Mid-October "Summer" Weather In SoCal

Its been in the 70's here in Buffalo for the past week and a half, 5 years ago today (10/12/06) we got hit with almost 2 feet of snow in less than 24 hrs. A local state of emergancy was declared with 80% of roads impassable, hundreds of trees were either broken in half or wieghed down so far that they blocked the roadway. Power was out for almost a week, people had to boil their water. It took over a month to clean up all the fallen trees. Fun times...