Hurricane-force wind battered the US east coast, flinging heavy snow that cancelled flights and made travel treacherous or impossible, flooded coastlines and left bitter cold in its wake.
thrashed parts of 10 states, with blizzard warnings that stretched from Virginia to Maine. Philadelphia and New York saw plenty of wind and snow, but Boston was in the crosshairs. The city could get more than 61 centimetres of snow by the time it moves out early Sunday.Winds gusted as high as 134km/h on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. More than 45 centimetres of snow had fallen by midafternoon on part of Long Island in New York, while Bayville, New Jersey, had 48 centimetres.
In Boston, Dominic Torre was out driving his snow dump truck since the storm began overnight, picking up loads of plowed snow from the streets of and dumping it in unused parking lots known as “snow farms.” It was about time for such a big storm, he said.“You know, we were overdue,” he said. “It’s pretty hairy, you know, a lot of snow. A lot of snow, a lot of trips, a lot of loads. And it ain’t over yet. It ain’t done yet.
The storm had two saving graces: dry snow less capable of snapping trees and tearing down power lines, and its timing on a weekend, when schools were closed and few people were commuting. New York Governor Kathy Hochul advised people to stay home and warned of below-zero windchills after the storm passes. The state had declared a state of emergency Friday evening.
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