A battering winter storm has knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes homes and businesses across the United States on Saturday.

But with city streets under a thick blanket of white, that wasn't an option for people like Jeremy Manahan, who charged his phone in his parked car after almost 29 hours without electricity.Ī winter storm rolls through Western New York Saturday, Dec. 'We know there are people who have been stuck in cars for more than 2 days.'įreezing conditions and day-old power outages had Buffalonians scrambling to get out of their homes to anywhere that had heat. 'Some were found in cars, some were found on the street in snowbanks,' said Poloncarz. County Executive Mark Poloncarz warned there may be more deaths. Four more deaths were confirmed overnight, bringing the Erie County total to seven. Two people died in their suburban Cheektowaga, New York, homes Friday when emergency crews could not reach them in time to treat their medical conditions, and another died in Buffalo. The National Weather Service said the snow total at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport stood at 43 inches (109 centimeters) at 7 a.m. Kathy Hochul said almost every fire truck in the city was stranded - and shutting down the airport through Monday, according to officials. The storm unleashed its full fury on Buffalo, with hurricane-force winds and snow causing whiteout conditions, paralyzing emergency response efforts - New York Gov. Weather A dangerous storm disrupts travel and knocks out power across the U.S. Some 1,346 domestic and international flights were canceled as of early Sunday, according to the tracking site FlightAware.įorecasters said a bomb cyclone - when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm - had developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up blizzard conditions, including heavy winds and snow. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, the National Weather Service said. The scope of the storm has been nearly unprecedented, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico.

Millions of people hunkered down in a deep freeze overnight and early morning to ride out the frigid storm that has killed at least 24 people across the United States, trapping some residents inside homes with heaping snow drifts and knocking out power to several hundred thousand homes and businesses. John's Grace Episcopal Church rises above the blowing snow amid blizzard conditions in Buffalo, N.Y.

A lone pedestrian in snow shoes makes his way across Colonial Circle as St.

Freezing Point by Grace Hamilton