comment: >
  
  Yep, that's one of the reasons I'm expecting it to go much higher. I'm not listening myself, I think it'd be too depressing but people are constantly reporting more and more.
context: Buffalo native here. Wasn't around back in '77 but I absolutely remember Snowvember 2014, and even though we had to bring in the National Guard with bucket loaders because plows couldn't cut through six feet of snow, people were just out and about the moment they could get out of their driveway. We've dealt with snow, and so many people that I know figured this was just gonna be another snowstorm.
  The real killer was the cold, but more specifically, it was the wind. We don't regularly get 60mph winds even during storms, and wind chill that intense is a whole different kind of cold. Normally I'm sweating by the time I finish snowblowing when I wear boots, snow pants, and a jacket over shorts and a t-shirt; this time around, had to add flannel pajamas and a hoodie to the rest and I still had to take a break halfway through to warm up. So many other people felt the same way, until they got out and the wind was just sapping heat like nobody's business and blowing snow almost completely horizontal. >
  
  I've always been curious about world population and the expansion of human kind on earth. 
  I am not trying to be insensitive to current conditions. 
  As a California native,  I've always wondered how people live where they live. 
  Phoenix. Buffalo. Minnesota. Las Vegas. 
  Like...why did people CHOOSE to live there? >
  
  
  Like...why did people CHOOSE to live there? 
  
  For cold places it was often the availability of red meat and hides of animals. Both of which are valuable for human development. >
  
  I understand that part. But a place like Las Vegas is literally a created city. I understand the nefarious underground, but eventually, 2mill+ still had to CHOOSE to be there. 
  The populations of humanity, and again, not to be insensitive to circumstances, it has always been a curiosity as to...not how humans ended up where they are. But WHY are humans still where they are 
  Maybe I'm asking an evolutionary question? >
  
  Because by leveraging the resources of other areas, such as water, and power for cooling, it was made liveable, and then sustained by economic activity using those resources >
  
  I heard it's up to 35 now, likely to go quite a bit higher. >
  
  If you go in the buffalo subreddit people are listening in police scanners. Expect the death toll to rise quite soon