Winter blast brings record-low temps

Trucks are parked at Jim's Truck Stop in Cheektowaga,N.Y. (AP)

A man digs out his driveway in Depew, N.Y. (AP)

A plow truck clears an opening from a side street. (AP)

An vehicles are piled high with snow on the Thruway between Walden Ave. and Ridge Rd. in Cheektowaga, N.Y. (AP)

Mark Settlemyer, left, gets help clearing snow from the roof of his mother's house from Ken Wesley. (AP)

Firefighters from West End Hose Company in Depew, N.Y. help a stuck motorist on Transit Road. (AP)

Eric Dehond, left, and Dakota Paciorkowski help push out a stuck motorist on George Urban Boulevard in Depew, N.Y. (AP)

Several feet of lake-effect snow paralyzed the Buffalo area Tuesday, forcing state troopers to deliver blankets and other supplies to motorists stranded on the New York State Thruway and adding an ominous note to a wintry season that’s already snarling travel and numbing fingers from the Midwest to the Carolinas. (AP)

A Depew firefighter uses a snowmobile to travel down Transit Road. (AP)

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Omer Odovsc looks over his tractor trailer that got stuck on the 219 off ramp leading to Rt. 391 in Boston, N.Y. (AP)

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A band of storm clouds moves across Lake Erie and into Buffalo, N.Y. (AP)

Steven Gros shovels snow from outside his home in Orchard Park, New York. (Reuters)

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