The National Guard went door to door in parts of Buffalo to check on people who had lost power during the area’s deadliest winter storm in decades, and authorities faced the tragic possibility of finding more victims amid melting snow.
A shoe hangs onto a tree knocked over by wind on University at Buffalo South's campus in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. The wind was part of a blizzard that hit four Western New York counties. BUFFALO, N.Y. — The National Guard went door to door in parts of Buffalo on Wednesday to check on people who had lost power during the area’s deadliest winter storm in decades, and authorities faced the tragic possibility of finding more victims amid melting snow.
Officials said more than 30 people so far have been reported to have died because of the blizzard that raged Friday and Saturday in western New York, an area prone to powerful winter storms. The historic Blizzard of 1977 killed as many as 29.that his mother, Carolyn Eubanks, perished at the home of strangers who took her in after her family tried to get help for the ailing woman.
The stepbrothers knocked on doors, seeking someone who would help. They found David Purdy, who opened his door to two desperate strangers and helped them carry Eubanks inside and try in vain to revive her. 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. Erie County officials said they were preparing for the possibility of some flooding and of ice jams in local creeks.
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