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Subscribe to RSSMore than 2,000 flights have been canceled, and more than 200,000 customers are without power in several southern states as the impact of severe winter weather was felt across the nation. NBC's Eric Fisher reports.
A winter storm swept into the Northeast on Thursday, bringing up to 21 inches of snow, drenching rain – and a new round of travel headaches.
By late afternoon, more than 1,000 flights had been canceled, and more than 8,000 were delayed, according to FlightStats.com, frustrating thousands of stranded passengers.
At Philadelphia International Airport, assistant principal Tomorrow Jenkins was desperate to get to Orlando, Fla., where her high school’s band was slated to perform at a Rutgers University bowl game Friday.
Her flight had been delayed and canceled, and she missed a connection. “I’m a little anxious,” she told NBCPhiladelphia.com at the airport, where dozens of flights were scrapped on Thursday.
Passengers on a Southwest Airlines jet bound for Florida from Long Island faced an unexpected wait after the Boeing 737 went off the runway and got stuck in the grass. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said officials were investigating if wet weather was a factor in the mishap, which caused no injuries.
An American Airlines flight that landed safely in Pittsburgh on Wednesday night got stuck in snow for about two hours on the tarmac, The Associated Press reported.
The Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, where all flights had been grounded until Wednesday afternoon after the storm passed, still had two dozen cancellations on the board.
It won't be a blockbuster snowfall, but most of the big cities in the Northeast will get one to three inches of snow. The Weather Channel's Chris Warren reports.
A passenger who had been stuck on a plane at the gate there for three hours on Christmas night recorded an American Airlines pilot apologizing for the situation.
“I've made more personal phone calls than I know what to do with,” the pilot said in an audio recording obtained by WFAA-TV.
“I've spent my last quarter, to be honest with you. It's beyond reproach. I have no words to tell you... to tell you how sorry I am. This is way above our heads... by people that obviously, in my humble opinion, don't have a clue what they're doing,” said the pilot.
The airline said in a statement that it "was obviously a very challenging day" and apologized for any inconvenience.
The weather system, which developed just before Christmas, has already spawned twisters, high winds, icy roads, and record snowfall in the nation’s midsection, where it was blamed for a dozen deaths.
The Weather Channel's Eric Fisher reports from Lewiston, Maine, where snow is rapidly accumulating. The winter storm, which traveled from Texas up through the Midwest, is threatening to dump up to 2 feet of snow on parts of the Northeast.
On Thursday, it blanketed towns from Pennsylvania to Maine in white.
Woodford, Vt., got socked with 21 inches of snow -- the highest total of the storm so far. In Edwards, N.Y., 16 inches fell. Coudersport, Pa., saw 15 inches; Windsor, Mass., got 13.4 inches; and Lebanon, Maine, had a foot, the National Weather Service reported.
Where there wasn’t snow, there was rain. In New Jersey, flooding and high winds forced the closure of parts of Brick Township, local officials told the Weather Channel's Mike Seidel.
Thursday brought mostly rain to New York City, Philadelphia and Boston, but that could change this weekend. The Weather Channel’s Tom Niziol said a new system could dump up to four inches of snow on the major Northeast cities.
The Weather Channel's Michael Palmer and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
On one of the busiest travel days of the year, bad weather has forced airlines to cancel or delay flights. NBC's Katy Tur reports.
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I was told that Michael Jackson's dead and now all of the sudden he's stuck at an airport sandwiched in between a very slick-looking african american and some fat chick becuase of these storms... what else is the media trying to cover up from the public?
Snow, snow, verywhere.. We must do something about this Global Warming! Last week, they were screaming that we were burning up, today, they are mad they are stuck at airport because of massive snow storms and cold.
Burning up does not equal Snow... Media, please correct this oversight .
Why do you always have to bring up Michael Jackson?
oh I don't know maybe ebcause michael jackson inspired a generation and now is suddenly dead when he was perfectly healthy and because the media ignorantly thinks that the american public is stupid enough to just buy that and move on with their lives? Well some of us refuse to move on and will take this fight all of the way and if you don't want to help then that's fine but just stay the f out of the way then.
Are you the one that started the "Michael Jackson is NOT Dead" Facebook page?
I think the guy in the picture is wearing TWO gloves.
no I'm not some stupid facebook page I'm a real person with a real voice but I do know a guy who saw michael jackson being escorted out of the back stairwell of that hotel at the same time that the b.s, call to the police that his unconscious body had been found was made, all of the details are in my pamphlet just porivate message me if you'd like a copy and to donate to the Fund For Solutions (FFS).
http://www.michaeljacksonsightings.com/
why are you alowed to post website links but I'm not? I guess the dinosaur museum must donate to this website sorry that I'm not a member of the 1 frrigin percent.
Enough people have to like you. Not sure how to estimate how long your wait is.
so if I just start likkin g all of my own posts like you do with yours then I'll get more priviledges you're saying?
Something like that. Let me see your Vine meter and see where you are at.
You got 2 little puny limbs on that vine. Get to posting stuff people like.
what the vine metere that you're talking about? I'm not sending you any pictures no matter whatt.
Selfish.
Click your name and next to your picture is your Vineacity. That grows with usage.
my vinecity's pretty big why can I not do the links yet I even got two awards for being furuitful and kind but they missed the one for being handsome too and then they've got me exactly pegged down.
I was gonna call you furutiful too, its unanimous.
Methinks Littlehater is full of crap...
hey metazipp you dn't even have a vine nevermind any pods growning off of it so I don't have to even listen to your crap you amateur.
OMG you are right hater. There is no vine. EWWW
yeah he's probably one of those idiot hackers that tries to sell me discount products here all the timeeven though they don't ship within thee three business days that he says that will like a huge douche. Nice try moron but this is 2012 now you can't get away with that crap anymore people know about your little idiot schemes so just let it go.
THEY are the idiots... yet YOU seam to know all about it....hum whats wrong with that picture?
gm Tramp
Logic in this thread? Remember what they say about casting pearls ....
tap tap tap......love it.....
GM Bill
Lets get this straight....its global warming in the summer, and climate change in the winter. Stop characterizing this as global warming and use the appropriate terminology for the seasons!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Good enough?
There must be some reason they keep these threads up about this storm.
They have to argue that in spite of massive cold, it is really Global Warming
Major population centers respond to advertising more than flyover states.
You would appear to be less stupid if you learned the difference between "climate" and "weather".
Hint: We still have something called "winter".
"Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get."
Perhaps because there are more people there.
or merely more suckers.....
Where are all the cold deniers? I want an explanation for the deadly cold in Europe, Russia, and the far East along with this incoming wave of cold in the US and the winter storm.
Oh, wait. I have an answer. It has happened before and it will happen again. Welcome back 1960's and 1970's.
In your dreams.
It's called "winter", and it still occurs, despite climate change.
No thanks, it will be years before you have an intelligent thought. Nobody could wait that long.
.discouraged in MI...
I can understand that...not your post mind ya.... just your account name
Ban all snowfall over 3 inches!
Ban the cold air too!
That's it; Winter is cancelled!! Are all of you happy now?
thanks ryan...getting out my swim suit and heading for the beach.
BRRRR....Damn you Ryan.....slipped and fell, snow up in my swim-trunks...frozen you know what...why oh why would you perpetrate such a hoax ?
there is no such thing as cold...it is merely an absence of heat.....A. Einstein
That's very true.
he was a pretty sharp fella.
I heard.. lol
and a professional in and of the art of girl watching, i aspire to continue that part of his work.
His lesser known publishing on the subject were incredible.
Good Morning Scooter and TFNJ
Seems as if the snow is hindering the use of swimsuits, WTFO?
The only problem I have here is sand in the shorts, but then again, thast is just as bad, if not worse than
"Have a jolly, jolly Christmas...." (Burl Ives from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) No TFNJ, I sure as heck ain't "rubbing it in - the sand especially!
I'm thinking of joining the Polar Bear club. That way I can wear my swim trunks on the beach in December.
Don't rub it in ;)
That's what I said, but that only seemed to encourage more of the rubbing in.
GM Denver and TFNJ
Good idea to Never rub sand in your shorts! :0 Oh Nooooo Mr Bill!!!
Another massive , record breaking snowfall. So many people suffering and so much damage inflicted from yet another cold weather disaster. This only highlights the onset of a new, world wide climate change phenomenon, "Global cooling." But fortunately there is a solution: a massive tax increase on leftists. Al Gore, we're gonna get our money back.
I had a lightning storm last night, in NJ. Not normal for December.
you dont get thunder snow in NJ T. we get it here bout every winter. studied up what caused it once it was a kinda cool.
The flash woke me up and I thought, lightning?
go outside next time and check it out its really neat...or i should say....cool
I was scared..
you get scared when you reach into the freezer and pull out a carton of ice cream that's already half-eaten tfnj so don't even go acting like this would affect anyboddy else but you in that same way.
in NJ ? for heavens sake why? nothin ever happens there ya know. across the creek of course is a different story.
Hater is right, I get scared easy. Just last night I was trying to spoon ice cream out of a frozen container and was afraid a chunk would fly up and hit me in the face.
yeah well mayube if you toned down your prescription of prozac that you take every day like a mindless zommbie then you wouldn't have such strange hallucinations and could live a normal life like the rest of us who love freedom turth, and the occassional fried butter on a stick to celebreate the achievmnets which you'll never realize if you keep being a pilll-totting lombardd.
NJTN,
went to the individually wrapped cones to avoid just that,all for safety's sake mind ya . But then he got P.O.'ed about my throwing the wrapper out the car window. just cant make that guy happy.
The only thing I dislike more than flailing ice cream, it ice cream wrapper litter bugs.
And I'm down to 50.000 milligrams a day, so stop making things up.
well I can agree with you on that first one tfnj because if you're really careless enough to litter than you deserve all the scorn in the world at the very least and to be on trail for genocide in the best of cases but if you think that fifty milligrams a day is a low dose then you've already let big pharmasueticals win and it might unfortunately be too late for you.
is it ok if i still pitch out my beer cans?
Beer can ok. Adds a certain, Still Life look to the environment.
why wouldn't you want the free five cents for them and instead whip them out of your trailer where they kill animals, ecosystems, and even people you inconsiderate goon? Stop beinga huge part of the problem for no reason other than you can't affor to get trash and recycling servieces coming to your house on your government checks you wasteful messy garbage-humans are the absolutet worst.
Well why they gotta force me to use a blue bin? Its just like them to try and tell me what I have to do all the time.
Besides, its my way to help homeless people.
hater,....lots of people need those nickels ya know. wheres your charity ? tsk tsk.
Apparantly Hater only helps himself. That's the problem with society these days. Everyone out for themselves.
BTW there hater,
Ever pull the front end in a blizzard? here's your chance, let us know how that works out for ya.
well I don't drink mind-and-body-abolisshing-alcohol so I don't have any empty cans to donate you moron and just so you know it';s charitable enough of me that I don't curse you out right now because you're really started to push the line of what's acceptable and what's not even for the internet. those bblue bins taht you talk so condescendinggly about save lives, i bet that you wish that you could say the same but until you change your ways that will never happen.
TFNJ......stand back..its smoking .....just one little push and.....
After every major storm, all you see is those silly blue bins littered all over the street. They are a danger to society.
Scooter, I'm pushing
so now they're "silly blue bins" just because when peoples' homes flood they come drifting out with the rest of the stuff in there? Well you know what else shows floating out, porn collections, and in the wrong hands those can be extremely hamrful whereas blue bins cannot and in fact maybe they will inspire some people to think that it's a sign and begin changing their own lives and sorting out their refusse as well so that society can reuse it. the only thing ssily about recyclcing is taht not everyone does it yet and that's should be a crime in the new america.
The day after Sandy I found a perfectly good box set of the Seymour Butts collection.
Little blue bins? heck that isnt nothing.
The city gave every homeowner and property in town a great big blue one on wheels a couple years back, i check mine from time to time....it must be broken , so far it hasn't collected anything.
I'm sure that that was the best night of your life tfnj, I just wish that another storm would come across and sweep you away to new zealand where you belong with the kiwis doing perverted sex acts on one another and complaining about crop yields.
Mine is so pretty I don't like putting stuff in it and dirty it.
those bins come with a instruction manua and collection schedulle you idiot you're supposed to take the initiatve to figure this stuff out unless you hate the world ebign clean which you obviously don't since you park your car on your front lawn and havent changed the paint job of your shutters since the beattles were having buttt-sex with one another like thrity years ago just leave the f'ing adults alone if you can't cohabittate with them.
I thought they were lawn decorations for neighbors to compete on where they place them.
hater,
mj good ...Beatles bad..got it.....besides my car is up on blocks ya know, easier to fix one of these days, and the hounds appreciate the shade.... BTW hater, ol pal.. mind if they come over yonder ta your crib ta do their business?
and you sure seem know allot about drugs, porn, and weird sex . ....how is that? i also note you have allot more typos as the day goes on, sticky keyboard perhaps?... just wondering......
no they're ssacred tools to save the earth from certain destruction but I hope the winner of that contest gets sent to per where they don't even have enough resoruces to litter with you terible neirhgboir.
Where you at TFNJ - I'm in Bergen County and that lightning storm in the snow was awesome!
At first I thought it was a transformer blowing down the street and waited a second for the power to go out, but then the thunder blasted. It went on for a bit in my area - very cool.
I let anyone who wants to do there business onn my compost pile so if you're diogs want to do stuff over there then I'm more than fine with that but have fun walking from the trailer par where you live to mny gated community where we fly helpicopters to the grocery store and have huge hot tubs on to of yachts in our private buisness pools. and yeah great work with your car too bad that it hasnt been on the actual road for the five years and who cares what you think about typing at all.
East Brunswick. I thought the same exact thing. Waited for the power to go thinking it was a transformer.
Weird storm.
Well said LitterHater
yep when it comes to nonsense he's pretty tough to beat alright.Hows the museum treating you BTW? need any more exhibits? i was thinking i would be happy to donate the wheels to my house if you need em.
Are they circa Triassic era? Because apparently the museum I work in has dinosaurs.
not quite that old...but i heard of a guy on here who has a prehistoric dung heap in his yard, will that help?
That would go perfect in one of my displays.
yeah you could just title it "TFNJ's career" because all you've given to that dinosaur museum since you've been there is a headache and probably a few workers-comp claims when you got a cut trying to move a walrus-tusk from one display-case to another.
If I own a Dinosaur museum, and I have walrus tusks on display, I have been cheating my custumers.
well it looks like you have some hard questions to ask yourself thenn now doesn't it?
LMAO, Litter Hater is still taking himself so seriously. You guys be careful playing with him now, he bruises so easily.
Probably the reason he is so fixated on MJ is that he also is a four year old in a young adult's body. Must be terrible.
By the way, Michael Jackson was a pervert in my book. A drug addict pervert who liked diddling little boys. You sure pick strange heroes.
yeah well you're an ignorant hoe-bag who doesn't know what good music is and in case yuou weren't paying attention michael jackson was found innocent of those boggus charges and therefore if you say that crrap about him then you can get sued for slander of defamation of character so watch your step moron.
Touched a tender nerve, it seems. You're beginning to remind me of that "Leave Britney Alone!" nut. What a strange strange world we be living in.
By the way, do you like snow storms? I think that was the subject of this article.
global warming means the average temp has raised.does not mean winter is cancelled.if average temp rose by 2 degrees and its usually 10 degrees f then that means it is 12 f.does not mean the will be tropical conditions year around,for that you need to move closer to the equator.hope this helps benji
dam winter weather....... causing all these hangovers.... ...but on the bright side, only 3 months until the beginning of flood season, then a quick trip through tornado season, and then boom just like that, finally it will be summer ..YEAH !!! where i can say ....... damn summer weather...causing all these hangovers
GM, Scooter.
Smoke pot instead. No hangovers.
GMG
Didn't ya hear? smoking's bad for ya...it made all the headlines awhile back.
That's cigarettes.
Marijuana is good for you. It not only improves your mood, it's a green, leafy vegetable. You don't even have to smoke it, you can bake brownies or other treats with it. Very healthy.
so inhaling one kinda smoke is better then the other....wow what a breakthrough. glad you let me know, and at the price of a carton of cigarettes these days, its probably allot cheaper to boot.
obviously it's the particles inside the smoke that make it harmful so different types of smoke will have different particles in them and cause varrying degrees of harm, it's not a breakthrough it's just simple science. Remember to appropriately dipose of those used cigatette-buttts after you've done with them though becuase improper cigartte disposal costst this country tens of billions of dollars each year and it doesn't have to go down like that if you idiots just take a little more responsbility for what you're doing.
The only thing I hate more than improperly discarded ice cream wrappers, is tossed cigarette butts.
yeah same here but the only thing that I hate more than those two things is self-righteous dirtbags who pretend to care about the environment just to get laid. Please don;'t be beeing that right now.
good point hater and i am in total agreement with you. why be a phony about it?...,that's why i just pitch em along with the beer cans and ice cream wrappers myself. see those butts in the gutter in front of your place hater? yep it was me...be a good lad and clean those up will ya. no need to thank me, its just my little contribution to making you feel all warm and fussy inside, just like a real contributing member of society.
After yesterday's storm, some areas has 2 foot drifts of cigarette butts. Believe it or not.
with the amount of people who smoke in somerset county I'm surprised that it wasn't even higher than that. I hope that you notified the red cross instead of just taking pictures and putting ironic captions on them or else you're an even bigger tool than i previosuly yhtought.
LitterHater: What's wrong with getting laid?
works out well for eggs, but those who have never seen a chicken outside of KFC they would probably see it as littering.
there's nothing wrong with procreating but everyone does havea huge problem with you tricking women into believing that you have traits that you don;'t just to imprgnant them with a false lie-baby you moron.
I haven't seen a single lie here yet.
oh really because I remember somoene mentioning soimething about two feet-tall waves of cigarteete butts but clearly that actually happened since he also provided so much prooff to back that claim up.
Litter:
I didn't say "procreating", I said "getting laid".
And I don't jump to conclusions like you do, retard. Besides, roofies work better LOL!!!
How cool is THAT? I write a few words and a distant retard does a dance for me! Ya gotta love the internet!
http://www.angrysue.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_5623.jpg
Look at that devastation. You want proof? There it is.
defcon 3 has been reached....warning will roberts ...warning....
Litter Hater is such a sweet caring little boy. Any woman who "laid" him would be charged with child molestation. And heaven forbid he ever find out what "sweat hog" means. LMAO
The sky is falling, take to the hills it's snowing... WOW who would have thought that it would snow during the winter!!!!
Everyone, of course. You're not very smart.
And if you think climate change means no more winter, you're completely retarded.
Poor Tomorrow Jenkins! Yesterday Jones already bypassed the storm.
Wow, the wind is blowing, snow is up to 8 inches, could be a whole foot or more today. Don't know what to do, in such an emergency, better throw another log or two in the stove and turn on the weather channel so Jim Cacciatore (my favorite Italian dish) can sensationalize this disaster ! Depending on the report i may go start the 4wd truck and go up to the local gen. store for breakfast just to you know, do something RISKY !
55 degrees and partly cloudy here in Peoria, AZ!!!
Little different in Periora Il.
Its Bush's fault or global warming!!
a global warming bush?....must be a southern thing....
I needed a wind breaker jacket this morning!
If i find my pants i'll help ya look for one.
Plan on breaking wind?
wonder if his co workers know.....YET.....
They will when he unzips his snowsuit.
You think he shows up all puffed up when the wind is broken?
Like the Pillsbury Doughboy.
LOL, then he lets out a chuckle as his air is released.
People are so thin-skinned these days that they can't handle an inconvenient situation without wanting to "hold someone accountable." If you travel, then expect delays, occasional incompetence, and, horror of horrors, a justified reason for the way things turned out, so we won't have to listen to your incessant whining about your perceived mis-treatment. G'day
yep kinda what i expected from the git-go this is all RAY M's fault......
Imagine that, snow, rain and high winds in december (almost january). Notice how media is using "climate change" instead of "global warming"?Never mind that in 1974 there were editorials about the New Ice Age coming.June 24 1974, Time magazine "Another Ice Age?.
And in 2012 there were editorials about the world coming to an end. So what?
You might believe everything you read, but smarter people know how to evaluate the evidence based on credibility.
Climate change is credible, boy. You're not.
-god- judging by the level of your understanding of what i wrote you may want to avoid using His name, is an insult to the higher authority.
Just seen Ice age Continental drift....it was great, i so enjoy the Ice Age.
I'm the higher authority, boy!
And I understand it as well as anyone can understand that nonsense.
Keep telling that to yourself. Maybe your IQ wil go higher than toaster level.
This coming from -god???? Irony anyone?
Brian, If you really believe I'm god, wash my car and become a liberal, or I condemn you to hell!
No worries. I'm already headed for hell.
Be glad you dont all live in Pennsylvania right now! You would think you were in the north pole! Its wintertime people! SMILES!!!!
I for one am glad....gotta admit though, its for a different reason.
Of course American Airlines pilots hate the company right now because in bankruptcy, the company modified their contract to get some realistic productivity out of the pilots.
I would take this pilots comments with a grain of salt.
And we thought LitterHater was weird.
hey litterhater...help us out here, you two seem to speak the same language after all. and i must admit as often as you try to help, my " gibberish" is really rusty.
Reminds me of the scene from Airplane. "Scuze me stewardess, I speak jive".
"Juz hang loose blood, we gonna catch you on the flip side."
or maybe he is refering to a "sky pilot" this close to the season and all.
Or maybe he meant to say "pile it".
It's winter. It snows in the winter. Get over it.
i believe you miss the point...getting over it... is whats troubling some.....ie;.....
And we thought LitterHater was odd.
We still do.
I was trying to go to bat for LitterHater. Did I do well?
You did, but it will take more than that! ;-)
Well that's it for me today .. time to get off here and do something de....er i mean...'con'..structive. take it easy guys . as for those of you who came late...well hope you have enjoyed the show and had a few laughs. ( well those who frequent this site or have a sense of humor anyway)
remember;
"Those without humor are truly poor"
OMG, shut up already man!
Benji2112 wrote: "Snow, snow, [e]verywhere.. We must do something about this Global Warming! Last week, they were screaming that we were burning up, today, they are mad they are stuck at airport because of massive snow storms and cold. Burning up does not equal Snow... Media, please correct this oversight."
Hey, Einstein! What do you think puts so much moisture in the air that it eventually turns to more snow than normal over colder areas? WARM Oceans! Wow! You're so poorly informed about science that I'm not even going to try to explain more to you why Global Warming predicts increased snow in various areas.
Theres your global warming morons.
Looks like we in Maryland dodged another one. South of Baltimore, we got 2" of slushy snow Wed. morning which was washed away by rain during the afternoon. We're expecting a similar event Saturday. Last winter Pennsylvania and Virginia got hammered a couple times while we skirted the edge of the storms. And we love it after getting pasted in 2010 with more snow than most Alaskan cities - three in the 22" - 30+" range that took a lot of shoveling and a lot of stocking up of food.
Yup, winter storms in the northeast suck. We are expecting a foot of sunshine here in SoCal today, and mid-60s near the beach. I will be enjoying a scotch and Arturo Fuente later on this afternoon in the backyard.
have fun killing your liver you transcient.
Oh, I will!
Don't act too smug, dude. I lived out West and you know as well as I do that the Pacific Ocean is freezing cold, even in the summertime.
I live in Philadelphia and all we got was a little rainstorm, so I don't know why anyone's flight would be cancelled. There's been no snow here.
yeah you're right it wasn't that bad in phillidelphia today so why would anyone trying to fly from buffallo's flights have gotten cnacelled? Stupid airline idiots incompotetnt as always.