"Snow Hurricane" hits New York City with 18 inches of Snow

[Cassandra Syndrome]

A massive snow storm has hit today 26th February, the North Eastern States of America bring chaos to the region.

The endless winter of 2010…kept not ending today, with more than 18 inches of snow crippling New York City, and two to three feet measured in its suburbs and other parts of the Northeast.

Sixth winter storm to hit the East Coast packs heavy wet snow and high winds.

An ABC News count found more than 500,000 homes and businesses without power -- meaning, with an average of three people per household, that about 1.5 million people were affected. Power companies measure outages in terms of "customers" -- the number of bills they send out -- not the number of people without light. It was so bad in New Hampshire that even the state Emergency Operations Center needed a generator.


At least three people were killed in the storm. A man died Thursday afternoon in New York's Central Park when a tree limb snapped and hit him. The snow was moist and heavy, bringing down thousands of trees and threatening flat roofs where it piled up.

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/snow-hu...ory?id=9954071

[ibis]

Persistent little bugger, ain'tcha?

[toxic avenger]

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[The Field Marshal]

Great thread.

[ibis]

Great thread.

Great endorsement.

[fun tzu]

Asia swelters in heatwave

I'm sure this will get boring after awhile but for the moment I'm laughing

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[Simbo67]

Sitting at home looking out the window (NYU is closed today!). Its a mess out there but the public transit is moving and the cars are moving. Even with over a foot of snow. Looks pretty for about 30 seconds before you have to wade through 4 feet of piled up snow on the edge of the footpath.