Harsh winter still wreaking havoc in US
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THE unusually grim winter in the US northeast showed no sign of relenting yesterday, after Washington DC and nearby states were blanketed by some of the heaviest snows of the season.
Just three days before the arrival of spring, the US capital was hit by more than 15 centimeters of snow, which once again shut down schools and federal and local government.
Air transit tracker flightaware.com said that around 550 flights had been canceled and another 600 delayed.
The brutal winter is creating havoc with preparations for traditional warm weather rituals, such as the start of the baseball season this month.
It has also caused so much disruption to academic calendars that some school districts plan to trim spring or summer holidays to make up the shortfall in instruction days.
While the latest snowfall hit the east coast, the harsh winter weather has affected much of the United States.
The National Weather Service said, for instance, that the western town of Billings, Montana, this year received the second-largest amount of snow since it began keeping records.
Melting snow there has created massive “ice jams” and is causing rivers to overflow their banks.
Meanwhile, the northern city of Detroit, which also had near-record snowfall this year, is rushing to scrape away the effects of a wintry blast last week.
Officials there, and elsewhere around the United States, hope to clear away the snow in time to re-sod baseball diamonds in time for the professional sport’s season openers in about two weeks’ time.
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