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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 5 March 2019

Northeast digs out after storm closes schools, slows commute

Conntinued from Front and her two daughters
played outside their house
“Well, we finally got a good in Arlington. “I feel like
one. We’ve been waiting a March is our month now for
whole winter and it finally snow.” Meanwhile, just 5
came,” said Michael Raab inches (13 centimeters) of
as he used a snow blower slushy snow fell in New York
to clear his driveway in City and quickly began to
the Boston suburb of Ar- melt Monday.
lington, Massachusetts, on The modest totals were
Monday. “The kids were still enough for Democrat-
happy there is a snow day. ic Mayor Bill de Blasio to
I hope we won’t have too close schools, as did hun-
many more of these since dreds of other communities
we’re looking forward to throughout the country im-
the spring.” But, at least in pacted by the storm.
New England, the snowy In parts of Nebraska, dan-
weather isn’t completely gerously cold tempera-
done: more could be on tures prompted closures
the way Friday or Saturday. as wind chill temperatures
That storm is still too early registered as low as 40 be-
to predict, but it shouldn’t low zero (minus 40 Celsius)
be as significant, said Bryce Monday morning.
Williams, a Boston-area me- In the Philadelphia-area, Residents clear snow after an overnight snowstorm dropped nearly a foot of snow, Monday,
teorologist for the National the storm appears to have March 4, 2019, in Marlborough, Mass. Associated Press
Weather Service. contributed to the death
Monday’s storm, which of two teens in a single-car
started Sunday night but accident about 30 miles
hit the hardest in the early (48 kilometers) Sunday eve-
morning hours, was the ning. The driver, a 17-year-
largest storm parts of New old, was hospitalized.
England have seen in a rel- And in New England,
atively quiet winter. nearly 60,000 customers
Boston saw about 10 inch- were without power at the
es of snow, but parts of storm’s peak, though many
Connecticut, Rhode Island of those had their power
and Massachusetts saw restored by the afternoon.
up to 16 inches (41 centi- In the Boston suburb of
meters), according to the Needham, a snowplow
National Weather Service. struck a gas meter at an as-
The Boston-area has now sisted living complex, trig-
registered about 26 inches gering a gas leak and forc-
(66 centimeters) of snowfall ing more than 100 elderly
this season, still below the residents to evacuate. No
region’s average of over injuries were reported and
35 inches (90 centimeters). residents were able to re-
“It just takes one storm and turn after a few hours.
we’re up back close to In northern Maine, a small
where we typically are this regional jet carrying 28
time of year,” said Williams. passengers and three crew
“We caught up quite a bit members slid off a runway
with this one system.” at Presque Island Interna-
New Englanders have tional Airport.
grown accustomed in re- The pilot and three passen-
cent years to seeing winter gers suffered minor injuries,
start slowly and linger past and part of the plane’s
its welcome. landing gear appeared to
“We’re kind of used to it by have been torn away as it
now,” said Tracy Scatter- came to rest in deep snow
day as she shoveled snow Monday morning.q