“This is going to be a historic storm.” XV Beacon hotel workers clear snow during a Nor’easter storm in Boston, Massachusetts, Janu “It is going to get quite ugly out there,” she said in an early-morning television interview from City Hall. The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency, while Boston Mayor Michelle Wu declared a snow emergency. “Expect whiteout conditions and nearly impossible travel at times,” the service said. The snowfall rate would range from 2-4 inches (5-10cm) per hour, and strong winds would cause “scattered power outages”. The NWS warned of “dangerous blizzard conditions” along portions of the mid-Atlantic and New England coasts, with predicted snowfall accumulations of more than 2 feet (61cm) in the area around Boston. Plows work to clear I-90 in Boston as a powerful storm brought blinding blizzard conditions with high winds causing widespread power outages to much of the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast But a lot of trains and buses and other sort of public transportation been put on hold,” he added.Įlizondo said weather experts said there were fears of coastal flooding if the storm continues, something that was already taking place in southern New Jersey. “Right now, here in New York City, it is negative nine degrees Celsius. On Saturday, more than 3,500 flights were cancelled travelling within, into or out of the US, according to flight tracker FlightAware, and 847 flights have already been cancelled for Sunday.Ĭancellations on Friday totalled more than 1,450.Īl Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo, reporting from New York City, said some public transport had been suspended. It’s a good day to stay home if you don’t have to go out! /mFEqJpQpq0 “It’s a good day to stay home if you don’t have to go out!,” he said. Mayor Eric Adams urged New York residents to stay at home, tweeting a video of him walking outside in the Bronx borough.
Salt machines and snowploughs crawled along the streets of New York, where as much as 4 inches (10cm) of snow had fallen by Saturday morning. With blizzard warnings in effect, cities including New York and Boston bore the brunt of the storm on Saturday morning, but the far-reaching system also hit the mid-Atlantic.įreeze alerts were raised as far south as Florida, where the National Weather Service (NWS) warned of “scattered to isolated falling iguanas from trees” as plunging temperatures temporarily paralysed the large lizards, which can weigh up to 20 pounds (9kg). I don’t know where they would start with infrastructure but they do need to expand our roadways.A powerful winter storm packing heavy snow and high winds has pummeled the United States East Coast, forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights as severe weather alerts were sounded across the region of nearly 70 million people.
“I’ve been here since 1985 and our infrastructure can’t keep up with all these people that are currently here. I mean, it’s Southwest Florida - everybody wants to move down here," she says.
“Even now that it’s not season it’s very bad. The Florida Department of Highway Safety also reports that there have been 162 pedestrian crashes in Lee County just this year, with 18 pedestrian deaths.įor people like Syndei Kyriacou, who experience the traffic every day, the findings of the study are upsetting but surprising.
But we factor in the per capita numbers, and that captures not just more activity and more people - it also captures growth," says Osborne. “If we just did raw fatality numbers, a place like New York City would rank way ahead of Cape Coral. nonprofit 'Smart Growth America' shows that Cape Coral and Fort Myers rank 23rd in their top 100 most dangerous cities for pedestrians.īeth Osborne, Vice President of Transportation and Thriving Communities, says that it's attributable to Southwest Florida's rapid growth.
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