Woman trapped in car during snowstorm found dead hours after sending family terrifying video
A HAUNTING last video taken by a woman before she was found dead in her car in a snowstorm has been revealed.
Anndel Taylor, 22, sent the video to her family while she was trapped in her freezing car for 18 hours before her body was found.
Taylor, a student nurse, sent her sisters multiple videos from inside her snow-trapped vehicle in Buffalo, New York right before Christmas.
The young woman was trying to get home from a shift at a Buffalo hospital when she got caught in what some officials have dubbed “the blizzard of the century.”
Video shows Taylor roll down her window to reveal snow more than halfway up the side of the vehicle while more frost continued to blow in the wind, obstructing the vision of objects even a few feet away.
She pans over to another vehicle in the distance, a van that had hazard lights flashing and wheels buried in mounds of snow.
Her sister, Tommie Brown, posted the video along with some concerned words.
“Idk anybody in Buffalo NY, I keep pulling the same s**t up on my phone as if s**t gone change or more ways to find her will be presented,” the worried sister wrote.
“I’m going a little crazy right now! It’s technically been a whole 24 hours and it’s still snowing the same!!! S**t not feeling right!”
Brown continued: “I’m just praying she safe… and she taking this time to rest and get warm… idk what to think right now.”
Taylor was found dead on Christmas Eve after she spent 18 hours trapped in her snow-shrouded car in the storm.
“She was telling my sister that she was scared,” Taylor’s sister Shawnequa Brown told WSOC-TV.
Taylor’s mother, Wanda Brown Steele, said to the outlet: “She called 911 and she was waiting for them.
“The rescue people told her that everything that was trying to get out and help was also getting stuck,” she told the New York Post.
The young woman moved back to Buffalo from Charlotte, North Carolina to help care for her sick father, family said.
She told her sisters in a final heartbreaking message that she planned to get some sleep while she waited for help.
She was going to try to get to safety on foot if nobody found her by the time she woke up, according to her family.
“That’s when they busted open the window and seen that she was in there,” her mother told WSOC-TV.
Steele believes her daughter died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
She said: “The car was running, and the snow was still coming, so it blocked the pipes, the exhaust pipe.
“Then after the car cut off, that’s when she iced up.”
Steele said a volunteer from the group The Buffalo Blizzard reached her daughter’s car and FaceTimed the family.
“I saw my baby lying there — she was iced. She was an icicle,” her heartbroken mom said.
The tragedy came just shy of Taylor’s 23rd birthday.
Her sister said that Taylor still has presents under the tree.
“I’m so so so sorry, I would do anything to have been there with you,” Shawnequa Brown wrote.
Family is now working to bring Taylor’s body back to Charlotte and an online fundraiser has been launched.
“It’s so easy to ask yourself, ‘Why, God? Why?’” Taylor’s grandmother Sylvia Taylor said.
“But it’s not always meant for us to know the answer to that.”