US Sandstorm Leaves 7 Dead

The New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has declared a state of emergency as the city of Buffalo was badly hit with up to 1.8 meters of snowfall.
At least seven people have died due to the massive early season snowstorm, described as one of the worst in living memory, which struck parts of Michigan, up-state New York and New Hampshire.
Three people lost their lives from apparent heart attacks with two of them believed to have been shovelling, while others died while pushing a trapped car.

Due to the heavy snowfall, some emergency vehicles, including ambulances and fire trucks, had to be abandoned, with patients taken to hospital by paramedics on snowmobile.
More than 100 vehicles were reported trapped along a New York State roadway on Wednesday with a women’s basketball team from Niagara University left stranded on a roadway for nearly 30 hours before being picked up by authorities.
A woman had to give birth in a Buffalo fire station after attempts to travel to a hospital failed.
The wall of snow phenomenon was created by what is known as the “lake effect”. It hit on a day when much of the United States was enduring icy weather.