Smith said that after Taylor had called them and told them she was stuck on Friday afternoon, she and her son tried to dig out their vehicles to go and get her.
Despite numerous calls to first responders, Taylor’s family said no one was able to reach her until family members retrieved her body themselves on Sunday. “We were calling, her mother was calling, her sisters I’m sure were calling, my son was calling. They had multiple calls from everyone who knew, calling the police and 911,” she said. “They had a number up for the National Guard – that number wasn’t working.
“She said she was OK. She still had a half a tank of gas so she was going to run the car for a little while and turn it off and then on again,” Smith said. Taylor said she was going to take a nap, but never called back in the morning and wasn’t answering her phone. “People that we were calling to check on her, were just passing her. She could have been alive in that car and they were just passing her,” Smith said.The sheriff said “zero visibility’’ kept emergency crews off the road during the height of the storm.
“He waited for the police to come and then the next morning on Sunday he called me [and said] ‘I don’t know if you guys have been calling but I’ve been calling and the body’s still here,’” Smith said.Buffalo-area sheriff admits authorities ‘absolutely’ could have better handled blizzard that left 33 dead
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