Surviving Buffalo

Just the beginning

Thursday night wreaked havoc on Buffalo as 'lake-effect snow' blanketed the city with 2 feet of unexpected early October snow. The snow started falling in the afternoon, and by the time I left school in the evening, I was trekking through a snowstorm, almost getting stuck in a parking lot buried under inches of snow (the car I mean).

The city was paralyzed when power was cut off from 200,000 homes, including mine. I felt like I was stuck in the early 1800s, when there was no such thing as electricity and heat. All I could do was sit in a pile of blankets while counting how many teeth I had in my mouth with my tongue in the dark until I fell asleep.

48 hours later, power and heat was restored. The upside is that school was cancelled from Friday to Monday. The downside is that I now have two loaves of white bread which will get moldy, three just-for-emergency flashlights which I probably won't use till the next time, which by that time the batteries would have drained and a hundred tea light candles.