Your ISP has a DHCP server. They can assign IPs by modem MAC addresses. When your modem comes online, it communicates to the network indicating it is looking for an IP address. The DHCP server listens to this communication and starts talking to the modem. The modem then transmits its MAC address to the DHCP server.
A storm that has dumped 60 inches of snow on Erie since Sunday night will bring another heavy blast of lake-effect snow to portions of Erie County Tuesday night and Wednesday. The National Weather Service in Cleveland is forecasting possible snow accumulation of an additional 7 inches Tuesday night and into the early morning Wednesday.
They don't meet often; the last time was last summer, when the committee approved a new 24-hour rainfall record in New York: 13.57 inches on Long Island. Koch said it's likely that the Buffalo storm will break New York's 24-hour snow record. That record, 49 inches, was set in Watertown in November 1900, according to the National Climatic Data Center. Despite its rigid adherence to proper meteorological protocol, even the data center concedes there might be other records.