Upstate New York Blinded by Lake - Effect snow

SEVEN WILL IT -- WOMEN WHO CLAIM COSBY ASSAULTED THEM AND DEFAMED THEM WHEN THEY WENT PUBLIC. MUCH OF THE NORTHEAST POUNDING -- POUNDED BY SNOW. THE GREAT LAKES, INDIANA, AT AN UPSTATE NEW YORK ARE FACING PROBLEMS. Reporter: THAT IS THE SOUND OF THUNDER SNOW IN BUFFALO. COLD AIR MOVING BEHIND IN ALBERTA CLIPPER. A WEATHER SYSTEM IS BLOWING ACROSS THE WARMER THAN AVERAGE GREAT LAKES, PICKING UP HIGH WINDS AND SNOW. PLOWS DID LITTLE TO QUELL THE SNOWFALL. PEOPLE WITH SHOVELS AND SNOWBLOWERS SEEM TO BE FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE. SARAH McCLUSKEY IS OUT TRAINING FOR HER FIRST MARATHON AND SAID SHE WON'T BE SIDELINED BY A SQUALL. WE ARE CONSTANTLY AWARE OF TRAFFIC, GETTING HIT BY A CAR, FALLING ON YOUR, YOU KNOW, IT'S EXCITING. IF I DON'T DO IT, I WILL BUILD UP EXCUSES NOT TO GO. Reporter: CONDITIONS LED TO A 40 VEHICLE PILEUP IN EASTERN INDIANA. ANOTHER PILEUP ON I 70 INVOLVED 13 VEHICLES. I GOT HIT FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES. I GOT BUMPED AROUND PRETTY GOOD. Reporter: IN NIAGARA COUNTY, DRIVERS HAD A TOUGH TIME KEEPING BETWEEN THE LINES. I COULDN'T SEE THE ROAD AND I MISSED THE TURN. Reporter: BUFFALO HAS 2 FEET OF SNOW SINCE TUESDAY. IT IS EXPECTED TO GET MORE SNOW TODAY. UP TO 9 INCHES BY THE END OF THE WEEK.