Nov 17, 2008 10:50 am US/Eastern
Heavy Snow Hammers Parts Of Upstate NY
SOUTH DAYTON, N.Y. (AP) ―
Up to 2 feet of lake-effect snow has fallen on parts of upstate New York.
The National Weather Service reports 20 inches of snow in South Dayton, 30 miles south of Buffalo, and 24 inches in Constableville and nearly 19 in neighboring Port Leyden on the western edge of the Adirondacks.
"Yesterday morning we had none. So it's quite a transition to go from no snow to all this. When you open the door, it's amazing," said Dorothy Valenti, the librarian in Constableville.
"I know people are having a hard time shoveling. It's a wet, heavy snow," she said.
The lake-effect storms off the eastern ends of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario began Sunday and continued into Monday morning.
"It's not nice," Cattaraugus County emergency dispatcher Laurie Moore said. "Lots of snow. Roads are snow-covered and slippery."
Moore said police were responding to several accidents, but no school closings were reported in the snow-belt region south of Buffalo.
The weather service has issued a lake-effect snow warning for Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties until Monday evening.
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