New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the storm is the 'most devastating storm in Buffalo's long storied history.'
At least 39 people have died from the wintry weather wreaking havoc across the U.S. over Christmas weekend.The death toll from a Buffalo-area blizzard rose to 27 in western New York, authorities said Monday, as the region reeled from one of the worst weather-related disasters in its history. Much of the rest of the United States was hit by ferocious winter conditions.
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz described the blizzard as "the worst storm probably in our lifetime" and warned there might be more dead. Some people, he noted, were stranded in their cars for more than two days. With many grocery stores in the Buffalo area closed and driving bans in place, some people pleaded on social media for donations of food and diapers."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.
Some 3,410 domestic and international flights were canceled on Monday as of about 3 p.m. EDT, according to the tracking site FlightAware. The site said Southwest Airlines had 2,497 cancellations - about 60% of its scheduled flights and about 10 times as many as any other major U.S. carrier.Based on FlightAware data, airports all across the U.S. were suffering from cancellations and delays, including Denver, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Seattle, Baltimore and Chicago.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown described the heartbreaking task of retrieving storm victims from cars, homes and streets.
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