Hope nobody here is being screwed by this "weather bomb." Looks like some pretty serious shit.
A deadly winter storm crawling up the East Coast clobbered the Northeast on Thursday with blinding blizzard conditions and coastal flooding, which snarled travel and left millions of Americans bracing for potential power failures.
Whiteout conditions were reported from New York City, where snow was falling at a rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour, to New England, where Providence, Rhode Island, was being buried under snow falling at 3 inches per hour.
Islip, New York, on Long Island, had gotten more than 13 inches by late Thursday afternoon, as had parts of New Hampshire.
A deadly winter storm crawling up the East Coast clobbered the Northeast on Thursday with blinding blizzard conditions and coastal flooding, which snarled travel and left millions of Americans bracing for potential power failures.
Whiteout conditions were reported from New York City, where snow was falling at a rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour, to New England, where Providence, Rhode Island, was being buried under snow falling at 3 inches per hour.
Islip, New York, on Long Island, had gotten more than 13 inches by late Thursday afternoon, as had parts of New Hampshire.
- At least five people were confirmed to have died: three in North Carolina and one each in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
- Thousands of flights were canceled or delayed, according to FlightAware. Flights resumed Thursday afternoon at LaGuardia Airport in New York, and they were expected to resume later Thursday night at John F. Kennedy International Airport. In addition, Amtrak said it would operate a modified schedule between New York and Boston.
- Power failures were easing in the South, which the storm blanketed with an extremely rare winter storm. About 9,000 Georgia Power customers were without electricity, but most were expected to have been restored by 10 p.m. ET, the utility said. Almost all service had been restored in South Carolina early Thursday evening, and fewer than 3,000 Florida Power & Light customers remained in the dark. In North Carolina, about 5,000 customers remained without power, down from a peak of about 20,000.
