Some 8,500 people turned out on Dec. 16, 2017, to watch the commissioning of the new $440 million USS Little Rock. That now appears to have been the ship’s only bright moment. Not even six years later, the USS Little Rock will be decommissioned on March 31.
The Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, along with the U.S. Coast Guard Station Buffalo, reflects on the Christmas blizzard that left some damages.