More than 4,000 homes and businesses were still without power late Tuesday morning. The winter blast stranded some people in cars for days, shuttered the city’s airport and left some residents shivering without heat.
More bodies are expected to be found as the snow is cleared or melts. Poloncarz, a Democrat, called the blizzard “the worst storm probably in our lifetime,” even for an area known for heavy snow. Some perished while shoveling snow, others when emergency crews could not respond in time to medical crises. In Buffalo, the dead were found in cars, homes and snowbanks. Growers’ groups were relieved Tuesday not to find widespread damage to the fruit and vegetable crops that supply much of the U.S.
Ohio officials assessed water damage in the Statehouse after a pipe burst amid the freezing weather.Įven in central Florida, temperatures plunged as low as 27 degrees (minus 2.7 Celsius) over the weekend. On the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s reservation in South Dakota, snowmobiles were dispatched Tuesday to reach residents after food boxes were delivered by helicopter and trucks over the weekend, the tribe said. The rest of the United States also was reeling with at least an additional two dozen storm deaths reported elsewhere around the country, and power outages in communities from Maine to Washington state. said officials also were somewhat concerned about possible flooding later in the week when milder weather begins melting the snow. County Emergency Services Commissioner Dan Neaverth Jr. The National Weather Service predicted that as much as 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) more snow could fall Tuesday in Erie County, which includes Buffalo and its 275,000 residents. “We are seeing a lot of desperation,” said Erin Aquilinia, founder of the original group, in an online interview. Currently managed by five women, the group swelled to at least 68,000 people as of Tuesday. A Facebook group originally created in 2014, when Buffalo was buried under deep snow, has become a lifeline, seeking to help thousands seeking food, medicine, shelter and rescue in the latest storm.
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