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Tens of millions hunker down to ride
The monster storm has already killed 11 people along the East Coast with conditions expected to worsen throughout the day. Forecasters said strong winds would push high tides inland. Once it gets to the Gulf Stream, “that’s when the firecracker goes off”. Monuments, normally teeming with tourists, were largely deserted.
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A powerful storm is barrelling toward Washington, threatening to bury parts of the Middle Atlantic region under deep snow and bring the nation’s capital to a virtual standstill. He also announced a ban on all travel on New York City area roads, as well as Long Island, except for emergency vehicles, as of 2:30 p.m. EST (1930 GMT).
– Philadelphia is suspending much of its public transportation for Saturday. Light snow is possible late Friday and early Saturday.
Before ending sometime on Saturday, it could leave about 60cm of snow.
One in seven Americans will get at least half a foot of snow outside their homes when this weekend’s big storm has finished delivering blizzards, gale-force winds, whiteout conditions and flooding to much of the eastern United States.
Eleven states from Georgia to NY declared states of emergency. Virginia state police tweeted that they responded to 989 crashes and 793 disabled vehicles across the state Friday.
About 150,000 customers in North Carolina and 90,000 homes in New Jersey lost electricity in the storm on Saturday. More than 140,000 of them are in the Carolinas.
About 85 million people are in the storm’s path.
Dani Garner, her three children, her husband and her mother-in-law were among those stuck on I-75, with long lines of similarly stranded cars and trucks in front of and behind her. Luckily, Garner and her family had gas in their tank and could run the heater. “I wish I could get there, but I can’t”.
“They’re slipping and sliding all over the place”, said Kentucky State Police Trooper Lloyd Cochran – as soon as one wreck was cleared, other cars slammed into each other, causing gridlock for hours on interstate highways. In North Carolina, a man whose auto had veered off an icy-covered road was arrested on charges of killing a motorist who stopped to help.
Snow is expected to keep falling until late Saturday or early Sunday morning. Before it’s all over, it could cause more than US$1 billion in damage, NWS officials said.
AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said Washington’s snowfall could eclipse the “Snowmageddon” storm of 2010 that dropped 45cm. “It’s pretty thick. This is an all new experience for us”.
“There is never too much snow on the slopes”, said Joe Stevens, spokesman for the West Virginia Ski Areas Association.
The outlook? Snow. Lots and lots of snow.
Through noon Saturday, the forecast shows snowfall rates could potentially reach 10 inches every six hours, according to Chris Geldart of the District of Columbia’s emergency management agency.
Snow blanketed the East Coast starting Friday night and extending into Saturday, with Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area getting hit hardest.
New York City is just inside the storm’s sharp northern edge, which means it is likely to see heavy accumulations, but Boston will probably get off easy this time, forecasters said.
From Virginia to NY, sustained winds topped 30 miles per hour and gusted to around 50 miles per hour, Burke said.
Snow plows drive down the street as the blizzard Jonas begins in Washington, DC.
“I’m not going to make that mistake again”, she said. “People should hunker down, shelter in place and stay off the roads”.
“Sick people will come in today”, she said. “This is a unsafe storm”.
As the storm’s impact widens as it moves north, power outages are expected to soar.
Most airports in the Mid-Atlantic virtually were shut down.
The ripple effect extended to Los Angeles International Airport, with 86 cancelled arriving and departing flights, according to CNN. Another 1,235 flights were canceled for Sunday. All mass transit was to be shut down through Sunday. The railroad cut service for the weekend south of Washington, D.C., to locations in Virginia and the Southeast, and said many trains running to and from the East Coast were either canceled or truncated.
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To top it off, the winter storm has forced the postponement of hundreds of events – including National Basketball Association games in Philadelphia and Washington, plus an NHL contest in the nation’s capital and a rally for the Carolina Panthers ahead of their NFC professional football championship in Charlotte.