I'm on the north shore of Lake Ontario. If the wind comes out of the south, which doesn't happen often, we get lake effect snow. It's nothing for it to pile up at an inch an hour or more. Buffalo gets the same thing...and that's why the stadium looks like it does. They can't keep up with it, so they literally have to wait for it to stop. When we get lake effect snow I'm out every hour shoveling to keep up with it. It can get to the point where the piles get so high you don't know where to throw it.