Snowstorm buries Buffalo under up to four feet of snow
The Associated Press
Published Tuesday, Nov. 18 2014, 9:25 AM EST
Last updated Tuesday, Nov. 18 2014, 12:24 PM EST
Parts of New York are measuring the season’s first big snowfall in feet, not inches.
As many as four feet fell in parts of the Buffalo area on Tuesday, with some forecasts predicting up to six feet through Thursday.
Conditions have been made worse by lake-effect snow, a condition in which cold winds blow over a lake’s warm water surface. The approaching clouds made for a dramatic scene on Buffalo’s shores Tuesday morning.
A shot of somebody's balcony:
Oh deer:
(The person who posted that, posted an update; Bambi got free )
Here's a project for you oldr:
There's actually a car under there:
Of course if you don't feel like plowing or digging your car out, you can always shoot some hoops:
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I think it's Buffalo's raison d'etre. Also, nature's way of trying to blot it out.
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I went to school at University of Buffalo from 77-78. We had our share of big ones. In jan of 1978 we got 3 feet on a wednesday and then that friday it sarted snowing and didn't stop til monday. Some 8 or 9 feet total I think. Whiteout conditions most of the weekend. WE had very little food as friday was our usual grocery day. I put on my snowmobile suit, tied a rope around railing and around my waist and headed to the corner (we were the first house from the corner) and got to John and Marys subs. Bought as many subs as I had money for. Went back outside and pulledmyself back to the house.
Those pictures are how it is.
Took til April to get our street plowed. The student getto is a low priority.
It's not a buffalo. Buffalo St Marie made the same schoolboy error.
ETA how popular would Bison Bill have been?
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Actually, it's both. There are no buffalo native to America, but because bison closely resembled the buffalo with which early settlers were familiar, they called bison buffalo - and in America, it's acceptable usage still.
But yes, technically, it's a bison.
eta: That's a nice photo, Sue.
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bigskygal wrote:Actually, it's both. There are no buffalo native to America, but because bison closely resembled the buffalo with which early settlers were familiar, they called bison buffalo - and in America, it's acceptable usage still.
But yes, technically, it's a bison.
So what buffalo were these European settlers familiar with - the African or the Indian?
(oh... Indian... maybe that's it?)
(and it is a nice picture indeed, Sue)
wait wait... the European Bison (bison bonasus) - that's what the USian Bison (bison bison) looks like.
And I found this:
Buffalo n. 1580s (earlier buffel, 1510s, from Middle French), from Portuguese bufalo "water buffalo," from Latin bufalus, variant of bubalus "wild ox," from Greek boubalos "buffalo," originally a kind of African antelope, later used of a type of domesticated ox in southern Asia and the Mediterranean lands, perhaps from bous "ox, cow" (see cow (n.)). Wrongly applied since 1630s to the American bison. Buffalo gnat is recorded from 1822
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Bison are part of the family Bovidae, to which Asian buffalo, African buffalo and domestic cattle and goats belong. Because American bison resembled in some ways old world buffalo (Asian and African buffalo), early explorers to North America began to call them buffalo. Although it is a misnomer, the name buffalo is still used interchangeably with bison. One of the physical differences between the old world buffalo and the American bison is the large shoulder hump of the bison. This hump, along with a broad, massive head, short, thick neck and small hindquarters give the animal its rugged appearance.
Often called buffalo by early scientists who thought they were related to the Africa/Asian water buffaloes. French explorers also called the animals "les boeff" - the cattle.
Buffalo, NY (named after the former village of Buffalo Creek, possibly so named because the 60 million bison/buffalo that once roamed America stretched as far east as western New York - but theories vary as to how it became so named).
Watch it snow on Buffalo:
eta: I didn't know there were bison in Europe. Apparently, they were hunted to extinction in the wild by 1919 - but there must have been a few in captivity, because they reintroduced them into the wild and a small population now exists - still a vulnerable species.
It makes my heart hurt to think about 60 million bison, hunted to near extinction here in a period of only 55 years. They thrive in Yellowstone, and now they are being re-introduced to Indian Reservations here in Montana. The ranchers are up in arms because of brucellosis, but here's the big secret: grass fed bison meat is 10x tastier, and healthier, than 'regular' cattle beef. Hopefully someday we'll quit regular cattle and bring back our bison everywhere.
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~ Carl Sagan
buf·fa·lo \ˈbə-fə-ˌlō\ 1: any of several wild bovids: as a :WATER BUFFALO b :CAPE BUFFALO c (1) : any of a genus (Bison) of bovids; especially : a large shaggy-maned North American bovid (B. bison) that has short horns and heavy forequarters with a large muscular hump and that was formerly abundant on the central and western plains — compare WISENT (2) : the flesh of the buffalo used as food
buf·fa·lo
(bŭf′ə-lō') n. pl.buffalo or buf·fa·loes or buf·fa·los 1. ......a. Any of several oxlike Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the water buffalo and African buffalo. ......b. The North American bison, Bison bison.
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Yes we all know that bison bison is erroneously referred to as a buffalo. Each of your cites assumes the use of "buffalo" in its USian context because it has now entered the common language. No argument from me there.
I have tried to find out if the European Bison (which apparently isn't a buffalo) was familiarly known in Europe as "buffalo" - or more likely "buffalew". That would explain why Euro-settlers said "ah, look at ze buffalo" when they hit the Great Plains. Aside from being smaller and bit hippier (it's the hair), the EuroBison looks exactly like the USIanBison - in fact, I saw that some consider them the same species or genus or whatever.
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Indian... maybe that's it?) 
