Blizzard conditions 100% verified!!! Just had a pretty crazy experience...Left for the the Galleria mall at 1 PM after heard they were closing at 2 PM (long story why I would drive down there in this weather, but it involves a daughter studying abroad and needing Euro's ASAP...). Conditions weren't too bad at home, snowing pretty good but we're sheltered from the wind. The 90 from 290 down to Walden was passable, times of reduced visibility down to 100 feet but manageable. But Walden Ave itself not so much. Basically 0 visibility, cars crawling and trying not to run into each other. Somehow managed to turn onto the mall road, which was a mistake. No visibility whatsoever, and no idea where to turn into main parking areas. Hoped for the best that no vehicles were coming and managed to turn around. Then it took 10 minutes to find an exit back onto Walden. Navigated around a jackknifed tractor trailer and another car off the road to get back on the 90, then mostly smooth sailing home.
As much as we love this weather, it's actually quite scary to be in the middle of a full-fledged blizzard. Not a great feeling to be surrounded by nothing but white with no idea which direction to turn. That said....truly EPIC conditions in the BUF!!!!