Buffalo blizzard: Storm turns city into 'war zone'

A terrible wintertime tempest that has swept crossed North America has near the metropolis of Buffalo, New York, looking similar a warfare zone, the authorities politician has said.

On Monday the metropolis recorded 25 weather-related deaths, up from 13 connected Sunday.

"This is simply a warfare with parent quality and she has been hitting america with everything she has," New York State Governor Kathy Hochul said.

Blizzard conditions are stretching from Canada arsenic acold southbound arsenic the Rio Grande, sidesplitting astatine slightest 50 radical nationwide.

The portion astir Buffalo, successful upstate New York, has been worst affected.

Governor Hochul, a autochthonal of Buffalo, said: "It is (like) going to a warfare zone, and the vehicles on the sides of the roads are shocking."