ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Friday was a flurry of emotions for residents of Orchard Park.

This Sunday’s Buffalo Bills game was moved from Highmark Stadium to Ford Field in Detroit due to the snowfall.

While people in Orchard Park and all across Western New York would have loved to have seen the Bills play in their home stadium, as the snow fell it became clear that residents were going to have their hands full just getting out of the house this weekend.

“I wish the game was here on Sunday, but that's all right,” said Bill Larson, whose home borders the stadium.

Many in the neighborhood expected to hear people getting ready to tailgate and celebrate the Bills at home over the next two days.

“This is Bills weather guys, come on, get down here,” said fellow Orchard Park resident Steve Banas.

Instead, it's eerie silence — broken only by the occasional snow blower, passing plow and the sound of the flags whipping high atop the stadium.

With the snow not expected to let up for hours, any snow blowers you do hear are locals like Larson and Banas, working to stay ahead of the game.

“I don’t want to be out here doing it when it’s six feet, so I try to do two or three feet at a time,” Larson said.

He says he's lived here for 12 years.

“It's Buffalo. We deal with it and we just keep going,” he said. “[The November 2014 snowstorm] was a little bit more than this. This isn't too bad, though.”

Down the street, we asked Steve Banas how this snowfall compares to that infamous storm eight years ago.

“In 2014, we got 77 inches of snow in three days,” he said. “This is nothing.”

He says while it would have been tough, he thinks the Bills could have dug out at least enough to have the game in Orchard Park.

“The snow is supposed to stop tomorrow,” he said. “By Sunday, we could have had this cleaned up. I don't know about the seats inside there, but we could have had this cleaned up.”

Larson says he’s taking it just a little bit at a time, content to keep working to clean up in Orchard Park, because he says the Bills have a job of their own to do in Detroit.

“I’ll just come out every couple hours and hit the snow, Buffalo can go to Detroit and beat Cleveland,” he said.