Poor you, Cloudy. I lived in Syracuse for 10 mos. in 2001-02, and I must say I'm glad we didn't get the weather that winter that you are getting in upstate NY this year - though we did get crappy weather a lot. It's been much worse there than here in Chi-town. I think cities on the windward side of lakes (that's normally East in Northern US) get tons more lake-effect weather, whereas Chicago is on the opposite side of its lake.
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