'Being Buffalonians, we had thought, 'Oh, this is just another storm,' ” one resident told the local paper.
How did Buffalo become the hardest-hit city in the United States’ bout with extreme weather last week—one that had, at one point, 2 in 3 Americans living under some kind of weather alert? More than 30 people died in Erie County, home to New York’s second-largest city, during a winter storm that Gov. Kathy Hochul called “the blizzard of the century,” and local authorities fear that number will rise.
Also, it was cold: The high temperature was 13 degrees on Christmas Eve. That cold came after a rainy Friday morning, freezing roads under the snow.And it was windy: The storm brought wind gusts as high as 71 mph, and more than 100,000 people lost power. But most of all: It was long. Starting when the storm rolled in at midday on Friday, Buffalo experienced more than
meaning high winds, swirling snow, and low visibility. At times it was hard to see across the street.That meant that people who got stuck got stuck for a while. The lucky ones got stuck inside, like the band of South Korean tourists
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