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Nor’easter Grounds Flights, Halts Trains Along East Coast

By SARAH BETANCOURT
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — A relent-
less nor’easter pounded
the Atlantic coast with
hurricane-force winds
and sideways-blown rain
and snow Friday, flooding
streets, grounding flights,
stopping trains and leaving
hundreds of thousands of
people without power from
North Carolina to Maine.
Airlines canceled more
than 2,800 flights, mostly
in the Northeast. LaGuar-
dia Airport in New York
City grounded all flights,
and John F. Kennedy,
also in the city, grounded
all but a few departures.
The Eastern Seaboard was
hammered by wind gusts
exceeding 50 mph, with
possible winds of 80 to 90
mph on Cape Cod. Hur-
ricane-force winds of 78
mph were reported off of
Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
Powerful winds forced Pres-
ident Donald Trump to fly A car drives down a snowy road in Pittsfield, Mass., Friday, March 2, 2018. A major nor’easter is combining with high tide to cause
out of Dulles International flooding along coastal areas of the Eastern Seaboard.
Airport on Friday instead (Ben Garver/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)
of Joint Base Andrews in ly aligned with the gusty the funeral of the Rev. Billy storm spun eastward. Bos- suspended service along
Maryland, where Air Force winds that were kicked up Graham. The impact of ton south to Rhode Island the Northeast Corridor,
One is housed. The airport Friday by the nor’easter. the storm was widely felt. was forecast to get 2 to 5 from Washington to Boston.
in Northern Virginia has run- Trump flew to Charlotte, Heavy snow fell in Ohio and inches of snow from the
ways that are more close- North Carolina, to attend upstate New York as the late-winter storm. Amtrak Continued on Page 3