My Mom is 87 and doesn't drive anymore; she doesn't even have a car. She is primarily housebound. So it really does not matter what time of day the driveway gets plowed. It just needs to be kept sort-of-open so that the mailman can pull in and out (he is kind enough to bring the mail right to her door).
The plow driver can pull in on an angle and push the snow sideways off onto her lawn; she doesn't care about how it looks.
Oh - and Syracuse usually gets a bit more snow than Buffalo. They're somehow just not as famous for it!