A 22-year-old woman is among 35 people who froze to death during a bomb cyclone that dumped 6 feet of snow across New York.
Anndel Taylor, of Buffalo, was found frozen to death in her car after she was stranded on a snow covered highway for 18 hours. Family members say Taylor tried to wait out a historic blizzard that continues to batter Buffalo.
Taylor sent text messages to her family members pleading for help after she became trapped on her way home from work on Friday night. She shared a final video that showed the snowstorm outside her car window.
Buffalo got 81" of snow and 27 of the tragic 57 storm deaths. Anndel Taylor died in her car, trapped 2 days while driving home from work. Chilling last video she sent her family and her family's pleas on social media for help save her. #BuffaloBlizzard2022 #stormsurge #USA pic.twitter.com/zpG2XnQPFu
— Nathan Adams (@NateAdams5k) December 27, 2022
Her family pleaded with strangers from states away to help find her.
She was eventually found in her car sometime Saturday afternoon. Police say Taylor’s car was trapped under 5 feet of snow.
The family believes Taylor died from carbon monoxide poisoning after the snow blocked her car’s tailpipe.
Taylor’s mother, Wanda Brown Steele, and sister, Shawnequa (pictured left), are angry at officials for their slow response to Taylor’s death.
“My children and I are angry,” a distraught Brown Steele, 53, told DailyMail.com. “She was in the car too long. From Friday to Christmas.”
Brown Steele said a “Good Samaritan” found her “iced up” body and used her own truck to transport Taylor’s body to the coroner’s office, since the coroner “never showed up.”
Brown Steele said the Good Samaritan showed her video of Taylor’s body, which her mom said resembled “an iceberg.”
“I couldn’t breath,” Brown Steele said. “She looked iced-up. I was heartbroken.”
“She told me: ‘I’m gonna stay out there with your baby. I won’t leave her,'” Browne steel said.
Taylor is one of three people found dead in their cars during a historic bomb cyclone that hit Buffalo over the Christmas weekend.
Taylor was born in Buffalo, NY, but raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She moved back to New York earlier this year to take care of her father.
