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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Buffalo Digs Out From Snowstorm By Carolyn Thompson Associated Press Writer Friday, December 28, 2001; 5:23 PM BUFFALO, N.Y. –– The National Guard was called out Friday to help Buffalo dig out from a paralyzing, five-day storm that unloaded nearly 7 feet of snow – an astonishing amount even for this city of legendary snowdrifts. The record-breaking storm – which rolled in on Christmas Eve after an extraordinarily mild November and December – buried cars, shrubs, trash cans and mailboxes, reached windowsills, and swallowed up Christmas lawn displays. Buffalo's airport was closed, along with most major roads. The storm finally blew out of town Friday, heading south for ski country, and the sun broke through in the afternoon. Gov. George Pataki ordered the National Guard to help weary plow crews dig the city out. And Rep. Jack Quinn, R-N.Y., asked President Bush for federal aid. "The president has nicknames for everyone and he calls me the big man from Buffalo. I'm 6-foot-5," Quinn said, "and I'm going to tell him the snow is over the big man's head." Buffalo is accustomed to towering amounts of snow from "lake effect" storms coming off Lake Erie. But this was huge even by Buffalo standards. Large masses of cold air kept siphoning moisture from the lake and dropping it in bands of snow. Among the records set: – The 83.5 inches of snow this month – 82.3 of it since Monday – makes this the snowiest month in Buffalo history. The old record of 68.4 inches had stood since December 1985. –The 35.4 inches of snow that fell from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday ranks as the second-highest 24-hour total in Buffalo history. The record is 37.9 inches, Dec. 9-10, 1995. –The 45 inches on the ground at the National Weather Service's airport measuring station Friday eclipsed the 42-inch record set in January 1977. The reading was less than the total snowfall because some snow had melted or had become compacted. At least two deaths were blamed on the storm: An 83-year-old man in Cheektowaga died Friday when heavy snow collapsed his carport. And a woman was killed in an auto accident on an icy road in Lewiston. Residents shoveled snow from porches and roofs to keep them from buckling under the weight, and police reported several roof collapses around the region. Hospitals asked for volunteers with four-wheel-drive vehicles to pick up staff members unable to make it in. Erie County Executive Joel Giambra said some 50 National Guard trucks and bucketloaders and an undetermined number of troops were being sent from Binghamton, Syracuse and Utica to supplement those in Buffalo after Pataki declared the city a disaster area. "Fresh bodies, fresh troops if you will, will go a long way to helping us stay on top of this," Giambra said. Streets Commissioner Paul Sullivan said crews had to go beyond simply plowing the streets: "It's to the point now where we have to remove the snow because the snowbanks are so high." Snow was trucked to designated dumping areas. Despite the see-it-to-believe-it accumulation, the storm did little to rattle the city's snow-seasoned residents. "It's fun," said Fran Eddy as he waited tables. "This is Buffalo, you have to expect this." At a bar, Tina Englehart and friends defended their city and laughed off Buffalo's image as snow-cursed town. She said bad weather brings out the best in Buffalonians, remembering a snowy New Year's Eve a couple of years ago. "Everyone was getting stuck and people were pulling off the road to push each other out and shovel each other out," she said. "You just wouldn't see that in a city like Washington, D.C." This time, it helped that schoolchildren and many workers were on vacation when the storm struck. Once it arrived, few ventured outside, perhaps taking former Mayor James Griffin's advice during a 1977 blizzard to wait it out with a six-pack of beer and a football game. As for football, the Buffalo Bills planned to fly out of Niagara Falls or Rochester to get to New York City in time for Sunday's game against the Jets. Hockey's Buffalo Sabres, scheduled to play at Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, scrambled by four-wheel-drive trucks to the Niagara Falls airport for a hastily arranged charter flight. The storm delivered 25.2 inches of snow by Christmas morning after two strangely mild months: the city's first-ever snowless November and a paltry 1.2 inches of snow through Dec. 23. That seemed a distant memory Friday as residents began the backbreaking process of digging out their cars – a somewhat pointless pursuit given the road closings. As one man cleared snow from his car, a fire engine roared by. 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