English: Snow blankets the street, sidewalks and cars as an eerie hush falls over Laurel Street in Buffalo, New York, as seen at about 11:30 on Christmas Eve morning, the second day of a three-day blizzard that, according to Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, proved "the worst storm in [the] community's history, surpassing the Blizzard of '77". Over four feet of snow fell at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, with wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour generating whiteout conditions that grounded emergency vehicles and trapped in their cars those making ill-advised commutes.