She asked residents to do their part by using common sense.
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As the winter storm surged through the east coast, about 85 million residents across a dozen states were affected, as residents were told to remain within their homes and off the roads to keep themselves safe.
Along the mid-Atlantic coast, water swept into some communities in New Jersey and Delaware.
The winter storm, which was informally named Jonas by the Weather Channel, was expected to dump as much as 30 inches of snow over the weekend of January 23 and January 24.
Along with all of New York City, the Blizzard Warning is posted for coastal portions of Northeast New Jersey and Long Island.
“I heard commotion out my window and I looked and I saw the raging water”, he said. “It came in to the low-lying areas and it rushed fast”.
“This is going to be one of those generational events, where your parents talk about how bad it was”, Ryan Maue, a meteorologist for WeatherBell Analytics, said from Tallahassee, Florida, which also got some flakes.
“Some of our guys out there, they want to be Superman”, Rawlings-Blake said. “Some areas I would say it’s thigh- to waist-deep”.
In North Wildwood, the high tide was much higher than anticipated and caught numerous town’s 5,000 year-round residents off guard – with flooding levels that exceeded those during Sandy, said Patrick Rosenello, the city’s mayor.
“I knew people would be cooped up in their houses and wanting to come outside”, said Brazell, who was beaned by multiple blasts of perfectly soft but firm snow.
Most of West Virginia’s emergency operations centers Sunday were “transitioning back to normal operations”, said Jimmy Gianato, the state’s homeland security director. Rosenello said Saturday’s flooding “devastated” the dune system.
Tom Aloi, who works in construction management, was at Chicago O’Hare trying to get back to New York City after a business trip to Germany.
The transit system and most roadways were reopened, and the governor said only 300 auto accidents were reported during the storm, a low figure given the storm’s severity. Officials have cited a higher collective death toll, but CNN has not been able to confirm the individual reports and it’s unclear if all reports of death are related to weather. Douglas Fink said he and his wife were getting ready to go inside the barn to feed the cows when the roof buckled.
Cuomo warned his state’s elderly to be especially careful shoveling snow.
The blizzard was the second-biggest snowstorm in New York City history, with 26.8 inches (68 cm) measured in Central Park by midnight on Saturday, just shy of the record 26.9 inches (68.3 cm) set in 2006, the National Weather Service said.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday would be a major cleanup day. Jomel Nichols, a tourist from Kansas City, Missouri, accompanying three exchange students and her daughter, was plastered with snow. Tian Tian, the giant panda, seemed to enjoy it. Washington officials said the city has applied for federal disaster relief to help pay for the snowstorm’s costs, which they did not estimate.
“With little ones the cabin fever is really strong”, she said.
More than 4,400 flights were canceled, airports in New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore ground to a halt, the United States capital shut down transport and America’s most populous city banned travel.
In central Kentucky, some drivers were stranded along a 35-mile stretch of Interstate 75 for as long as 19 hours, from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning.
And as many as 200 vehicles got stuck on I-77 in West Virginia, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. In the Washington area, Reagan National Airport tweeted that it saw its first flights today, and Dulles International Airport expected to resume flights late in the day. resumed at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport on Sunday. Metro trains will begin limited service starting at 7 a.m. on Monday.
Officials in NY planned to lift a travel ban today, restoring access to roads throughout the city, and in Long Island and New Jersey.
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All roads, bridges, tunnels, buses and airports had reopened, Cuomo said.
