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Okaaaaay......
The last statement just seems a little random to me, I dunno....
| quote: | A storm that dumped as much as 10 inches of snow from Texas to Indiana hit the Northeast on Friday, shutting down schools and snarling traffic as commuters headed to work on slippery roads.
While the storm system lost steam as it crossed the Ohio Valley and western Pennsylvania early Friday, it was expected to merge with another one off the Virginia coast later in the day. Forecasters said the system would move up the coast, bringing as much as a foot of snow to New England.
"It actually will be quite a doozy of a snowstorm," said Thomas Spriggs, a
National Weather Service forecaster.
As the system moved eastward, northwest New Jersey had 2 to 3 inches of snow by early in the day; western Maryland had 5 to 6 inches; and New York City had 2 to 4 inches.
Numerous minor accidents were reported around New Jersey, and the speed limit was reduced to 35 mph for the entire length of the New Jersey Turnpike, according to Joseph Orlando, a spokesman for the turnpike authority.
In New York, several vehicles had spun off of Interstate 87 in the Albany area. New York City's LaGuardia Airport had arrival delays of up to 90 minutes, authorities said.
At least 10 deaths were blamed on slippery roads in Kansas, Missouri and Indiana; five other fatalities in Kentucky were described as possibly storm-related. In Chicago, a jet trying to land in heavy snow Thursday evening slid off a runway at Midway International Airport and into a busy street, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring 10 other people.
Up to 10 inches of snow fell along the Interstate 35 corridor into Kansas City, Mo., said Greg Koch, a National Weather Service forecaster.
In Indiana, the weather was good news for Greta Turner, a group sales manager at the Paoli Peaks ski resort. She said she expected as many as 3,000 skiers and snowboarders to hit the slopes on Friday, the opening day.
"I'm looking out my window and all I see is snow," she said.
Travelers were grumpier. At a travel plaza in Whiteland, about 10 miles south of Indianapolis, several drivers complained about the number of cars that had pulled off the highway in near-whiteout conditions.
"It's nasty," said Dave Dyer, who stopped to refuel his rig during a 580-mile trip from Louisville, Ky., to Wausau, Wis. "If I didn't have to be going where I have to go, I'd pull over and park it."
Five of the highway deaths were reported in Missouri. Three passengers in a sport utility vehicle were killed Thursday when it crossed an interstate median near Charleston and struck a tractor-trailer head-on, said Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Larry Plunkett. A child was killed when his mother lost control of her car on a highway, while a man was found frozen to death in the snow after crawling from his overturned pickup truck.
In Texas, a mother and son died in a fire sparked by an improperly installed wood-burning stove. |
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