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Western New York gets buried under 6 feet of snow in some areas

The whopping 6 feet of snow was one of the top three heaviest snowfalls in recorded history for the Buffalo region.
Tom Dee uses a shovel to dig out after an intense lake effect snowstorm impacted the area on Friday in Hamburg, N.Y.
Updated November 19, 2022 at 4:31 PM ET

Residents in western New York got even more snow Saturday after a major winter storm walloped the region Friday, dropping a total of more than 6 feet in some areas and shutting down schools and businesses.

The National Weather Service said snow was falling in parts of Niagara County at a rate of two to three inches per hour on Saturday afternoon.

"You can't go anywhere," Liz Jurkowski,

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