National Guard bans Buffalo residents from streets amid blizzard, blackouts, looting, 35 dead

[Goldhedge]

The natives are restless...!

National Guard bans Buffalo residents from streets amid blizzard, blackouts, looting, 35 dead​

"You can absolutely go out and walk to check on neighbors, go to open stores, etc. But do not drive," Eerie County Executive Mark Poloncarz warned residents via Twitter.

Jarryd Jaeger
Vancouver, BC
Dec 27, 2022

Residents of Buffalo, New York have been barred from driving as blizzard conditions continue to batter the city, and the state's National Guard has been called in to enforce the ban.

The winter storm has resulted in dozens dead, mass blackouts, and rampant looting, as officials struggle to contain the situation.

According to WYRK, on Tuesday the New York State National Guard announced that they would be sending at least 100 military police officers to the Buffalo area to enforce the city's driving ban.

The officers will be stationed at various main intersections, and have the authority to charge motorists who break the rules with class B misdemeanors, or even impound their vehicles.



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National Guard bans Buffalo residents from streets amid blizzard, blackouts, looting, 35 dead

“You can absolutely go out and walk to check on neighbors, go to open stores, etc. But do not drive,” Eerie County Executive Mark Poloncarz warned residents via Twitter.

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[Goldhedge]

CHRISTMAS CHAOS: HEAVY SNOW CAUSES CHAIN ACCIDENTS, CLAIMS LIVES ACROSS THE COUNTRY​

White-out conditions across most of the U.S. has taken at least 60 lives, including 27 from western Erie County, New York. Multi-vehicle crashes from a number of states were caught-on-tape, most notably a 46-car pileup on the Ohio Turnpike.
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[Casey Jones]

Who was the brainiac who misspelled Erie County?

It's not "Eerie." Except in the minds of Buzzfeed and Huffnpuff Post grrl-power writers.

 

[pmbug]

Sounds like Katrina Buffalo style.

 

[Casey Jones]

Buffalo: Long ago, snowmobiling was a popular sport, there, and not that expensive. Used sleds could be had for cheap; and they are JUST the ticket for getting around in such an emergency. REACT used to even recruit owners to make emergency food and rescue runs.

What, the Cuomo the Stupid and his replacement, that overpromoted assistant clerk, BAN those things?

 

[Casey Jones]

Sounds like Katrina Buffalo style.

It could well be.

I lived there many years, but I cut all ties in 2008. I wasn't the only one.

Katrina happened because the white suburbanites, who would have been the ones to volunteer to fill sandbags (well, at least the rural people would have) obeyed the evacuation order and got outta Dodge. What was left, was a whole bunch of people who I think really had one eye on opportunities to loot-thy-neighbor.

Buffalo residents...those who could leave, have left. For good. It's not a prosperous place to be from; you can't point to many areas there that are "rich." There are a few; but in any event, getting away from a Siberian blast that's socked the whole nation, is harder than dodging a hurricane.

I think it's just the people who've remained...are like the residents of Starkesville, after Twentieth-Century Motors closed, in Atlas Shrugged. Stupid, feral and inbred.

 

[Joe King]

Multi-vehicle crashes from a number of states were caught-on-tape, most notably a 46-car pileup on the Ohio Turnpike.

Stuff like that happens because of the idiots who insist on driving far too fast for conditions.