Erie County, New York continues to be plagued by snow and below-freezing temperatures, resulting in thousands losing power during one of their worst winter storms ever.
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The snow continues to fall and the number of casualties continues to climb in Western New York, as one of the most severeThe exact number of those claimed by the storm is unclear. Sunday night,Executive Mark Poloncarz confirmed that a 22-year-old woman was found dead in a car in Buffalo. Poloncarz said that made 13 deaths. Local WIVB, however, reported the number of Erie County victims as at least 18 – 11 in Buffalo, three in Cheektowaga and three in Amherst.
According to the National Weather Service, the temperature in Buffalo was 16 degrees early Monday morning with continued snow. Poloncarz announced that a driving ban in remained in effect for Buffalo, Lackawanna, Amherst, Cheektowaga, Clarence, Evans, Hamburg, Orchard Park and West Seneca. He said that as of Monday at 7 a.m., the ban would be lifted in other parts of the county.Ice and snow cover a railing along the Lake Erie shoreline on Dec. 24, 2022 in Hamburg, New York.
Poloncarz said that the number in Erie County is still down significantly from Sunday morning, when 26,404 were without power,"so good progress has been made."
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