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| Anyone here live in NEW YORK? Accumulation in N.Y. E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Single-Page Save Article By ROBERT D. McFADDEN Published: February 13, 2006 The biggest winter storm in New York City history — destined for lionization as the Blizzard of '06 — buried the region and much of the Northeast yesterday under blowing, drifting, thigh-high snows that crippled transportation and commerce, knocked out power and disrupted life for millions in 14 states. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times Sledders in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, in snow that they will be able to brag to their children about. More Photos > Statement by Mayor Bloomberg | Video (NYC.gov) TRANSPORTATION Flight Delays (faa.gov) M.T.A. (mta.info) Port Authority (panynj.gov) New Jersey Transit (njtransit.com) SCHOOLS New York City Public Schools Open Monday (nycenet.edu) A Record Storm A Record Accumulation The Scene: Sunday Turns White, Windy and Hushed (February 13, 2006) Accumulation: An Army of Volunteers, Dipping Sticks in Snow (February 13, 2006) The Cleanup: A Storm for the Record Books, and a Response to Match (February 13, 2006) Snapshots: Playful, Lucrative or Dreadful: No Two Snow Days Are Alike (February 13, 2006) Enlarge This Image Barton Silverman/The New York Times Plows did their job on the Long Island Expressway. More Photos > After two months of humbug winter, the region awoke to a milk-white morning and an awesome storm that exceeded all forecasts, with snowfalls that transformed straw-drab landscapes into February postcards and brought out skiers, sledders and other wonderlanders. Plows were out in force, too, and working around the clock. But there was so much snow that only major arteries were expected to be open for the start of the workweek today, and officials forecast sluggish commuting for anyone who failed to take mass transit. Schools will be open in New York City, but not in some other areas. The storm — a great Crab nebula 1,200 miles long and 500 miles wide on satellite images and a ghostly apparition on the ground — crawled up the Eastern Seaboard overnight with winds that gusted up to 60 miles an hour, and cloaked the cities and countrysides from North Carolina to coastal Maine with 12 to more than 27 inches of snow, which broke or challenged records in many locales. A total of 26.9 inches fell in Central Park, the most since record-keeping began in 1869, the National Weather Service reported. In what weather experts called a remarkable and relentless fall that began late Saturday afternoon and ended late yesterday, it eclipsed the legendary blow of Dec. 26-27, 1947, which dropped 26.4 inches and killed 77 people. It also easily surpassed the memorable No. 3 and No. 2 storms, of Jan. 6-7, 1996, which left 20.2 inches, and March 12-14, 1888, the notorious Blizzard of '88, which dropped 21 inches. Announcing itself at dawn over New York with theatrical claps of thunder and lightning that roused some people from sleep, the storm dropped snow at phenomenal rates of 3 to 5 inches an hour between dawn at 7 a.m. and early afternoon, obliterating the skyline and anything more than a few feet away. During that time, more than 14 inches fell in Central Park and 16 inches at La Guardia Airport, where the snow topped out at 25.4 inches, another record. "That's about as hard as it can snow in New York City, and it's extremely rare," said Jeff Warner, a meteorologist with Pennsylvania State University. Across the region, the 24-hour accumulations were equally awesome: 24.5 inches in the Bronx and in New Rochelle in Westchester County, 21.3 inches in Newark, 20 inches in Saddle Brook, N.J., 19.9 inches in Islip, N.Y., 26 inches in Danbury, Conn., and 30.2 inches in Fairfield, Conn., the highest in the region. Elsewhere, accumulations were 19 inches in Robbinsville, N.C.; 12 inches in Leesburg, Va.; 8.8 inches in Washington; 15.5 inches in Hockessin, Del. and 22.5 inches in Columbia Hills, Md. Oddly, the record snowstorm in New York City was not technically a blizzard there, although it met the criteria on Long Island and elsewhere: winds of at least 35 miles an hour for three consecutive hours, and visibility of less than a quarter mile. Whatever its official status in Gotham, the storm, a classic northeaster, was so powerful and the snow so deep that it seemed all but certain to be remembered as a blizzard. "We are talking about a technical definition," said Jeff Tongue, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service at Brookhaven, N.Y. While meteorologists and public officials called the timing fortunate, coming over the weekend when millions of residents had no need to commute to work and school, the storm nonetheless caused major disruptions across the New York region. Cutting visibility sharply and rendering travel treacherous or impossible, the storm shut down Kennedy International, La Guardia and Newark Liberty International Airports in the metropolitan area, and Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington. It also forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights into and out of the Northeast, and delayed thousands more flights from airports in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities. Thousands of travelers were stranded for much of the day at airports, but by 7:30 p.m. the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the metropolitan area airports, said that Newark Liberty and Kennedy International Airports had reopened to limited flights, while La Guardia remained closed. At 9:20 p.m., a Turkish Airways flight skidded off a runway at Kennedy Airport, but none of the 198 passengers was hurt, a Port Authority spokesman said. 12Next Page > Reporting for this article was contributed by Ann Farmer, Janon Fisher, Jennifer 8. Lee, Angela Macropoulos, Mike McIntire, Richard Pérez-Peña, Fernanda Santos, Nate Schweber and Kate Zezima. More Articles in New York Region > |
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