Στις μεσοδυτικές πολιτείες και κυρίως στο Σικάγο σχολεία έχουν κλείσει ενώ υπάρχουν και προειδοποιήσεις για όσους κυκλοφορούν στο δρόμο. Τουρίστες από την Αλάσκα δήλωναν μάλιστα στο CNN, ότι αυτή την εποχή δεν έχουν δει ούτε εκεί τόσο χιόνι. Μόνο την Κυριακή στην πόλη έπεσε τόσο χιόνι, όσο έπεσε συνολικά όλο τον Ιανουάριο.
Στη Βοστώνη ούτε τα εκχιονιστικά δεν μπορούσαν να βοηθήσουν την κατάσταση, ενώ στη Μασαχουσέτη μία γυναίκα έχασε τη ζωή της καθώς χτυπήθηκε από ένα όχημα.
Άλλα 4 άτομα σκοτώθηκαν σε τροχαίο στη Νεμπράσκα, ενώ ένας αστυνομικός έχασε τη ζωή του στο Οχάιο ενώ φτυάριζε το χιόνι έξω από το σπίτι του.
Snow smashes northeastern U.S. for second time in week
(Reuters) - A
record breaking winter storm walloped the northeastern United States on
Monday, burying Boston to force the delay of its Super Bowl victory
parade and leaving behind more than a foot (30 cm) of snow in the
Chicago area.
The second major storm
in less than a week pummeled residents from New York City to Boston
with snow, freezing rain and gusty winds, and was blamed for at least
four deaths.
Boston,
already blanketed by two feet (60 cm) of snow from a blizzard last week
and predicted to get another foot, set a record for the snowiest
seven-day period in the city's history. The 34.2 inches (86.8 cm)
measured by 1 p.m. on Monday surpassed the 31.2 inches (79.2 cm) set in
January 1996.
Heavy
snowfall expected to last until about midnight prompted Mayor Marty
Walsh to postpone by one day until Wednesday the parade to celebrate the
New England Patriots' 28-24 win over the Seattle Seahawks in Sunday's
National Football League championship game. The snow also delayed until
Wednesday jury selection for the federal trial of the accused Boston
Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
About
2,900 flights were canceled at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport,
Newark Liberty International Airport, Boston Logan International Airport
and New York's LaGuardia Airport, according to Flightaware.com.
In
the Boston suburb of Weymouth, a snow plow struck a woman, identified
as Cynthia Levine, 57, as she walked through the parking lot of her
condominium complex, killing her, police said.
The
death of a dining hall worker at the University of Connecticut who
spent overnight storm duty in a dormitory dining room also was linked to
the weather. The state medical examiner was conducting an autopsy,
university officials said.
Two
other people were killed on Monday in a highway accident in Indiana,
police said. They said hazardous road conditions caused by the storm may
have been a contributing factor.
Snow
and ice in New York City, where as much as 6 inches (15 cm) of snow was
forecast, caused a crowded subway train to stall on an elevated stretch
of track.
So many
workers - 36 percent of staff - failed to make it to the Cook County
Jail in Chicago that it was put on lockdown, limiting visitation for the
9,000 inmates typically housed there, Sheriff Tom Dart said.
NO HELP FROM THE GROUNDHOG
Snow-weary
residents could take little comfort from groundhog Punxsutawney Phil,
who emerged from his burrow on Monday morning in western Pennsylvania
and saw his shadow. According to legend, seeing his shadow means six
more weeks of winter.
The
National Weather Service (NWS) warned residents of Massachusetts,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island and northern Connecticut to
expect as much as a foot (30 cm) of fresh snow from the potent storm.
Plowing crews in Maine, where nearly three feet (90 cm) of snow fell last week, struggled to cope with the accumulation.
The
NWS warned of dangerous wind chills through the coming days. "Bitterly
cold weather will settle in behind this system from the Upper Midwest to
New England," it said.
The
storm, which dropped more than 19 inches (48 cm) of snow at O'Hare
airport, prompted some Chicago residents to use the traditional "dibs"
system to reserve dug-out parking spaces with lawn chairs, laundry
baskets or other household items.
“You have to. You put time in, and time is money," said plumber Keith Glover, 32.
If someone were to move his markers and take his spot, he said, “I’d bury the car in snow. Then they can dig it out.”
(Additional reporting by Jonathan Allen and Barbara Goldberg in New York, Richard Weizel in Connecticut, Mary Wisniewski, Fiona Ortiz and Christine Stebbins in Chicago, Elizabeth Daley in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, Dave Sherwood in Bowdoinham, Maine and Tim McLaughlin in Boston; Editing by Will Dunham and Grant McCool)
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