Old School Buffalo Winter

I was talking to a neighbor while out shoveling the driveway. I was expanding the shoveled area because the snow pack was so high and the driveway was narrower than it normally was in recent winters. He was walking his dog and stopped to chat for a bit. I've actually known this guy for a little over forty years and I first met him a year or so after we first moved to Buffalo. 

We were talking about the snowfall and deep cold this year and he was saying how much he liked it. We agreed that there hasn't been too many winters like this in recent years. I referred to it as an "old school Buffalo winter". He liked that expression and totally agreed. 

This is more like the first twenty years of so we lived in Buffalo with lots of heavy snow and weeks of cold where the snow stayed in deep packs. In the past twenty years and especially the last ten there have been only a few heavy snow storms but with quick melting that followed an then weeks of somewhat mild weather. We had been joking that Buffalo had become the Miami of the North.  Climate change is real.