Buffalo October 2006 Storm Gallery - Page 7

We've actually had some pretty mild winters the past few years with hardly any snow. It just gets pretty cold in January & February. The past few summers have been unbearably hot in the daytime. We get about 1 small tornado a year, in Cheektowaga, an eastern suburb of Buffalo, or water spouts... harmless tornadoes over the lake. No earthquakes, hurricanes, or volcanoes (We do occasionally get hurricane-like gusts. One gust was clocked at 130mph downtown a few years ago. It sucked 3 windows out of my home).

Unlike most cities in the world, when disaster strikes in Buffalo, the "City of Good Neighbors", crime sprees & looters don't plague the area... which does have a very large minority population. So contrary to popular opinion, minorities aren't the cause of looting & crime. Poor city & neighborhood management is. There are no looters here. The bums & hoods are helping digging out, pushing cars, cleaning up, & moving trees or branches alongside everyone else, asking nothing in return. A "Thank you" or handshake is the currency of exchange during an emergency around here. Everybody helps.

Sure, we have the same percentage as criminals as most cities. But during disasters, emergencies, or storms, everybody becomes a good neighbor. When the crap hits the fan, even the hoods have a heart of gold. They'll wait for another day to be a hood again.

We did get a few creeps though. There were a few professional bussiness-like looking scammers, who tried to scam some elderly into thinking they were from FEMA, but they weren't fooled & called the cops. Also a few generators were stolen out of people's yards. But overall during this & other emergencies in Buffalo, the crime rate actually drops dramatically, because everyone is too busy helping each other. By the time FEMA or the National Guard try to do anything around here, we'll probably have taken care of everything all by ourselves.

In Buffalo, we don't wait for anybody, we deal with it.

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This is pretty cool. What looks like a little bit of snow at the rear of the plane was so wet & heavy, it pulled the tail of it down & the nose up. That stick that appears to be holding up the front of the plane is not. That's a bush in the foreground.

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