A driving ban remains in effect in Buffalo as the storm's death toll rises. On Tuesday, state and military police were sent to keep people off Buffalo's snow-choked roads.
Even as suburban roads and most major highways in the area reopened, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz warned that police would be stationed at entrances to Buffalo and at major intersections because some drivers were flouting a ban on driving within New York's second-most populous city.
In Buffalo, the dead were found in cars, homes and snowbanks. Some perished while shoveling snow, others when emergency crews could not respond in time to medical crises. Poloncarz, a Democrat, called the blizzard"the worst storm probably in our lifetime," even for an area known for heavy snow. More bodies are expected to be found as the snow is cleared or melts.
"This has been a nightmare," he said in an interview Monday. Power had been out for a time at his family's home, he said, so relatives ran a gas stove to keep warm, a practice he acknowledged was dangerous.His loved ones called 911 when his blood sugar dipped dangerously low and he nearly passed out Sunday night, but they were told it would take hours to get to the home, Monett said. He eventually recovered on his own.
"My mother texted me saying, 'hey, there's a mother in labor, and nobody can help her right now," Waldman told CBS News Tuesday."So I decided to veer off course a little bit, go to her address, and I heard her street was completely snowed it, like waist-high in snow."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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