"I was really stressed out," Glick told local news outlet WIVB4. That's when Myron Glick, the founder and CEO of Jericho Road Community Health Center, decided it was time to reach out to a good friend who might be able to help: Scott Bieler, the CEO of West Herr Automotive Group.īieler initially sent a team of electricians and a generator to the shelter on a truck, but, according to Mongo they couldn't make it because the roads were too bad. The shelter had made sure there was enough food for all 150 people staying there and that they all had the medication they needed in case they got stuck inside.īut for the next 27 hours, Vive had no power, leaving its residents cold and in the dark.Īt first, there was an attempt to problem-solve, leading to "three or four iterations of people trying to drive in with four-wheel drive, with high-power vehicles" to bring them a generator, including the company's CFO, who offered his generator for the shelter to use.īut the CFO, and everyone else who tried, quickly got turned around because of the weather. "While you always know that's a possibility, I'm not sure that's the thing that felt most real in our preparations," she said. In the shelter's history, they have never lost power, Mongo said.
Temperatures quickly dropped in the shelter as the windchill outside hit well below zero degrees Fahrenheit and the boiler stopped working without electricity. When a Buffalo, New York, shelter was without power for 27 hours during last week's killer blizzard, its founder phoned a friend for a potentially life-saving favor.įriday's winter storms, which killed at least 27 people, cut the power in Vive Shelter's rundown building just five hours into the deadly storm, Chief Program Officer at Jericho Road Community Health Center Anna Mongo told Insider.
The shelter's founder said they could have been without power longer had the dealership saved them. Vive Shelter was without power for 27 hours after Buffalo was hit by a blizzard. Jericho Road Community Health Center on FacebookĪ car dealer dragged a generator for four hours through the snow to power a shelter in Buffalo, NY. A generator was dragged through a blizzard on a payloader to power a shelter in Buffalo, NY.
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