# Snowpocalypse '14-'15 - Now 13 Deaths **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [November 17, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107 "2014-11-17T03:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![rugsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rugsr/32/7474_2.png) [@rugsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rugsr)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/461 "2014-11-20T09:38:49Z")
Tons of aerial photos [http://galleries.buffalonews.com/default.aspx?id=3291#/0](http://galleries.buffalonews.com/default.aspx?id=3291#/0) ---
**Author:** ![superfan99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@superfan99](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/superfan99)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 9:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/462 "2014-11-20T09:49:45Z")
> [@Carnut](#): > > Because most shovels are black with a tactically positioned grip. BAN THE SHOVELS! > > JK, the article has a great explanation for this phenomena. I also blame chicken wings, beer and 6 months of sedentary aiding weather. Not to mention the larger than average size of driveways in the US. - - - Updated - - - Snowmageddon related: We just got back from Hawaii on Monday, and my wife has been sending me links to places in the Keys all morning. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gus/32/5112_2.png) [@Gus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/463 "2014-11-20T09:52:52Z")
> [@iwanagofast1](#): > > We are trending nationally. Pretty sure that a nyspeed member (fry) made buzzfeed today. [24 Pictures That Perfectly Capture How Insane The Snow Is Near Buffalo, New York](http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-most-terrifying-pictures-of-the-snow-in-buffalo?bffb) @Fry can you post the picture in high res? ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/464 "2014-11-20T09:55:44Z")
They need to lift these BS driving bans More than half of Depew has plowed roads ---
**Author:** ![superfan99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@superfan99](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/superfan99)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/465 "2014-11-20T10:00:12Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > They need to lift these BS driving bans > > More than half of Depew has plowed roads They could stand to open the thruway between 46 and Exit 50 too. All the back roads between here and there are clear. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/466 "2014-11-20T10:02:16Z")
The town/city/county doesn’t have the man power to help the amount of people who will have issues… It’s also BS they have been turning around private plow trucks ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/467 "2014-11-20T10:07:19Z")
after reading the plow driver stories here I think it’s a good thing they’re denying them. ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/468 "2014-11-20T10:08:55Z")
> [@superfan99](#): > > They could stand to open the thruway between 46 and Exit 50 too. All the back roads between here and there are clear. well then you will get people like rugsr bitching about it ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/469 "2014-11-20T10:13:15Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > The town/city/county doesn’t have the man power to help the amount of people who will have issues… > > It’s also BS they have been turning around private plow trucks x2 For now fuck permit revenues, we need those guys in here clearing out the spots with 100% clear streets. It’s gonna become a safety concern here. ---
**Author:** ![superfan99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@superfan99](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/superfan99)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/470 "2014-11-20T10:13:51Z")
> [@Geehee](#): > > well then you will get people like rugsr bitching about it He raises a good point about the notification boards. The problem at the toll plaza is all the traffic already on thruway when they decide to close it. There’s a bit of a lag between deciding to close it, and clearing the existing traffic. I’m not sure that there’s a great solution to that problem. Keeping all the trucks to one lane would certainly help with clearing them out after the fact. Maybe they should look into expanding the number of lanes and shoulder width leading up to the toll plaza as a means of making it easier to clear stranded vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![1QIKZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1qikz/32/6112_2.png) [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/471 "2014-11-20T10:41:01Z")
Looks like the stupid motherfuckers are trying to clear the fucking stadium for the fucking game. How fucking dumb can this group of people be? I don’t want to hear a goddammed thing about running a business either. The lower half of this county is buried and under a state of emergency and these douchebags are going to try to have a football game this weekend? That area is a fucking disaster when it’s sunny outside. How is it going to be with 6 feet of snow? Fuck the NFL, fuck the Bills, fucking fucktards. This is stupidity at its purest form. ---
**Author:** ![SPDboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SPDboy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SPDboy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/472 "2014-11-20T10:42:34Z")
I just got back from Jamaica last night. Found 2 inches of thick frozen slush on my car. I only had shorts on. It was terrible! ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/473 "2014-11-20T10:43:35Z")
It’s not hard to close the thruway, they just didn’t do it. It’s a limited access highway. You block the on ramps (with the gates we already have in the free sections and the toll barriers in the paid sections) and park a state trooper across the 90 at every exit before the snow band to force any cars that are already on the thruway off. It’s not rocket science to keep cars off a road that has only a few access points and every point has either a gate or a toll booth. You’d have the existing traffic off in 30 minutes or less. And don’t tell me we don’t have the manpower. If we can set a fucking radar trap every 10 miles all year long we can pull this off. Besides, how much manpower are we wasting dealing with all these stuck cars? There’s also no reason for it to be closed as far as they have it closed today. If you want to block it before the snow band fine but being close from Henrietta to Dunkirk when 90% of that section is perfectly clear is just stupid. If the thruway was run by anything but an untouchable authority we wouldn’t have these problems. With an unaccountable and untouchable group of political patronage morons in charge though this is what you should expect. ---
**Author:** ![Schaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Schaz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Schaz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/474 "2014-11-20T10:47:22Z")
This is needed! ![http://www.nyspeed.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34066&stc=1](http://www.nyspeed.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34066&stc=1) ---
**Author:** ![deebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deebo/32/5218_2.png) [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/475 "2014-11-20T10:50:41Z")
We have a L5 payloader here now from tonowanda clearing out west seneca. Just made it down our street but they have been here for a while. Cleared out the driveway yesterday for the most part but it sucked. Strictly shoveling and still going ![http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/11/20/f1aeb59f4735158ebad647ce97212daa.jpg](http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/11/20/f1aeb59f4735158ebad647ce97212daa.jpg) ![http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/11/20/45735e5c1b82a73178bc3970bf5756a0.jpg](http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/11/20/45735e5c1b82a73178bc3970bf5756a0.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![neonglh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/neonglh/32/4951_2.png) [@neonglh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neonglh)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/476 "2014-11-20T10:51:06Z")
Are the politicians in charge of the highway closings? ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/477 "2014-11-20T10:56:51Z")
> [@neonglh](#): > > Are the politicians in charge of the highway closings? Thruway authority makes the call on the thruway. They’re not really politicians because no one ever voted for them and the general public has no way to replace them with someone more competent. Snow Tweets from King Andy… [https://storify.com/NYSAFE/snow-tweets-from-andrew-guomo](https://storify.com/NYSAFE/snow-tweets-from-andrew-guomo) ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/478 "2014-11-20T10:57:53Z")
Honestly there isn’t even a point debating it this was a really really large storm possible the largest ever seen here. Trying to build policy around a single crazy event is a horrible idea. They have effectively shut down the highway before ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/479 "2014-11-20T11:12:32Z")
> [@Gus](#): > > @**[Fry](http://www.nyspeed.com/member.php?u=371)** can you post the picture in high res? Highest resolution that doesn’t break NYSpeed. Plus a bonus shot of that monster stretching into the distance. NYSpeed exclusive. :\* ---
**Author:** ![rugsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rugsr/32/7474_2.png) [@rugsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rugsr)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107/480 "2014-11-20T11:19:49Z")
> [@Geehee](#): > > well then you will get people like rugsr bitching about it :fail: - - - Updated - - - > [@superfan99](#): > > He raises a good point about the notification boards Thank you - - - Updated - - - > [@JayS](#): > > It’s not hard to close the thruway, they just didn’t do it. > It’s not rocket science to keep cars off a road. > > If we can set a fucking radar trap every 10 miles all year long we can pull this off. > > If the thruway was run by anything but an untouchable authority we wouldn’t have these problems. With an unaccountable and untouchable group of political patronage morons in charge though this is what you should expect. Thank you - - - Updated - - - And yes, for them to worry about the game sunday over helping people is ridiculous…but what do i know [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107.md?page=23) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowpocalypse-14-15-now-13-deaths/271107.md?page=25)