Snow brings chaos to Northeast US
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January 13, 2011, Thursday
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A WINTER storm that shut down much of the southern United States churned up the coast yesterday, dumping wet, heavy snow across the country's northeast, where armies of plows and salt spreaders hit the streets to stem chaos.
In New York, where officials took heavy criticism for slow response to a December 26 blizzard, the morning commute got off to a promising start as plows cleared streets that had been blocked for days by the last storm. Nearly 23 centimeters fell in Central Park, well short of the 51cm that last month's storm dumped on the city - paralyzing much of it.
States further north appeared to be caught off guard by the ferocity of the latest storm. In the state of -Connecticut, nearly 60cm of snow had fallen and it was still coming down. State police responded to about 500 traffic accidents.
Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy, leading the state through what threatened to be his first disaster, ordered a double shift of state police onto highways. "Troopers are going from one stranded vehicle to another," said Lieutenant J. Paul Vance, a department spokesman.
Every flight in and out of Boston's Logan Airport was delayed. In the New York area, LaGuardia Airport canceled 675 flights, Kennedy Airport 300 and Newark Liberty 440.
Officials cautioned motorists to stay off the road along much of the east coast. Heavy snow and gusting winds closed hundreds of schools and businesses in the northeastern corner of the country.
In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said crews would work even harder after criticism of how the city handled the last blizzard, when hundreds of streets went unplowed, subway riders were stranded and medical calls unanswered because ambulances were unable to navigate snowy streets.
In Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, an area paralyzed by last month's storm, all major and side streets were plowed by yesterday morning - although a few cars skidded on the slush.
Snow and ice had already shut down much of the US South, an area that rarely sees much snow, for two days before the storm joined forces with another coming in from the Midwest and swept northward.
In New York, where officials took heavy criticism for slow response to a December 26 blizzard, the morning commute got off to a promising start as plows cleared streets that had been blocked for days by the last storm. Nearly 23 centimeters fell in Central Park, well short of the 51cm that last month's storm dumped on the city - paralyzing much of it.
States further north appeared to be caught off guard by the ferocity of the latest storm. In the state of -Connecticut, nearly 60cm of snow had fallen and it was still coming down. State police responded to about 500 traffic accidents.
Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy, leading the state through what threatened to be his first disaster, ordered a double shift of state police onto highways. "Troopers are going from one stranded vehicle to another," said Lieutenant J. Paul Vance, a department spokesman.
Every flight in and out of Boston's Logan Airport was delayed. In the New York area, LaGuardia Airport canceled 675 flights, Kennedy Airport 300 and Newark Liberty 440.
Officials cautioned motorists to stay off the road along much of the east coast. Heavy snow and gusting winds closed hundreds of schools and businesses in the northeastern corner of the country.
In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said crews would work even harder after criticism of how the city handled the last blizzard, when hundreds of streets went unplowed, subway riders were stranded and medical calls unanswered because ambulances were unable to navigate snowy streets.
In Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, an area paralyzed by last month's storm, all major and side streets were plowed by yesterday morning - although a few cars skidded on the slush.
Snow and ice had already shut down much of the US South, an area that rarely sees much snow, for two days before the storm joined forces with another coming in from the Midwest and swept northward.
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