Deadly blizzard, みなすd worst in 45 years, 麻ひさせるs greater Buffalo, N.Y.

By Gabriella Borter

Dec 26 (Reuters) - Road and 公共事業(料金)/有用性 乗組員s 直面するd the 仕事 on Monday of digging out and 回復するing some normalcy around Buffalo, New York, where a blizzard considered the area's worst in 45 years buried snow 骨折って進むs, 立ち往生させるd 運転者s in cars and killed at least 13 people.

The lethal blizzard took form late on Friday and pummeled western New York through the Christmas holiday 週末, capping an 北極の 凍結する and winter 嵐/襲撃する 前線 that had 延長するd over most of the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs for days, as far south as the Mexican 国境.

At least 30 people have died in U.S. 天候-関係のある 出来事/事件s since late last week, によれば an NBC News 一致する, while CNN put the total number of fatalities at 26.

The greater Buffalo 地域, lying at the 辛勝する/優位 of Lake Erie 近づく the Canadian 国境 was one of the hardest-攻撃する,衝突する places.

Numbing 冷淡な 連合させるd with howling 勝利,勝つd and 激しい "lake-影響" snow - the result of moisture 選ぶd up by frigid 空気/公表する moving over warmer lake waters - produced a 嵐/襲撃する that 知事 Kathy Hochul said would go 負かす/撃墜する in history as "the Blizzard of '22."

The 嵐/襲撃する's 公式の/役人 death (死傷者)数 in Buffalo and どこかよそで in Erie 郡 climbed to 13 on Sunday, and was 推定する/予想するd to rise as more 団体/死体s 設立する in snow drifts or buried 乗り物s were 診察するd and 確認するd as 天候-関係のある fatalities, 当局 said.

The 知事 called it an "epic, once-in-a-lifetime" 天候 災害 that 階級d as the fiercest winter 嵐/襲撃する to 攻撃する,衝突する Buffalo, New York 明言する/公表する's second-largest city, since a 手足を不自由にする/(物事を)損なうing 1977 blizzard that killed nearly 30 people.

The 最新の blizzard, which 最初 圧倒するd 緊急 乗組員s, (機の)カム nearly six weeks after a 記録,記録的な/記録する-setting but shorter-liv ed lake-影響 嵐/襲撃する struck western New York.

RESCUING THE RESCUERS

にもかかわらず a 禁止(する) on road travel 課すd since Friday, hundreds of Erie 郡 運転者s were 立ち往生させるd in their 乗り物s over the 週末, with 国家の Guard 軍隊/機動隊s 動員するd to help with 救助(する)s 妨げるd by blinding white-out 条件s.

当局 were 推定する/予想するd to decide Monday morning whether to 延長する the 禁止(する).

郡 大統領 示す Poloncarz told reporters that snow drifts as high as 8 feet on roadways were too 厚い and 激しい to (疑いを)晴らす with 従来の snow-除去 器具/備品.

Many snow 骨折って進むs, 牽引する トラックで運ぶs, 救急車s and other 緊急 乗り物s 派遣(する)d on Saturday and Sunday became stuck in the snow, "and we had to send 救助(する) 使節団s to 救助(する) the 救助者s," he said.

The Buffalo police department 地位,任命するd an online 嘆願 to the public for 援助, asking those who "have a snow 動きやすい and are willing to help" to call a hotline for 指示/教授/教育s.

Although 力/強力にする had been 回復するd to most Erie 郡 公共事業(料金)/有用性 顧客s, as of Sunday evening about 15,000 homes remained without electricity, によれば Poloncarz.

He said one 電気の substation knocked offline was 調印(する)d off by an 18-foot-tall 塚 of snow, and 公共事業(料金)/有用性 乗組員s 設立する the entire 施設 frozen inside.

At the request of 明言する/公表する 公式の/役人s, Hochul said, 地元の 力/強力にする companies had pre-positioned some 7,000 公共事業(料金)/有用性 労働者s ahead of the 嵐/襲撃する on Friday, but blinding, 低い地吹雪 had made it difficult for 乗組員s to reach stricken 器具/備品.

成果/努力s to (疑いを)晴らす snow-clogged roads were likewise stymied.

"It is not a 事柄 of 資源s - 団体/死体s and 器具/備品 - it is a 事柄 of mobility and 接近," Hochul said.

Hochul told reporters on Sunday that the Biden 行政 had agreed to support her request for a 連邦の 災害 宣言 and she 推定する/予想するd formal 是認 すぐに.

While the 公式の/役人 blizzard 警告 for the greater Buffalo 地域 was 解除するd on Sunday, 公式の/役人s 警告するd that blizzard-like 条件s 固執するd in some areas, and that more snow was in the 予測(する) through Tuesday. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Gabriella Borter; 付加 報告(する)/憶測ing by Ahmed Aboulenein, Lucia Mutikani, Idrees Ali, Ismail Shakil, Rick Cowan and ; 令状ing by Steve Gorman; editing by Ross Colvin, Diane (手先の)技術, Nick Zieminski, Leslie Adler and Gerry Doyle)

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