Snow way! U.S. 'hammered' by freak freeze, whiteout

There was already 4 feet of snow on the ground at noon Tuesday in Elma, N.Y., and it was snowing so hard Dennis Powers couldn't see out his window.

"We're getting hammered," said Powers, supervisor for the town of 11,300 people less than 20 miles from Lake Erie. "We could get 2-3 more feet of snow. And the wind chill is 2 degrees. So it's cold."

Nearby Lackawanna, N.Y., has a chance of beating the record for a 24-hour snowfall of 76 inches — 6 feet, 4 inches — set in 1921 in Silver Lake Colo., AccuWeather said .... http://www.usatoday.com