Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 30, 1977, Buffalo was in the grip of one of the worst blizzards in its history. Wind gusts up to 75 mph turned 30 inches ...

John O'Rourk, retired from the Buffalo Police Department, at the Tifft Street ramp to Route 5 and the Skyway. During the great blizzard of 1977, O'Rourk and his partner, George Smith, helped many ...

Jan. 28 marked the 49th anniversary of one of the most catastrophic events in Western New York history, the Blizzard of 1977. Ask anyone who experienced it, and blizzard stories will swirl around you ...

George Smith has seen some monster snowfalls in Western New York. A little more than two years ago, when parts of the region received up to seven feet of snow in an almost unimaginable November storm, ...