{"id":142685,"date":"2026-02-23T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:19:10","slug":"monster-storm-shuts-down-nyc-and-buries-towns-in-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142685\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Storm Shuts Down NYC and Buries Towns in Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A historic winter storm has buried New York City and crippled much of the northeast with travel bans and power outages. The powerful bomb cyclone, with near-hurricane-force wind gusts and heavy snow, proved to be fiercer than forecasters had initially predicted\u2014toppling trees onto parked cars, cutting off power for nearly 400,000 people, and dumping over a foot of snow by Monday morning even as it continues to gain strength. Millions of people have been affected by storm Hernando, which has led to the cancellation of thousands of flights in and out of NYC-area airports and forced local authorities to declare states of emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A historic winter storm has buried New York City and crippled much of the northeast with travel bans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[41232,26603,9,24,56,63,65,64,39855,345,59933,29568],"class_list":{"0":"post-142685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-bomb-cyclone","9":"tag-heavy-snow","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-parked-cars","17":"tag-power-outages","18":"tag-travel-bans","19":"tag-winter-storm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}