ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WKBW) — City of Orchard Park Deputy Highway Superintendent Chris Kuhnle arrived at work at 2 a.m. Thursday to help clear more than two feet of lake snow that had fallen all morning had fallen over.

“I’ll be here until I have to leave,” Kunhle said. “It is my job and responsibility for the position I find myself in to ensure that the roads are easy to drive on. I leave when I feel comfortable and know the roads are ready.”

“The city highway department plows 120 miles of road every time it snows,” Kuhnle explained. “A circumnavigation in perfect conditions took four hours, today it took about seven to eight.”

He said that’s because blowing snow causes visibility problems for plow drivers at times.

Kuhnle has been driving plows for 11 years and says he “loves it.”

I jumped into the plow truck with Kuhnle on Thursday, sat in the passenger seat and became the plow wingman, guiding me through part of his day.

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By 1 p.m. the roads were in better condition, but Orchard Park was still under a driving ban. The Buffalo Bills practice was canceled on Thursday due to heavy snowfall on Thursday morning.

Kuhnle and his dedicated team only pick city streets, and even though Abbott Road near the stadium is a county road, he still prepares for game days.

“That’s how it plows the streets in Bills country,” Kuhnle said proudly.