Hey, we get to turn ours off, too!
Posted on 12/28/2010 9:05:10 AM PST by dragnet2
Washington: The US National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for parts of New York, New Jersey and other states along the east coast of the United States as a major winter storm bears down on the area on Sunday.
A band of frigid weather was snaking up the East Coast on Sunday, promising blizzards and a foot of snow for New York City and New England, while several states made emergency declarations as the storm caused crashes on slick roads.
Heavy snow and blizzards in parts of North Carolina were making driving conditions difficult, and there were dozens of traffic accidents.
North Carolina authorities reported a fatal traffic accident near Charlotte.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol said late on Saturday that most of the roads in and around Asheville were either covered or partially covered with snow and ice.
Columbia, in South Carolina, had its first significant Christmas snow since weather records were first kept in 1887.
Airlines grounded hundreds of flights on Sunday along the Northeast corridor in anticipation of the storm, affecting major airports including New York's John F Kennedy Airport and Newark.
New York City-area airports alone cancelled close to 1,000 flights.
Residents of Secaucus in New Jersey have been buying shovels and sacks of sand in local supermarkets, preparing to fight severe weather conditions.
The Northeast is expected to get the brunt of the storm.
Forecasters issued a blizzard warning for New York City for Sunday and Monday, with a forecast of 11 to 16 inches (28 to 41 centimetres) of snow and strong winds that will reduce visibility to near zero at times.
A blizzard warning was also in effect for Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts including Boston
A blizzard warning is issued when snow is accompanied by sustained winds or gusts over 35 miles-per-hour (56 kilometres-per-hour).
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter declared a snow emergency as of 2 p.m. (and he urged residents to stay off the roads.
In Washington DC, transportation officials treated roads with salt and readied 200 salt trucks and ploughs in preparation for the six inches (15 centimetres) of snow to fall in the Mid-Atlantic region.
In Boston, Mayor Thomas Menino declared a snow emergency that bans parking on all major streets.
By early Sunday, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina had also declared states of emergency.
Amtrak cancelled several of its trains in Virginia.
Nice! You’re warmer than we are. I doubt we are going to go over low 60’s today but 70 tomorrow and mid 70’s through Sunday. This winter is definitely like last winter, a cold one. Darn global warming. :P I spent a month in Chicago one winter. Snow, mud, cloudy almost the entire time. I knew then that I would never leave Florida. California is beautiful and the weather is heavenly, but I’ll never leave the South. It’s home.
Heh. We have skeeters too... Two kinds... the kind that fit through the screen door, and the kind that knock it down...
Wear Avon Skin So soft, they leave you alone.
not here... DEET. Deep Woods OFF!... or a really cheap cigar...
Yeah, my wife could never understand why I would walk off with nothing but a Bowie, tommy, .45 colt, a wad of fishing string/hooks, and the 45/70...
She didn't get it, but I bet you do... :D
Yep. I’d take a flint with me, though.
He's really an arrogant moron....I just don't like that guy..
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter...wow, great name!
Or Snowmageddon?
I don’t like snow.
“You bet...All they had to do was drag the tractor sideways a few feet, away from the parked vehicle, with the tow truck winch...”
The idiot SOB in the front end loader didn’t need a wrecker to begin with. He had four wheel drive and a hydraulic bucket to work with. Obviously not experienced
Snowlapalooza.
Winter in Houston means we get to turn the air conditioning off for a month or so.
I think FB causes are BS but I just had to join yours because I love zombies.
I was thinking the same thing about Vermont.
That’s real purty an all, but you have enough boats in the slips in that image to tell me there are waaay too many people per square mile there for my tastes. Enjoy!
We'll just have to tough it out Joe!
Well, there’s lots of water out there. Just guessing, though, that the land is pretty crowded.
Just the opposite of places like North Dakota...And why their populations are tiny...
Hey, we get to turn ours off, too!
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