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Snowstorm - USA - East Coast digs out from record snow
SAN FRANCISCO,CAL,USA -MarketWatch, by Matt Andrejczak -Feb 12, 2006: -- The Northeast and mid-Atlantic were digging out Sunday night from a record weekend snowstorm that brought air and highway travel to a standstill most of the day and left tens of thousands without electricity... All three major New York-area airports were closed for much of the day after the city was pounded with a record 26.9 inches of snow amid blizzard warnings. The closures stranded travelers as far away as Florida... The National Weather Service said 26.9 inches of snow fell in New York City's Central Park, the most for a single storm since record-keeping started in 1869, the Associated Press reported. The old record was 26.4 inches in December, 1947. New York officials said they expected to have all roads cleared by Monday morning... Elsewhere, 21 inches of snow fell at Columbia, Md., between Baltimore and Washington, as well as at East Brunswick, N.J., Hartford, Conn., and west of Philadelphia, the AP reported... Anywhere from 8 inches to 21 inches of snow was dumped in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore area, with airlines managing to complete flights to certain destinations late Sunday morning... In the region, some 200,000 people were left without electricity, according to the Washington Post...
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