In Buffalo, Even the Rescuers Needed Rescuing

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Trapped inside his Kia Sedona with his four young children as a blizzard raged outside, Zila Santiago frantically called 911, the National Guard and friends for help, but none came. The emergency responders, too, were mired in snowdrifts, even as they attempted rescues.

For 11 long, dark hours over Christmas Eve, Mr. Santiago and his family sat in their minivan after getting stuck in a snowbank at Alabama and Fulton Streets in Buffalo. Although the county had put a driving ban in place, Mr. Santiago, a single father, was on the road because he said he couldn’t afford to leave his children overnight with their babysitter. “I was basically just hopeless,” he said.

He burned gas to keep the children — ages 2 through 6 — warm and served them juice he found stashed in the trunk. He helped his boys relieve themselves in a bottle, and he hid his distress by entertaining them with games and a TV installed in the vehicle.

The movie the Santiago children chose? “Frozen.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-buffalo-even-the-rescuers-needed-rescuing/ar-AA15EGql

[Skittles]

1. did these folk not hear about the impeding snowstorm

seriously, WTF

[SharonClark]

2. Penny wise - pound foolish.

Glad the kids survived the idiocy of their father.

[Demsrule86]

3. Have you ever been poor?

He didn’t have the money and babysitter get pissed and quit if you don’t show up- sometimes they quit.

[Kaleva]

4. Glad they all survived.

[NickB79]

5. If you Street View Fulton and Alabama Street in Buffalo, you see tons of apts

Knock on a friggin door.

I mean, yeah you're not advised to leave your vehicle in a blizzard, but this is a 50' hike, not a mile in rural nowhere.