Two high tides have come and gone, but a third is coming Sunday morning, during which forecasters predict more widespread flooding will occur.
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“It is crucial for people to stay off the streets”. “It seems like they move really slow cleaning the snow here”.
“Snow totals have topped 30 inches in at least four states, and at least 12 inches have been recorded at locations in eight states, with many more hours left to the storm”, Nasa said in a statement.
Washington, D.C., was one of many areas on the East Coast hit by a powerful winter storm this weekend. “It’s how it should look like”.
New York was quicker to return to business, with the New York Stock Exchange and the city’s public schools opened as usual. “But we’ve come through it pretty well”, he said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous”. “I think tomorrow is going to be pretty good”.
In the nation’s capital, which is not as adept at handling winter weather as the Big Apple, authorities struggled to get the city back up and running.
The blizzard was the second-biggest snowstorm in New York City history, with 68 cm (26.8 inches) of snow in Central Park by midnight yesterday, just shy of the record 68.3 cm (26.9 inches) set in 2006, the National Weather Service said. Ten people died while shoveling snow in New York, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. In Passaic, N.J., on Sunday, a mother and year-old son watching their family shovel snow from the apparent safety of their auto died of carbon monoxide poisoning; snow blocked the tailpipe.
“We expected a significant coastal storm, but this was historic”, Rosenello said.
In Brooklyn, only one teacher at the Bedford-Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School called out, despite more than two feet of snow across New York City. A state of emergency declared by Cuomo was still in place.
Many homes endured damage that will take months to address, he said, but electricity was being restored Sunday and roads were being cleared.
Washington’s subway resumed limited service on Monday, offering free travel in an effort to encourage the use of mass transit over driving. New Jersey Transit suspended all bus, rail and light rail service early on Saturday. All non-essential trips have been banned in the city, which also had bridges and closed roads.
On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, grocery store shoppers picked their way through brown slush and over compressed snow and ice as they balanced their bags in their hands. Cars parked in neighborhoods were encased in snow, some of it pushed from the streets by plows.
Some evacuations were reported along the New Jersey shore.
Sunday’s brilliant sunshine and gently rising temperatures provided a respite from the blizzard that dropped a record 29.2 inches on Baltimore. The deepest regional total was 106.7 cm (42 inches) at Glengarry, West Virginia.
United Airlines said it would not operate at Washington-area airports on Sunday, and would gradually resume service on Monday. Amtrak modified service on train routes along its busy Northeast Corridor.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser earlier issued a public apology for commuting headaches caused by the blizzard, which locals dubbed “Snowzilla”. “The main roads were fine it was just the secondary roads that were worst”.
For many, the weekend extends into Monday because of closed schools and government offices.
The House of Representatives cancelled its voting until February 1.
Washington recorded 22.4 inches at the National Zoo.
On Sunday, Jan. 24, NY and New Jersey have lifted the travel ban in their cities, restoring transportation services as it prepares to start the workweek.
“After being locked in for a couple of days, it’s fun”, said 33-year-old Laura Lorenzo, taking part in a “Star Wars” themed snowball fight in Washington.
A man walks toward freight trucks waiting out a winter storm at a truck stop near Trenton, New Jersey, January 23, 2016.
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Washington was a dazzling white under a bright sun, and some people, including the occasional cross-country skier, were out in the wintry landscape on Sunday.
