver whose vehicle slid off the pavement and rolled over.
The hardest hit cities include those in Erie County, like Buffalo and Hamburg (right and inset), where the snowfall has been amplified due to the effects of Lake Erie, which also created lightning and thunder. One Hamburg resident showed off the sheer magnitude of the snowfall when they opened their garage door, revealing snow as high as 6 feet with even larger hills of snow in their front yard (left).
- Pics and caption courtesy of https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11447235/Snowfall-
approaches-6-feet-upstate-New-York-4ft-fall-Monday.html .Gifs are mine...
When you get that much snow you have to find a place to put it!
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