뉴욕주 지사, 한파로 비상사태 선언 VIDEO: ‘Bomb Cyclone’: Snow and Bitter Cold Blast the Northeast

‘Bomb Cyclone’: Snow and Bitter Cold Blast the Northeast

By ALAN BLINDER, PATRICIA MAZZEI and JESS BIDGOODJAN. 4, 2018

Waves crashed over houses in Scituate, Mass., on Thursday. Credit Scott Eisen/Getty Images

한파 계속되는 美 북동부에 4일 대설 동반한 강풍으로 

뉴욕주 지사가 비상사태 선언, 경계 당부. 

교통기관 영향도 확대(AP=교도)

In Boston, one of the highest tides on record flooded a subway station near the New England Aquarium. Pipes cracked from New Jersey to North Carolina. Even Florida’s iguanas found themselves stunned by the cold.

From the Spanish moss-canopied sidewalks of Savannah, Ga., to icy villages in coastal Maine, emergency officials reckoned with the rages, whims and remains of a storm that shut down schools for more than a million children, flooded roadways, filled homeless shelters and forced the cancellations of thousands of flights.

Yet the storm, notable for a steep drop in atmospheric pressure that prompted some forecasters to describe it as a “bomb cyclone,” was but one act in a prolonged run of misery that had already enveloped millions of people in a wintry torment of Arctic air and snow-blown streets.

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Major Developments:

• Wind chills are expected to repeatedly plunge below zero in some areas, especially in New England, for the next several days. As the storm left most of the East Coast behind on Thursday, utility companies scrambled to restore electricity to tens of thousands of homes and businesses. Read more on how power companies have warned of possible fuel shortages to come.

• Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina said Thursday morning that two men had died when a pickup truck overturned in an icy creek in Moore County, and that a third death had been reported in Beaufort County. By Thursday afternoon, The Associated Press had also reported one death in South Carolina and another in Philadelphia.

• All along the Eastern Seaboard, roads — iced-over, snow-covered or slush-filled — were treacherous on Thursday and likely to remain that way for a few days. Some states, including New York, imposed restrictions on some roads and limited truck travel.

• The storm’s path through some of the busiest air travel corridors in the country prompted airlines to cancel more than 4,000 flights and delay 2,000 more by nightfall on Thursday according to FlightAware, an aviation tracking website. Carriers have already abandoned plans for more than 900 flights on Friday. Read more here.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/us/winter-snow-bomb-cyclone.html

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