Buffalo, New York is a city that can shrug off snow.

It's different when four feet of snow are mixed with ice and power outages.

Some people are dead and others may be lost in the storm.

How is the city recovering?

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Of all the places pounded by cold weather over the weekend, Buffalo was among the worst

hit.

That we are talking about snow in Buffalo on the national news says something because that

city knows snow.

So when Buffalo has it bad, it's bad.

New York governor Kathy Hokel spoke on CNN of a storm that caused numerous deaths.

This will go down in history as the most devastating storm in Buffalo's long story history.

Wow, that's saying something.

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