Joining the fun, Jeffrey Perez got more than half a million views of his own online video, after climbing into a panda suit and rolling around in the snow outside his home in Millersville, Maryland.
Advertisement
With the storm finally tapering off overnight, officials in NY lifted a travel ban at 7:00 am Sunday (1200 GMT), restoring access to roads throughout the city and in Long Island and New Jersey.
“The Sunday morning high tide is higher than [Saturday] evenings”.
“We’re on a pilgrimage”, he said.
The Long Island Rail Road is still halted but the Metro-North railroad is now functional.
After Superstorm Sandy in October of 2012, a dozen power stations were flooded and caused weeks-long outages for hundreds of thousands of Long Islanders.
The sun and rising temperatures in some areas Sunday should aid cleanup efforts, but meteorologists continue to worry about ice, and on the New Jersey coast, flooding is a concern as residents watch rising waters.
But even as United Airlines said limited service might begin later in the afternoon in New York City, airports in the Washington D.C. area were likely to remain closed Sunday, and other airlines started to cut Monday service in addition to the 7,000 already-canceled weekend flights. A blizzard with hurricane-force winds brought much of the East Coast to a standstill Saturday, dumping as much as 3 feet of snow, strandin…
At least 28 deaths were blamed on the weather, first in auto crashes, and then while shoveling snow or breathing carbon monoxide. The entire storm was the second-biggest on record for the city, falling just a tenth of an inch short of one from February 2006.
Among major cities, NY got 26.8 inches in Central Park.
And the storm that dumped as much as 3 feet of snow in places raised flood waters in New Jersey and elsewhere along the Atlantic Coast. The 63cm of snow that fell in New York’s Central Park, was the third highest accumulation since records began in 1869.
“I’ve never seen snow like this”, said Luis Abraham Garcia, a doctoral student from Mexico City, as he trudged along snowy sidewalks with his suitcase.
“We expected a significant coastal storm, but this was historic”, Rosenello said. Got a little bit more than that. And for NY and Washington this looks like top 5, he said.
The state Department of Transportation said it had up to 700 plows in service during the storm. “They won’t allow any cars that aren’t emergency vehicles in the city”, said Noriega.
At least 9,500 flights have been cancelled and citizens were ordered to stay off the roads in some cities and towns. That storm brought record snowfall to Bridgeport.
Appleby said this year, the city enforced parking restrictions and put more plows on streets earlier. With Broadway shows dark, thin crowds shuffled through a different kind of Great White Way, the nickname for a section of the theatre district. And Bruce Springsteen canceled Sunday’s scheduled show at Madison Square Garden.
In Washington the national monuments, Capitol building and Smithsonian museum were all closed. All mass transit in the capital was to be shut down through Sunday.
Chris Courtney, an investment adviser from Fairfax Station, called ahead to confirm he could complete his usual Sunday routine: a coffee and a newspaper.
“I decided, I don’t want to die”, she said before boarding a bus to the YMCA.
Drivers tried their best to free cars that were encased in snow, but often found themselves spinning their wheels as they tried to get on the road. Three people died while shovelling snow in Queens and Staten Island. In North Carolina, a man whose vehicle had veered off an icy-covered road was arrested on charges of killing a motorist who stopped to help.
Snow and sleet also hit the southern states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia – unusual for the region.
The snow was whipped into a maelstrom by winds that reached 75 miles per hour (120 kph) at Dewey Beach, Delaware, and Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, the weather service said. Three of the deaths happened in New York City area.
Advertisement
A nor’easter (also northeaster) is a macro-scale storm along the upper east coast of the U.S. and Atlantic Canada.
