Those who died in western New York were found in cars, homes and snowbanks. Some died while shovelling snow, others when emergency crews could not respond in time.
Buffalo residents hovered around space heaters, hunted for cars buried in snow drifts and looked for more victims on Monday, after 28 people died in one of the worst weather-related disasters ever to hit western New York.
Melissa Carrick, a doula, said the blizzard forced her to coach a pregnant client through childbirth by telephone. An ambulance crew transported the woman to a hospital about 45 minutes south of Buffalo because none of the closer hospitals were reachable. The blizzard roared across western New York on Friday and Saturday. With many grocery stores in the Buffalo area closed and driving bans in place, some people pleaded on social media for donations of food and nappies.“It was like looking at a white wall for 14 to 18 hours straight,” Poloncarz, the county official, said.
Travis Sanchez trudges over a snowdrift with a pair of shovels for a stranded motorist on Chenango Street in Buffalo, NY.Some 3410 domestic and international flights were cancelled on Monday, according to the tracking site FlightAware. The site said Southwest Airlines had 2497 cancellations – about 60 per cent of its scheduled flights and about 10 times as many as any other major US carrier.
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. The temperature inside her Buffalo home was 5.5 degrees. She was without heat because of a gas leak, and burst pipes left her with no running water.“I’ve lived here my whole life, and this is the worst storm I’ve ever seen,” the 48-year-old said.
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