The major airports in the metropolitan New York, namely JFK, La Guardia and Newark reopened, Tuesday, December 28, after closing their doors to travelers for nearly twenty-four hours because of heavy snowfall. "Some 4,500 flights could not land or take off as planned last two days, it will take two or three days to find a normal situation," summed up Steve Coleman, spokesman for the Port Authority airports operator L 'greater New York, eastern New Jersey and western Long Island neighbors, are the regions most affected by heavy snowfall that hit the entire northeast of the country since this weekend weekend, disrupting transport and particularly airports.Airports in Philadelphia and Boston had reopened by Monday morning, but high delays were noted. On the ground, trains between New York and Boston, also suspended Sunday circulating again since Monday morning, albeit reduced, according to Amtrak. On the east coast, only the capital, Washington, was spared the blizzard.
The governors of the states of Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virginia have had to call reservists to the National Guard to assist civilian authorities to allow a return to normal. Even the South had the snow, just like South Carolina and Atlanta, who spent his first Christmas in the snow for a hundred and twenty-eight years.
While the National Weather lifted its warnings to the United States, the storm continued its path on the night of Monday to Tuesday, to eastern Canada, with winds up to 150 km / h, which disrupted air traffic, causing cancellations cascading in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. The storm was raging in the evening on the New Brunswick and eastern Quebec, where about twenty centimeters of snow had fallen.
Accumulations of 50 cm was possible in places. But it is in the New York area as the snow fell harder. In places, the authorities raised up to 75 centimeters of snow. In New York, where the streets were plunged in a thick layer of snow, municipal services were criticized by local media for their slowness in restoring the situation, despite calls for caution from Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Several train lines and bus lines and subway were simply paralyzed. While in France nearly six hundred passengers have taken twenty-four hours to make Strasbourg-Nice by train on Monday, the New York Times shows that the situation is much better in the greater New York. The newspaper tells the story of Zilbergleyz Grigoriy, who after leaving to go home to Manhattan, Brooklyn, Sunday evening, was trapped thirteen hours on a train.
No comments:
Post a Comment