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“It’s a grueling, gruesome task that they had to do,” Gramaglia said, noting his force has finished following up on some 1,100 backlogged welfare check and 911 calls. “They recovered a substantial amount of bodies, and it’s terrible.”
A Buffalo mom went out on Christmas Eve, telling her daughter she'd be right back. They found her body a few hundred feet from home
“The stories are heartbreaking, just heartbreaking,” Poloncarz said. Among the dead are a senior home worker, a soon-to-be new dad and a grandmother whose body a stranger moved “so that she wouldn’t get snowed on anymore.”
Horrible situation all around.
But ... the storm was predicted, so why is/was it so hard for people to just remain where they were? Why go out in a feckin’ blizzard at all? Yes, it sucks being stuck at work or whatever, but it beats dying in your car when the roads are blocked and you can’t see. >

This. People just couldn’t stay off the roads and abandoned their cars, which left the roads blocked so they couldn’t plow the streets and emergency vehicles couldn’t get through.