Millions of residents in parts of the northeastern U.S. are stuck at home under road travel bans and blizzard warnings as a fierce winter storm bringing heavy snow, strong winds and whiteout conditions has intensified.
NEW YORK — Millions of people in New York City and a large swath of the northeastern U.S. were stuck at home under road travel bans and blizzard warnings Monday as heavy snow and strong winds intensified, creating whiteout conditions in the densely populated region.
Snow fell at a rate of 2 to 3 inches an hour early Monday from New York through Massachusetts. Some areas have gotten well over a foot of snow since Sunday, along with wind gusts of over 30 mph and low visibility.In New York, Long Island MacArthur Airport reported 22.5 inches of snow as of Monday morning. About 18 inches was reported in Newark, New Jersey, and about 15 inches fell in New York City's Central Park. New London, Connecticut, and North Kingstown, Rhode Island, both got 17 inches of snow.The National Weather Service called travel conditions "nearly impossible."Blizzard warnings stretched from Maryland to Maine. Cellphones across New York City received wailing push alerts Sunday night announcing a ban on non-emergency travel on all streets through noon Monday because of "dangerous blizzard conditions." Rhode Island and New Jersey implemented similar restrictions.More than 5,000 flights in and out of the United States were canceled for Monday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware. Most were canceled in New York, New Jersey and Boston.Public transit was suspended in some areas. Even DoorDash announced it was suspending deliveries in New York City overnight. A worker with the Times Square Alliance sanitation crew clears snow from the Red Stairs in Times Square, Monday, in New York. The storm caused power outages that left more than 500,000 customers in the dark along the East Coast early Monday, including over 212,000 customers in Massachusetts and 128,000 customers in New Jersey, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide.About 10,000 customers were without power Monday morning on suburban Long Island. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said utility crews will restore power as soon as possible, but winds of 50 mph or higher could delay action."The line men and women are not going up there to restore power if they have to go up on a power line. So … people have to understand that we will do it as soon as it's safe to have that occur," Hochul told PIX11 in New York.Emergencies were declared in New York, Philadelphia and other cities, as well as several states stretching from Delaware to Massachuse
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