Biden Sending Federal Aid as New York Digs Out From Huge Snowstorm

Biden Sending Federal Aid as New York Digs Out From Huge Snowstorm
Cars drive through blowing, drifting snow on McKinley Parkway in Hamburg in Erie County, N.Y., on Nov. 20, 2022. Mark Mulville/The Buffalo News via AP
The Associated Press
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BUFFALO, N.Y.—President Joe Biden is sending federal aid to western New York to help state and local authorities clean up from the massive storm that dumped as much as 6 feet (1.8 meters) of snow in western and northern New York, the White House announced Monday.

The emergency declaration authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief in 11 counties hit by the lake-effect snowstorm Friday and Saturday.