A brutal winter storm has killed at least 34 people across the United States and the death toll is likely to rise as some motorists remain trapped in their cars. It has knocked out power to several hundred thousand homes and businesses.
Much of the loss of life centred in and around the city of Buffalo at the edge of Lake Erie in western New York state, as numbing cold and heavy “lake-effect” snow — the result of frigid air moving over warmer lake waters — persisted through the Christmas weekend.
