Buffalo

At least 25 people have died in Erie County, New York, as a result of a massive winter storm which blasted much of the US in recent days, county officials ...

Winter storm warnings remain in effect in New York for Buffalo, Jamestown and Watertown and will expire throughout the following couple of days. [More than 1,700 flights ](http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/flight-cancellations-christmas-2022-winter-storm/index.html)within, into or out of the US have already been canceled as of 11:30 a.m. This is not due to a lack of resources, the governor said, but rather a mobility and access challenge faced by utility companies. The majority of these alerts are set to expire Monday morning as temperatures finally begin to recover from the polar air. “Our state and county plows have been out there, nonstop, giving up time and putting themselves in danger, driving through blinding snowstorms to clear the roads,” Hochul said. “It was just horrendous, and it was horrendous for 24 hours in a row.” [5,000 flights](http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/friday-flight-cancellations/index.html) canceled Friday, more than 3,400 flights canceled Saturday and more than 3,100 canceled for Christmas Day. “This is a horrible situation,” Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz said in a news conference, noting officials expect between 8 and 12 more inches of snow to fall between Monday morning and 1 p.m. Poloncarz said in Monday’s news conference the current storm’s “ferocity … That’s what it was like outside in the worst conditions,” he said. “This is not helpful as we’re trying to recover and clear off streets and get into areas that still have not” been plowed, he said. Regardless, Erie County Sheriff John Garcia urged residents to stay home, he told CNN, to keep the roads clear for emergency crews.

At least 27 deaths were reported in western New York with many of them in Buffalo. Power outages and flight cancellations continue in the winter storm.

Here's why doing so in winter weather may be a bad idea.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/12/14/is-it-bad-to-warm-car-start-engine-winter-weather/10896185002/) [The winter solstice is here: Long nights will start giving way to longer days](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/12/21/winter-solstice-2022-northern-hemisphere/10927069002/) Police in Colorado said they found the dead body of a person who appeared to be unhoused while the area was experiencing subzero temperatures. A winter hurricane, explained.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/06/bomb-cyclone-bombogenesis-weather-explained/9107820002/) [Want to start your car to heat it up? Parts of Tennessee and Mississippi remained under boil-water advisories because of water lines bursting in the frigid temperatures. In fact, Buffalo could easily get up in the 40s at some point during the second half of the week," Kines said. "This is a horrible situation," Poloncarz said Monday of the 2022 storm. But forecasts for the days leading up to the New Year show some promise of warmer weather. The death toll across the country was expected to rise as many remained without power in the frigid temperatures and hazardous road conditions continue. The dead have been found in their cars, homes and in snowbanks. “And this is not the end yet.” The death toll from a historic onslaught of winter weather across the U.S. rose to at least 50 Monday as frigid arctic air and heavy lake-effect snow left large swaths of the U.S.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Craig Elston, who owns a barbershop in Buffalo, N.Y., who helped dozens of people find shelter in his shop during a blizzard.

The city's death toll from severe blizzard conditions soars to 25, about half the nationwide total.

"I was basically just hopeless," the father, Zila Santiago, told CBS News. Governor Hochul, a native of Buffalo, said: "It is (like) going to a war zone, and the vehicles along the sides of the roads are shocking." A severe winter storm that has swept across North America has left the city of Buffalo, New York, looking like a war zone, the state governor has said.

Families in western New York were scrambling to find food, medicine and other essentials Monday after a historic blizzard blocked roads and cut off ...

“We know that the storm is coming back,” New York Gov. “So anyone who declares victory and says it’s over, it is way too early to say." “I do feel for the folks out there. We’re buried in the snow.” “I gave up.” “I drove 3 miles, then 5 miles in my car and nothing was open,” he said.

Causes of the storm-related deaths included exposure, heart attacks, and car crashes.

Other recorded deaths included a 22-year-old Ohio utility worker who died while trying to restore power to the area, a woman in [Wisconsin](https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-storms-accidents-vermont-climate-and-environment-83fb35d2302eaa17ebabd297cd4cb0d8) who slipped and fell through ice, and a woman in [Vermont](https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/castleton-woman-killed-by-falling-tree/) who was killed when a tree fell on top of her. [said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxlSRiFHWdI) in a news conference on Sunday that power outages — and a lack of heat — have also been a major concern. Ohio state troopers confirmed [four fatalities](https://twitter.com/OSHP_NWOhio/status/1606472424165351425) on Friday from an icy highway crash, and in Missouri, one man [died](https://fox4kc.com/news/one-person-rescued-from-overturned-vehicle-in-brush-creek/) after his vehicle lost control and slipped into a creek. [according](https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=202212261532-KBUF-NOUS41-PNSBUF) to the National Weather Service. [confirmed](https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/24/cold-front-severe-weather-deaths/) to have at least four exposure-related deaths on Sunday, and one 82-year-old woman in Michigan was [found](https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/12/24/bath-township-resident-82-dead-after-being-exposed-to-cold/69754817007/) dead on Friday. Local news [reported](https://www.facebook.com/60388086891/posts/10159078206006892) that this was the snowiest calendar year the city had seen since at least 1939. The storm is expected to ease up in the next few days, but Poloncarz reminded residents that they have not reached “the end of the tunnel” just yet. [said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXrBxQE47sM) Monday that the county medical examiner’s office determined that the causes of death were directly related to the snowstorm. It was some of the worst conditions that any of us have ever seen.” “It’s absolutely devastating to see this many deaths,” he said in a press conference. Poloncarz also noted that many of the deaths were due to cardiac reactions from snow shoveling and using a snowblower. Some of the victims were found in their homes, in their cars, and on the street, he said.

Buffalo authorities will give an update on the winter storm that has killed at least 27 people.

The storm that walloped much of the country is now blamed for at least 49 deaths nationwide, with rescue and recovery efforts continuing Monday. The dead around Buffalo were also found in their cars, homes and in snowbanks. “This has been a very difficult and dangerous storm.

Thousands remain without power in the Buffalo region, where there is as much as 49 inches of snow on the ground, with more still falling.

“So that is the paralysis that we’re experiencing.” Ortt, the Republican leader in the State Senate, praised emergency workers but said he wanted to know more about the state’s response. Kathy Hochul said, were “scores and scores of vehicles” that had been abandoned in ditches and snowbanks during the storm and had yet to be removed. Poloncarz suggested that even as they had prepared for the worst-case scenario, the ferocity of the storm hindered their response. Hochul, who grew up in the Buffalo suburbs, said this week’s storm was the worst in their memory. Hochul, at the time, said the state needed to take precautions to prepare for such storms, as climate change has appeared to make extreme weather more common. “We can see, sort of, the light at the end of the tunnel,” Mr. “We’re doing the best we can to get out there.” [said on Monday](https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=202212261532-KBUF-NOUS41-PNSBUF) that more than 49 inches of snow was recorded over three days at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, the highest total in Erie County. And everything that has been forecast, we have gotten in the city of Buffalo, and then some.” Andrews, a student at the University at Buffalo, said she kept warm with a blanket and space heater powered by a battery or generator. [driving ban](https://twitter.com/markpoloncarz/status/1607496685348917252) remained in place in Buffalo, a city of around 270,000 people, and in some of its immediate suburbs as the authorities pleaded with residents to remain home.

Freezing temperatures and snow storms are blamed for 57 deaths nationally since Friday. More than 200 million people have been affected by a massive winter ...

And the AP reports that emergency dispatchers around Atlanta are being overwhelmed with people calling about broken pipes. A mother in Georgia tweeted that temperatures had fallen to 17 degrees Fahrenheit (-8.3 degrees Celsius) Monday night, and they have been without power. Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, who promised to address the city’s lack of affordable housing and homeless problems, recently opened a 122-bed shelter, but this has already filled up. Earlier this year, residents did not have safe drinking water for weeks because of the decay of their water system. Scientists explain that the warming atmosphere can carry more water vapor, which in turn acts as fuel for the storms and brings more snow and ice. We have been getting a lot of calls the last couple of days, we are full. Overworked health care and emergency workers, already depleted from three years of the pandemic, are again being asked to sacrifice to address this crisis. Officials say that on any given night, 2,500 to 4,000 people in Buffalo are homeless, living with others, in shelters or out on the streets. Plus people got sick, went to hospitals and they lost their jobs and weren’t able to maintain their situation. I was able to escape with my family, but there is no way the other residents are able to leave and walk through the snow. One neighbor is trapped on the 3rd floor and cannot walk down the stairs without assistance we have been communicating with him via text and he is now not making sense and says he thinks he’s going to die. All of our phones are dying/almost dead and we won’t have anything in case of a emergency.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- There's devastation upstate as the death toll from the winter storm rises to at least 27 in the Buffalo area.

"It was like a whole three-day process of me getting home for Christmas," said Giallella, who finished the journey Monday morning. they haven't had power since Friday," he said. "They're not looting foods and medicines. Three of the 27 confirmed weather-related deaths so far were people trapped in their cars. They can't possibly get out," said Hochul. "My girlfriend ... They're just looting items that they want. "The smaller side streets still had a lot of snow and we had to loop around the block because certain streets had a lot more snow than other." "Total whiteout. "We still have scores and scores of vehicles that were abandoned when people left during the storm, where it's just in a ditch. "Some of our police officers have snow mobiles and skid steers and other equipment that they brought in on their own and they just went out and they started working through some of these," said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia. At least 27 dead in Buffalo from "once in a generation" winter storm

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Byron Brown, mayor of Buffalo, N.Y., about the blizzard that has paralyzed his city and caused many deaths.

BROWN: The airport is not open. BROWN: Sustained blizzard conditions for days, blowing and drifting snow - in some cases, over 48 inches of snow that has fallen, trees and power lines, poles that have come down. Is it your impression there may be people out there who've been stuck in their cars for days? And we will continue to work aggressively and strategically with National Grid all day today to continue to reduce that number and get everyone's power restored. We've been able to help National Grid cut the power outages of Buffalo in half. We continue to focus on life safety, getting to stranded motorists that are stranded in their vehicles, emergency medical service calls at homes and working with our power company, National Grid, to assist them in getting to power stations to restore power to homes.

Those who lost their lives around Buffalo in western New York were found in cars, homes and snowbanks. Some died while shovelling snow, others when emergency ...

On Christmas Day, residents were told to boil their drinking water due to water lines bursting in the frigid temperatures. She said her son was doing well despite the ordeal and described him as “a fighter”. In Jackson, Mississippi, crews struggled on Monday to get water through the capital city’s beleaguered water system, authorities said. In a makeshift hut in her living room, Trisha LoGrasso was still huddled around a space heater on Monday with three of her children and her eldest daughter’s boyfriend. Some 3410 domestic and international flights were cancelled on Monday, according to the tracking site FlightAware. Almost every fire truck in the city became stranded Saturday, she said. Between the two storms, snowfall totals are not far off from the 95.4 inches (242 centimetres) the area normally sees in an entire winter season. The blizzard roared across western New York on Friday and Saturday. That’s because the atmosphere can carry more water vapour, which acts as fuel, said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Centre at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Melissa Carrick, a doula, said the blizzard forced her to coach a pregnant client through childbirth by telephone. It developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up blizzard conditions including heavy winds and snow. I would just go because that’s what you do – just drive through the snow,” she said.