Over the weekend, Storm Jonas has dumped loads of the stuff up and down the eastern coast of the United States causing widespread disruption.
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The storm is hitting the major metropolitan areas hard, with up to 30 inches predicted in Washington, D.C. and 12-24 inches expected to fall in New York City by late Saturday. And, judging from these two lads in Washington DC whose first thought was to, of course, have a cup of tea, outside, in the snow storm, it’s not a bother to us.
The 3-plus feet of snow that fell on West Virginia sounds like a lot, but it might be hard to visualize that much snow.
Due to the storm, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo shutdown the “City That Never Sleeps” by issuing a travel ban Saturday afternoon that prevented all motorists outside of emergency vehicles from driving in New York City and Long Island.
New York City buses and certain subways were also closed to the public.
Meanwhile, a 23-three-year-old mother named Sashalynn Rosa and her one-year-old son died of carbon monoxide poisoning while sitting in a running vehicle that had its tailpipe covered in snow.
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According to the NWS, more than 80 million people were in the path of Jonas, which forced the cancellation of more than 8,000 flights nationwide. Typically the snow acts as more of a sound suppressor, too, so you can’t really hear the thunder from same distance you would if you were standing in a regular thunderstorm.
