Northeast US digs out from snow
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The US Northeast struggled to dig out of a winter storm yesterday that swirled up the coast, disrupting government work in Washington and leaving behind bitter cold that sapped fuel supplies.
The huge storm stretched from Kentucky to New England but hit hardest along the heavily populated East Coast between Philadelphia and Boston. Snow began falling at midmorning on Tuesday in Philadelphia and dumped as much as 35 centimeters by yesterday morning, with New York seeing almost as much. Manalapan in New Jersey, had the highest snowfall reading with nearly 40 centimeters.
The storm, which dropped more than 25 centimeters of snow in parts of Massachusetts, largely spared Boston and areas to the west and north of the city.
Federal workers in Washington who got a snow day on Tuesday were getting a two-hour delay yesterday.
About 3,000 commercial flights were canceled on Tuesday into and out of some of the nation’s busiest airports, including in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. About 1,400 flights were canceled nationwide yesterday, according to according to flight-tracking site flightaware.com.
At New York’s LaGuardia Airport, congested even on a good day, a television monitor displayed a litany of canceled flights. Crowds of people who had been hoping to fly out instead gathered around ticket counters trying to make alternate arrangements.
The storm put a damper on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s inauguration, forcing the cancellation of a Tuesday evening gala on Ellis Island. In Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick postponed his annual State of the State address, saying he was worried about guests trying to get to the statehouse.
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