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The president  warned everyone. When I saw that I knew then it was gonna be bad.
Once  I refused to evacuate  from a hurricane.  I would never ever do that again . Lucky to have survived. Any kind of warning throws me into action now.
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. >


“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.” >

The officials warned people. It was national news for a week before. "This shit is coming, and coming hard." People had time to prepare, evacuate, stock up. It sucks, it's a tragedy, but you can't slap an "I did that!" sticker on the blizzard.