It's on a long lost hard drive of mine, but years ago I found a newspaper (NYT iirc) clipping from c.1900 describing a freak snowfall of something like 8" in 20 minutes along the shoreline in Wayne or Oswego county. It snowed so heavily that people outside at the time ran to the nearest house/barn/etc to take cover for fear of suffocating. I posted it here probably 10+ years back, but I can't find that post.
Anyway, I've been living vicariously through BuffaloWeather's posts. I miss LES.