... they got about 150 inches that year and it never seemed to get warm enough to melt. So it just got piled higher and higher by earth movers at one side of each parking lot, and here/there along city roads. The roads developed a sort of perma-frozen base that became a rutted mixture of snow/ice/sand/salt and the cars took a beating. That lake-effect snow never stopped for more than a day or two. Seemed the sky was always grey and there was at least a flurry in the air. Hated it. I remember one blizzard when we got 4 feet of snow at once, and there was about a 10+ foot deep drift on one side of the freshman dorm I lived in. Kids were jumping from the second floor landing flat into it, and my friend broke his leg by landing on a buried trash can, LOL! Yes they had idiots before youtube. Have to admit I was one of them.