BUFFALO, N.Y.) -- Buffalo was scheduled to emerge from a deep freeze on Wednesday, bringing relief, but also the devastating possibility of more victims in the melting snow of the deadliest storm that hit the region in decades.Officials have said that over 30 people so as of now be dead due to the blizzard which raged on over the weekend in the western part of New York, an area prone to powerful winter storms. The historic Blizzard in 1977 killed as many as 29.Antwaine Parker reported to The Buffalo News that his mother, Carolyn Eubanks, perished in the home of strangers who brought her into their home after her family attempted to get help for the sick woman.Eubanks, 63, relied on an oxygen machine. Parker said that his stepbrother drove him through the snow to save Eubanks' life on Saturday. Power was out at her house and emergency workers weren't able to respond to the calls due to the snowstorm. He said that she collapsed while they carried her to a car. They came across David Purdy, who opened his doors to two strangers in desperate need and helped them bring Eubanks inside to try unsuccessfully to save her.After they realized she was gone, Purdy and his fiancee sheltered her body until emergency personnel arrived with plows later that day."I did it as considerately as I could," Purdy told The Buffalo News. His own mother is the same age that Eubanks was, and she also has an oxygen machine, he explained, and "if she needed assistance I would hope that there would be people out ready to assist her and also."
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