More than 40 million people were under blizzard warnings in the northeast United States on Monday, as a winter storm dumped shin-deep snow and officials in New York enforced a citywide travel ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The so-called “Nor’easter” pummeled the region overnight, disrupting flights and leaving hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power.<\/p>\n
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered nonessential drivers off the road until midday Monday and shut down schools. Authorities in neighboring New Jersey and Rhode Island issued similar travel restrictions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some were frustrated by the region’s second major winter storm in weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m sick of it. I don’t want to see no more snow,” Vincent Greer, a resident of Wildwood, New Jersey, said as he shoveled outside his building.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at New York’s Grand Central station, others were admiring the city blanketed in snow.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s beautiful,” Chris Crowell, 45, told AFP after a walk with a friend. “So much snow, it’s just gorgeous. We did not expect to be out this long.”<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service warned that blizzard conditions and “crippling impacts” would continue in the northeast US for much of Monday.<\/p>\n
As of 11:00 am (1600 GMT), more than 5,500 flights in or out of the United States were canceled and hundreds more delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York’s three major airports as well as Boston Logan Airport saw the most cancellations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At least four states — Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island — had seen two feet (60 centimeters) of snow by Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
– ‘Historic proportions’ –<\/p>\n
The storm comes weeks after the region recovered from another devastating winter weather system that was linked to more than 100 deaths.<\/p>\n
Officials did not hold back in their public warnings ahead of the latest snowfall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“New York City has not faced a storm of this scale in the last decade,” Mayor Mamdani said Sunday after declaring a state of emergency.<\/p>\n
Some 15.1 inches (38 centimeters) of snow were recorded in Central Park, the most at New York City’s official reporting station from a single storm in over five years.<\/p>\n
The United Nations, which is headquartered in the city, was closed Monday due to the storm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The worst is yet to come,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul told a briefing Sunday, urging residents to stock up on groceries and medicines.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu warned of a storm of “historic proportions” and closed all public schools and municipal buildings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We ask everyone to plan ahead, stay safe and warm, and stay off the roads to help our public works and public safety efforts,” Wu said.<\/p>\n
Citing the severe weather, Boston’s transit authority said Monday that subway, bus and rail services would be limited, and ferry services canceled.<\/p>\n
Snowplows were deployed across the northeast US Monday as officials sought to reduce prolonged disruption from the storm.<\/p>\n
Major cities including New York, Philadelphia and Boston advertised dedicated warming centers for people caught outside in the cold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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