NYC
mayor warns people in storm's path: "Prepare for the Worst"
CBS,
25
January, 2015
NEW
YORK -
Mayor Bill deBlasio said Sunday that a major winter storm could among
the worst the city has ever seen.
"We
are facing most likely one of the largest snow storms in the history
of this city," said DeBlasio at a press conference. "Don't
underestimate this storm."
The
National Weather Service has a blizzard warning in effect for the New
York and Boston areas starting Monday night. Forecasters say a
massive storm could drop two to three feet of snow from northern New
Jersey to southern Connecticut.
Boston
is expected to get 18 to 24 inches of snow, and Philadelphia could
see 14 to 18 inches.
"This
will be the strongest storm of the year," National Weather
Service meteorologist Brian Hurley told
CBS New York.
"This Nor'easter is going to produce a wide swath of snowfall."
De
Blasio held up a piece of paper showing the city's top 10 snowstorms
and said this one could land at the top of a list that goes back to
1872, including the 26.9 inches that fell in 2006.
"Don't
underestimate this storm. Prepare for the worst," he said as he
urged residents to plan to leave work early Monday.
The
storm, with blizzard-like conditions could drop a foot or more of
snow across most parts of the Northeast as they gear up for the
workweek right after the
first real storm of the winter hit
them with rain, several inches of snow and messy slush.
A
storm system diving out of the Midwest has the potential to slowly
coat from Philadelphia up to Massachusetts and Maine with snow
beginning late Sunday night into Monday and intensifying greatly well
into Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.
"There's
the potential for a significant snowstorm to impact the entire
Northeast U.S.," meteorologist Patrick Maloit said.
CBS
New York reports some
isolated areas on Long Island could see up to 2 feet of snow.
Tri-State
area residents could expect to see light snowfall Monday morning. It
will intensify throughout the day, with 1 to 3 inches having fallen
by dusk.
The
brunt of the storm will then move in Monday night.
Airlines
are preparing to shut down operations along the East Coast as a major
snowstorm packing up to three feet of snow barrels down on the
region. Around 700 flights scheduled for Monday are expected to be
cancelled, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.
Most
major airlines are allowing customers whose flights are canceled in
the next few days to book new flights without paying a penalty.
Customers ticketed on flights to at least two dozen Eastern airports
are generally eligible for the allowance, though specific terms vary
by airline.
The
storm, which brewed late Saturday around the Iowa-Minnesota line, is
likely to track down into the central Appalachians and then very
slowly traverse its way through the Northeast states and reach the
Gulf of Maine late Tuesday night, he said. The slow movement of the
storm, he said, could help produce quite a bit of snowfall and
blizzard-like or blizzard conditions: at least three hours of wind
gusts of 35 mph or greater and visibility of less than a quarter of a
mile because of snow or blowing snow.
The
storm could stall before it tracks out to sea, bringing high wind,
heavy precipitation and the potential for coastal flooding, the
National Weather Service said. It would be the second wallop for the
Northeast after what happened
Saturday, when a storm crawling up the
East Coast left a slushy, snowy coating from Pennsylvania to New
England.
Connecticut
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned residents there to take the necessary
precautions to protect themselves from the effects of the storm.
"Although
storms can be unpredictable, this storm has the potential to have a
significant impact on the state and we need to be prepared,"
Malloy said. "Just as the state is monitoring and preparing, the
public should do the same."
What appears to be a huge snowstorm in Central Park in New York on January 14, 2015, is actually workers making artificial snow in preparation for the annual Winter Jam.
TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The
storm dumped at least 9 inches of snow in parts of Pennsylvania and 8
inches in parts of New York, northern New Jersey and northwestern
Connecticut, with widespread reports of more than 4 inches in inland
areas across southern New England. Lighter amounts were reported in
Philadelphia, Boston and New York City, where the snowfall stopped
Saturday evening.
About
8 inches of snow fell in far eastern Maine before the storm moved out
late Saturday night.
Numerous
accidents were reported on the slick roads, but there were no major
highway backups in the lighter weekend traffic. Police in Connecticut
and Massachusetts were investigating the weather's role in traffic
accidents that killed two people Saturday afternoon.
In
suburban New York, a man chased his dog onto ice covering a lake and
they both fell through it. Police used a ladder to pull the man out
of Massapequa Lake to safety and rescued his shivering dog as well.
The man was treated at a hospital for hypothermia, a dangerously low
body temperature.
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mayor: Snowstorm could be worst ever
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