ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WKBW) — Every winter, Western New York is pounded by heavy feet of snow - but each year it is a different experience.
After a lake effect snowstorm dumpednearly 7 feet of snow over the region just three weeks ago, many Western New Yorkers exhibited bizarre methods of trying to remove the heavy snow from the tops of their cars.
This year's "Snow-vember 2.0" gave sisters Samantha and Autumn, along with their mother Sandra Andres, about 80 inches of snow at their home, in Orchard Park - plus the added nuisance of a dead battery for Samantha's car.
"Once I was finally able to jump the car, I crawled in from my passenger window. I crawled into my driver's side because that side, I was not about to touch that," Samantha said.
"I am outside. I have been shoveling all day. This is how agitated I am. I tell her to get into the middle of the pathway and we'll just knock it down right there. No.," Autumn said.
But Samantha had her own plan.
Samantha thought she could just drive and the snow would just fall off. Their mom, Sandra, captured the picturesque moment on her cell phone.
In the background of the video, which has received 15 million views and over 3 million likes, viewers can hear commentary from Andres' mother.
"Oh my God, I got it on tape. I'm sending it to Channel 7," Andres' mother exclaims when the mound of snow surprisingly falls from the top of the car.
"Within a day, it went 'whoosh!' It went from zero to 100 real quick," Samantha said of the fast-rising popularity of the TikTok video.
"I'm just looking at all these comments," Autumn said.
"Half of them are like, "Mom's got an accent, half of them say Sam's crazy or she's 'the girl' and then a quarter of them are like, 'Where did y'all get this snow?' I'm just like what is happening right now?," Autumn said.
With photos and videos to look back on, this historic Western New York winter event, the women are content with being able to make people on the internet have a good laugh.
