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U.S. NEWS Saturday 3 March 2018

Nor’easter grounds flights, halts trains along East Coast

Continued from Front “I’ve never seen anything
like that,” the 50-year-old
In New Jersey, a downed resident said. “The Harbor-
tree that hit overhead wires master was down there
and suspended some New with police, and they didn’t
Jersey Transit commuter know what to do.”
service. WFXT-TV caught sub-
The storm knocked out merged cars in Quincy,
power to 700,000 homes Massachusetts, south of
and businesses from Michi- Boston, as residents ignored
gan to North Carolina. police urgings to remain
More than 100,000 custom- off roads. Police rescued
ers lost power in Washing- many people in partially
ton alone. The federal gov- submerged and trapped
ernment all offices in the cars.
area for the day. The Smith- Massachusetts Gov. Char-
sonian museums also shut lie Baker activated 200 Na-
its doors. Pennsylvania utili- tional Guard members to
ties report at least 65,000 help with the storm.
outages in that state. “We’re expecting to see
The poweroutage.us web- more severe flooding is-
site, which tracks utilities sues here than we did in
across the nation, reported People stand at the entrance to a pizza shop as water floods a street, in Scituate, Mass., Friday, the Jan. 4 storm,” when a
early Friday afternoon that March 2, 2018. A major nor’easter pounded the East Coast on Friday, packing heavy rain and nor’easter lashed the re-
Pennsylvania was the hard- strong winds as residents from the mid-Atlantic to Maine braced for coastal flooding. gion with heavy snow and
est hit state with more than (AP Photo/Steven Senne) rain, he said.
292,700 homes and busi- the 130 cows of her dairy Cuomo issued a travel ad- the area, making roads im- The weather service said
nesses without electricity. farm in a barn powered by visory for all areas north of passable and turning park- all of Rhode Island was un-
The front edge of the storm a generator hooked up to New York City, requesting ing lots into small ponds. der flood and high wind
dumped up to a foot of a tractor. Stewart lost pow- limited travel due to dan- The Boston Globe reports watches through Sunday
snow on northeast Ohio, er Thursday night. Hornell gerous driving conditions. 1,855 people alerted Scitu- morning. A truck toppled
with strong winds lead- has gotten more than 14 Flooding was reported ate officials that they had over on the Newport Pell
ing to power outages and inches of snow in the past along a large swath of evacuated. Bridge due to high winds,
school closings. Portions of day. the East Coast, with coast- On the very tip of Cape prompting officials to close
New York also saw more “The snow is pretty wet and al Massachusetts seeing Cod, Provincetown resi- all major bridges in Rhode
than a foot of snow Thurs- heavy. It’s taken down a among the worst. In Sci- dent Andy Towle took vid- Island to commercial ve-
day night, downing power lot of lines,” Stewart said. tuate, Massachusetts, of- eo of a 50-foot fishing boat hicles, including school
lines. “There’s more snow than ficials asked residents in breaking free from its moor- buses. A trailer also tipped
In the Western New York I’ve seen in quite a few flooded areas to evacu- ing, beginning to tip onto over on New York’s Zappan
town of Hornell, 30-year-old years.” ate. Waves higher than the rocks of the breakwa- Zee Bridge, snarling traffic
Anna Stewart was milking New York Gov. Andrew two-story houses battered ter. for hours.q

John Kelly: I have ‘nothing to even consider resigning over’

By CATHERINE LUCEY “cover ourselves in glory” view mirror, Kelly still was later, Kelly said, he learned accurate as it represented
Associated Press in its response to allega- clearly intent on clarifying there was also an accusa- my relationship,” Kelly said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — De- tions against former staff his role in how the matter tion of physical abuse. At The White House did not
fending himself weeks after secretary Rob Porter. Porter was handled. that point, Kelly said, he announce Porter was leav-
the fact, White House Chief resigned last month over Offering his own version of made sure that Porter was ing until a press briefing the
of Staff John Kelly on Friday reports that he had abused events, Kelly told reporters out. Originally, the White following afternoon.
insisted he had done “noth- two ex-wives. The episode he first learned of the alle- House put out statements “We didn’t cover ourselves
ing to even consider resign- at one point seemed to put gations against Porter on defending Porter, including in glory in terms of how we
ing over” in his handling of Kelly’s job in jeopardy and Feb. 6, after inquiries from one from Kelly. Kelly said he handled that,” Kelly said. “It
domestic abuse allega- raised questions about who journalists. Kelly said those provided a statement of was confusing.”
tions against a former top at the White House had ac- first queries focused on an support for Porter after he Kelly described himself as
aide by the staffer’s two ex- cess to top-secret informa- allegation of “emotional heard only the first accusa- shocked by the alleged
wives. tion. abuse” from one woman. tion. abuse, saying he had
Kelly did allow that the Weeks later, with the Porter He said he then spoke to “At that point in time, I viewed Porter as the “ulti-
White House team did not matter largely in the rear- Porter, who resigned. Hours thought the statement was mate gentleman.” q