My daughter has changed her estimate of what might happen in Buffalo this week-end -

[hedgehog]

back of the envelope calculations were for a 500 year flood event; now some are talking of a possible 1000 year flood event.

(Without going into detail - she is an upper level employee of a government department very concerned about this.)

I called my father-in-law to warn him to expect his basement to flood - his comment ?

"Well, they talk about global warming, but it's pretty cold here."

[GreatGazoo]

1. which is why we should use the term "climate change"

[Cooley Hurd]

2. My friend and co-worker in Buffalo said he can't even get out his front door...

He's been there since 1999 and has never seen anything close to this.

[Agschmid]

3. And it's all going to melt.

Severe weather event.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Of course...

...just as hurricanes will eventually peter out over land. It doesn't change the devastation of the event, however.

[hedgehog]

7. The floods from the quick melt are apt to make people forget the snow event.

You can shovel a driveway, but there ain't much you can do with a flooded cellar.

[Marrah_G]

5. Hopefully it doesn't melt too quickly

[tenderfoot]

6. I grew up in the area - was there for the blizzard of '77 - that was nothing

compared to this.



BTW, the northern suburbs of Buffalo got barely any snow.