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Dramatic Drone's-Eye View Of The Record Upstate New York Snowfall
With half the nation covered in snow, according to ABC, nowhere appears to have had it worse (or more suddenly) than upstate New York. As images pour in from lake-effect snow, to The Buffalo Bills stadium, and from scenes caught in a snow storm to pandas playing, we thought the following stunning drone's-eye-view over Erie County was both incredible in its beauty and cruel in its GDP-destroying reality.
A Drone's eye view of the beauty (and GDP cruelty) of a snow-buried upstate New York
This is what it's like to be stuck in a snowstorm in Buffalo...
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A little more than half the nation (50.4%) is covered in snow as of November 17. Incredible! pic.twitter.com/w5ubuF90eQ
— WCAV-TV Weather (@CBS19Weather) November 18, 2014
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With The National Guard being deployed to help, the situation is dramatic...
Buffalo's first snowstorm of the season could give the area a year's worth of snow — around 8 feet — in just three days.
More than 5 feet of snow was already on the ground Wednesday, and another round of lake-effect snow is forecast to bring an additional 3 feet of snow to the Buffalo area on Thursday and Friday. The average snowfall for an entire year: 93.6 inches, or close to 8 feet.
"This is a historic event. When all is said and done, this snowstorm will break all sorts of records, and that's saying something in Buffalo," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a visit to the city.
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Some amazing images from Buffalo and surrounding areas...
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Nature didn't build that.
Buried by global warming, LOL. Thank goodness that I live south of Mexico or my titties would fall off.
We snowed some folks..
My nipples go hard when I travel north of Miami, gringo's. Maybe you go down south and warm them up? Please, help me since Obama no really care about global warming, only want excuse to fondle reggie's balls.
incredible in its beauty and cruel in its GDP-destroying reality.
ZH sentence of the week.
Don't panic, you guyz! Global warming will melt all that white stuff away soon and FEMA's on the way to help!
My favorite is the reporters. Total white out! (Except for the 100 yards you can see.)
"How long have you been stuck here? Oh, you've been stuck here since you jumped the border, well welcome to Ame-di-ca.!"
pods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vPwW7RaPO_g
Payback from the God?
"Polar Vortex" my ass. Global gobbldiegook.
I used to live in Chicago and went through the two great blizzards.
Get a grip
It's a blizzard.
Shit and snow jobs happen
So much for starting Christmas early this year. . .
au contraire mon ami... Christmas starts tonight for 5 million illegals...
Reporter "How long have you been stuck?"
Motorist "Una hora"
If you can't speak the language, get the fuck out!!!
Well, I guess the good news is that somehow Buffalo was separated from Rochester and since it appears that it is no longer the Buffalo-Rochester area there is likely no snow slightly east.
I guess I can get my swim trunks now and take a dip in the northern blocks of Greece.
..slowly I turned.. step by step.. inch by inch…
One theory is the earth wobble. What else could make jet streams look all goofy the past years?
It is not al gores global warming bullshit.
Somebody knows plenty and ain't telling but the same ole lies.
Some people have only a couple days food. Please tell your neighbors to store at least a weeks worth, for fucks sake. Why cull the herd when we can cull ourselves with minimal effort.
Earth Wobble?
Has anyone correlated Hillary's whereabouts with these jet stream phenomenon?
pods
Omigosh, Pods.. I never considered the global impact of the horrid, deep, dark, awful frigid factor of the Hillary chasm and nether regions before.
But holy, cosmic smokes.. if she was a negro, she would have the lock on gravity.
re: wobble... sounds good to me.
we just need a little Jerry Lee Lewis "Whole Lit of Shakin'" to keep adding a little friction and heat to survive.
I'm surprised the quadcopter could fly in the snow!
"A little more than half the nation (50.4%) is covered in snow"
About the same amount of coverage as the effin probiotic ad plastered across the video. I wonder wht the video really looks like????? sarcasm
It's far more than 100 yards. Probably 500. What a sissy "storm" bitchez!
False Flag?
Except for the contractors who have the equipment to handle this magnitude of accumulation
White gold falling from the sky!
That fence shot really is gorgeous.
While more than half of the US takes a winter beating, Lake Tahoe enjoys a late Fall..
http://www.skiheavenly.com/video-and-interactive/web-cams.aspx
Obama's Snowmagedon of Buffalo: "I will Barry you".
Total snow-job.
What happens when it all melts eventually ? Eerie Ocean ?
Melts?
What's this "melts" thing you're saying??
I have heard a tale that when the temperature rises above 32F, the stuff turns to liquid water. I can't confirm this, but it
is embedded in local lore.
Go long lumber today for the weekend roof collapses.
Better to first buy one of these; on flat roofs, use a snow blower. Getting it up there is the challenge.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/True-Temper-17-ft-Snow-Roof-Rake-1634500/1003...
Did that job last year, it's a bitch
You mean like water from the toilet?
+1 for reference
Well, it doesn't have to be from a toilet, but yes.
Well over 50% of snow sublimates solid to vapor, thanks for the miracle liquid. Science is your friend.
Well figure 1ft snow = 1 inch of water. It'll surely do damage to the drainage systems.
Question is, how many homes and roofs will be collapsing under all of this. That ain't gonna be pretty.
I wish we had some of it. All I see is a sea of dust, dying manzanita and sunny skis. I went out this morning to give a tree a little water to find the garden hose was gnawed through in numerous places. The wildlife is desperate for moisture now.
But the average California still seems to be walking around oblivious to all of this. Unbelievable.
Miffed
We got some here. ~0f and several inches of snow while we were in the mountains. We were going over some roads to make one's butt pucker when they're snowy.
It's fucking Buffalo dude.
Like they never got tons (literally) before and the roofs aren't built for it.
Guess you weren't around for THE storm of '77.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL7eXnIqUV4
Oh that's right... Global warming shit..
That winter was bad, all the way down south. I was in elementary school in the mountains of NC. We were out for nearly 6 weeks straight. Best winter ever!
We need to build a pipeline from Buffalo to California to carry that snow melt next spring.
Not a good idea
Cause California will just use it to send illegals up there in Summer.
Next spring? how about next week.
Enjoy the new normal.
"What happens when it all melts eventually ?"
Well, it might NOT melt at some point, marking the beginning of a new glaciation (which is long overdue). That's how the glaciations start, by the way... snow falls, and it doesn't melt.
Heh, it’s as if the gov’t declared a "War on Snow" and here are the results.
from Wikipedia, so you need to be much farther south to escape this part of the snow belt:
Mexico is a town in the northeast part of Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 5,197 at the 2010 census.
Mexico,NY is a really lovely place and quite close to Lake Ontario.There are 16 nuclear reactors on Lake Ontario.Around 10 years ago I went with my brother to do a complicated custom paint job at a camp on the lake.You could clearly see Fitzpatrick's cooling towers from that location,complete with towering heads of steam.Adding to the spooky atmosphere,there was an old garage on the property containing a perfectly intact 1920 Studebaker Standard 6 parked inside.Except for a thick coating of dust over everything,it appeared as though the owner of the car had stepped out momentarily.Upstate NY is decidedly surreal at least half the time.
Bacause Back Door Barry!
If you like your snow, you can keep your snow.
TIME FOR A SNOW TAX
There'snotax like their snowtax!
Can't wait for next week when we get the drone flood footage. Then maybe after that we get the drone ice footage. Drone's man.
This storm offers a Black Friday worth of keynesian excuses.
220,000 tons of snow in the football stadium and they are offering $10/hr for all comers to dig it out by Sunday morning...
There sure is going to be a lot of snow left, come Sunday!
Does that include medical coverage for all the heart attacks?
No kidding.
I would really enjoy watching the Bills play in all that snow, it would be hilarious. Please, leave the snow where it is!
Holy cow an the quarterback tunnels to the end zone!
Shovel ready jobs. Watch the Big O will take credit for it.
Send in the Mexicans!
wont happen they have their citizenship as of tonight so they will not to sit home and suck off the government tit
I've got a friend who lives near Buffalo who say's he's not going to bother digging himself out, so I figure digging the stadium out will be a big 'fuck you'.
The biggest problem is a little melting or rain, then freezing. You really have to clean up what you need free before a freeze comes. It's a real bitch this early in the snow season because it will be there until spring if it freezes.
We had a very early cold snap here in the NW but as of this week, temperatures are on the up and up. Looking forward to a rainy Thanksgiving. As for the folks who are stuck with this snow and freezing temperatures possibly until Spring, I can't imagine living it.
It got so chilly down here in South Texas the other day that I had to put on a sweater. But don't worry about us, we will rebuild.
I'd laugh seeing some of these prima Donna folks on the field actually doing some digging. Any who this is nothing next to the snowpacolypse I was in in Maryland a few years back.
Lake effect is one thing...something off the Ocean itself is a "whole nother ball game."
MY SNOWSTORM WAS WORSE THAN YOURS!
...and so forth.
I live in Upstae New York so lake effect is nothing new. Driving through Marlyland that one time was though. I'd never seen anything like that before or since. If Winter has come early as it appears to have this looks like a warning shot for pretty much everybody seems to me.
Winter did not come early, and this is not weather.
$10/hr is more than the Buffalo Bills paid their cheerleaders, so you know Bills are desperate. Maybe the Bills' management will charge the workers a snow shovel renter's fee.
Yep, pay them to shovel, but charge them FOR the shovel, entry to the stadium, bottled water, maybe a $6 hot dog or $8 beer... They will come home with less money than they had to begin with!
Long Genesee Cream Ales. "No shortage of free water either."
Like most upstaters, that was my first beer. Actually tastes pretty good. Great beer to have with chicken wings.
pods
"Screamers"
Guy let a silent one go the morning after a late night of screamers. We were driving back from a road trip. It smelled so bad it actually woke a guy up!
pods
worse than Schlitz?
Smelled worse than a Newfoundland that ate 8 quarts of chili.
(My parents actually had a dog that did just that)
pods
gross! our boxer farts will clear any room. makes for a challenge when trying to defend the best seats in the house
LOL - my dog got the tail end of a burrito the other day .... and proceeded to pollute my office for the rest of the day. Eye-watering bad. That dog will get no more messican food from me!
+1 for the Genny Cream Ale reference.
We used to stick a case of 16oz bottles in the snow on Friday nights. ;-)
You load (220,000) tons - whaddya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter doncha call me 'cuz I can't go...
I owe my soul to the company store.
How would they get those ppl to the hospital? Fans aren't the most healthy active ppl and $10/hr isn't worth the heart attack.
Also includes a ticket to the game.
On the field itself, you'd think a few guys with flame throwers could clear it off in a few hours. For the seated areas, I have no idea. lol
I'm sure there might be some big gas powered mobile heaters of some kind they could use on the place. With 8 FEET of snow, how in the hell is anyone gonna get to the dammed game in the first place?
Fed will announce unemployment decrease and Obama will take credit for putting illegal immigrants to work. Cuomo will ask for Federal relief money for his friends.
Revise the jobs numbers. This should surely boost consumer confidence. All those shovel-heads making some green before the holiday shopping season. Maybe they can save a starving suburban mall from going under for one more year. If they can dig it out...
Let the players, I mean felons, dig them out. Or let the retard fans come dig it out.
They should let them play without shoveling the field. That'd be something I'd pay to watch.
At last! Shovel ready jobs!!
I can't even imagine what it's like to be buried under eight feet of snow. The most I've ever seen is three feet - that's nothing to sneeze at, but compared to eight feet...wow.
As a teen I can remember getting 33" of snow in a day, over 45" in a weekend. After a point it really doesn't matter.
What is really interesting is how quiet it gets when it's falling like that. Almost surreal, magical. Then the shovelling starts.
The real mess starts this weekend when a warm front moves through and all this melts..........
"The real mess starts this weekend when a warm front moves through and all this melts.........."
Yup!
Hope that it's a slower release else things are going to really flood (and water is the most destructive force on the planet).
Watch out for falling trees (frozen ground followed by a lot of saturation really loosens things up).
I heard the term 'global cooling' for the first time just the other day.
Another ruse or is NG gonna be the play going forward?
Hipsters call it "Global Chillin".
Whatever it's called, there's a tax for it
I was taught in school a very long time ago that a new ice age was coming.
Seems teacher knew best after all.
Maybe the global warmers all went to US public school, instead of English Public school.
Warming resutls in more fresh water entering the oceans, thus causing the normal mixing (and moderating of water temps) to slow. The northern climates will then see greater temp drops (warm water circulation from the equator regions won't be there to help warm things up).
In the overall time line the warming is but a flash in the pan. It IS possible to be right about either case, but as they say, it's all about timing...
BULLSHIT!!!
Sure, but why bother discussing it then?
There isn't a thing we could do to prevent either cooling or warming from happening. We can adapt, nourish and dwell accordingly but that's what humans have been doing for thousands of years.
Of course some will try and exploit every bit of it and make religions to pray to the sun, the sun gods, the son of the sun god, the son of a useless lawyer career politician become vice president and so on....
Nice tidbit from the past. Al Gore's dad made his political debut when he replaced the guy who suddenly died after Gore Sr. lost the election to that guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gore,_Sr.
Gotta love American politics.
that was taught in the u.s. schools in the 70s as well.
And hide under your desk in a nuclear attack
Yeah, science and it's unnerving ability to adapt when presented with new information; why can't we all just believe in the static magic conjured up by some translated ancient tome? Or JK Rowlings.
Eeek! Global warming.
Need moar central planning.
Is it not possible if not probable that Obama will take credit for this as proof that his global warming initiative is working?
someone shoot down that drone, please
Why? It's a DJI Phantom...and it's in the hands of a citizen. Ain't like this guy is going to take out a wedding party in Pakistan.
Those stills above? Brought to you by the DJI Drone. Awesome.
I have one and love it.
Listen.
It seems everyone in America has a drone, a synthesizer, and a youtube channel. I have a polluted Ganges while youz have a polluted Info Superhighway.
'Global warming' is truly catastrophic!
We must increase taxes, shut down moar factories and prevent these huge 50' snowfalls caused by 'Global Warming!' OMG!
China's economy is slowing down. America gets buried in snow due to lack of pollution from China. Global Warming is on pause until China prints MOAR to build MOAR ghost cities and pollute MOAR.
Bring it ! The ducks are pushing South early to be harvested by crazy joyful duck hunters.
Ah yes.... the season of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Don't get no better than this.
just got me a 1992 Toyota 4Runner SR5, v6, 5 speed manual, 4WD w/ Cooper Weather Master ST/2 Tires.
3-6' of snow? That thing ain't going nowhere bro.
Nice ride though, get a lift package and a winch.
Should have bought a Cat D9
Or maybe a helicopter...LOL
It...It's like...Winter!
Another snow job...
if this is global warming, I'd hate to see global cooling.
Don't snow when it's really cold.
Global cooling, the next glacial period, ain't anything that I care to witness.
The little blue marble in the vacuum of space.
I'm sorry, this was not a dramatic bird's eye view as stated in the headline - I feel like I'm on CNN.com where the headline pumps you all up for a great video, and then some guy with an RC camera ventures outside his garage and does a fnkcing loop around his house at a 100' AGL at most, the lense gets blurred out by snowflakes, and then it goes back to the garage; all done to the sh!tty background music he overlaid onto the video. Please stop being lame with posts like this.
I thought the music and the 100 foot up views were pretty good!
As a Canadian, break out the toboggans!
Did Al Gore give a speech there this week?
abc news...amazing journalism, showing stupid people trying to drive a car in 4 feet of snow and getting stuck...congratulations morons.
Wake me up when you see that fucking drunken bitch-cunt Dianne Sawyer wading thru the drifts.I'll send the wolves in for a feast!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3avaQfFafk
When all that snow melts it will create a big puddle of water called Lake Buffalo. Great fishing for cars, house contents and stadium seats.
this won't stop die hard football fans
a little alcohol
crushing hits
scantily clad cheerleaders
warms you right up
it's a man's man sport
yoohoo... Regie
I realize this is blasphemy, and not to belittle the recent troubles facing Buffalonians, but weather like this is a bauble for numb-bummed CFL fans... ever watched a Grey Cup?
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/FkaK_YX0Dow/0.jpg
I summer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. When I got home in the Lower Peninsula this fall and told people at my indoor tennis club it was going to be a record cold winter with lots of snow. I was scoffed at. Then I mentioned “…in July one night we broke the freezing mark. This was a new record low one that had held for 57 years. The rest of the summer we could not put together 3 days in a row of warm weather…” As I write this note the snow is still falling as I plan to shovel a second time…
Listen.
Did your neighbors Thurston and Lovey ever make it back home off that dreadful island?
Where are you cats picking up the cool drones from – Alibaba?
I want one.
DJI.com These guys make one of the best quadcopters for filming.
They rock. Ridiculously easy to fly, too. Shit gets weird? Just let go of the sticks. It will hover in place until you get ur shit together. Thing go really crazy, there's a toggle that will auto return it to where it started from..gps.
Was flying it like a champ in one afternoon.
It does help to have a friend work the iPhone or android it's paired to in order to work the camera while you concentrate on flying. It can totally be done solo, but I like the team approach and have gotten much better footage that way.
what's the max range between phone and drone? do they work with galaxies?
Energy usage is going to soar. Yet oil and nat gas just can't seem to keep any gains.
Any spending boost coming from low gasoline prices just went out the window.
Fuel prices may be lower but utility costs don't seem to have changed much. Layering clothes is a much cheaper alternative and for those shoveling, the harder you work the warmer you will be!
This is what happens when you let C-oh-2 rise from .03% of the atmosphere to .04% of the atmosphere. All of your carbon are belong to us.
+1 for the Surf's Up pic.
The way the drone keeps looking back at its hanger, its home, is really very touching.
And I thought that drones were just cold, mechanistic pieces of unfeeling hardware, but they're really very sentimental.
played outdoor hockey today in central ohio- fuck yeah!!
The pilot needs a drone with a snow shovel.
Third grade, 1963- The teacher said we might go into another Ice Age.
Was she right?
There's a prominent Russian scientist who's been saying that in recent years.
Russia tends to expand West and South during prolonged cold periods. Watch out Poland and Turkey!
"might go into another Ice Age"
Also, get some interesting info about that here: http://www.suspicious0bservers.org/
or more specifically here: http://www.suspicious0bservers.org/cliemate/
And, re: "pilot needs a drone with a snow shovel", heh heh, I was just thinking the same thing.
The government cotrolled the weather and made it snow. Just in time for Obama to issue his executive order of 7mil green cards. Now all the crimmigrants can shovel AND pay taxes. Win/Win. Jobs for everyone.
Is it possible that we can use this snow to build an "immigration" wall? Who knows, maybe cold weather will be enough to turn them back.
So are the Bills still playing on the football sabbath day? ~true dumb American
Snowfall - ordinary day in Russia, but nope, USA can't anything and it's a huge problem...
Nope, not ordinary, even for Siberia - where when snow falls, there is often no wind to blow the snow around.
Current temperature in Krasnodar and Sochi - 6C and 12C.