Bills team are greeted by hundreds of brave fans in Rochester as they FINALLY head home on Christmas Day after getting stuck in Chicago… with Buffalo Airport shut until Tuesday amid historic blizzard that has killed at least 25 across the country
- The Bills were stuck in Chicago last night due to extreme weather conditions
- Buffalo has seen record snowfall and has near-zero visibility in the snowstorm
- Bills players were able to get back to Rochester, New York on Christmas morning
- They’ll hope for less severe conditions next week as they play at the Bengals’
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Bills fans trekked out to Rochester on Sunday morning to greet the team after they had to stay overnight in Chicago due to extreme weather conditions back home in Buffalo.
Officials said on Christmas that the Buffalo airport would be closed through Tuesday morning, as the area deals with a storm that has provided record-breaking snowfall and essentially zero visibility.
And with the Bills in Chicago after beating the Bears 35-13, they were unable to fly home on Saturday night.
Bills fans greeted them as they walked off the plane in Rochester on Christmas morning
This morning, however, the newly-crowned AFC East champs made it back (close to) home, with fans greeting them in Rochester as they stepped off the plane.
From there, it’s a little more than an hour’s drive to get back to Buffalo.
According to the National Weather Service , a daily record snowfall of 22.3 inches descended on the city Friday, while they said there was 43 inches of snow at Buffalo Niagara International Airport as of 7 am Sunday.
A tree lays across the intersection of West Delavan Avenue and Bidwell Parkway in Buffalo
The storm has brought huge amounts of snowfall to the area and near-zero visibility
Two people died in their suburban Cheektowaga, New York, homes Friday when emergency crews could not reach them in time to treat their medical conditions, and another died in Buffalo.
Four more deaths were confirmed overnight, bringing the total to seven in Erie County.
New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul called the storm ‘one of the worst in history,’ and while Buffalo has been especially hit by it, its scope stretches far beyond the Empire State.
A car drives through blowing snow in Amherst, New York in the Buffalo region of the state
The storm brought a daily record snowfall of 22.3 inches descended on the city Friday
And visibility is extremely limited in the storm. causing dangerous driving conditions
The storm has stretched from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico.
About 60 percent of the US population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, the National Weather Service said.
The Bills will hope the extreme weather subsides before their scheduled trip to Cincinnati to face the Bengals on January 2.
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