Thank you.
Have family and friends still in the area. One friend was amazed (and angry) at the amount of traffic even after the travel ban was in place. Quite a few people simply did not take the warnings of impending weather seriously. Then around 10:00 Am Friday it hit where they lived and just white. In Genesee County, dozens of cars stranded or off the road and that’s one rural county. With a travel ban in place one wonders if auto insurance will cover in full damages to vehicles.
I don’t think it was people freezing to death in their homes as much as medical emergencies and EMS could not reach those people. It sounds like a majority of the deaths were people trapped in vehicles.