A 56 year-old father has been identified as the first victim of the historic winter storm that has frozen much of the US, after apparently freezing to death on a Buffalo street. You
Romello had been missing since midnight on Dec 23 and died on his birthday.
Video shared Saturday night showed that Buffalo is still being pummeled by snow. More than a foot has fallen so far, although wind whipping off Lake Erie has created huge drifts rising as high as the rooflines of some local single-story houses.
The devastating video of a dead man lying face down in the snow at Bailey and Kensington Avenue emerged in the late afternoon of Christmas Eve.
Those remains were later identified as Clay’s ,with his family pleading for people to avoid sharing the macabre clip.
A post revealed that he ‘may not be on his medication’ when he left his home.
Earlier posts from family, pleaded for any information on Romello’s whereabouts.
‘Our brother is missing. From area around Rounds and Bailey. He frequents 7 Eleven on Bailey. If he comes to your door please help him,’ wrote one relative.
Clay is one of three people known to have died in Buffalo.
The other two victims, still unidentified, are believed to have passed away because first responders were unable to reach them during medical emergencies, details of which have not been shared.
A total of 32 people have been killed by the historic storm across the US, although that figure is likely to rise further, with many people left trapped in homes without heating or electricity for days.
Tributes flowed across Facebook for the devastating loss to the community.
His son, Jules Clay, who goes by Cadean, posted saying that the pain of the loss had floored him.
‘This pain is overwhelming. I can’t stop crying. Grateful I spoke to him and told him I love him yesterday,’ he wrote.
This news comes as bomb cyclone kills 32 nationwide and snow continues to pummel New York city 36 hours on.
