Introduction
It never hit the newspapers, but what happened on that December day in a Buffalo, New York department store when a historic white-out tore down power lines and smothered snow plows like so many shells on a sandy beach, is worth repeating.
Nobody expected snow, nobody wanted snow on that eighth day after an old-fashioned white Christmas, but it came piling in at their doors, an uninvited guest, raising havoc with transportation, ruining holiday plans, and causing a pandemonium unequaled in Buffalo.
So bizarre were the events that followed, it might have passed for a psychological test designed by some wacky human behaviorist, for what happens when fifty-some strangers find themselves snowbound in a department store turned into a hotel with no doors, is
somewhere bordering on hysterical.
Of the stranded storm victims, Mona Bradley, a spoiled, bouncy, five-foot-two buxom blonde, with a coconut tan, fresh from Jamaican beaches, could tell the story best, for it was her vain frivolousness that prompted her demise and shameful infidelities, too scandalous for this introduction.
The Publisher