Ms Leong Yi Yin woke up shivering on the morning of Dec 24 and wore a puffer jacket before burrowing under three blankets in her bed to stave off the cold. The 26-year-old Singaporean’s flat in Buffalo, New York, had been without electricity – and therefore, without...
To stay warm, Ms Leong boiled a pot of water and left it steaming on her gas stovetop. But as freezing temperatures persisted on the morning of Christmas Eve, she reached out for help on a Facebook group for Buffalo residents with over 68,000 members.
Mr Kuah and his three friends – all Singaporeans – had planned to drive up to Niagara Falls on the Canadian side during their school holidays. On Dec 23, while making their way there from Philadelphia, their car got stuck in the heavy snow near Alden, a village in Erie County. Conditions on the road in Alden, a town in New York’s Erie County, on Dec 23, 2022. PHOTOS: COURTESY OF KEENAN KUAH
The next morning, he said, many vehicles were snowed in, and with a countywide travel ban, there was nowhere to go. They called 911 for help and were told they were at the bottom of the rescue list as they were beside a petrol station. Other Singaporeans living in the affected area were more fortunate. Ms Phua Zhi Ting, 29, who has lived in Buffalo, New York, for seven years, said she was mentally prepared for the blizzard after listening to weather reports.
“My biggest challenge was having to FaceTime my boyfriend while he was at work when some of our pipes froze, and I had to learn how to shut off the water valves. My main responsibility was to keep the taps dripping to prevent the pipes from freezing.”
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