Dads are funny that way. I'm beginning to doubt his story of having to beat off a Grizzly Bear with his loose-leaf notebook
while walking to school in Sloan, NY in the 1930's!
My dad was constantly "volunteering" me to do the driveway.
The funny thing was, I joined the Air Force right after the Blizzard of '77 and he immediately went and bought a snowblower.
I lived in Cheektowaga and had a lot of family in Rochester. They used to laugh at us saying they never get the storms we did.
It took 20 seconds to google.
Rochester has never had a snowstorm of 5 feet. Nowhere even close to that.
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/01/18/rochester-ny-weather-biggest-snowstorms/2613263002/