The full scope of it came home to Patrick McDonald on Friday, as he stared through frosted windows at a family trapped inside a stranded car.
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A taxi travels through heavy snow down Delaware Avenue during blizzard conditions on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022.
Then-Officer Patrick McDonald speaks with a group of Buffalo children in 2017.
Lt. Pat McDonald with a volunteer snowmobiler, who saved lives during the storm. McDonald did not get a chance to grab the man's name.
In the face of a driving ban and snow-clogged streets impenetrable to vehicles, volunteers on snowmobiles have ferried elderly people to shelt…
Stasia Syta is one of nearly three dozen people known to have died in last weekend's storm, a grim toll likely to rise in the days ahead.
What Tina Mulkey provided to two women in need during the Christmas blizzard is the definition of community in Buffalo, Kirst says.
What it teaches you, Dr. Michael Manka Jr. said, “is to take nothing for granted,” that no one is exempt from tragedy, and that gentle, uneven…
Nothing about the outcome on a football field could even remotely touch the flesh-and-blood aftermath of such events, seared into the civic so…
Retired officer George Smith recalls braving winds and snow with other officers to lead terrified motorists to safety from snow-covered vehicl…
Officer Patrick McDonald answered a complaint about loud music, joined in an impromptu street football game, and the video went viral.
A video taken by Lt. Patrick McDonald, during peak of the Christmas weekend blizzard, in South Buffalo.
Lt. Patrick McDonald gets a greeting as he makes it home, after a long weekend in the blizzard.
Family members are mourning Monique Alexander, 52, who died outside on Christmas Eve in the bitter cold, biting winds and blowing snow of the …
Trapped in her car on Friday as a blizzard raged in Buffalo, Anndel Taylor, 22, chatted with her sisters and even sent a video of the storm. B…
"Buffalo has been ground-zero for this storm," Mayor Byron Brown said. "The impact for this winter storm was the most harsh in Buffalo of Erie…
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday he spoke with Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management A…
Craig Elston, stranded at his barbershop, welcomed 40 people into his business on Friday night to give them shelter from the blizzard. Nearly …
The move allows federal disaster relief funds to help pay for storm response and recovery.
More people in Western New York have died due to this storm than died as a result of the Blizzard of '77.
The death toll from the Christmas weekend blizzard has grown to at least 35 people in Erie and Niagara counties.
Vandals who used the blizzard as an excuse to break into stores hurt more than just the business owners or the workers and customers who rely …
My sister Moira was safe and warm on Christmas afternoon. But how she got to that moment is a story of terrible cold and the remarkable warmth…
"You can't understand what it was like unless you were here," Airfield Superintendent Joe Guarino said. "I hope I never see anything like this…
