Claim:   Photographs show aftermath of record-setting snowstorms that hit the Oswego, New York, area in February 2007.

Status:   Real photographs; inaccurate description.

Example:   [Collected on the Internet, February 2007]

Upstate NY Snow Here are some pictures taken between Oswego and Fair Haven, just off of Rte.104.

Origins:   The images displayed above were circulated in mid-February 2007 as photographs showing the aftermath of record-setting snowstorms (141+ inches) which hit the Oswego area of upstate New York that winter. However, the photographs are actually considerably older than that, apparently already at least a few years old when they were circulated back in 2004 as pictures of snow being cleared from the Trans-Labrador Highway in northeastern Canada (or, on rare occasions, circulated as pictures of snow removal in Oswego that year as well).

In March 2009, a version circulated that claimed the photos had been taken near Fargo, North Dakota.

Last updated:   10 March 2009

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  Sources:

    CNN.com.   "Snow Keeps Upstate New York Shoveling."

    8 February 2007.