Bill’s team is greeted by hundreds of brave Rochester fans as they FINALLY head home on Christmas Day after getting stuck in Chicago…Buffalo Airport is closed until Tuesday amid an historic snowstorm that killed at least 25 people across the country Has
- The Bills were stranded in Chicago last night due to extreme weather conditions
- Buffalo has seen record snowfalls and has near-zero visibility in the blizzard
- Bills players were able to return to Rochester, New York on Christmas morning
- They’re hoping for less difficult conditions next week when they play with the Bengals.
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Bills fans moved to Rochester Sunday morning to welcome the team after being forced to stay at home in Buffalo, Chicago, due to extreme weather conditions.
Officials said at Christmas that the Buffalo airport would be closed through Tuesday morning as the area grappled with a storm that has offered record-breaking snowfall and essentially no visibility.
And with the Bills in Chicago, after defeating the Bears 35-13, they couldn’t fly home Saturday night.
Bills fans greeted them as they stepped off the plane in Rochester on Christmas morning
This morning, however, the newly crowned AFC East champions made it (almost) home, where fans greeted them in Rochester as they stepped off the plane.
From there, it’s just over an hour’s drive back to Buffalo.
A record daily snowfall of 22.3 inches fell in the city on Friday, according to the National Weather Service, while 43 inches of snow fell at Buffalo Niagara International Airport as of 7 a.m. Sunday.
A tree hangs over the intersection of West Delavan Avenue and Bidwell Parkway in Buffalo
The storm has brought tremendous amounts of snowfall to the area, bringing visibility to almost zero
Two people died at their homes in suburban Cheektowaga, New York, on Friday when emergency workers could not reach them in time to treat their conditions, and another died in Buffalo.
Four more deaths were confirmed overnight, bringing the Erie County total to seven.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called the storm “one of the worst in history,” and while Buffalo was particularly hard hit, its scope extends well beyond the Empire State.
A car drives through snow in Amherst, New York in the state’s Buffalo region
The storm brought a record daily snowfall of 22.3 inches across the city on Friday
And visibility is extremely limited in a storm. create hazardous driving conditions
The storm has spread from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico.
About 60 percent of the U.S. population faced some type of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures dropped drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachian Mountains, the National Weather Service said.
The Bills are hoping the extreme weather will ease before their scheduled trip to Cincinnati to face the Bengals on Jan. 2.