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Readers share weather photos and even a new song lyric

By Howard B. Owens

Bernie Thompson and Steve Ognibene face off in a Southside snow blower battle. (Submitted by Steve Ognibene)

Below are some pictures from Le Roy from Rob Radley.

Finally, with perhaps too much time on his hands while snowed in, Bob Trombley rewrote the lyrics to Simon and Garfunkel's "America."

Let us be Eskimos, we'll build our igloos together/ I've got some hand warmers here in my bag.

So we bought pack of rock salt and tops store made pies and walked off to look for Batavia. "Snovember" I said, as we snowboarded along the way in Oakfield, Corfu seems like a dream to me now.

It took me 4 days to clear off my windshield "I've come to look for Batavia."

Laughing in our igloos, playing games with the muckdogs, she said the man in the snow suit was a good guy.

I said "be careful, his snow plow is really buried."

"Toss me a shovel, I think there's one on my front step." We broke the last one an hour ago."

So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine; and the snow fell over an open field. "Kathy, they're lost" I said as the news trucks were live streaming. "Facebook and Twitter are hashtagging silly snow names and I don't know why."

Counting the cars on the New York State Thruway, they've all come to look for Batavia, all come to look for Batavia, all come to look for Batavia.

Peter O'Brien

Thanks City of Batavia for making me late to work.

I had cleared my driveway of the muck from the plows, took a shower and got dressed. Came back down only to find snow boulders in my driveway from the stupid sidewalk plow.

If you are going to have a law requiring individuals to clear their sidewalk, then why am I paying for someone to waste gas clearing them again?

Nov 21, 2014, 7:12pm Permalink
Frank Bartholomew

It could be worse, back about 10 years or so, the city sidewalk plows were plowing sidewalks on the southwest side of Batavia, but the results made it look as though a rototiller went wild through the streets. It looked crazy to see all that grass and dirt on top of the snow. Kinda looked like a sidewalk sundae with xtra toppings.
Will be interesting to see how many sewer drains get plugged from the leaves still in the street.
Oh, and before my post is attacked, I like all this craziness we call western NY weather, it's never boring.
Wouldn't calling someone a "buttercup" be considered name calling? It is demeaning.

Nov 22, 2014, 10:24am Permalink

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