Death toll climbs as blizzard-battered Buffalo area digs out

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JENNIFER PELTZ

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Roads reopened Thursday in storm-besieged Buffalo as authorities continued searching for people who may have died or are stuck and suffering after last week’s blizzard.

The driving ban in New York’s second-most-populous city was lifted just after midnight Thursday, Mayor Byron Brown announced.

At least 40 deaths in western New York, most of them in Buffalo, have been reported from the blizzard that raged across much of the country, with Buffalo in its crosshairs on Friday and Saturday.

“Significant progress has been made” on snow removal, Brown said at a news conference late Wednesday. Suburban roads, major highways and Buffalo Niagara International Airport had already reopened.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/weather-buffalo-natural-disasters-new-york-city-storms-6cb9f31599be5f698a927fa971fcf019?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_04

[NJCher]

1. Weather Underground is saying

100 inches of snow.

We think it’s a big deal to get 8” in Northern NJ.

[wnylib]

3. That's 100 inches total TO DATE for the winter season.

It's not the amount of snowfall for the blizzard. The blizzard dropped around 50 to 53 inches or just over 4 feet.

[NJCher]

4. 80 inches from this storm alone

In Hamburg.

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/buffalo-lake-effect-snow-november-2022

I really cannot wrap my head around 80 inches of snow.

[whistler162]

5. currently 53 going to 60 today

in Central NY.

[wnylib]

2. My guess is that the unidentified victims

are homeless people.