Airlines are still requesting passengers call ahead before travelling to the airport in the US after snow paralysted the eastern seaboard yesterday.
In fact, 49 of America’s 50 states got snow with only Florida escaping the white stuff. It still suffered weather dramas, however, as thick fog enveloped parts of the state.
Many flights out of New York’s JFK airport and New Jersey’s Newark airport were delayed or cancelled and it was a similar story at Logan Airport in Boston, Washington’s Reagan International and Virginia’s Dulles airport.
While Philadelphia declared the city in a “snow emergency”, perhaps taking its dramatic cue from President Barack Obama who described the situation as a “Snowmageddon”, even usually balmy North Carolina was been hit by the bad weather.
Many power lines went down in Maryland and city authorities warned that there weren’t sufficient snow ploughs to clear the snow.
This is the second snow storm in three weeks to hit New York and Mayor Bloomberg is under pressure after being perceived as dealing poorly with the first white-out which paralysed parts of the Big Apple on Boxing Day when 29 inches of snow settled.
