The brutal winter storm that dumped over 6 feet of snow in the Buffalo area early yesterday certainly looked intimidating from the very beginning!

Check out this video footage taken from an office building beside Lake Erie! You can see the lake effect snow actually developing and spinning like a twister.

What was weird about this particular snow storm was that the swath it took was only about 10 miles wide.  Outside of that area localities only received about 4 inches.

The powerful storm has been responsible for 5 deaths so far.

 

 

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