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With deliveries interrupted, some stores reported running low on staples like bread and milk.
Some Buffalo-area schools were closed for the third consecutive day, burning through snow days with winter still a month away.
Snow-weary residents of western New York were asked by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to "pretty, pretty please" stay off slippery,Wholesale China Jerseys, car-clogged roads for another day as crews rushed to dig out. Some areas received close to 2 feet of new snow by Thursday afternoon.
A stretch of the New York State Thruway through western New York remained closed with more than 300 truckers idled at truck stops and service areas,Cheap NFL Jerseys, waiting for the highway to reopen.
Roof collapses were reported around the region, including cave-ins that prompted the evacuation of 15 to 20 people Thursday from a suburban Buffalo mobile home park.
The immediate concern Thursday was recovering from the 5 feet or more of snow that fell earlier in the week. National Guardsmen drove nurses to work their hospital shifts. State troopers helped elderly residents trapped in their homes. State officials assembled 463 plows, 129 loaders, 40 dump trucks from across the state.
Homeowners and store employees climbed onto roofs to shovel off the snow and reduce the danger.
The wild card was an expected weekend warmup with rain — raising the specter of flooding and yet more weight pressing down on roofs, where the snow could absorb the rain like the blanket.
He said it's possible some buildings in hard-hit areas are close to that limit now, with more precipitation on the way.
BUFFALO,Wholesale Jerseys, N.Y. (AP) — Roofs began to creak and collapse under the weight as another storm brought the Buffalo area's three-day snowfall total Thursday to an epic 6 feet or more.
Officials also cast doubt on whether the region would recover enough for the Buffalo Bills to host the New York Jets on Sunday,Cheap NFL Jerseys. The seats and field of the Bills' home stadium south of Buffalo were buried in snow. |
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