{"id":370952,"date":"2026-10-12T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370952\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:48:08","slug":"marking-20-years-since-october-storm-hit-western-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370952\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking 20 years since October storm hit Western New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday marks 20 years since a surprise lake-effect storm hit Western New York.<\/p>\n<p>About 2 feet of heavy wet snow blanketed the region, with surrounding counties also seeing snow cause massive damage.<\/p>\n<p>When the snow kept stacking up and showed no signs of stopping, tree limbs started to come down on power lines and onto roads. This made the loss of power inevitable for a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>The blocked roads also didn&#8217;t allow for power companies to get to places quickly. Many went without power for around 2 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday marks 20 years since a surprise lake-effect storm hit Western New York. About 2 feet of heavy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,380,13934],"class_list":["post-370952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-buffalo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-weather-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}