A winter storm is bringing heavy lake-effect snow and high winds to the Western New York area and it has already affected the Bills-Steelers game as it got canceled on Sunday and moved to Monday.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz says the travel ban would be lifted enough to allow Buffalo Bills fans to travel to Highmark Stadium to help shovel snow but not for everybody else.

The ban began Saturday. Any driver on the road that is not considered emergency personnel is at risk of receiving a ticket. That is how bad the weather was in the area.

Many fans took issue with the city allowing fans to travel in unsafe conditions all for the sake of helping out the local football team.

Fans were not happy:

Hours before kickoff, Buffalo was still enlisting hundreds of volunteers to shovel inside Highmark Stadium, whose seats and walkways remain covered with snow and ice. Sure they can make it look good now, but it will certainly pile up again as the game draws closer and we are still hours away.

Snow is still falling in Orchard Park, New York, home of the Bills, with showers expected to continue past the noon hour, per The Weather Channel.

The forecast calls for somewhere between 16-18 degrees by the time the game kicks off. The temp is expected to remain about 15 degrees for much of the evening. It is going to be a nasty weather game to sit through for the fans for 3 hours.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced late Sunday that the Bills’ game against the Steelers would not be postponed a second time, hoping the “bitter cold” will benefit her home-state team.

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