The first major winter storm in the Northeast dumped as much as 3 feet of snow in places and caused more than 1,000 flight
cancellations.
Another weather system may bring more snow later in the
week, forecasters said.
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“It’s going to be the calm after the storm,” Eleanor
Vallier-Talbot, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service
said in an interview from Taunton, Mass.
At least 14 deaths were tied to the weather: three in
Connecticut, three in Ohio, three in Wisconsin, two in
Pennsylvania and one each in Maryland, Iowa and Massachusetts,
the Associated Press reported Sunday.
Some flights arriving at New York’s John F. Kennedy
International Airport were delayed by an average of almost five
hours, the Federal Aviation Administration said on its Web site.
Snow caused the cancellation of 380 flights at Kennedy, 400
flights at LaGuardia Airport and 454 at Newark Liberty
International Airport, said Alan Hicks, a spokesman for the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey.
“The best thing for people to do is to check with
their airlines,” Hicks said yesterday. “They don’t want to go to the
airport and find their flight is canceled.”
Long Island Rail Road services were delayed by about 15
minutes early yesterday, according to New York’s Metropolitan
Transportation Authority.
In Boston, more than 150 plows and snow removal vehicles
worked through Sunday night to clear streets, said Seth Gitell,
a spokesman for Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
The city’s main roads are accessible, with workers still
battling to keep side streets clear of snow, Gitell said.
Boston schools will remain closed until Wednesday and the
city has asked only essential municipal employees to report for
work. Gitell said Boston businesses should encourage employees to
work from home.
Boston’s Logan Airport, which was closed at 5:30 a.m.
Sunday, causing hundreds of flights to be canceled, was to
open at about 8 a.m. yesterday, a spokesman who declined to be
identified said in a telephone interview. Crews are clearing as
much as 3 feet of snow from runways, he said.
