Residents of the American northeast are digging themselves out after being completely buried — a phenomenon that is being widely blamed on World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Chief Operating Officer Triple H.

“We were doing fine, then suddenly, blammo, buried,” said New York resident Pete McClusky.

“I don’t know what we did to piss off Triple H, but it must have been bad.”

The WWE executive, known formally as Hunter Hearst Helmsley, is notorious for “burying” anyone those who fail to meet his expectations, as millions of Americans, and countless mid-card wrestlers, evidently have.

“I feel your pain, America,” tweeted WWE Superstar Dolph Ziggler, himself a frequent victim of Helmsley’s penchant for burial. #Buried4Life.”

Triple H denies any responsibility for the burial — and so, incidentally, does Snitsky.