As authorities in Buffalo, New York, continue following up on some of the hundreds of calls for help made during and since the historic weekend blizzard – a “grueling, gruesome task” that’s revealed people dead in cars and snowbanks – officials are facing tough questions about their handling of storm preparations and the disaster response.While officials are prepared for flooding with pumps and sandbags on standby, weather advisories suggest “flooding will be minimal,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said.Temperatures are set to rise to about 50 degrees this week, but there is no longer an expectation of significant ice jams and the county has ample supplies and personnel to face flooding, its emergency services chief said.… And if it wasn’t right, then I’m going to have to take responsibility for it.” Poloncarz in turn on Wednesday criticized Buffalo’s mayor’s handling of storm cleanup efforts, saying Brown had not been on daily coordination calls with other municipalities and the city had been slow to reopen.“We will continue to improve, we will continue to work to do better.” When pressed on Poloncarz’s claims that the county had to step in where Buffalo failed, Brown said “he’s wrong.” Poloncarz later said he let his emotions get the best of him and apologized for his criticism of Brown’s response to the storm, adding that he had personally reached out by phone and text to the mayor."