Ferocious snowstorm hits New York; big chill across the country

Scott Soldan shovels the sidewalk near his home on Coit Avenue, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Emily Rose Bennett)

In this photo provided by Patrick Bryne, his dog, Bonnie, sniffs a door blocked with snow on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, in South Buffalo, N.Y. A lake-effect snowstorm dumped more than 4 feet of snow on the Buffalo area on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Patrick Bryne)

A house is obscured by wind-blown, lake-effect snow on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 in Buffalo, N.Y. Parts of New York measured the season's first big snowfall in feet, rather than inches, as 3 feet of lake-effect snow blanketed the Buffalo area. The Thruway Authority said white-out conditions caused by wind gusts of more than 30 mph forced the closure of Interstate 90 in both directions from the Rochester area to Ripley, on the Pennsylvania border 60 miles southwest of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)

A 4-foot fence and SUV are nearly buried along a street in Buffalo, N.Y. on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. Parts of New York measured the season's first big snowfall in feet, rather than inches, as 3 feet of lake-effect snow blanketed the Buffalo area. The Thruway Authority said white-out conditions caused by wind gusts of more than 30 mph forced the closure of Interstate 90 in both directions from the Rochester area to Ripley, on the Pennsylvania border 60 miles southwest of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)

With his arms tucked inside his hooded sweatshirt, Aris Espinosa, 16, of Erie, Pa. walks to school, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 in Erie, Pa. A lake-effect snowstorm dumped up to 4 feet of snow along a stretch of the New York State Thruway on Tuesday, forcing about 150 motorists, including a women's basketball team, to ride out the storm a in their vehicles on a day when temperatures fell to freezing or below in all 50 states. (AP Photo/Erie Times-News, Christopher Millette) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT

Lake-effect snow storm with freezing temperatures affected travel, like this plane that negotiated its way through the snow at Buffalo Greater International Airport, in Buffalo, N.Y. Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. Temperatures fell to freezing or below at recording stations in all 50 states on Tuesday morning, from the highest elevations in the mountains of Hawaii to the snow-paralyzed Buffalo area in New York. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)

Kapone waits on the porch as his owner Lauren Hansen shovels her sidewalk during a mid-November snowstorm, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Emily Rose Bennett)

A lake-effect wall of snow storm travels across Lake Erie into Buffalo, N.Y. Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. 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 Photo/Gary Wiepert)

A Roundtop Mountain Resort employee makes snow in Lewisberry, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, as arctic air arrived in the midstate area with temperatures struggling to reach 30 degrees. (AP Photo/PennLive.com, Sean Simmers)

This photo provided by Chelsea Andorka, the Niagara University womens basketball team spokeswoman, shows the team holding a sign while their bus was snowbound on the New York State Thruway in the middle of a lake-effect storm that has dropped more than 4 feet of snow near Lackawanna, N.Y., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. Andorka says the team's bus was headed back from a loss in Pittsburgh when it came to a halt at 2 a.m. Tuesday about two miles from the Lackawanna exit near Buffalo. About 25 people are on the bus, including 15 players plus staff, the coach and coach's family. (AP Photo/Chelsea Andorka)

A band of storm clouds moves across Lake Erie and into Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. Parts of New York measured the season's first big snowfall in feet, rather than inches, on Tuesday as 3 feet of lake-effect snow blanketed the Buffalo area and forced the closure of a 132-mile stretch of the state Thruway. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)

Heavy snow covers the street on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 in Buffalo, N.Y., Parts of New York are measuring the season's first big snowfall in feet, rather than inches, as nearly 3 feet blanketed the Buffalo area Tuesday, forcing the closure of a 105-mile stretch of the state Thruway. The National Weather Service says a foot to almost 3 feet of snow has fallen on areas south and east of the city. (AP Photo/ Carolyn Thompson)

A man waits in the wind and the snow for the bus along Michigan Street, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Emily Rose Bennett)