The last few days in Western New York have brought us some pretty wild weather. From the Southtowns to the central city and the Northtowns, Mother Nature battered the Buffalo area with rain, snow, hurricane-force winds, and some lakeshore flooding, which served as a major reminder that no matter how much we prepare, the weather rules in Western New York.
As the people of the 716 start to get over all the impacts from the storms, which made our lives kind of stressful, things like flooding, downed trees, and thousands of Buffalonians being without power have kept us pretty busy lately. But now that we’re starting to get back to normal, we’re finding out a little more about some weird news that has caught the attention of many people all over the region.
As people were driving home from Orchard Park after watching the hometown Buffalo Bills lose a tough game at Highmark Stadium against the Philadelphia Eagles, several people noticed an odd sight: a blue BMW parked in the parking lot near Hoak’s Lakeshore Restaurant on Route 5 in Hamburg. Now, that itself isn’t odd, but the car was sitting in the lot with all of its windows down in the middle of a snowstorm with winds whipping so dangerously that the Skyway and Thruway had to shut down…