Surfers embrace snow storm to ride Lake Erie

 By 
Brian Koerber
 on 
Surfers embrace snow storm to ride Lake Erie
Credit: Vimeo, Kevin Cullen

Not even a blizzard can stop some people from carving out a killer wave, brah.

Despite freezing temperatures and massive snowfall that rocked upstate New York earlier this week, athletes Kevin Cullen and Christian Edie of WNY Expeditioners made the dangerous decision to surf Lake Erie's bodacious waves on Tuesday in Sunset Bay, New York.

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The storm is not your average flurry, amounting to a year's worth of snowfall in just three days. At least one person has been stranded at in a vehicle for over 24 hours.

In other words, you and your board should probably stay indoors.

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