Every Western New Yorker has a story from the back-to-back lake-effect snowstorms of November 2014 that killed 13, knocked out power to thousands and dumped 7 feet of snow on the region. Because of the way the storm sliced through the area like a knife – snow was dumped on the Southtowns while the Northtowns got a dusting – many deemed it the "wall of snow."
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