1.If you haven't heard, or are living in a place of denial that this could even happen, there's an insane lake-effect snow event happening in and around Buffalo, New York.
2.Because it's lake-effect snow, it's targeting super-specific areas, meaning you can literally see the snow/no snow divide in the clouds.
3.The clouds are actually frightening.
4.With lake-effect snow, the weather can be drastically different in areas mere miles apart. One place may get multiple feet of snow while a few miles away they won't have any.
5.And then boom. Just like that, it can snow 3 to 5 inches PER HOUR.
6.One of the craziest searches to do on Twitter is "buffalo door" because you'll find pictures like this...
7....this...
8.... and this.
9.People are literally trapped inside.
10.According to this person's Instagram caption, they've been stuck at work for over 24 hours.
11.THIS IS A GARAGE!
12.Some people are digging tunnels from their front doors...
13....and then finding their cars buried like this.
14.Which doesn't even matter because this is what some highways look like:
15.And this:
16.This is the view from a SECOND-STORY WINDOW:
17.Even the Doritos truck is stuck!
18.In some places, the snow is so bad that it's busting through WINDOWS and DOORS.
19.I repeat, the snow is busting...
20....through...
21....WINDOWS.
22.So yeah, feel fortunate you don't live in Buffalo.
23.Because your neighborhood could look like this...
24....and the only thing that could save you is a path to the 7-Eleven.