The National Guard is going door to door in parts of Buffalo to check on people who had lost power during the area’s deadliest winter storm in decades, as authorities face the tragic possibility of finding more victims amid melting snow.
“She’s like, ‘I can’t go no further.’ I’m begging her, ‘Mom, just stand up.’ She fell in my arms and never spoke another word,” Parker told the newspaper.
After they realized she was gone, Purdy and his fiancee sheltered her body until first responders showed up with plows the next day. Temperatures were expected to rise into the mid-40s on Wednesday and the low 50s by Friday, the National Weather Service said.Buffalo Niagara International Airport, which the storm had closed for days, reopened Wednesday, though the airport’s website listed almost all scheduled flights as canceled or delayed.in Buffalo, officials worked to clear storm drains and watched a forecast that calls for some rain later in the week.
Though suburban roads and most major highways in the area reopened Tuesday, there was still a driving ban in Buffalo, and state and military police were assigned to enforce it. Poloncarz, the Erie County executive and a Democrat, said the goal was to have at least one lane on every street open by Wednesday evening.
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