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Friday 5 January 2018
Massive storm roars into East Coast; record cold to follow
Continued from Front pre-storm mobilization of A worker with the Times Square alliance clears snow from the pedestrian walkway, Thursday, Jan.
personnel and resources. 4, 2018, in New York’s Times Square. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine
More than 100,000 homes Wind gusts strong enough on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible
and businesses lost power to topple trees and power record-breaking cold.
at some point, depriv- lines were predicted in the
ing many people of heat. Delmarva Peninsula, which (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Connecticut opened more includes parts of Delaware,
than 100 warming centers Virginia and Maryland;
in 34 towns. More than half coastal New Jersey; east-
of the outages — mostly in ern Long Island, New York;
the South — were restored and coastal eastern New
by Thursday afternoon. England. The flight-tracking
The high winds caused site FlightAware reported
coastal flooding from Mas- nearly 5,000 canceled
sachusetts to Maine, over- flights across the United
whelming fishing piers, States. Those included more
streets and restaurants. The than two-thirds of flights in
rising waters also stranded and out of New York City
people in homes and cars. and Boston airports. Rail
The Massachusetts Na- service was affected too.
tional Guard said it helped Amtrak planned to oper-
rescue a woman and her ate a modified schedule
two children from a car between New York and
in Marshfield. Flooding in Boston. Northeast Regional
Newburyport forced evac- Service between Wash-
uations on Plum Island, and ington, D.C., and Newport
the only road from the is- News/Norfolk, Virginia, was
land to the mainland was canceled.
closed, police said. Some people took the
Joe Weatherly, a 40-year- weather in stride.
old artist from Los Angeles, Mark Schoenenberger, a
was in Boston’s Seaport 45-year-old NASA engineer
district, holding his Boston who lives in Norfolk, Virgin-
terrier while searching for a ia, put on his cross country
seafood restaurant. Part of skis so he could make a
the district was flooded. half hour trip to the bagel
“For someone in California, shop for some breakfast for
this is really, really scary. his family. “It’s like ‘Yay, I
Mind blowing,” he said. get to go out,” he said.
“We don’t live in a state The only concern he
where things shut down seemed to have was tele-
with the weather. I’ve just commuting while his kids
never seen this much snow were home from school.
in my life.” But “it’s just noise,” he said.
The high tide in Portland, Waiting just behind the she
Maine, reached 13.79 feet, storm was a wave of brac-
nearly matching the 14.17- ing cold.
feet reported during the National Weather Service
Blizzard of 1978. meteorologist Dan Peter-
Linda Heuman and Amy son said record low tem-
Remensnyder were sup- peratures were predicted
posed to fly to Berlin on for 28 major cities across
Thursday, but the flight was New England, eastern New
canceled. That left them York and the mid-Atlantic
stuck in their home in Provi- states by dawn Sunday.
dence, Rhode Island, with Boston expected a low
no food. So they trekked around minus 11 overnight
through the snow to a gro- Saturday into Sunday. Port-
cery store nearly a mile land, Maine, and Burling-
away.Their plans for the ton, Vermont, could see
rest of the day were simple: minus 16 and 19, respec-
Make soup, do some desk tively, the weather ser-
work and maybe watch a vice said. State and local
movie with popcorn, Re- officials urged people to
mensnyder said. stay home so crews could
Schools, businesses and clear away the snow. There
ferry services in parts of were concerns in Boston
the Canadian coast were and elsewhere that if roads
also shut down. Nova Sco- were not properly cleared,
tia Power said it had more the snow could freeze into
than 1,000 people at the cement-like ice after the
ready in its biggest-ever cold blast arrives.q
