DEVASTATING Buffalo Blizzard EXPOSES racial, class divides: Most Of The Dead Are People Of Color

While Blacks make up 33 percent of the population in Erie County and 14 percent in Buffalo, they account for 51 percent of the deceased.

Anndel Taylor, a 22-year-old woman was found dead over the Christmas holiday weekend in Buffalo, New York, after being trapped in her car by the blizzard that paralyzed western New York.

Abdul Sharifu, 26, left his home in Buffalo Saturday afternoon during the blizzard to get milk and other supplies. He never made it back.

From CNNMost of the victims [of the blizzard] were found dead either outside or in their homes, while others died in their cars, as the result of delayed emergency medical service, and while removing snow or from cardiac arrest, officials said. []

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