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...Buffalo struggled to cope with its emergency, there were unavoidable tragedies. Five people were found frozen to death in their stalled cars; one was within a five-minute walk of numerous warm houses. For 32 hours, no ambulance could move. "We couldn't get out to people," recalled Dr. Joseph Zizzi, "and they couldn't get in to us. I've never seen anything like it." Doctors could only telephone stricken residents or send word through CB operators about what to do for stricken people suffering chest pains and fainting spells. A fire in one house spread...
Costly Cabbie. Still, Buffalo also discovered its dark side during the siege. There was widespread looting of abandoned vehicles and vacant drug and jewelry stores. On a single night, 60 arrests were made by justifiably angry police. There were some profiteers too. One taxi driver would not take stranded people from the Greater Buffalo International Airport to a motel-a distance of about 100 yards-unless he could round up five-passenger loads at $10 per person...
...Finally Buffalo got help. President Carter first declared a regional state of emergency so that federal funds could be used to remove snow and restore health and safety services. The Army flew in 300 men from an airborne engineer task force at Fort Bragg, N.C. They arrived with snowblowers and trucks. The Air Force sent a C-130 cargo plane from Cleveland with needed repair parts for snow-removal equipment, and another plane hauled in cots and blankets from Washington, D.C. More than 500 National Guardsmen pitched into the snowbanks. Later, Carter declared nine counties a major disaster area, thereby...
...counties was expected to reach $225 million, including property damage in the city of about $18 million. Nor was the area's crisis over. Several thousand residents in nearby rural homes were still snowbound, their condition unknown. And at week's end it was snowing again in Buffalo...
...area where the living had been easy, life was suddenly a chore. The same wild weather conditions that had isolated Buffalo in the snow-and frozen Florida's oranges-had also aggravated the 13-month drought that has plagued eight Western states. A high-pressure system lay off the West Coast, diverting winds northward to pick up arctic cold and blocking the normal flow of moisture to the West. In California, the loss in crops and other agricultural production may exceed $1 billion, and the water shortage is already affecting daily living in some unlikely places. One is Marin...