Buffalo saw hurricane-force winds and snow causing whiteout conditions that paralyzed emergency response efforts.
“It doesn’t matter if you had 1,000 more pieces of equipment and 10,000 personnel, there’s still nothing you could have done in that period. It was that bad,” Poloncarz, the county official, said. “I know it’s hard for people to believe but it was like looking at a white wall for 14 to 18 hours straight.”
Extreme weather stretched from the Great Lakes near Canada, down to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico. About 60% of the U.S. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians.Some 3,410 domestic and international flights were canceled on Monday as of about 3 p.m. EDT, according to the tracking site FlightAware.
An ambulance is left stranded on the road following a winter storm that hit the Buffalo region, on Main St. in Amherst, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. “Our police officers are human. It is painful to find members of your community that are deceased,” the mayor said, adding that the blizzard’s victims “were trying to walk out during storm conditions, got disoriented and passed away out in the street.”
The storm also knocked out power in communities from Maine to Seattle. The mid-Atlantic grid operator had called for its 65 million consumers to conserve energy amid the freeze Saturday.
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