BOSTON: People from New York City to Maine awoke Saturday to half a foot (15 cm) of snow, and forecasters warned that it could be more than four times as powerful Nor’easter kick blinding blizzard conditions with high winds and vast potential power outages and coastal flooding.
Part of the 10 states and several major population centers – Philadelphia, New York and Boston – are in the path of the storm, which is expected to rage throughout the day.
Airlines canceled more than 4,500 flights in some of the nation’s busiest airports, according to FlightAware.
Amtrak suspended or restricted to the corridors Boston-to-Washington.
In West Hartford, Connecticut, tractor-trailer jackknifed on the slippery snow Interstate 84, closing some lanes westbound.
Officials from Virginia to Maine warning people to stay off the roads in the midst of potential whiteout conditions.
The storm’s saving grace: It hit at the weekend, with schools closed and some of the passengers.
Rhode Island, all of whom were under blizzard warnings, banning all non-emergency road trip started 8:00.
“This is serious.
We are ready for this storm, and we also need to Rhode Islands ready,” said Governor Dan McKee.
“The best way to handle this storm is to stay at home tomorrow.” Delaware allowed personnel only important to drive in two of the three counties it.
Massachusetts, where forecasters said some insulated bag can get as much as 30 inches (76 cm) of snow, banned heavy trucks on interstate highways for most of Saturday.
Buyers crowded stores Friday to stock up on food, a generator and a snow blower in front of the Nor’easter that type of storm is so named because the wind usually blows from the northeast due to turbulent up the east Coast.
Many hardy New Englanders took the storm in stride.
Dave McGillivray, race director for Boston Marathon, jokingly invite the public to house a suburb of Boston on Saturday to shovel snow free clinic.
“I will give you the driveway and several footpaths to make sure your training is done in most situations of human life,” he said.
Marc Rudkowski, 28, buy French bread and wine Friday at Star Market in Cambri dge, Massachusetts, along with balloons and toys for dogs, who turned 1 on Friday.
“He would love it,” said Rudkowski.
‘He is a dog of snow.
“But there is some concern about the accumulation in the middle of the supply chain issues in progress caused by the pandemic.
New England supermarket giant Stop & Shop pleading with customers to practice restraint.” We ask the buyer to buy what they need and save some for their neighbors, “the chain said in a statement Section 10 states were under blizzard warning ..
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey , Delaware, Maryland and Virginia area closest to the coast are expected to bear the brunt of the storm, which could bring wind gusts as high as 70 mph (113 kph) in New England.
coastal New Jersey is expected to get as much as 18 inches (46 cm) of snow and east Long Island up to 17 inches (43 cm), Philadelphia, New York City, and part of the Delmarva Peninsula in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia bis a gain of 10 inches (25 cm) or more.
Virginia, where this month’s blizzard stranded hundreds of motorists for hours on Interstate 95, do not hesitate to get resources at the ready.
In Maryland, the governor mobilize the National Guard.
Washington and Baltimore to avoid the worst of the storm.
The snow could fall as fast as 5 inches (about 13 cm) per hour in places, including Connecticut, where officials worry about having enough snowplough driver amid shortages caused by a coronavirus pandemic and other issues.
The worst of the storm is expected to blow Sunday morning to Canada, where some provinces are under alert.
One saving grace, at least in parts of Massachusetts: The snow should fall light and flaky because it comes with cold weather dries up, said Yehuda Cohen, an expert on winter storms to commercial enterprises Atmospheric Environmental Research.
That means bad snowball – and snow are less capable of snapping branches of trees and tearing down power lines.