NEW YORK – New York Governor Kathy Hochul has deployed additional emergency personnel from various agencies, including the National Guard, and equipment to help New Yorkers in the hardest-hit Buffalo region in western state. where two people died because they were unable to get the medical care they needed.
“It is life threatening what is happening in Buffalo” hit by one of the worst snowstorms that has left residents, as well as emergency services personnel and equipment, stranded on the roads. The city has had to close its border bridges with Canada.
“Ice, floods, snow, cold temperatures” and blackouts, Elliot brought as he traversed New York, said Hochul, who declared a state of emergency on Friday and mobilized National Guard personnel, who surged today to help with emergencies health care and search and rescue operations.
Elliott, a cyclone bomb resulting from an Arctic air front, has been causing freezing temperatures from Canada to Texas since Thursday, as well as heavy snow, high winds and rain.
Hochul recalled that New Yorkers are used to winter storms, “but this one had a big impact and caused total blackout conditions in the west” of the state, which have been restored but there are still families without electricity at a time when temperatures have reached single digits.
About 700,000 people were left without power to their homes in the country as of 8 p.m., mostly in the states of North Carolina and Maine, according to the Power Outage Tracker, and at least 15 people died from the storm, according to the Power Outage Tracker. local media are counting, four of them in a multi-car crash on a snowy Ohio freeway and two in New York City.
US President Joe Biden appeared publicly on Thursday to warn Americans to take the storm “extremely seriously” and follow the recommendations of the authorities.
