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Snowstorm Batters East, Closing Schools & Halting Flights

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/nyregion/11snow.html?hp

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A blustery snowstorm, the second to sweep across the Northeast in less than a week, swaggered into the New York area on Wednesday morning, closing schools, courts and the United Nations and threatening to play havoc with the rhythms and routines of everyone who did not simply stay home.

New York City had gone through a slow windup after days of forecasters’ warnings — and after largely missing out on the storm last weekend that stopped much of the rest of the East Coast in very deep tracks. By the time most New Yorkers turned out the lights and went to bed on Tuesday, only light snow was falling — a tease for what the meteorologists insisted was coming. But by 7 a.m., thick, wet flakes were sticking, even in places where snow almost never accumulates, like Times Square. By 8 a.m., the wind was swirling and the streets were glistening, as what had been slush flirted with turning slippery — and treacherous.

“It’s here,” said Brian Ciemnecki, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, and as early as 7 a.m., the measurements backed him up. He said 5.5 inches had fallen in Elizabeth, N.J., 1.5 inches in Central Park and between 2 and 4 inches on Long Island.

He said that New York would see 12 to 15 inches by day’s end — a lot, to be sure, but less than had piled up in places farther south during the storm last week. In New York itself, the worst was expected later in the day, potentially creating a nightmarish commute home. Some transit lines planned extra service for early afternoon, figuring that workers who made it into the city in the morning would abandon their desks before the regular quitting time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/nyregion/11snow.html?hp
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