{"id":297295,"date":"2026-10-01T01:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297295\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:14:24","slug":"erie-county-awarded-more-than-3-2-million-in-federal-funding-for-december-2022-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297295\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County awarded more than $3.2 million in federal funding for December 2022 blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie County is getting more than $3.2 million in federal funding to help cover the cost of responding to the <a data-ylk=\"slk:December blizzard in 2022;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/weather\/severe-weather\/timeline-of-the-wny-blizzard-of-2022-buffalo-niagara\/71-31e533fe-edd2-4201-86c8-2fe678fb784e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">December blizzard in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie County&#8217;s snow totals ranged from 13 inches to over 50. The Buffalo Airport had the highest total with 51.9 inches of snow falling at the National Weather Service Office during that time. <a data-ylk=\"slk:Forty seven people died in that storm;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/news\/local\/a-memorial-held-for-blizzard-victims-weather-community\/71-b2bb1ea1-2dd0-4797-bc83-d1386dc24df1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Forty seven people died in that storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The $3,260,556.21 FEMA award will reimburse over 75% of the county&#8217;s eligible emergency response costs from Dec. 22 through Dec. 31, 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The county had $4.3 million in eligible costs during the storm, including overtime for county employees, emergency materials, rental equipment and contracted emergency response services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The funding will cover more than $779,000 in employee overtime, $113,000 in emergency materials, nearly $67,500 in rental equipment and about $3.4 million in contracted emergency response services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Winter Storm Elliott delivered a devastating blow to Western New York\u2014one that will go down in the history books for its speed and severe impact,&#8221; said Congressman Nick Langworthy (R) in a press release. &#8220;It occurred just days before my swearing-in and one of my first official acts was to make sure that FEMA stepped in to do right by our communities. This $3.2 million in federal funding will cover 75% of the county&#8217;s emergency response costs, providing much needed relief to local property taxpayers. We sadly cannot get back the lives we lost in that storm, but I will always fight to make sure Western New York receives the federal resources it needs to recover and prepare for future emergencies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The emergency response included search and rescue operations, operating an Emergency Operations Center, distributing life-sustaining supplies, maintaining emergency access on public roads, safety inspections and emergency medical care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The funding is part of FEMA&#8217;s disaster declaration for the December 2022 winter storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie County is getting more than $3.2 million in federal funding to help cover the cost of responding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[122786,26030,136,142,138,137,4124,40910],"class_list":["post-297295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-buffalo-airport","tag-emergency-response","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-federal-funding","tag-fema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}