Saturday, October 14, 2006

Not much to report today. 40 degrees and rainy. Here are the statistics from the weather service for the area for those of you who know your Western New York geography.

********************STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL********************
LOCATION STORM TOTAL TIME/DATE SNOWFALL OF (INCHES)

...ERIE COUNTY...
DEPEW 24.0 1100 AM 10/13
BUFFALO AIRPORT 22.6 1100 AM 10/13
AMHERST 20.0 1100 AM 10/13
ALDEN 19.0 1100 AM 10/13
CLARENCE 18.0 1100 AM 10/13
SOUTH BUFFALO 9.0 1100 AM 10/13
EAST AURORA 4.5 1100 AM 10/13

...GENESEE COUNTY...
DARIEN CENTER 16.0 1100 AM 10/13
ELBA 5.0 1040 PM 10/12

...NIAGARA COUNTY...
N.TONAWANDA 12.0 1100 AM 10/13
SOUTH LOCKPORT 8.0 1100 AM 10/13
NORTH LOCKPORT 5.0 1100 AM 10/13

...ORLEANS COUNTY...
ALBION 6.0 1200 AM 10/13 <---------WHERE WE ARE


So our snow fall was not too bad but a large number of tree limbs broke onto power lines in our area and as a consequence the next two lift bridges east (one is 6 miles, Hulberton, and the other at Holley is an additional 3 miles) of us do not have electricity to operate. As you can see in the picture the clearance under these bridges is three feet and we need 15. We called the bridge tender for the bridges late yesterday afternoon and he thought restoration would take until early next week. We said we would call every day for an update. The bridge in the photo below is right behind us and we just got through before the storm set in.



This section of the canal has about 15 of this type of bridge every few miles. There was actually a car tunnel under the canal a few miles back. The tunnel clearance for cars was about 8 feet. The tunnel was built in the middle 1800's. At one point the canal actually crossed a river that was below us by at least 50 feet.