Lake Storm "Aphid"
The October 2006 Buffalo storm was an unusual early-season lake effect snow storm that hit the Buffalo, New York area and other surrounding areas of the United States and Canada, from the afternoon of Thursday October 12 through the morning of Friday October 13, 2006. It was called Lake Storm "Aphid" by the National Weather Service office in Buffalo in accordance with their naming scheme of lake snow effect storms for that year, which related to insects. It is well known as the October Surprise or the October Storm by locals.
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“Lenin on a bench beside a lake disturbed
The swans. He was not the man for swans.”
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Is fallen back in the west”
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