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U.S. NEWSThursday 28 December 2017
Days of shoveling snow, bitter cold ahead for northern US
Continued from Front two hours Tuesday clear-
ing the driveway. “In D.C.,
Meanwhile, Erie was re- Rochelle Carlotti, 28, shovels steps near her home after a record snowfall in Erie, Pa. The National we’d be out of commis-
covering from a storm that Weather Service office in Cleveland says the holiday storm brought 34 inches of snow, an all-time sion for weeks,” Ram said.
brought 34 inches of snow daily snowfall record for Erie. “Things here are pretty
on Christmas Day, smash- much back to normal
ing the all-time daily snow- (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP) now.” She said she was go-
fall record for the Great ing to build a snowman,
Lakes city of 8 inches, and Erie on Christmas Eve to visit began to fall. Ram, who ton, and her father spent but didn’t know where to
26.5 more inches on Tues- her parents just as the snow lives in suburban Washing- five hours on Christmas and start — “where do you put
day. More than 65 inches it?” — and she went out-
have fallen on the city side to clear off the satellite
since Christmas Eve, with dish before falling face first
several more inches falling into the snow, because she
Wednesday as residents couldn’t figure out where
dug out in frigid tempera- the porch ended.
tures. Strong westerly winds “I totally just flew forward
over Lake Erie picked up while my dad laughed at
moisture, developed into me,” Ram said.
snow and converged with In New York, communities
opposing winds, dumping near Lake Ontario’s east-
snow in a band along the ern end, including Red-
shore from Ohio to New field and Boylston, also saw
York, said Zach Sefcovic, a around 5 feet of snow this
National Weather Service week. The storm’s timing
meteorologist in Cleveland. was good, since people
Sabrina Ram, 33, drove into were off the streets and
staying home for Christ-
mas, giving plows more
space to clear streets, of-
ficials said. By Wednesday,
Erie’s roads were relatively
clear, emergency calls
were relatively slow and
the big task was digging
out, Erie County Executive
Kathy Dahlkemper said.
“We’re used to a lot of
snow here in Erie, but this
is unprecedented, the
amount we got,” Dahlkem-
per said.
In Millcreek, outside Erie,
it took Kathleen Palkovic
and her 23-year-old son
two hours to shovel out
so Palkovic could make
it to her waitressing job.
The 5-mile drive to Dave’s
Diner in downtown Erie
took an hour. The 62-year-
old Palkovic and the cook
opened the restaurant at
a little after 6 a.m. in single
digit temperatures.
“We’re dedicated people,
I guess,” Palkovic said.
Something else helped: “It
took 800 milligrams of ibu-
profen after all that to get
me to work.”q
