Buffalo airport closed until Monday AM...Christmas in Chicago for the Bills?

[Buffalo716]

21 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

Nope...the Eastern suburbs Depew/Lancaster east of the airport get hit harder than the airport. They are in a snow belt where the winds will take the bands over Lackawanna, miss downtown and the airport, be a bullseye for Depew/Lancaster and head out to Batavia.  Whatever the total at the airport is for a given season, you can tack on about 20-30" usually. 

 

West Seneca has it worse usually than us tho.

I mean the Depew Lancaster border is not far from the airport… I can go from Cheektowaga to Depew Lancaster in a five minute walk from my house

 

My fathers in Lancaster and I’m at the airport and we usually get around the same amount.., 10 extra inches over five months of winter isn’t that much to me

 

Edited December 26, 2022 by Buffalo716

[Big Turk]

6 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

I mean the Depew Lancaster border is not far from the airport… I can go from Cheektowaga to Depew Lancaster in a five minute walk from my house

 

My fathers in Lancaster and I’m at the airport and we usually get around the same amount.., Occasionally he gets more occasionally I get more

 

 

Yes that's true. To put it in perspective in 2014, we had 7 feet of snow and the airport had barely a foot. That's how sharp the cutoff is at times. It's a classic lake snow setup as well that has happened repeatedly in the 15+ years I've lived there. I'm about 8 minutes from the airport.

 

 

Edited December 26, 2022 by Big Turk

[atlbillsfan1975]

12 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Some people on Twitter are trying to stir up **** because Bills players were allowed to get home from Chicago. 

People are stirring the pot on Twitter??

[Beck Water]

14 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

Well Western New York is a very large area

 

Orchard Park is an outer ring suburb … The airport is in Cheektowaga in the inner ring 

 

As far as Buffalo and inner ring suburbs… I’d say the airport probably gets hit the hardest or parts of west Seneca

 

Well, it's been a few decades since I lived in WNY, but didn't use to be true that the airport got hit about the hardest.

Used to always be Southtowns, closer to the lake. 

 

Sounds like this stormy was an equal opportunity mess though.

 

 

 

[Buffalo716]

17 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

Yes that's true. To put it in perspective in 2014, we had 7 feet of snow and the airport had barely a foot. That's how sharp the cutoff is.

 

 

Sometimes the bands work like that… It is a fine line

 

My dad is right on the Lancaster Depew boarder And I actually got more than him this time

 

Statistically it looks like most of the inner ring averages around 85 inches per year… including Depew and Lancaster and Cheektowaga 

Edited December 26, 2022 by Buffalo716

[Beck Water]

3 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

Well There are dead civilians in cars and on the street in Western New York
 

And they weren’t helped

 

I think we all understand that.  And it's a tragedy.  But the point is - when did they need assistance and die without it?

 

Logically, if people became stuck in the snow or went out on the streets seeking shelter because of lack of heat, and weren't helped on Friday or Saturday .......the Bills flying into an open airport in Rochester after noon on Sunday and being allowed to bus through plowed streets to the stadium and drive home on Sunday afternoon, did not divert help from those people.

 

It's not like people were dying in their cars on the streets of Buffalo while snowplows were leading a flotilla of Bills busses down the closed Thruway.

[WhoTom]

4 minutes ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:

People are stirring the pot on Twitter??

 

Yeah, it's legal now. Didn't you hear the news? 😉

 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

21 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Some people on Twitter are trying to stir up **** because Bills players were allowed to get home from Chicago. 

I see no problem allowing an organized group of 100 or so people use the thruway as long as it’s not causing a problem.

 

There is a big difference between that and allowing everyone to operate freely. I’m sure Bills players and coaches had strict instructions on the routes they could take.

[Buffalo716]

12 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

Well, it's been a few decades since I lived in WNY, but didn't use to be true that the airport got hit about the hardest.

Used to always be Southtowns, closer to the lake. 

 

Sounds like this stormy was an equal opportunity mess though.

 

 

 

The south towns arent a part of the inner ring suburbs

 

Yeah the south towns always get hit the most… Buffalo and it’s inner ring suburbs… Sloan , Cheektowaga, west Seneca , Depew , Tonawanda all average around 85 inches a year

 

I was talking snow in the inner rings

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 26, 2022 by Buffalo716

[Aussie Joe]

24 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Some people on Twitter are trying to stir up **** because Bills players were allowed to get home from Chicago. 

People on Twitter trying to stir up ****??

 

Say it ain’t so bro….

[Buffalo_Stampede]

Just now, Aussie Joe said:

People on Twitter trying to stir up ****??

 

Say it ain’t so bro….

People just like to blame. Doesn’t matter what or where. 

[Buffalo716]

8 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

I think we all understand that.  And it's a tragedy.  But the point is - when did they need assistance and die without it?

 

Logically, if people became stuck in the snow or went out on the streets seeking shelter because of lack of heat, and weren't helped on Friday or Saturday .......the Bills flying into an open airport in Rochester after noon on Sunday and being allowed to bus through plowed streets to the stadium and drive home on Sunday afternoon, did not divert help from those people.

 

It's not like people were dying in their cars on the streets of Buffalo while snowplows were leading a flotilla of Bills busses down the closed Thruway.

I’m just spit balling why people might be acting like that

[Aussie Joe]

1 minute ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

People just like to blame. Doesn’t matter what or where. 

But on Twitter though?

 

it’s always been a sanctuary for the truth and rational thought,,,

[Buffalo_Stampede]

Just now, Aussie Joe said:

But on Twitter though?

 

it’s always been a sanctuary for the truth and rational thought,,,

Anywhere. But yeah social media brings out the most.

 

 

[Since1981]

27 dead is a major disaster. You would have no idea it happened outside Buffalo. In Rochester? Barely mentioned. Nationally? Even less. 

[Aussie Joe]

Just now, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Anywhere. But yeah social media brings out the most.

 

 

Well… it’s a crying shame to see people trying to use Twitter to push their own narrative and try to peddle misinformation 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

11 minutes ago, Since1981 said:

27 dead is a major disaster. You would have no idea it happened outside Buffalo. In Rochester? Barely mentioned. Nationally? Even less. 

There’s a lot happening that’s not being reported. Like looting.

[Doc Brown]

13 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

I see no problem allowing an organized group of 100 or so people use the thruway as long as it’s not causing a problem.

 

There is a big difference between that and allowing everyone to operate freely. I’m sure Bills players and coaches had strict instructions on the routes they could take.

Still sends a message of different rules for the privileged.  The Bills aren't essential personnel.  It also undermines all the local politicians who are yelling and ticketing people for not following the travel ban.  I love the social media feed of them leaving Rochester at the airport to a yelling Bills mafia though.

[boyst]

5 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

Still sends a message of different rules for the privileged.  The Bills aren't essential personnel.  It also undermines all the local politicians who are yelling and ticketing people for not following the travel ban.  I love the social media feed of them leaving Rochester at the airport to a yelling Bills mafia though.

Exactly. I'm not mad at the Bills. I'm not mad at the civilians who broke rules

 

I'm disappointed in the government (police and politicians) who let this happen. You can't treat one class different from the other. 

 

***** curfews, restrictions, etc. 

[Buffalo716]

22 minutes ago, Since1981 said:

27 dead is a major disaster. You would have no idea it happened outside Buffalo. In Rochester? Barely mentioned. Nationally? Even less. 

My friend lives in Australia and it made their 5 o’clock news