A 'once-in-a-lifetime” blizzard has killed at least 55 people in the U.S., including 25 in western New York's Erie County, officials say.
has killed at least 57 people in the United States, including 27 in western New York's Erie County, officials said Monday.
Snow was expected to fall in Erie County into Tuesday afternoon. Nationwide, temperatures plummeted, and huge snow drifts have trapped people inside their homes andStretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the Mexican border, the storm has killed at least 57 people as of Monday morning, according to an NBC News tally.
The ferocity of the storm was unlike any the region has seen, Poloncarz said. The snow fell “with a vengeance," he said.On Monday morning, a “band of heavy lake effect snow” in the Buffalo area was producing 2 to 3 inches of hourly snowfall, with accumulations reaching 6 to 12 inches and as much as 1 to 2 feet for Jefferson and northern Lewis counties, the National Weather Service said in its 6:43 a.m. bulletin.
Thousands of service crew had been deployed to deal with the emergency, which was probably “the largest mobilization of utility crews in the history of the state,” Hochul said.
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