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U.S. NEWS Thursday 21 February 2019

Storm dumps snow or

heavy rain, snarls travel

in much of U.S.

From Front is not easy, so you expect
the unexpected,” said Sta-
NEW YORK (AP) — A sprawl- cy Flye, trying to get home
ing storm dumped several to Florida. “And you know,
inches of snow from the we knew the weather was
Midwest to the East Coast going to be bad, but some-
and deluged the South times you just have to take
with rain Wednesday as your chances.”
it closed schools, snarled Amtrak made changes
air travel and littered high- to its Keystone service be-
ways with crashes. tween New York and Har-
Only a few inches of snow risburg, Pennsylvania. Mul- A homeowner can only watch from his front door as water levels rise near his house and flood the
fell along the Interstate tiple crashes, including a streets along Evergreen Drive in Saltillo, Mississippi Wednesday, February 20, 2019. Floodwaters
95 corridor from New York jackknifed tractor-trailer, covered roads on Wednesday in parts of eastern Mississippi and northern Alabama.
Associated Press
to Washington, but it was shut down westbound
enough to put a scare into lanes of the Pennsylva-
an area that has seen little nia Turnpike in Lancaster
of it this winter. Schools and County. Farther west, snow
government offices around forced Minneapolis and St.
the region closed early. Paul schools and scores of
New Jersey’s governor other districts in Minnesota
declared a state of emer- and Wisconsin to cancel
gency, even though only 4 classes as up to 10 inches
inches (10 centimeters) of of snow fell on the region.
snow was expected before Schools, businesses and
turning to rain Wednesday government offices in Kan-
night. State and local gov- sas closed or announced
ernment offices in Dela- plans to start late. Several
ware closed early, and so school districts closed in
did local offices in Philadel- Missouri, where officials
phia. But the evening com- said many roads across the
mute started out on a good northern half of the state
note. A spokesperson for were partially or complete-
AAA Mid-Atlantic had said ly snow covered.
earlier in the afternoon it The storm produced heavy
appeared motorists heed- rain and flash floods in parts
ed warnings to stay off of the Deep South. Wa-
roads. Nationwide, more ter covered roads in parts
than 2,200 flights were can- of eastern Mississippi and
celed and more than 5,500 northern Alabama.
were delayed, accord- Creeks swelled in Tennes-
ing to the flight-tracking see, and about 2 inches
website FlightAware. The (5 centimeters) of rain fell
mid-Atlantic region was es- Tuesday and Wednesday
pecially hard hit as airlines at Nashville Internation-
pulled flights ahead of the al Airport. As much as 8
storm. Washington’s Rea- inches (20 centimeters) of
gan National Airport led rain is expected through
the pack. “Travel anymore Saturday.q