What will go down in history as the Blizzard of 2022 has already claimed the lives of 12 people in New York, with more expected to be announced in the next six to 12 hours. The blizzard surpassed the scale of the Blizzard of ‘77.
A lethal blizzard paralyzed Buffalo, New York, on Christmas Day, trapping motorists and rescue workers in their vehicles, leaving thousands of homes without power, and raising the death toll from storms that have chilled much of the United States for days.
At least 30 people have died in U.S. weather-related incidents, according to an NBC News tally, since a deep freeze gripped most of the nation, coupled with snow, ice, and howling winds from a sprawling storm that roared out of the Great Lakes region on Friday.