International- A 22-year-old woman died after getting stuck in her car during a blizzard, WSOC reported.
- Anndel Taylor sent her family a video of her car windows appearing to be covered in snow, it added.
A 22-year-old woman in Buffalo, New York, died after being trapped in her car for 18 hours during a lethal blizzard, a report said.
Anndel Taylor was driving home from work Friday when she became stranded because of the heavy snowfall, her family told the local ABC affiliate WSOC, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York called the storm the "blizzard of the century," and at least 27 people had died in Buffalo as of Monday afternoon, according to Mark Poloncarz, the Erie County executive.
Taylor's family members said she texted their group chat to say that snow was piling up and sent a video of her car windows appearing to be covered in snow, WSOC reported.
They added that she called 911 but that emergency services failed to reach her in time. Taylor's mother said her daughter had planned to sleep in her car and wait out the storm and then walk home.
"I feel like everybody that tried to get to her got stuck," Tomeshia Brown, Taylor's sister, told the outlet. "Fire department, police, everybody got stuck. Why didn't they have chains on their tires? This is a state that is known for snow."
Taylor was found dead inside her car the next day, and her family estimated she was trapped for 18 hours.
A cause of death has not been given by officials, but her mother speculated that she died from carbon-monoxide poisoning, rather than hypothermia.
"The car was running, and the snow was still coming, so it blocked the pipes, the exhaust pipe," her mother told WSOC. "Then after the car cut off, that's when she iced up."
Shawnequa Brown, Taylor's other sister, said there had been "a lot of crying" in the family and that there were still gifts for her under their Christmas tree.
A GoFundMe page set up by the family to pay for funeral costs had generated over $9,600 at the time of writing.