20th Anniversary of Lake Storm Aphid

It was 20 years ago today when Western New York started dealing with a massive historic snowstorm that impacted all of Western New York. Lake Storm Aphid turned out to be a record-setting snowstorm that pushed across the 716.

Lake Storm Aphid Hit Western New York

It was back on October 12th, 2006, that the snow started falling across Western New York and wouldn't stop until the next day. A record-setting 24 inches of snow would fall across parts of Western New York, grinding the city and the region to a halt.

According to the National Weather Service in Buffalo, Depew and Alden received the most snow from the storm, while areas north of the city of Buffalo got barely an inch.

Depew			24 inches
Alden (Milgrove)	24 inches
Cheektowaga (NWS)	22.6 inches
Buffalo (North)		20 inches
-Downtown		15 inches
-South			10 inches
Amherst			14 to 22 inches
Clarence		16 to 22 inches
Tonawanda		12 to 18 inches
West Seneca		14 inches
No. Tonawanda		6 to 12 inches
Hamburg			8 to 14 inches
Orchard Park		8 inches
Batavia			10 inches
Medina			8 inches
Lockport		6 to 8 inches
Grand Island		2(N) to 10”(S)
Albion			5 inches
Brockport		3 inches
Niagara Falls		1 inch

Schools and businesses across the region would be closed for weeks as crews worked to dig people out of massive snowbanks and restore power to the region. Over 400,000 lost power at some point during the storm.

I remember that at the time I was living in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and my parents sent me photos of their house in West Seneca covered by snow. At some point, my dad was on the roof of his house shoveling snow off of it so it wouldn't collapse.

Check out some photos from that historic storm.