The snow is no longer falling in Buffalo, New York, but the area isn't in the clear yet. Now it must contend with another extreme: flooding.
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch on Friday morning as officials warned that rain and a warm spell over the weekend could make for hazardous conditions in the area. Rain and warm temperatures will raise the risk of roof collapses and flooding on area creeks and streams.
The storm death toll rose to 13 on Friday.
Although official NWS weekly totals have not yet come in, it's likely that this week's snowfall will go down in history as one of the largest Lake Erie lake-effect snow events on record. Some locations have likely received about 100 inches of snow in just five days, which is about equal to the typical annual snowfall totals for these communities Read more...
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