The city of Buffalo set a record for daily snowfall, with 16.1 inches by Saturday morning. The previous record was 7.6 inches.
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz led an effort to correct what he says went wrong in that 2014 storm, when road-clearing efforts were stalled by abandoned cars. He said the travel bans put in place this time made cleanup easier.
"Here we are, just 48 hours really since the snow started, with the largest snowfall ever recorded in New York State history in a 24-hour period, and we're lifting travel bans as of midnight, and we're looking very good to hopefully be able to lift some more travel bans by the end of tomorrow," Poloncarz said Saturday evening.New cars are shown buried under snow after an intense lake-effect snowstorm impacted the area on Saturday in Hamburg, New York.
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