At least seven people were killed by the violent winter storm in and around Buffalo, New York, and the death toll was expected to rise, officials said in a “sobering” Christmas morning …
in and around Buffalo, New York, and the death toll was expected to rise, officials said in a “sobering” Christmas morning media briefing.
“We know that number is going to be higher,” Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said of the stated death toll, asNew York State Police and the National Guard had been called into the city as it began to dig out of the snow Sunday, according to Brown.JALEN WRIGHT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock “People have put themselves in danger in some instances when they try to leave homes without power,” Byron said. “They have found themselves in worse situations.”
Buffalo’s airport had recorded 43 inches of cumulative snow from the “historic” event, but the paralyzed city on the lake was not yet out of the woods, according to Christopher Tate, associate weather producer and meteorologist at Fox Weather. Parking regulations and garbage and recycling pickup was suspended ” indefinitely” to “allow crews to focus on life safety and access efforts,” according to the commissioner. The airport also remained shuttered, and was scheduled to reopen Monday at 11 a.m.the Erie County town of Hamburg, New York recorded 81.2 inches between Nov. 16 and 20, but the “historic” nature of the current storm was due to its unprecedented ferocity and proximity to Christmas.
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