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The family says the woman was found dead in her car because of the snow

The family says the woman was found dead in her car because of the snow

(CNN Spanish) — A 22-year-old woman was found dead in Buffalo over the weekend after she was trapped in her car by a blizzard that paralyzed western New York, her family told CNN.

Andelle Taylor, who had moved from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Buffalo, New York, was coming home from work at a senior center and found herself stranded a six-minute drive from home, they said. Relatives living in Charlotte. .

One of Taylor’s older sisters, Tomatia Brown, told CNN that Taylor sent a video to a group chat with her sisters around 3pm on Friday. In the video, Taylor captured icy conditions and low visibility. She told her sisters, who live in North Carolina, that she was stuck and the snow continued to fall, Brown said.

Taylor called 911 and waited for first responders, Brown and Wanda Brown Steele, Taylor’s mother, told CNN.

“Her plan was to wait for the police to arrive,” her sister said, but if that failed, she planned to “get up and walk as soon as her car ran out of gas.” He said he would go to sleep if help didn’t come and try to walk home when he woke up.

His family said they kept in touch with Taylor as the day went on. At one point, Taylor texted one of her other sisters separately.

In the early hours of Christmas Eve, Taylor sent her last video message to a group chat. In the video, Taylor opens the driver’s side window of his car to reveal that the nearby road has turned into a mountain of snow. A van appears to be stuck on the road, with its hazard lights on. Taylor wrote in the group chat that she thought the snow would climb up to her waist if she got out of the car.

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That morning, around 9 a.m. on Christmas Eve, his family members in North Carolina sent him several messages. “Are you alright?” We texted him in the group to ask,” Brown said. When Taylor didn’t respond, the family became alarmed.

“Maybe two hours later, my sister tracked her phone,” Brown said. “She is [Taylor] You shared your location with my sister. And it showed he was still out there.

The family alerted Taylor’s relatives in Buffalo to the address, but when they arrived, they said they saw Brown’s car, but not her inside.

“So I put information on a private Facebook page called Buffalo Blizzard 2022 and asked for help,” Brown said.

He posted the address of the monitored phone and that night, he received a phone call from an unknown person. “He informed us that he checked his pulse and there was no pulse,” Brown said.

“I really don’t believe it,” he said. “It was like a piercing sensation in my stomach, a pain I had never felt before.”

Taylor’s mother, Brown Steele, told CNN she was “in shock.”

Brown said Taylor’s body would be removed from the car the next day, after a woman posted a message on Facebook informing Brown that the car and her sister’s body had been found.

The woman told family in Charlotte that she wasn’t leaving until someone picked her up.

While emergency personnel could not reach the car, the woman waited for Taylor’s relatives, who live in Buffalo, to arrive. Everyone helped carry Taylor’s body to another vehicle, where he was taken to a hospital, Brown said.

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After leaving several voicemails over the holiday weekend, the family in Charlotte received a response from authorities Monday night. They called to let Taylor know they were ready to be rescued, Brown said. Brown’s family said Taylor’s body had already been taken to the hospital.

“I want to know why the city couldn’t help,” Brown Steele told CNN.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz told CNN’s Poppy Harlow on “CNN This Morning” Monday that at least two-thirds of the equipment he sent to help clear snow during the height of the storm was stuck en route.

Polancarz added that a Buffalo Fire Department historian said it was the first time in the agency’s history that personnel were unable to respond to emergency calls because the severity of conditions did not permit it.

Erie County officials said Tuesday the county has restored its emergency response service, but are still urging residents to comply with Buffalo’s travel ban and stay off the roads.

CNN has reached out to the Buffalo Police Department for more details.

As of Tuesday night, Taylor’s family in Charlotte still did not know the official cause of Taylor’s death, Brown said.

Taylor was described by her sister as “a caring, caring person”. “He tried so hard and he cared about so many people,” his sister said.

“If she can help it, she’ll help you,” her mother said. “She had a lot of friends in Charlotte and a lot of people cared about her.”

His family created a GoFundMe campaign for his funeral.

Taylor would have turned 23 next month, Brown said.

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