{"id":1789736,"date":"2022-12-29T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T17:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789736"},"modified":"2022-12-29T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T17:48:20","slug":"death-toll-in-buffalo-area-rises-to-37-from-brutal-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-toll-in-buffalo-area-rises-to-37-from-brutal-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Toll In Buffalo Area Rises To 37 From Brutal Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeath-toll-in-buffalo-area-rises-to-37-from-brutal-blizzard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789736&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Erie County (which includes Buffalo, New York) has seen the highest death toll. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2022\/12\/28\/buffalo-winter-storm-deaths-reaches-34-why-death-toll-so-high\/10961199002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has risen to 37<\/a> From the blizzard that swept the region late last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2022\/12\/29\/buffalo-blizzard-deaths-victims-how-they-died\/10964288002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According<\/a> Mark Poloncarz from Erie County Executive said that 17 people were found outside, nine in homes without heat and four in vehicles. Fourteen people were also found dead. Four died from heart problems resulting in shoveling or snow blowing. Three people died because emergency medical services were delayed. Buffalo was the scene of 29 deaths. Local officials were criticised for not having implemented a travel ban earlier. Erie County issued an emergency travel ban at 9:59 a.m. Friday but many people were already headed to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a travel ban should have been put in place a lot earlier,\u201d Buffalo EMT Felicia Williams\u00a0told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2022\/12\/27\/buffalo-storm-blizzard-warnings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Poloncarz acknowledged Thursday that listing weather events as capable of \u201cextreme impact\u201d He had seen it only twice in his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>John Garcia, Erie County Sheriff, said that his initial reaction when he heard about the aforementioned was &#8220;shocking.&#8221; \u201cbomb cyclone \u201c was \u201cthis is something that we are used to.\u201d He later admitted, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like this before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reed Timmer, Meteorologist, stated it simply: \u201cWorst blizzard I have ever covered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Extreme <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/blizzard?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blizzard<\/a> Downtown Buffalo stranded motorists This family was left homeless after being stranded for seven hours. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bclemms?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bclemms<\/a> I took them to shelter. This looks like a survival situation playing out in whiteout a block away. Worst blizzard I have ever covered <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZvnBR9KeX7\">pic.twitter.com\/ZvnBR9KeX7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reed Timmer, PhD (@ReedTimmerAccu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReedTimmerAccu\/status\/1606478909427843074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark Wysocki, Cornell University professor of atmospheric sciences, was there to help days before the storm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/weather\/2022\/12\/another-winter-storm-likely-to-slam-upstate-ny-just-in-time-for-christmas-travel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a>, \u201cIt could be another one of these messes where we get this ice, freezing rain and snow. We could have a lot of issues with travel and downed power lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 63-year old woman needed to be connected with an electric oxygen machine because she lost heat and power. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/news\/local\/buffalo-family-shelters-strangers-body-at-their-h%5B%e2%80%a6%5Dshe-dies-in\/article_68dbbef2-863f-11ed-9d64-4b93014dd101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Buffalo News<\/a>Because of the blizzard, she couldn&#8217;t access emergency services. Her son and stepbrother traveled from Cheektowaga towards her home in Lovejoy, New York. They attempted to drive her to their car, but she was too tired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s like, \u2018I can\u2019t go no further.\u2019 I\u2019m begging her, \u2018Mom, just stand up.\u2019 She fell in my arms and never spoke another word,\u201d Her son remembered. \u00a0After her son tried to get help from nearby homes, one couple admitted him and his mother, but the woman later died.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the North American Reliability Corp. have been conducting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-12-29\/us-battery-belt-will-be-a-new-kind-of-job-magnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint investigation<\/a> Millions of Americans were affected by blackouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in Erie County, which contains Buffalo, New York, has risen to 37 from the blizzard that struck the area late last week. According to Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, 17 people were found dead outside; nine died in homes lacking heat; four were found dead in a vehicle; four died of heart-related &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1789739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11687,8260,9238,6202,6499,12396,6500,6195],"class_list":["post-1789736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-blizzard","tag-brutal","tag-buffalo","tag-daily","tag-death","tag-rises","tag-toll","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}